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Would Sky Grey imply the use of Dark Sea Grey/Light Slate Grey on the lower wings etc. in the shadow compensating scheme ?
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Is it me, or is it a really massive market error by not providing RAF decals and the extra half page of instructions to make an RAF version.
They would shift the kits in there 1000s if they just thought a little longer about this.
I think it is a very deliberate marketing decision - as long as no one knows for sure which boxings will follow, I bet many will buy this boxing just to have one. And I'd be absolutely not surprised if "regular" German and RAF boxings will follow, possibly with some more ordnance. My bet is Revell has a close eye on the speed of the first run going off the shelves. If it sells quick, the follow-on boxings may come earlier than next year and unannounced.
Wasn't there an all-black "Saint" a couple of years ago ? That would be a sight...
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Well, someone had posted the link on the Airfix Collecting Forum, and for once I both remembered that fact and the location where it was posted. Credits for finding that page are due to Sean/frogman.
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The instructions although precise,are in my opinion,too cluttered per page,I wouldv'e liked them a bit larger & spread over a couple more pages (especially for us blind as a bat older farts!)
Exactly my view ! The cluttered layout will make it easy to miss out a painting flag or two if one is using them.
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Didn't the original reworked Airfix Bucc S.2 (# 3055) released late 1989 also contain a choice of radar and TV Martels and Sea Eagle (by way of differing nose caps), or was it Martels only ?
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...(mainly Smer), to Mexico (Lodela, many seem to have been bought by Revell GmbH) and Argentina.
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I think the Fujimi SHar (also reboxed by Revell in the late 80s) also has Sea Eagles.
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To be fair, BT-K was a 50s kit and even then was a copy of another kit.
I know - Aurora kits of the 50s were not necessarily the best 3D masters to use. And while the approach to kit design and probably the obtainability of references was certainly very different from today, I don't think it being a 50s kit is an "excuse" - look at e.g. the Frog Sea Hawk or Gannet which are not much younger than BT-K.
The Hawk Spit is from 1967 and pretty standard fare for them at that time. Cleanly moulded, simple and fast to build, lots of rivets, airframe shapes not bad but no interior whatsoever (like early Frog fighters) and intended to be displayed in flight with no undercart. Their Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero from 1967 was arguably the best of its contemporaries in terms of shape. Curiously their older Texan models from the 1950s had crewmen. Hawk had a long pedigree from the 1920s when they produced balsa models and their first plastic kits were in the 1940s.
IIRC the four small Hawk aircraft (plus a couple more in other ranges) were originally released as "Twentyniners", so they were designed to a price budget. Comparison with their 1/48 T-33 whichis about 10 ys. older shows what they were able to do with the right budget.
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What is indeed a bit odd is that the weapons fit included with the kit has a "struck step 93" annotation - one would expect that a machine in standard operational colours is an option, though the instructions don't show one. Most of the markings required are probably on the sheet anyway (looks like the Federal flags for the fin and probably the standard-size wing badges are missing), so Revell could have made this a no-cost option.
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Revell kit # was 4640 - I say was because apparently Revell phased out the kits at the end of 2010 and dumped their stock to chain stores as usual in this case.
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As a possible area of ops I'd suggest the Aegean islands - wasn't this one of the areas behind the Floatfire idea ?
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Re replication of the fabric covered ailerons, one German modeller successfully used a technique in the 80s whereby he portrayed the rib tapes on fabric by repeated application of white acrylic paint with a drafting pen. I never got around to testing that methd, but his results were convincing & very subtle. I think he used the acrylic primarily to avoid it being affected by the thinner in the enamel of the top coat(s).
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I can't help with any building experiences, but I think Alf Granger did a set of drawings for one of the Boulton Pauls in a Wingspan issue, probably between no 50 and 70 (it was in one of the earliest issues I bought, and I started with 48 or so), but you probably have that set.
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Both have been mentioned, but not together - Tamiya did both a D and F boxing, that kit (D IIRC) was also reboxed by Revell during the 80s. As also has been stated before, the NB(?)-52/X-15 was first released by Monogram in their "Young Astronauts" series in 1987 or 88, so Revell's is a re-release. The X-15 was also available separately, and both the combo and the X-15 single appear to be highly sought after and hence expensive.
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I guess it partly comes down to price. The Academy kits pop up regularly on ebay but seem to go for silly prices, or at least what l call silly. I watched one recently that went for £25 + £6 p+p. I may just have to dig deep.
IIRC the Academy kit retailed for close to DM 40 in Germany when originally released, which equates to roughly 20 €. I'd say there are kits far more heavily affected by inflation than the Aca Hunter. Besides, I myself did not consider me particularly lucky after finding out that the cockpit and especially seat are heavily underscale in the Aca kit, and I think there was a serious problem with the fin shape (too much sweepbak ?) as well. In short, that kit still awaits my continued attention more than 15 years on.
Dave, as you refer to a choice of two seats - I do not spot a second one on the sprues, nor do I recall it from my (also stalled) build from 16 years ago, so only a "painting/decalling" option ?
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As for worse kits... Model News F.XII, Italeri's abortions, ye olde Frog Ia/Va, the PM atrocities, the Lotnia IXc UTI*, the Heller Ia, the M&E mk IX conversion, Hasegawa's Mk ia (although that's really just old, not actually bad, despite lacking the gull wing. Ditto Heller's Vb which can be salvaged with a new wing).
If you are looking for worse kits, pride of place must go to Airfix's BT-K - honours to whom it deserves
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You're doing a great job to an old kit. However, the Hunting Cat issue is not as old, 1980 may be the year when the 104 mould was originally released (but I thought it arrived a couple of years earlier). I bought my Hunting Cat just before Christmas 1991, and I think it was fresh then. Revell Germany used to do some large scale "specials" at bargain prices in the 90s, mostly sold (in Germany) via toy store chains. Others included a JaBoG 33 "Kolibri" 104, a Belgian Tigermeet F-16 and Mirage 5BA "Mephisto". There were also f-104 issues as an Italian "Ferrari" (overall red, could make for an relaxing next airbrush exercise for you) and Greek "Olympos". The 104 has not featured in Revell's (German) "catalogue" line up since the mid 80s or so IIRC, but only been released as a special ever since.
Not quite sure, but Revell re-released the Mono 1/48 104G as an S in the "Monogram Europe" range some 20 ys. ago, and I think the instructions contained a sketch depicting the S's additional strakes, to be cut from plasticard not provided. Not much help of course now that you have them on.
On a final note, the shorter tail is for the C, as Revell also did a C boxing initially.
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It should be added that the pilot figures in the old tooling are not the original ones.
Neither is the surface detail original. The initial issues came with thin wings and just fine raised lines to indicate the rib positions. This was altered to the mountains'n'valleys depiction some time in the early to mid 60s (along with most other Airfix biplanes). The pilots, however, appear to have been changed much later, I think my mid 70s Type 5 boxing still has the originals.
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This could become one kit I actually buy and attempt to build sftb. Looking at the instructions, I think Revell would do us a great favour if they donated us with one or two sheet(s) more to give a bit more space for each step. While I don't doubt it will work out the way it is, the visual appeal is very overcrowded, especially as many drawings reach out to the step separation lines and then have still various symbols, numbers and paint flags squeezed in. This heightens the risk for missing out something here & there.
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To be honest I can't be bothered getting back to them to tell them the replacements are mince after the E mail told me it's the best they can do (felt like they were telling me to just accept bad service, shut up and get on with it)!
I'll just make sure that as little of my modelling cash as possible goes their way in future. Same as If I get bad service at a Restaurant or garage then I don't go back.
Duncan B
To be fair to them, if the complete batch of clear parts looks more or less like this, their spares coming from the same batch can't be better, so they're probably very honest when saying it's all they can do. If I were them, however, I'd point out that they are waiting for a newly-moulded non-defective batch of spares, of which they'll send one to you as soon as they arrive, and ask for your patience. I bet they are waiting as it appears they must have an enormous (relatively) amount of enquiries for those parts. And if their contracts with their supplier don't feature a clause providing for cost-free rectification in instances like that, I'd consider changing their lawyer...
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Scale Models Int. had an instalment on the Lysander in their RAF Museum series, including drawings and possibly a cutaway. No idea when exactly that appeared, 1973ish ?
4+ has/had a booklet containing a host of pics, drawings and scale drawings. You should be able to obtain it slightly cheaper than what is being asked for here...
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Apologies for mis-assigning the A-10 to Ben - as Revell didn't rebox it (back then in the late 80s) and the Takaras appear to have never been officially imported to Germany, I have never seen one.
Faller had some 23 aircraft subjects in all, I believe. Fitting roughly into the cold war bracket are:
Do 27
Sikorsky H-34
YF-84F
F-104
F-4
Vertol 107
Matador
Viscount
Cv 440
Noratlas
Caravelle
Piper Cub (in Geiger and Burda boxings)
HKS-3 (?) Glider
Klemm 107
V-1/V-2 set if you stretch it a bit
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Have you checked the German "Vom Original zum Modell" publication ? It's been some years since I had a look in mine, but the Do 17 volume is one of the better ones in the series, and IIRC it contains a number of reprints of manufacturer's dimensioned drawings (which may not work as scale ddrawings but give some additional dimensions and/or details).
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(What room is left vocabulary-wise for such genuine epic fails as the Trumpeter Lightnings, the Airfix MiG-15 or even the Airfix Hurricane IIc?)
We could class those as "Starfix".
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Not far behind must be Revell's H-611.
Revell 1/48 Tornado-First look.
in Aircraft Modern
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Must mean I'm getting old...
Also must mean they are 99 this year
- which should be good enough of a reason to produce a spectacular jubilee scheme next year.
On a Grob Tutor ?