Freedom Models Martin

From left field to right field, new products coming in 2016. We will be accelerating our releases and bringing some more mainstream items having cut our teeth on niche interest which has done well for us so far. The F-20B is a great kit and very different from other releases as we learn at each kit. Hope you enjoy and like the releases as they come. Watch our Freedom models EU Facebook page for more information soon and thanks for posting about us.

Thank you everyone for keeping us going. Looking forward to providing you with quality Stay tuned for me. Thanks again VP for the support.

Thank you VP!

Throw it in the bin and buy one of ours LOL.

November 2015 release. Plastic pics:

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https://www.facebook.com/Freedom-Model-Kits-832469846768673/timeline/ Optional open or closed canopies. Two crew ladders included. Recessed and positive rivets. Beautifully scribed panel lines. Schemes yet to be finalised. Plastic pictures are up on you tube.

Hi all, Just announced on our Facebook page and at the Tokyo Hobby Show 2015. No date yet.

Lovely work Spencer. I guess this is in the November issue? Look forward to seeing the article very much indeed.

Thanks everyone.

It was a compromise for those who wanted open panels and didn't want to scratch build new doors. The idea is to allow for all eventualities, if that's at all possible. The modeller who wants scale thickness can scratch build their own new doors using a coke can (or whatever) and then add their own ribs, from scale plastic or whatnot. He or she then wins and gets what they want. The modeller who just likes the doors open to show off some gubbins (and for those who are not interested in scale thickness) is satisfied because the ribs and detail are done for them. The modeller who doesn't want to open the panels is happy because theres nothing for them to do. Why wouldn't you want them included if we can include them? We took the opinion that it was worth doing to be innovative and to listen to our customers. THAT is our priority here. If you don't want these details we can easily go backwards and not bother with the engineering or CAD time. However, I don't think that is what the masses would want so we will keep adding little touches like this to make modelling more enjoyable to everyone. I know it's hard to please everyone and perhaps that's why companies don't bother. However, we are different. I hope! Regardless, we added easy to cut panel areas to help out those who want to open the panels because we can We also took the opinion that it's hard to get the doors to fit right if they were opened up by us. Most modellers complain of having to fill those areas where they don't want to open the "doors" and the engineering is wrong. We looked at it from a different perspective. Why not give modellers the guide and the capability rather than dictate? It's up to you now. Open or not.

Thank you sir. Did you notice the "ready to cut out" sections? Hold the nose up to a light source and you'll see what I mean

Welcome back Piero, long time no see How are the projects?

What is the scale? You could try a nice F-20 Tigershark from Freedom Model Kits, a helluva build Seriously though, there's loads to consider. What do you have already?

"Cripes a Mighty" is an NSI (small) mouth intake and GE Engine mix which is very odd. It's an F-16C Block 30c. MCID = Modular common inlet duct (big mouth) NSI = Normal shock inlet (small mouth) The Block 30 had two new chaff/flare boxes added from 1987 BUT yours is a 1986 block 30 (denoted by the 86 prefix, so the a/c you're doing only had the original 2 in total at the bottom of the airframe. It also had lightweight MLG so it had the landing lights on the gear legs themselves not on the NLG door. Depending on whether you want to place fuel / pods on the wing pylons, you should try and source a PIDS pylon. Also, please check your references for this a/c as it may have had RAM panels added to the nose section just aft of the Radar but forward of the RHAW gear. It certainly had RAM panels just aft of the wing roots and forward of the horizontal stabs on the "vertical" surfaces of the fuselage. "" because the sides were not quite vertical but at an anhedral angle. Last technical note from me, the first set of fulcrum "fingers" on the inboard slat hinges should be 2 not 3 as frequently modelled. This was changed with the block 40 to 3. The top of the wings should have two strengthening plates near the wing root and there should also be two strengthening plates at the rear of the uppermost fuselage by the front of the tail fin. Hope this helps. At least you can Google some of the stuff I have written.

The Tamiya Aggressor / Adversary boxing has everything you need for all blocks. MCID / NSI, GE / Pratt engine, Heavy and lightweight gear (incl doors) etc.

I doubt you will find anyone willing to open up those panels and have them photographed. Operational Security reasons. There are pictures aplenty in Jake Melampys books of other areas. Good luck on the search.

Oh I see you're after 1/72. Well Attack Squadron does them in that scale but I guess you can use the Hasegawa Hornet VER as in that scale you won't notice much difference.

The BRU-57 racks are available from Attack Squadron (were available form Shawn Hull SHULL24 but he has since stopped pouring resin). The racks in the Hasegawa Hornet kits are actually a Vertical Ejector Rack (should actually be CVER (Canted) but they're not) so they are actually representative of USNavy ordnance not USAF.

Thank you Mike. Always good to have independent reviews like this one. Are you going to build it? We took advice from many people on this site and I hope we show that we have listened. It's only our second foray into model kits. I appreciate that belts may have been a welcome addition, perhaps the next kit we will include them? There are so many aftermarket companies and I believe one may be looking at providing the correct canopy for the first prototype, 82-0062 in due course. Why wasn't it provided? Well someone holds the answer to that and it isn't me I am afraid. The canopy issue did come up at development pre tooling. We took on board the constructive comments from the X-47B and changed our decal supplier and injection molding company. We also invested heavily into the holding technique and plastic. This way we are able to provide the modeller with nice panel lines (crisp and consistent throughout the kit), nice rivets both positive and negative. I hope we have shown that we do listen but, of course, it's also right to say that costs are still our major issue here and we can only make some changes by prioritising them. Thanks again.

Eidraken is quite right in everything. I am surprised to see the HTS pod on the left cheek station. It is a HARM associated pod and this aircraft not a Wild Weasel. The GBU-38 have the DSU33B/B programmable fuze and they are the cream looking nose section on the front. They are set to air burst at between 5 to 35 feet. (Not OPSEC - I checked).

Make sure you do a WiP