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wasn't AH-1W 162555 one of the machines with the new nose used during '91 reverse invasion?

They did trials for the AGM-122ish Sidearm don't really remember, had photos from OV-10, Cobras and possibly Ah-64 too with either dummy missiles or live-ish rounds, on one magazine it was said they tried even the standard Aim-9 but plume was giving away their position and they preferred not too, pretty sure Colin or who was that helicopter guy from ARC can give you a better answer than mine Luigi

I need two, a J and a T too cause I don't want to frankenkit Fujimi + Italeri messes into one Luig

Sorry, it's not that I wanted to open any kind of cans filled with worms, it's just that one day I spent maybe too much money on a Fujimi Kenmeri or KPGC110 and when the kit arrived something felt off even if I never saw a KPGC110 in real life. Generally speaking Fujimi rims feel very off, sometimes too small specially when eyeballing nostalgic Hayashi and RS Watanabe rims inside wheel arches, also the owner of this site complained about wheels being small https://www.erix7.nl/erx7modl.html and since I was in the process of collecting as many FD3S kit variants I could, I started to look around for references and means to fix the problems with Fujimi rims through 3rd party by either buying extra Aoshima and cheapo kits to steal their wheels, hunting down Aoshima wheel & tires sets or purchasing 3d printed wheels. So, I just started looking around through blogs and forums mostly japanese and russian forums and stumbled upon the can of worms, especially for the Ferrari 512TR and mostly for Porsche 911 Turbo & Carrera related stuff cause Fujimi used to sell fake race kits with just racing decals inside the box but no widened bodies or lure through other means and disasters like their Veilside line with white metal parts or offscale stuff such as their TommyKaira R33 slightly oversize bumper and small rims For the Porsche 961 and possibly 959 argument, Tamiya is selling different Marui or whatever 2wd kits without their motors like theirs 961 and Lancia Stratos Turbo The 959 it's kinda genuine or at least I never found old boxes from Airii or other brands containing the exact parts of the Tamiya kit, but there is just one 959 kit which has the prototype or turbo(?) rims used on Le Mans race cars. For the rest I don't want to step further, I just wish making licensed kits was more easy, cause even for trucks I'm looking at spending 200+€ for a K100E or K200 conversion for maybe AMT K100 Aerodyne or a generic W900 chassis with K200/K100 parts slapped on cause I really want to make a scaledown version of the K100E I drive on American Truck Simulator but sadly nobody even bothered to make later K100 and also W900 kits Luigi

case solved, found the website https://modelcarshirobom.syanari.com/comparison.html Luigi

A little help here, my bookmarks are a mess and I remember that maybe 5 years ago or less I found a website/blog on which his owner was measuring various 1/24 kits and comparing the measurements against the real car I fondly remember BNR32 Aoshima vs Fujimi vs Tamiya section, but he also had other car trivia in the basket which including Ferrari and Porsche and a ton of more JDM, problem is, I don't really remember if it was a Japanese blogger or an English speaking one Thanks for the help ^^ Luigi

which box had/has the TA152 tail? Luigi

Upon inspecting Fujimi and Wave kits against Heller kit pictures, IT IS the Heller kit, but the fact that Protar also reboxed it and the quality seems superior than the Heller's Porsche 934 I suspect that its origins are different Luiigi

The Ferrari 512S was made by Wave and reboxed by Fujimi, problem with Wave is that they rarely rerun their stuff like their 1/72 UFO so as long none reboxes their products it will take a very big while to find them and their price will be step

which kit had the wrong fuselage section? Luigi

the Ace Combat kit it's now 1/48 instead 1/72, they didn't even complete the Ace Combat Zero line nor excused themselves by releasing just a decal set with option for the remaining enemy ace squadrons

I can't even fancy that thing with an Ace Combat livery, they should have scaled down their 1/48 F-16C with a PW engine instead Luigi

The red stripe means the car can't circulate everywhere, it's a temporary license plate, it was well explained on Wangan Midnight anime but I doubt someone here ever watched it Bosozoku per se it's not the correct term to use, depending on the era, vehicle and style you'll have: Kaido Racer which is the correct term to use while addressing them Grandchampion or Grachan sedans or coupes from the 80's Yankii usually refers to whatever car with random engrish words (see Lord Jeremy Clarkson Japanese car culture video on Youtube) Silhouette or Silhouette racer anyways those are inspired from racing cars from 70's Shakotan which sadly consist on ruining good cars by stancecrapping them with 15'' ultra wide rims of crap Lastly would be VIP or Haiso for High Society just think about Uchiyamada Cresta from GTO anime but with 20'' golden rims, high spec mufflers and other random crap tossed in for fun Also bozo inspired trucks or lorries pick your fruit, are called Dekotora and yes there are 1/32 kits of it Most of this stuff at least Grachan and Yankii, partially some Silhouette and LB Works which it's mostly related to stock cars turned into race cars can be found on Aoshima kits, problem is that most of them only contain rims and maybe some extra such as the still not wide enough fender, some kits are hard to come by and like Fujimi they included some "useful for different build parts" only on select few kits which are sadly OOP, some of them were only included on kits made from spec anime/manga and once they are gone, they are gone. On the Fujimi side you'll have problem finding Koenig/OZ wide rims contained only on a couple of Super Aero kits and maybe 5 to 6 Koenig kits, Fujimi also produced some Haiso kits, many of them contained the parts that can be found on Overfender Set #1, #2 and #3, instructions from this sets are very iffy as there is literally zero info regarding which correct kit to use, sadly, Overfender sets do not have many of the spoilers of Haiso kits, nor the wheels, and yes some wheels like 17'' Watanabe RS wide are extremely hard to find, so are those from Lamborghini, Porsche, mesh rims, some other OZ Superturismo, Koenig and whatever they had with that turbine hub cover used on LeMans by Porsche cars, Fujimi did not produce aftermarket sets of them, or at least the only ones I'm aware of are... Porsche OZ rims, Watanabe 17'' wide, Countach Anniversary rims, everything else comes from special boxes which tend to be way too expensive Luigi EDIT For random reference shots as the Kaido Racer culture it's mostly DIY, check Speedhunters site, plus r/kyusha on Reddit, plus different groups on Facebook and Instagram pages

I skip one answer so I went to check around and found this https://djvu.online/file/oIGPFkWG5KGeF There are no pictures, just drafts with measures, my first guess about smoke/flare was probably right, just check HVAR Mk36 Mod 0 and HVAR Mk32 Mod1 Luigi

Yes, the one from your picture it's the RAM which come with a cone shaped charge during Korea cause the normal version had pen problems, they were then replaced probably by the ones from Martin's F-84E(?) picture, the warhead should be a tandem shaped charge for AT role as the front portion it's identical to ZUNI MK32, if I scout around the web and go to italian scale modelling forums I only find generic info and pictures, Large Scale Planes forum had something recalling other rocket variants, everything else it's from stinking War Thunder forums. Many years ago there it was some sort of online census of present and past AMI airplane inventory, it even had some F-104G picture with napalm canisters and rocket pods, weapon designation was also listed, but that site it's long gone, I don't even remember its web address and even so, if it was hosted through xoomer, supereva, aruba or other outlets finding anything cached it's basically impossible. I can try asking on Decimomannu Airbase Facebook Group and wait Luigi

I don't see a stripe, they can be anything, at first I was going to say flash/flare but that's not an RF-84, if Ram were used as temporary measure and/or had problems with shaped charge warhead they probably thought that a tandem warhead (hence the increased length) was better than the previous cone shaped warhead, close I can get are ZUNI MK32 ATAP but that's a different beast Luigi

they are probably Ram rockets for AT role https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(rocket) Luigi

It's not the Model Art book, one is Air World 4 (1995), the other one is Air World Special covering the FS-X prototype, there should be a third one but I'm not sure if my order ever went through, I have around 20 package stuck at Tenso Warehouse since last summer and I don't even remember their contents, give me a month or two and it will be xmas all over again Nevertheless the fuselage check it's something you can do at home, I measured the low fuselage section of Hasegawa F-2 fuselage together with Tamiya, Revell and Academy F-16 fuselage, Hasegawa F-16 lower fuselage falls short (remember F-16 MLG doors not fitting on Hasegawa kit) so I ignored that, mid portion measures, starting from intake lip up to the bent before the fins it's pretty much identical, I do know and understand that once you play with wings and whatever aircraft CoG may stray off, but, their wheel base it's the same, fuel tank may vary, I know, after all people sometimes still debates if the USAF for their A-7 used 300gal tanks or another type of tank and the answer is...both, but for some it's either the 300gal with the long cone extension and for others is a specific tank similar to the 300 gal but more straight, which it's also true. Luigi

Distance between the center of NLG and MLG seems to be the same, panel lines wise even the upper fuselage has some hits and a whole bunch of misses due added extra length and width. I'm awaiting some books I ordered from Japan which should have better insights of the differences between the F-2A and the F-16 Luigi

It's the Revell kit, give out are the three panels in the middle of the fuselage (Italeri and Esci are square-ish, Revell are rectangular) and also the little vent on the right side of the fuselage under the canopy, there are also other differences in drop tanks, IFR probe and canopy There it was or maybe there still is a taiwanese website who listed differences between kits and also how to properly fix and backdate them, especially how to properly made a B, but I lost track of it Luigi Luigi

you have to hunt the very early mold Hasegawa kits, even so I doubt they had the small airbrake, if anything they had stabs with no dog tooth, only Revell/Matchbox kits had the small airbrake, they also had early-ish wingtips then kit got partially revisited to Matchbox standards Luigi

I did post in a very messy manner 90% of the differences between A/C aiframes + random differences for MSIP aircrafts, outside very few hidden stuff on the belly and probably the presence of saber drains, on the bottom you have to use the earlier T or Y shaped reinforcements in the middle of the spine, other stuff might be the circular vent opening on the right side of the fuselage next to WSO seat Luigi

Nissan Kenmeri 1/24 New Tool, I'm freaking sold, hope they will consider GrandChampion or some Yankee variations for it so I don't have to hunt for early Toyota Celica LB rear lights that were adapted on those cars and I also hope that they will properly make some 16'' or 18'' Hayashi rims cause Fujimi rims are too small and iffy Luigi

it's about weight limit, it's the same thing when they say the A-4 COULD carry X tons of bombs but then it would either sit on its tail or never take off. F-2A had problems with wing integrity due vibrations causing cracks, they had to put a limit on it so technically you could load 4 ASM-2 with no drop tanks or AA missiles next to them, or 2 drop tanks and 2 ASM-2 Luigi

One thing 4 ASM-2 missiles it's not allowed due wing and stress weight limit, it was used for testing purposes but then they noticed cracks and de-lamination of wing structure and it was forbidden. Luigi