Modelraynz

Hehe... it would be a triumph if they just cleaned/enhanced up the tooling! A la cr.32 etc... imho the kfir tool is past it: nose detail almost gone, prone to being warped (on the two examples ive unboxed)

That was a thing?! lol

They should have used alclad!

Given previous reboxings, i expect zvezda mig-21bis (a much better kit all round)

Zvezda is your best bet..though for r-60s any of the newer zvezda kits (mig-21 or new 29s) have better representations than the ones in the 23 kit...or even trumpeter (really like the su-15 r-60s)

Hi! thought id start 2019 with a Eduard l-39 - subject still being decided! .... possibly be Abkhazian, Afghan, armenian...... I thought this kit would be a tamigawa shake-n-bake, but has proven quite a sanding fest! - especially with the upper and lower wing, and wing fuselage I'm not sure if others have had this experience with the kit? Anyway onto the photos! I have a couple of the 'third world' profipacks, but decided to go with the decal cockpit, as im getting back into modelling. next time I wouldn't worry about the compressor face as is hidden in the end! installation was quite fiddly - next time i think I would attach the tub to the rear bulkhead. onto the wings.....oh boy, i found i had the options of: - have the fuselage and wing halves together with the upper wingtips 'overbite' the lower half, or - have the wing pods and fuselage align, but gaps appear in rear upper/lower wing half's so I went with the second option, in hindsight the first may have been better! - I also had to do quite a bit of clean up on the rest of the wings. i decided to do both at the same time, the one I will use is the bottom one ive polished up: - I noticed the wing 'seat' is wider than the fuselauge, not sure what ill do here, or ill just leave it as is, and worry about it in future builds:

Gawd, that feels wierd to say, dossnt it! I was thinking this might torpedo a future eduard offering?, (why tool a kit when u can go to town on the aftermarket for better return!) Aleast from the renders its already going to be better than their 'new' mig-15!!

Something vietnam springs to mind...f-4e?

Sweet, i need/want 4-5 at least ☺ as othwrs have said, real out of the blue announcement!! Hope they make a good facsimile - series 3 in nz can be expensive!!

no problem, i had a book around somewhere, but off the top of my head: since the torpedo pics are scarce, some of the lgb mounting, which is in a similar position:

This is my prob (trust me, i really like to be proven wrong!!) But digging through baidu, I never came up with anything. Ill buy a couple, but trumpeter really mucked up what is 80% close to being a great kit!! Aside from some things like the miniature cockpit:, drop tank shape, those rocket pods....... etc Q-5c - no proper drop tank pylons, just lazily made a tank attach to the weapon pylon. No forward fuselage pylons. Q-5yi - went to the effort to update sprue with proper drop tank pylon for a standard q-5, but the configuration is not correct for q-5yi! The torpedo pylons sit just inboard of the wing fence, and a smaller droptank is outboard of the wing fence (a la q-5f with lgb) Q-5 probable fictitious nkpaf markings, no forward fuselauge pylons If they update their q-5c kit wih the newer wing sprue, that would be my pic of the bunch, but then again i say put both tails in the box and add more weapons for my dream edition!

Cheers modelldoc - my russian is limited to yandex's search suggestions!

hurray the MiG-21PFM is back in the catalog! - any idea what the purple text says?

You sure as' heller on the money with that! Was excited to get a few of the new ac re-releases....but all the ones i got had major warpage across dimensions and a horrid soft plastic Plus they never responded to request for replacement parts, id avoid!

Nose graft onto an eduard kit maybe?

Im wondering if for their previous releases, like the s-199, if they were tooled by another company for kp? was really excitrd about this release, but guess i was hoping for 4 something like the south front l-39!

Yea, whats up with that !? I wondered if they were trolling us!

Man, where to start!....

Fingers crossed THIS is the one to get it right! Re. Correct wing tanks mounts from the q-5 and some belly mounts etc!

"In celebration of the RAF centenary; airfix are proud to announce a commemorate membership to the airfix club!!!..." *wump wump*

Lol. Sounds about right! Would love a iic of the standard of their mk.i! (Got the hase kit, but the off center vertical tail bugs me!) From the 11 pagrs so far, can someone share for us antipodean folk when the announcement is expected? ☺

We can dream that someone like moebius models put out some kits!! Really want an Agatha king!! Anybody has expirence with the 3d printed ones? Theres a free cardboard model one you can print of the net (was thinking would be super easy to scale to a 3d printed one, print the cardboard one on decal paper and use for the 'aztec'ing' as the trekies call it!

not much to show recently; its cold and winter here, but done some gap filling supergluing, sanding and puttying:

Cheers! Cant remeber where i got the pic - somewhere on the net, then did some colour correction! - id say both! Looked pretty n the box art, and i wassnt aware of free french spits operating out of algeria! Collected a few different photos, one where it looks worn and overpainted and another partial photo where it looks cleaner and closer to the box art ☺

a bit more work, slow going in horrid winter weather we're having here! I added some details to the wheel wells - its a bit over-scale, but looks a bit busier! ( the wing spars are straight! - with the gull wing it looks distorted in the pic!) Got the wings on, starting to get there!