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  1. colin ritchie
    Thanks for the CAD images.. another one to start planning for .. as the question Well how about SEAKING!!!!.. or indeed any of the H-3 family in 1/35.. and followed up with a nice HH-53Pave Low....! - Ah I can dream....!
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    am I the only one humming the theme to "The Right Stuff" to myself looking at these pics ... A work of art as usual from Fisher!
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    1/32 - The one true scale....!
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    they operated the III C & R and 5 , based on the E , which begat the Nesher , and with the help of the J-79 begat the Kifir
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    IAF Desert camo , complete with the The Yellow/Black recognition panels...!
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    There is/was an ongoing project to produce a complete replacement interior for the fusalage of the Beau , but nothing has been seen or heard on that in years .. pity .. I'd pay some serious money for a Tamiya quality 1/32 TFX Beau...!
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    utterly breathtaking - a beautiful build .. of a legend.. well done Warren ..
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    You'd be better off looking for a Chinook - they were used by BA briefly for flights to the shetland basin, (too far for Puma based helicopters) , but after the unfortunate crash when all but 1 of the crew and passengers were killed, they started fixed wing flights to sumburgh , and then Pumas, (EC-225 actually) to the platforms . SN-61s were retired before the far north fields came into production Don't ask about the accommodation in shetland - there are stories about what the "bears",(offshore labourers) did to the portacabins there after delays caused by fog.. not a pretty sight apparently! Happy days... (no not really!)
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    Pre ordering of the kit is now live on the Wonderland site- with an expected release date around 1/8/16
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    Nope , Jennings over on LSP is working on the project and basically its still in development and there isn't likely to be much in the way of updates before the end of the year
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    there's a sequel to Paul Carter's book This Is Not A Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield , again well worth a read , if nothing else it'll make you thankful for a boring office job!
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    Every time HPM produce a kit like this , I'm at once happy and rather depressed, Happy that another hole in 32nd Scale has been plugged Depressed because I'll never let myself spend that kind of money on a single kit, and the fact it exists means that no other company will make the effort to tool it in plastic because "it already exists" Much as I love 32nd , and WWII US aircraft the Helldiver is destined to remain out of my reach for the foreseeable future, Pity , it looks magnificent!
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    A beautiful job on a nice kit .. I once sat in a T Series and I couldn't believe just how small they really are .
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    Drillers - Plumbers with delusions of grandeur - as one old veteran described them to me .. I spent years in the oil patch , I'm aberdeen born and bred, and came out of College in 1981 at the height of the first oil boom - good days ... most of which ended with Piper alpha ... I've got the NC model in the loft and one day!!! - you know you can get a 1/200 oil supply vessel from Revell as well - Smitt Lloyd something of other - and there are 1/200 Architectural figs from Preiser - if you look hard enough!.. yup I planned this one out ages ago , but never really found the time to devote to it
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    Nice - and grounds for divorce in my family!
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    Platform .. it fixed.. Rig denotes a movable installation - pardon the pedantry - I worked on the hookup and commissioning (onshore) of the Original North Cormorant platform way back when ...! Damm thing was held together with seemingly endless amount of titanium stud bolts .. and no I know nothing about the washing machines that were supposed to be shipped offshore but weren't!!!! Nice start on the kit ! - By the way if you want to see what one of these beasts looks like - check out the aberdeen maritime museum - they took the 1/24th scale model of the topsides of the Murchison , a Steel Jacketed like the North Cormorant ,(which the designers used to use before 3d Cad) and added a full scale jacket, its 5 stories tall - biggest model I know of! http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Taqa-completes-works-on-North-Cormorant-platform-1024x679.jpg How it looked back in 2013
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    Beautiful work , clean , precise - really inspirational!
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    Say what you like about the fly Hurricane kits, the box art is superb... With 2 of their kits already , I'm not sure I want to think about more of them - but who knows!
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    wow - what a brilliant reference source ....
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    its Resin , all the HPM kits , but they produce kist that are pretty well indistinguishable from Injection Moulded plastic . for £160+ - it should be!
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    cheap for one person is cripplingly expensive for another , I wish I could bring myself to part with the money for this kit I really do , but after spending a very hard few years re-building our finances there is no way I could justify sending £300 on a box full of plastic.. no matter how much I may want to , I did that too many times in the past and its taken nearly 10 years to undo the damage , the stash has been culled and I have a self imposed budget which I usually manage to stick to , To those who can afford this and other similar kits I say good on them , and I wish I was in their position , but for me. I'll have to enjoy builds of this kit vicariously.. its not the same , but unless someone gifts me the money to buy it , its the best I'll be able to do ! As for a comparison to other activities,e.g. golf.. hah Golf is little more than decent perpperation for death... same level of boredom if nothing else!!
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    Add in another 200 of the Pontos set - when it appears . and bang goes my modeling budget for the year .. Heck of a way to go tho'!
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    not bad around what I spent on the PCM one
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    Nope - its one of the early Hasagawa kits , and it has fine raised panel lines - if you want to , you could re-scribe them , overall the detail is a little soft , compared to moden kits , but it builds petty well. I've never built the OA-4M version , but the plastic is the same in all the boxings of the Has A-4 kits
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