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That looks like a bog standard 45 degree corner 1:4:6 proportion USAAF/USAF style “P” to me. Probably 18” (or possibly 24”) high (easy to scale out by drawing it on your model and measuring it then doing some basic math(s)).

How much difference is there between a Sikorsky and a Westland??

Indeed. They regularly poison the well for everyone else.

You're making a big leap in logic there. I wouldn't be holding my breath until HK does two separate rear fuselages.

Not at all! I would have to say that's probably a very early G-6.

Trumpet Boss and Kitty Hawk both suffer from the same thing - exceptionally poor research, and kits designed by people who clearly know little or nothing about the real aircraft (or can’t be bothered to learn), and who are not model builders. I don’t give either one of them my money for most of their products. Trumpet Boss does an occasional decent kit, but by and large they’re substandard. I haven’t found one that Kitty Hawk has done that’s worth my money.

The FL is an export PF. Externally they are identical aircraft.

I’m not sure I would make that leap. Tooling an entirely separate fuselage without windows would be *enormously* expensiive for an already ****enormously**** expensive set of tooling.

How is the “whole undercarriage bay totally different” when the landing gear is the same, save for bigger tires and wheels? The wing is aerodynamically the same between the F-13 and the PF/FL.

I’d have to disagree. There are plenty of OOTB kits that are drop dead gorgeous. Tamiya F-16, Tamiya F-14, GWH MiG-29, Eduard MiG-21, etc, etc. The F-111 is woefully underserved in 1/48.

The MiG-21FL was simply a downgraded export version of the MiG-21PF. In common with all late PFs, it had the wide chord fin. Externally it is identical to the MiG-21PF. The PF/FL wing is essentially identical to the F-13 wing. And no, there is no "one" book on the MiG-21. *The* book on the MiG-21 family has yet to be written.

The one at the NMUSAF in Dayton is one of the ones that went to Finland in 1986, and its cockpit is the same gray as all other MiG-29s.

There have been decals made for virtually every single F-14 that ever flew. Given how nice the kit is, I wouldn’t bother with Tamiya kit decals, which are thick.

MiG-29s have medium grey cockpits. DO NOT use Soviet jade green!! Just Google “MiG-29 cockpit” and you’ll find dozens and dozens of images.

There is no accurate 1/48 F-111 of any kind, sadly. Such an important type seems to be cursed among model manufacturers.

That’s going to have to be some massive pieces of resin

Patience grasshopper. HK doesn’t have a history of making such announcements, and there’s no reason to think they’re going to start now. Once the kit is on the street, you’ll know.

According to Doug Barbier, whose name was painted on the SEA camouflaged T-33 at Keflavik, that was the one and only USAF T-bird that had that camouflage. I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a USAF T-33 in-theater in SEA. There would have been little or no use for one. There were plenty of other utility types that could get you from here to there in the RVN, and the T-bird didn't have the range to venture very far off shore. Also never remember seeing a camouflaged T-33 in Korea.

FS 34079 for the anti-glare panel, and approximately FS 16473 for the radome, although that could vary.

I think it’s poetic license

Fuselage is Air Research and Development Command. Tail is Wright Air Development Center

All *Navy* gear bays. Not al USAF gear bays are white, even to this day.

They told us in Phoenix that they're working on them.

All kinds of copyrighted material being posted here. Just saying...