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alt-92

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  1. Glass ones. None of that modern plasticky stuff. Oh no sir! Anyways: what it says on the box is pretty clear - "complete set for beginner, your first model kit with colors (!) and tools". Refreshingly honest, actually.
  2. Both old and new Airfix Mossies in multiples, and several Tamiya Mossies. The STGB would help making a dent in that.
  3. It's in the wrong scale anyway. /runs
  4. According to one of the comments in the video, a duff batch of paint that didn't cure properly. /YT comment gripe And no-one bothered to ask what colours they actually used while the dudes who did the actual work responded on the video ! You had ONE job as YT commenter. ONE job. /end gripe
  5. So where would the other two (apart from the oblique windows) be? also: the hatches are replaceable with standard ones without window, so for instance the oft-seen Chakra Spit XVIII has no visible oblique windows.
  6. This is the former Paul Allen collection, which allegedly was sold in its entirety to an enthusiast & warbird pilot with enough financial backing. Apparently, up until a few months ago it was all still in the Everett site - perhaps they have come to an arrangement where the facilities and collection are split in ownership but remain on location?
  7. I've been hanging around Brits too long. My sarcasm meter immediately went 'boinggggg' when I read that And yes, this rerelease appears to go a lot cheaper, less than half the tag CFFU mentions.
  8. We'll leave that to Greta --- Just a small sprinkling of snow here. But out in the Alps and upstream of the big European rivers there's been plenty of precipitation. Could be interesting, the Meuse is a rainwater drainage river system.
  9. Yeah... ha ha. Higher temperatures upset the fresh/saltwater flow and that results in Weird Things Happening(tm). This is also recorded in ice cores and sediments - previous ice age cycles show similar patterns. https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-climate-change-during-the-last-ice-24288097/ And since we're still in the recovery period of a minor ice age event, that makes that the added human-generated stuff accelerates some of that change. So, speaking from the perspective from someone who lives in a country that is below current sea level for a good 30+%, I'm not that amused.
  10. What Heather already said - and FRROM aren't exactly from the same stable (like CMK or Planet) - rather they contract out the moulding & manufacturing to SH.
  11. Eh The people (like us) who can be bothered to use the correct ones have their own favourite paint brands and rarely follow the scheme instructions anyway And it's a gift/starter set. We're not the target audience. Even says so on the box.
  12. ....which is already underway in the guise of the FRROM one..
  13. APC Decals (Czech) did replacement ones for the standard options for the kit. As it happens, I got my grubby mitts on another Wellesley last weekend, and I'm looking at doing K7556 instead - the pre-production/Prototype. I could check the sheet on mine - if they're ok, they're yours. --- Besides some mask sets, I bought this aesthetically challenged .... thing. Bit hard to wrap your head around the idea that this is a 1953 design that was still being proposed as the Il-102 in the mid-1980s as competitor to the Su-25 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-102
  14. The 1/72 Trumpy Gannet I'm happy to do wings down as is (or even in-flight with that extended radome), but this one is definitely going folded. Waiting for shipping, very curious.
  15. A somewhat better worded news article here. https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023/11/15/pratt-wins-engine-work-contract-to-keep-aging-b-52-awacs-flying/ It is indeed a stop-gap measure.
  16. From all the other previous newsitems (WBN, VAN and others) on this plane, the City developers owned the immobilia and everything in it - including the plane. Work on the restoration was suspended in 2014, and it was left unguarded. Ownership was not transferred to any organization or charity so strictly speaking, to the letter of the law, Irvine Company can do what it wants with it. Stupid, despicable, boneheaded, but money is money.
  17. It is the Tonka of choice in 1/48. And frequently re-released by Revell and reboxed by Eduard. Tough business proposition. The Jag however..
  18. Re: fuel tanks, same for the PR spits, as recounted here.
  19. Paging @Corsairfoxfouruncle - Polish! One side window! Four blade prop!
  20. Can you explain to me the difference in perception between a competition ranking order and a points-based rank order?
  21. Only the C series indeed, not in the H. Alternatively the MRP set would work.
  22. Ok, you had me giggling for a bit there I did take advantage of the Black Friday discount on the Sabre - at half the price I'll deal with it. Re: Hunter - the latest FGA.9 box has some extra bits & correction info. Maybe that satisfies your desires a bit better.
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