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Must be a 1/72 Ninak...you wait decades then three come along at once...
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Airfix 1/72 Sepecat Jaguar GR1
wombat replied to David Womby's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
I built this kit a couple of times as a youngster, and for some reason it’s a strangely satisfying build despite being pretty average even for its time. Yet trying to bag one for reasonable money on eBay eludes me...the superior hasegawa goes for less -
Talking of supervision by a terrified parent, if I tell you the extent to which I banged on to the boy about how to safely use a sharp blade with plastic, you will not need me to elucidate as to which one of us promptly cut himself with it...
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If you first started making kits at, say age 10 or thereabouts, a 1:72 kit would have looked and felt about what a 1:48 does to an adult...
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It’s a good way for Airfix to service its traditional kids market, when the centre of gravity of the overall market is now older, seeking more detail and paying more for it. i built the spitfire Vc starter kit with the boy. tbh in terms of parts it’s really not much different to a 1970s Airfix kit, but more accurately moulded. As you say, there already several “full fat” 1/72 F35s, so why compete directly with those?
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Revell 1/32 Hawker Hurricane new tooling.
wombat replied to stevej60's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
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Another trick you can do with filler is to use masking tape to restrict where it goes...tape a little either side of the join, apply filler, then whip the tape off before the filler starts to harden. Most of the time it leaves behind a neat strip of filler ready to cure and be sanded....occasionally the whole lot comes away.
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What tools are you using? Something like this is a handy resource https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/cut-n-trim-flex-i-file-8575-p15048/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInumSwfOo_AIVTJ7tCh0-WQHPEAQYAiABEgIbf_D_BwE
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If you read all three of the books by harrier pilots in theatre (ward, Morgan and pook) its pretty clear that they could have had quite a good three way war going on even if the Argentines had stayed out of it. I recently read the book about the abortive SAS raid and the same theme continues. To be fair it seems to have been a nadir of inter-service cooperation which led to some reassessment and grown up thinking being applied ever since.
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So many variables...altitude, airspeed, temperature, weight...AoA might be enough, it might not.
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Re an earlier post, be wary of air to air photos and flap positions...it may just reflect that the photo platform is a much slower aircraft type and the fast jet is struggling to match its speed for the shot.
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Ward’s squadron (I forget which was which) would habitually toss a 1000lb GP bomb in the general direction of Stanley airfield on the way out to a CAP.
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Good idea - I might copy that. Ive previously bodged a diy stirrer...based on a milk frother of the type where the shaft detaches from the handset. Take an old lid, drill a hole just big enough to thread the shaft through, enabling a reasonably good seal on the tin that being stirred, and cut down the frother head to something smaller. Still leaks a little through the gap though, even when packed with damp tissue paper.
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I’ve seen many references that say Harts in India had bigger radiators but no details. Is that a visible difference?