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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
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On 2/7/2023 at 9:09 PM, mahavelona said:
A full set of Mk. II boxings?
Well yes please!
Arma will surely deliver a very strong IIC product but I think after years of poor availability of old Hasegawa Mk II kits, a full suite from Hobbyboss is more than welcome.
A full set of Mk. II boxings?
Well yes please!
Arma will surely deliver a very strong IIC product but I think after years of poor availability of old Hasegawa Mk II kits, a full suite from Hobbyboss is more than welcome.
You can say that again
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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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On 1/2/2023 at 7:10 PM, Troy Smith said:
Kit is set up to do multiple versions, with parts trees for most of the common parts and then ones for wings and fuselage. Along with the Seaa Hurricane belly panel, It also has 20MM cannon barrels, so I would not be surprised for the next version to be a Hurricane IIC and/or Sea Hurricane IIC. That just requires a set of C wings.
To do a Mk.I will require new fuselage, wings and detail parts, as in spinner, radiator and carb intake.
Please please please a IID 6 squadron can-opener
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Any chance someone might want to trade their Tamiya McLaren MP4/13 for my Lotus 107? Not to be confused with the 107b. This is the one https://www.scalemates.com/kits/tamiya-20037-lotus-107--104546
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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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11 hours ago, NellyV said:
A Senior Service officer slagging off the RAF. Surely not?😆
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?
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I’m reminded of a certain band who like to wait while their audience shout out song titles, until they hear the one they were about to play anyway, and introduce it “By request...”
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On 12/9/2022 at 12:35 AM, Jochen Barett said:
This is almost as much fun as late war RLM greens! "Almost".
Thats got nothing on “just how brown was PC10?”
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7 hours ago, Paul Thompson said:
Good kit - just don't try to put the whole of the engines in the nacelles (depending on which Gotha version you have). Good price too, these days.
Paul.
The V...oh lord, the lozenge decals...
not being able to out the thing in the otherthing seems to be seems to be a Roden problem (usually cockpit detail)
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2 hours ago, spruecutter96 said:
You've picked up a genuine bargain! And that's never, ever a bad thing....
Cheers.
Chris.
Until I attempt to actually build the thing...!
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Roden Gotha at £17 delivered!!
What have i done?!
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Not sure if this should be in the WW1 section but that’s partly why I’m asking....when did red-doping of fabric come in? And was it both sides, or otherwise bleed through so as to be the visible colour for cockpit interiors?
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For testing an old fashioned bottle of ink is handy, as it’s as thin as water but you can see what it’s doing. Or food colouring in water.
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From memory of reading Ward, Morgan and Pooks, the criticisms were three
1) micromanagement of air strikes (reasonable criticism)
2) refusal to believe the performance that Ward’s squadron were getting from the troublesome radar, leading to more micromanagement (surely this could have been established one way or the other)
3) keeping the carriers too far to the east. Understandable how this would be frustrating, but understandable too that the overriding priorities would be:
a) Do not lose a carrier
b) DO NOT lose a carrier, and
c) DO NOT LOSE A CARRIER
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Morgan is a regular on PPRUNE - you could do worse than ask there.
Eduard new WW1 project
in The Rumourmonger
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Must be a 1/72 Ninak...you wait decades then three come along at once...