Severus

I have some fujimi's, pair of AZ's, Academy thrown away, and looking forward to some kitbashing: Fujimi is crisp, easy to build, but it has certain nasty issues - cowl, radiators, cockpit etc. Surprisingly, AZ's kit is not worse, nor better, if you keep in mind, that it's short run. It may be better in shape in certain areas, it may be worse to build, but somehow I feel disappointed in lower wing, radiators area, on the other hand, I liked at least basic features of cockpit inside. Really I cannot favour one over the other. But, there's one crucial point - the price. If someone feels brave enough to do some kitbash, and is hard limited on his pocket, for almost half the price I can get Airfix XIX and IX, and crosskitt to get XIVc, with some milliput I can get even X/XI from the crosskitting waste. Counting the price of kit itself, and, counting even the secondary product of X/XI, easily you can get to quarter of price fujimi or AZ - but, what a amount of work... BTW, looking into scrapbox on old XVI of heller, and XIX of airfix... What about XIVe...?

If you think so...

Yep. You R right, ed's asking too high to my taste.

Of course it WAS VERY rigid system. Much more rigid, even than in the Germany, to compare two common political systems. If talking on flexibility, look up civilised countries as GB or USA.

Still makes me wonder, what exactly could be usefull on La-11 from La-7.

In diluvial ages (early nineties) had been La-9/11 produced by MPM. Dark brown styrene, vacu canopy, recessed pannels. Not bad, but nothing to write to mommy about.

Problem is related to cockpit doors. If taken from reality, adding rails, sometimes you would end up almost with square doors...

I would rather preffer to model something from some victoring army. Perhaps Shahak.

If I remember correctly, IAF had ex Czechoslovak spits IXe, mostly from TE and SL production batch.

Well done. Starting this route on Eduard, but laziness attack overpowered me.

Pst! You shouldn't tell him, critics after the damage is done is far much better fun!

Looks good - but the interior green is too green. And, keep in mind - better 3 layers of thin paint, than 1 layer of thick one.

Thanks much. I'm courious on improvements you made on belly racks, as I have some 8 tomcats in stash, and I hate spending on anything more than Eduard's zoom, as I found out, that raw plastic from fujimi looks better, if properly painted and brushed, than flat piece of metal.

I said something about my eye, not judgement - but obviously, far better is good raised scribbing, than overdone recessed one. BTW, will you make something with tailplanes, as the shape of divission of movable parts is wrong.?

Nice! Still I was somehow frustrated with the look of amount of opened canopies on spit. Definitly, you have pointed it out. The only remaining problem is, how to handle this in 1:72...

Very inspirative, but may it be possible to add larger pics?

Rings of plastic or wire around dials would greatly enhance the look - therefore no need for painting, as the rings could be painted before gluing (I preffer water acrylate, like future floor).

To my eye, the older one looks better.

Try to mail them, as I got once electra with crushed canopy, they had sent me replacement.

Undoubtedly, exchange rate is unpleasent, but problem of hasegawa is, that in the new box get old sprues, terrible thick yellowing decals, and to my taste, never seen white on japanese decals.

Would be interesting to find out, what boxes you mean. Allways I saw resin inside, it was nice, unfortunatelly, somehow impossible to use, unless certain surgery using evergreen performed.

What's the importance of this question above? Bread would became cheaper? Ever seen quality resin in hasegawa box?

Blurting on pile of resin as well as on suppa duppa decals is shortlegged idea of insane mind. Briefly said, Hasegawa put itself into the trap of lower operations and lower sales. Looking through my stash, many kits in 1/72, that hasegawa produced as only producer, disappeared (FW-190 scale, Bf-109, F-111s, Buffalo's, Spit IX/VIII, SBD's, etc.), amount of obsolete kits is still marketed, like F-16s, F-18, F-15 and F-14 from old mold. And no, I wouldn't buy so called limited editions unless on sale (sorry, dear resellers), as I don't want to spend double or triple for comparable molds (for example between F-111 and F-14) and even worse decals - still thick, still hard, still yellow instead of white.

Looks nice, but the contrast of totally flat dashboard in comparison od other details is terrible. Do you consider to scratch the dashboard?

Is it so much damaged? What about buying another one and replicate parts from resin?