Severus
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In a very RIGID system, human nature will find a way to get around the rules - Russian people included.
If you think so...
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A few niggly bits in the build, but at that price! Who cares? Amazing bargain, i have the Dual Combo JV44 set with the 1/144 ME262 and i got that for £40, which i thought was a steal!
Adam
Yep. You R right, ed's asking too high to my taste.
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Admittedly, not a great deal from the main components, but the Eduard propeller (not the spinner, though), the landing gear legs and wheels, and the cockpit internals will all help ease the pain. Maybe the cowling too, with a bit of work. When I did my Siga one, I used a lot of these items from a KP La-7. Russian aircraft designs were highly "evolutionary" in their development, so similarities or carry-overs from one generation to the next are common. That's what makes the LaGG-3 series so "interesting" to sort out; likewise the Il-2 and I-16. Regardless of what we may believe in the West regarding the rigid nature of the Soviet system, it seems that wartime Russian designers had a lot of flexibility in making running changes to their projects right on the assembly lines - "If it works, do it!". Of course, if it didn't work, there could be consequences...
John
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.
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About the only realistic option is the Gran kit, which appears to be a cleaned-up version of a kit by Siga:
http://www.modelhobbies.co.uk/shop/gran-la...203-p-5278.html
There was a kit from MPM in that company's very earliest days, but it wasn't sufficiently more accurate than the Gran kit to make it worth tracking this one down.
Be prepared for a struggle; I built the Siga one in its La-9 version, and it was tough. It may be somewhat exaggerated, but here's Mark Fordham's build review:
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/fordhamla9.htm
If you want to push ahead with this, here's a walkaround or two of the La-9 and La-11:
http://scalemodels.ru/modules/photo/viewca...ow=12&min=0
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/la9.html
Drawings:
http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/la11.html
You may find it helpful to have a 1/72 La-7 (Eduard) available as a donor kit for some items. Oh, and there's a Falcon vacuform canopy set that includes the La-9/-11:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FNCV2472
The La-9/-11 is long overdue for a new, accurate kit in 1/72!
John (a different one!)
Still makes me wonder, what exactly could be usefull on La-11 from La-7.
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Heading says it all really!
John
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.
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Thanks Severus,
It's a standard fix whenever I build a Spitfire. I can't see why the same procedure won't work in 1/72.
Dave.
Problem is related to cockpit doors. If taken from reality, adding rails, sometimes you would end up almost with square doors...
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What scheme are you doing?
It will be natural metal from EC 02/002 Côte d'Or serial number 209, registration 2-FI, based in Dijon in 1976... I will use Berna Decals sheet BD 48-34
I would rather preffer to model something from some victoring army. Perhaps Shahak.
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Hi Robert. The Spitfire you are querying is not really a true T9 it is a modern conversion of a Mk.IX Spitfire.
The colours are indeed a little odd (but nice looking) being green and light grey upper and a blue/grey? belly (an HF scheme prehaps as PT462 may well have been a high altitude version at one point? but i expect the colours to be false...I stand to be corrected)
As for PT462 serving with 253 Sqn someone else may know this? I believe this Spitfire may have flown for the Israli airforce at some point -IAF)
Actually no 'real' twin seat spits were ever painted in RAF Camo (as none served with the RAF) the ones you see today in these RAF schemes wear them as a tribute to a particular airframe or show the airframes original colours?
hope this helps and someone else can prehaps give more or better information. PT.
If I remember correctly, IAF had ex Czechoslovak spits IXe, mostly from TE and SL production batch.
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Well done.
Starting this route on Eduard, but laziness attack overpowered me.
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Looks flat to me.
Pst! You shouldn't tell him, critics after the damage is done is far much better fun!
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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.
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Thanks for the encouragement. Adding larger pictures is not a problem, which detail are you especially interested in?
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.
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Hi Severus, I am reserving judgement at the moment, although the engraved detail on the new kit is definitely overdone.
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.?
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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...
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Very inspirative, but may it be possible to add larger pics?
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Well, to an extent I agree with you, and I did think about it, but there's no way I can paint instruments as neatly as they are on a decal. Besides, the instrument panel isn't that visible through the cockpit glazing, especially once I add the gunsight and the shrouds that extend back over the top of the panel. Therefore, I reckon I'll probably live with it!
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).
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To my eye, the older one looks better.
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Hi all
Can anyone help me with a scan or copy of the decal and paint sheet from the Special Hobby D.H Hornet F.Mk.1, mine seams to have walked off since i last saw it and i wanna get this one finished
Please Help
Scott C
Try to mail them, as I got once electra with crushed canopy, they had sent me replacement.
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Guys,
Hasegawa may have raised their retail prices but exchange rates, freight costs and the whole economic situaition are also doing their part.
An example: I like the Hasegawa 1/48 Skyhawk series a lot, so I bought the A-4E/F VA-192 boxing from Hannants in April of 2008. This kit retailed in Japan at Yen 2400 - Hannants charged me £17.99.
Fast forward to late 2010: The latest A-4E Top Gun version (basically the same bag of styrene as the VA-192 boxing) retails in Japan at Yen 3400 - Hannants will sell it for £42.89.
So in percentage it means the Japaneese retail price has increases by 42% while the price at Hannants has increased by 138%.
The next version will be a re-pop of the A-4N retailing in the UK at a staggering £64.99 but I have not been able to get a Japanese retail for this one.
Bjarne
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.
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Oh I don't know, call me stupid but I'd expect a shipping container full of packaged, ready to retail kits passing through customs would be valued much higher for Tax and Duty per item than a shipping container full of sprues awaiting Q/C and packaging. Wouldn't you?
Yes thanks.
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.
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Are Revell and Airfix paying Tax and Import Duties on finished retail goods or on crates of bagged sprues for them to package and distribute?
What's the importance of this question above? Bread would became cheaper?
Shipping is incurred unless they have switched back to domestic production.Fair comment if there is a ton of quality resin in the kit (but the cost is still too high imho)
But as for suggesting we are being thick ...
Otherwise will start thinking that there is an element of fanboy superiority complex involved.
Ever seen quality resin in hasegawa box?
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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.
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Looks nice, but the contrast of totally flat dashboard in comparison od other details is terrible. Do you consider to scratch the dashboard?
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Just spent a week building the engine pod feeling very proud of myself having made a lovely job of it. I started to de-assemble it and put the engine cooling tank down on the bench, then proceeded to knock over the liquid glue, when will I ever learn? If anyone happens to have or can advise me how to obtain parts h28 & h29 I would be most grateful
Is it so much damaged? What about buying another one and replicate parts from resin?
1/72 Spitfire XIV kits
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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...?