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  1. hopkp
    Guess I have no choice but to enter a plea of 'Guilty as charged, M'lud'!
  2. hopkp
    I suspect that you may be making this request on the wrong forum - I doubt anyone here would do anything other than encourage you to get another one! (Or maybe even two.....)
  3. hopkp
    I suspect that I will too..... Great to hear this.....
  4. hopkp
    Delighted to hear this; I have no doubt which kit will be the better one and definitely don't mind waiting a bit longer for an SR-71 that's done to the same kind of standard as Hypersonic's accessories and Gaspatch's kits (the Hs 123 and Me 163 are in a league of their own - well, I think anyway!). And yes, before you ask, I bought my AG-330 a long time ago.....I now just need the SR-71 to connect it to!
  5. hopkp
    Is the long-promised Hypersonic/Gaspatch 1/48 SR-71 kit still on the go as well as the Revell one?
  6. hopkp
    It really is! I actually gave up buying from sources outside the EU several years ago (the 'far east' in particular). It used to be that the prices were very good and the shipping competitive; combined with the VAT/customs thing being a bit of a lottery (as in some were nabbed, some got through unscathed) on balance it was worth taking the chance. However, more recently the shipping prices just got crazy (often costing more or less the same as the kit) and in parallel with this the powers that be seemed to get a lot more efficient and pretty much every parcel was getting caught in the 'VAT/customs net'. It's just not worth it any longer from a financial perspective (or indeed from any other).
  7. hopkp
    A good price alright, but I suspect that the shipping charges to Europe would make the deal a bit less attractive - particularly if you got nabbed for VAT and customs clearance fees too!
  8. hopkp
    Also now in stock at Modellbau Koenig in Germany.....
  9. hopkp
    That's a really nice-looking model. Is it the more recent 'retooled' Eduard Fw 190 kit or the older one released a few years ago?
  10. hopkp
    Another really beautiful and very realistic-looking model!
  11. hopkp
    Beautiful - looks almost real. Why? Because it hasn't been 'over-weathered' like far too many models are these days! If your photos were done in black and white rather than in colour I suspect it would be very difficult to spot the difference between the model and a period photo.
  12. hopkp
    Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to find 'un-rivetted' kits.....hopefully you'll understand when I say that personally I'd far rather you having to scribe them than my having to fill them in!
  13. hopkp
    Delays can be frustrating alright, but I'd rather the kit was delayed while Airfix 'look into' - and hopefully resolve - the apparent issue with the wings, as opposed to issuing a kit with a problem.
  14. hopkp
    I'm beginning to regret having bought a couple of these kits for the stash - and I also bought a couple of the French version!
  15. hopkp
    I think it's called 'artistic licence'; still, if the kit's done by Trumpeter's 'A Team', I'd forgive them the slightly odd box art!
  16. hopkp
    You're not alone, I completely agree with your view on the 'endless rivet effect'. Unfortunately it seems to be regarded as mandatory these days, I'm hoping that it's just a passing fad.....like I'm hoping over-weathering in all of its forms will also prove to be, I really don't get why that's so popular either!
  17. hopkp
    It looks to me like the wing parts are warped, hopefully nothing that can't be straightened out with a bit of hot water and a steel ruler! It also looks awfully 'rivetty' to me, I'm really not a fan of raised rivet detail at all, never have been.....I see much sanding in my future.
  18. hopkp
    That's one beautiful-looking model. With the right background, it could easily be the real thing (the second and last photos in particular).
  19. hopkp
    That looks like a real jigsaw puzzle.....the fuselage in particular!
  20. hopkp
    Very nice-looking model!
  21. hopkp
    I had exactly the same issue recently with a Kits World decal sheet for a 1/48 P-47. It looked to me almost as if the decals had been printed the same way that their '3D' instrument panels are produced - your description of 'thick, lumpy and unusable' fits exactly. Like you, I got a replacement sheet - while an improvement on the first one, it still wasn't anything like as good as the other Kits World decal sheets in my stash.
  22. hopkp
    I suspect that the seatbelt set for the HKM Lancaster is just the start, in recent times Eduard seem to have taken a more 'piecemeal' approach to releasing their accessories for new kits. As for the 'Space' sets, I've only got one (for the P-51D) and on the basis of that I'd put them in second place behind Quinta's efforts (of which I have a few). The ones from Kits-World - on the basis of a sample I received for the Tornado a while ago - would in my view be bringing up the rear in third place.
  23. hopkp
    Thanks for that! Yes, it does seem to have all of the necessary parts, probably worth taking a chance on it, I can get one for around €55.....
  24. hopkp
    I'm just wondering if anyone who's actually got this 'DC-3' kit can confirm that all of the parts needed to build a standard military C-47 are in the box? From the sprue shots it looks that way, but it'd be great to have it confirmed before actually parting with money.....the original C-47 boxing seems to be hard to come by these days but this version seems to be pretty readily available.
  25. hopkp
    Nice - a lot of these seem to be getting built lately for some reason! I've had an 'original issue' one in the stash for what must be more than 40 years now (ouch!) and still not done anything with it.....
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