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  1. hopkp
    I doubt that - I'd say it's more likely to be a reissue of this one: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobbycraft-hc1522-bf109g-10-axis-allies--147833 Academy have issued a lot of ex-Hobbycraft kits under their brand and I would think are unlikely to be worried about the difference between a Bf 109G-10 and a Bf 109G-6/AS.
  2. hopkp
    I was looking forward to this kit, but from everything I've seen so far I'm inclined to just stick with my Hasegawa and Academy ones. If in the future Airfix were to issue the later Canadair Sabre versions with the necessary 'add-ons' all in the box (as it seems they might, based on the info. above) then I'll definitely get a couple of those, but for me the current kit isn't a significant improvement over the kits/aftermarket that I already have in the stash.
  3. hopkp
    What I'm looking forward to is ICM's promised 1/48 DB-26B/C with a couple of drones hanging under its wings!
  4. hopkp
    That's just beautiful. The 'oil splatters' are very effective, I'd be interested to know how you did it.....
  5. hopkp
    I agree, it looks like they skimped a bit on the cockpit detail alright. It'll be interesting to see if someone does any aftermarket sets for the kit, I'd certainly be interested if they did. (Eduard, maybe?)
  6. hopkp
    There's a useful 'walkaround' gallery here: http://svsm.org/gallery/ms230 with a lot of close-up photos. Though the cockpit shots aren't great, they seem to support the notion that the kit's cockpits are a bit shallow; it looks to me like the cockpit floor should be level with the top of the big fuel tank that forms much of the underside of the forward fuselage. While the seats do look to be quite small in the photos, I think that they may be a bit bigger than Dora Wings suggest? I'm not having a go at Dora Wings, by the way, I'm quite happy to see them producing kits of 'between the wars' subjects, I just don't think the MS.230 is as good as - for example - their 1/48 Lockheed Vega and 1/32 D.500, hence my disappointment.....
  7. hopkp
    I completely agree with your comments on the kit. I got mine in the post a couple of days ago and comparing it to other more recent Dora Wings kits I was a bit disappointed. Like you, I have the definite impression that the wings were made by another company (or by Dora Wings a long time ago!) and this is compounded by the fact that someone obviously felt it was a good idea to include a second set of (much improved) struts. I also feel that the cockpit's too shallow and to me at least the seats look more like 1/72 than 1/48. Definitely some research needed before I try to build it..... Anyhow, I'm heartened by your post, in that it's obviously possible to make a very nice model out of the kit!
  8. hopkp
    From those pictures, it looks to me like they've succeeded!
  9. hopkp
    Very nice-looking AEW Skyraider, I'd love to have a go myself but have always been put off by the fact that the kit is so old. Re-scribing makes it look much better, your beautiful result would almost make me try it! Your pictures also - for me anyway - confirm that you can't rely too much on photos for colour reference and that maybe your own eye is better, some of the time at least. Your blue looks spot on to me, but if you look closely it seems a slightly different shade in some of the pictures, which just goes to show how much colour changes in appearance depending on lighting conditions.
  10. hopkp
    Beautiful job. I'm always in awe of those who can achieve results like that with brush painting, which is a skill I simply don't have!
  11. hopkp
    I suspect that the answer is possibly that more 1/48 kits are sold these days than 1/72 kits, just going by what I and the other modellers that I know are buying. Only two still buy/have any interest in 1/72, everyone else is working almost exclusively in 1/48, with occasional diversions into 1/32. How typical that is, I don't know.....
  12. hopkp
    Looks pretty neat, if it's anything like as good as their Hs 123 it'll be excellent. It definitely looks like an easier build than the (now pretty old) Trimaster/Dragon/Revell kit.
  13. hopkp
    The English CC 'translation' is a riot, the video's worth watching for that alone!
  14. hopkp
    Guess so, though I've been called worse things in my time!
  15. hopkp
    Thanks for the very informative reply - and for posting the photos, both of which are new to me. I think a lot of the attraction of WWII Luftwaffe colour schemes is that they are so open to speculation. As you say, it looks great anyway!
  16. hopkp
    That's exactly what I'll be doing - I hate raised rivets on models with a vengeance! (For the record, ditto the recessed ones.....)
  17. hopkp
    Lovely 1/48 Fw 190, really neat build. Could I ask if you know of/have ever found any photographs of Rudorffer's 190 in this scheme? I've only ever been able to find drawings of it but like to have photo for confirmation before applying paint to a model!
  18. hopkp
    I'd really be very interested to know how well all of those 'classic' kits are selling and to whom. I built pretty much all of them in my youth as did any of my friends who are into modelling and none of us have any interest in revisiting them now, either out of nostalgia or for any other reason. Life's simply too short at this stage (we've all seen our 60th birthdays come and go) and there are far too many more recent kits out there still to be built to waste time re-doing all of the old stuff. Genuinely puzzled as to what market they're aimed at.....
  19. hopkp
    Happy to be of assistance. I didn't realise you were also a submariner of note - I had a look at your Hunley build and have to say it's impressive. Subs have always been kind of a side-interest for me; for reasons I'd struggle to explain with any kind of logic I recently invested in a Das Werke 1/72 WWI U-boat.....which the stash needs about as badly as the proverbial hole in the head!
  20. hopkp
    I hope that (a) this might be of some help and is not too late for your build and (b) that it's alright to 'hijack' your build thread like this - if not please let me know and I'll remove it forthwith! However, I got my hands on one of these kits today (colour me very impressed with it) and of course had to go looking on the 'interweb' for reference material and found these: http://www.caudron-simoun.com/index.html , https://www.passionpourlaviation.fr/tag/caudron-simoun/ and https://www.museeairespace.fr/aller-plus-haut/panoramas-360/360-cabines-de-pilotage/caudron-c-365-simoun/ The first link is to what seems to be a restoration project, though it doesn't seem to go beyond 2014 (though someone with better French or 'Google translate' skills than me might be able to get more out of it), the second seems to be the same plane but has a very clear picture of the engine and the third is one of those 360 degree cockpit 'lookarounds' on the Le Bourget museum website. They might be of some help if you haven't come across them already and assuming that your build hasn't gotten to the engine/interior painting stage.....
  21. hopkp
    Has it been confirmed anywhere that this is the Eduard kit? According to Scalemates, its provenance is 'unknown'. I think that it's more likely to be a re-issue of the old Hobbycraft 1/48 Bf 109G-10 (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobbycraft-hc1522-bf109g-10-axis-allies--147833); Academy has re-issued several Hobbycraft kits over the years.
  22. hopkp
    You might have a point there, though on balance I think I'd declare that particular beauty contest a draw! I've never bought a kit of either plane and never will.....
  23. hopkp
    That's my recollection of it too - even the supposedly corrected one is quite 'iffy' looking, though for some reason the two-seater kits don't look too bad. Actually I was hoping that Kinetic's announcement today might have been a re-tooled 1/48 F-16 series to the same standard as their F-104s, a decent F-16A/A+/MLU is (well, in my view anyway) badly needed in 1/48. Tamiya obviously isn't going to take their series any further than the F-16C.
  24. hopkp
    While I understand the point that you make, I'm not sure that 'just a few paint schemes' is necessarily on its own a limiting factor when a manufacturer is deciding which aircraft kits are (or aren't) worth developing. There's no shortage of kits of the F-35 around in all scales; the F-35 literally has only one colour scheme, regardless of the operator, which surely has to be the very definition of the term 'boring'. It's also the ugliest thing ever to enter widespread service post-war (my opinion only, admittedly, though no-one I know has a different one)!
  25. hopkp
    Excellent - one definitely won't be enough, the bank manager will be trembling behind his desk!
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