Nev Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Dragon style CAD at Nuremberg http://data4.primeportal.net/models/thomas...er_14_of_25.jpg Is it just me, or does the parts breakdown look awfully similar to the Airfix 1/48 Lightning? Not that that's a bad thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcn Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I can't believe for one moment the Chinese would be guilty of copying something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamienB Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 F.3 with a rounded tail eh. Doesn't bode well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) I can't believe for one moment the Chinese would be guilty of copying something What you say we are cheap and gleedy and copy onry Engrish kit to make Chinese kit? We make velly good kit in China! Tlumpeter velly nice, Hobby Boss same same. Acculacy not important in China. Rightning rook rike Rightning to me so why you say no F thlee with lounded tail top? Rook rike Rightning to Chinese kit maker, why you Engrish so angly we not get one rittle bit light? p.s. You wanna buy Rorex? I got Bleitring too. Velly nice, onry 100 US dorrars...... Maybe Ruis Vuiton bag for rady? You come see.... Edited February 8, 2008 by busdriver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg B Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) What you say we are cheap and gleedy and copy onry Engrish kit to make Chinese kit? We make velly good kit in China! Tlumpeter velly nice, Hobby Boss same same. Acculacy not important in China. Rightning rook rike Rightning to me so why you say no F thlee with lounded tail top? Rook rike Rightning to Chinese kit maker, why you Engrish so angly we not get one rittle bit light?p.s. You wanna buy Rorex? I got Bleitring too. Velly nice, onry 100 US dorrars...... Maybe Ruis Vuiton bag for rady? You come see.... Is that how you do the Captains announcements in flight??? If so, when are you next flying to Honkers? I could do with a giggle! Edited February 8, 2008 by Greg B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 The nose is too short, the wing angle wrong and the fin tip the wrong shape. Piece of rubbish!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousAA72 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) The nose is too short, the wing angle wrong and the fin tip the wrong shape. Piece of rubbish!! Whats going on with those Firestreaks? Looks as if they've been mated with the Red Top!!! Edited February 8, 2008 by Bill Clark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 p.s. You wanna buy Rorex? Honestly, Mark it's "LOLEX"! How many times..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entlim Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Is that how you do the Captains announcements in flight??? If so, when are you next flying to Honkers? I could do with a giggle! Think they're bad?- wait till you fly Air Astana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Honestly, Mark it's "LOLEX"! How many times..... Aaaah you want Lolex? I got Rorex and Lolex, same same, whatever you want I got. I got Lolex Submaliner, velly nice you see, I got Gucci shoe too for rady, you come see.... Thank God the Kenyans don't make models, that would really get me started! "Hello my Brother, why not come into my shop, looking ees for freee..." How a 6ft tall and very black Kenyan could confuse me with being his brother... And why I would ever want to go into a dark and dingy doorway with the aforementioned gentleman, you'd be barking! Honkers? Hmmmmm, I don't think that's on the easyJet network yet. Mind you with having just brought GB Airways, BA might be next on the list! Fancy an Orange tie Al? I did succumb in the end to the orange ID lanyard after being told off for wearing my Emirates one! I resorted to a BALPA one, but was 'asked' to be a bit more orange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nev Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 F.3 with a rounded tail eh. Doesn't bode well! Well, the box art has been around a while and we all know its an F1a (with a funny looking cockpit). Trumpeters box-art is traditionally awful so I wouldn't take too much notice of that. Thank God the Kenyans don't make models, that would really get me started! "Hello my Brother, why not come into my shop, looking ees for freee..." I sold my last house to a Kenyan couple. It was sooooo hard to not burst out laughing when he started to haggle with me. "You are a......man, and I am a......man. Now. Let us discuss the price together.............as men" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennings Heilig Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Trumpeters box-art is traditionally awful... And let's not even get into the quality of their kits... So help me, if those Bozos festoon a 1/32 Lightning with scale 4" wide, 3" deep "rivets" I'm going to personally fly to China and smash their rivet gun with a sledge hammer. So help me. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I kid you not I flew Air China to Beijing last year and they really did put out an announcement on landing hoping that we "had a nice fright" Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike V Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Any bets that these are going to be scaled down 48th "Airfix lightnings" ? Just a hunch Mike V And let's not even get into the quality of their kits...So help me, if those Bozos festoon a 1/32 Lightning with scale 4" wide, 3" deep "rivets" I'm going to personally fly to China and smash their rivet gun with a sledge hammer. So help me. J Amen! Mike V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennings Heilig Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Any bets that these are going to be scaled down 48th "Airfix lightnings" ? Just a hunch If they are, they'll be way too small for 1/32 J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 How I enjoy racist humour! Anyone tried speaking Mandarin, or indeed any language other than their ownwith a good accent? The British are renowned for their abilities to master foreign languages. Not Van Half Vietnamese and proud of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham T Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Talking of the box art.....it seems that the two a/c in the pic are the same one. Certainly the same code letter & it looks like the same serial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy K Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I have a Trumpeter 1/32 A-10 in the loft......Ugh! Too much work to put stuff right and life is too short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 How I enjoy racist humour! Anyone tried speaking Mandarin, or indeed any language other than their ownwith a good accent? The British are renowned for their abilities to master foreign languages.Not Van Half Vietnamese and proud of it. Come on, it's easy; just raise the volume (i.e SHOUT!) Edgar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Guys, gotta agree with Van here. Steady on with the accents okay it may be all said in jest but, think how it would look to someone of asian descent who is a member or just visiting the boards. We're a multicultural country and as such a one would presume a multicultural board so lets act like it okay, please try to keep these discussions to the subject at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entlim Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I rather think Van was giving it some with the sarcasm My bst friend's family are Burmese- been here over 45 years- his dadis the biggest piddle taker in the world , when it comes to accents etc- magic guy-gives as good as he gets................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 (edited) OK, I'm gonna rise to the bait here as it is me that seems to have offended. Firstly, I'm sorry about my sense of humour offending anyone. Secondly, yes, I do speak both French and German and have decent enough 'accents' to be able to pass as a German, especially after half a dozen biers... But why is it that when someone says 'Oh Rather!' or 'Oh my Gosh!' or 'Toodle Pip old bean!' 'Anyone for Cricket?' in a rather affected and exagerated English accent not one Brit will object?! I have worked in Vietnam and sat at a dinner table with 12 Vietnam Airlines hostesses all laughing at my attempts to speak their language. I have been taught how to speak 'Chinglish' in HK by a local. I am amazed at how we Brits are happy to be called Brits, Aussies the same, Kiwis, Yanks etc. but call a someone from Pakistan a, well, you know where this is going, but all of a sudden we're racist! No, I am not racist. I am a well balanced citizen of planet earth, who just happens to think that the inability of the Chinese to say L instead of R and vice versa is quite amusing. I hope that you weren't listening to national radio 2 this morning when Jonathan Ross was explaining how his Japanese friend asked him about a phrase she used which was 'What on bottom...' After a few moments of hilarity, old Wossy got the message. She was saying 'What on earth!' We all do it, we all take the micky sometimes and I love that about us Brits, because whilst we do laugh at others, we also have the wonderful ability and sense of humilty to be able to laugh at ourselves. Look at Billy Connolly, how he exagerates his 'Scottishness' and laughs at it. The same for any northern English comic. Peter Kay 'Ay oop, Grandma, put on big light will you?' the fact is that we are able to laugh this and it does not offend anyone, yet exagerate a foreign accent and wow! WWIII. Rant over and sorry that this has been aired on a modelling site, I know it's not appropriate here. Edited February 9, 2008 by busdriver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entlim Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 this is ability, mark is what makes us Brits!.......................... Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miduppergunner Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I totally agree with you Mark and Ed - many years ago I was accused of being patronising because I did not take the mickey out of West Indian who we had working with us - all he wanted was to be treated the same as everyone else e.g. a Geordie and a Scot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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