Mark M Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 ive seen a f-35 on googleand well does anyone know what the kits like, what it retails for and where i could get it? thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Sadly, Panda disappeared up their own back ends a while back. Especially since they are the only company to announce a 1:72 IM C-17. If you can find one, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark M Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Sadly, Panda disappeared up their own back ends a while back.Especially since they are the only company to announce a 1:72 IM C-17. If you can find one, good luck! thanks so no one doe a f35 then? pants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Not yet, but we're only a month and a half to two months away from new release time. Now that the world has sorted itself out as far as F-35 orders are concerned (F-35b/c), we may see more than just a 1:72 Fujimi offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrvr6 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 pandas going extinct? now theres an unfortunate company name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad 10 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 From memory there was a build in Scale Aviation Modeller when the kit was released as ' the latest thing' Again from memory it got a reasonable review. Kits of this nature are always compromised by the fact that they area based on constantly changing prototypes. Richard McC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Panda issued the prototypes. I had one and sold it. Less than 50 parts in a 1/48 kit. You might get lucky on evilbay. Only about a tenner new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad 10 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Just seen (google) it may have been released by Tamiya Richard McC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 You could of course just buy an F-18 E/F...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark M Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 or a typhoon and navalise it! You could of course just buy an F-18 E/F...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain.. ipms north somerset Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Sadly, Panda disappeared up their own back ends a while back.Especially since they are the only company to announce a 1:72 IM C-17. If you can find one, good luck! panda are still out there makeing some very fine kits ... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250922621592?ssP...984.m1439.l2649 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 panda are still out there makeing some very fine kits ...http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250922621592?ssP...984.m1439.l2649 Not strictly true, they are being issued by "Amusing Hobby", not the original "Panda Models". It's a new company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDragon Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 The MRAP is their first kit, cheaper than the Kinetic one due in January, not sure what the next will be but they have blank pages for 1/700th Ships, 1/32nd and 1/48th Aircraft and 1/72nd, 1/48th and 1/35th Armor. http://panda-hobby.com/ Some of the old Panda moulds are with Dragon like the 1/144th B-1 and 1/35th Huey's. Think Zhengdefu/Kitech did an F-35 in 48th but not certain, probably be a Panda knock off if they did. The Lindburg kit in 32nd has been indefinitely delayed. The Italeri 72nd kit is due soon but I don't know if it's their prototype repopped or a retool. Dragon has announced one in 1/72nd but no clue when it's due. Paul Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Av8fan Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 what about these for ideas? jsdf F-35 1 jsdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDragon Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Second Fujimi F-35B release is JASDF. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10149052 Think one of the Japanese 1/144th kits has Japanese decals included too. Paul Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FZ6 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I have a Panda F-35 reboxed by Revell. I've started it but just need to get it finished off Cockpit detail is ficticious and very basic of the doors for the fan at the front isn't great but it's generally gone together ok. I'm not an F-35 expert so I can't coment on accuracy but i'm guessing this is Panda's best guess using the prototypes as a basis for them. I think we'll get a decent up to date kit from the likes of Hasegawa or Academy once the real aircraft comes into service. In the mean time I plan to finish mine as an RAF/Royal Navy one in what if or what might be colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike V Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I Have the original 48th Panda F-35 kits, which are really the X-35 prototypes. They are far from accurate and cockpit, wheel well, Exhaust detail is a joke. Until the design changes are settled, we probably won't see an accurate model of the F-35 for a while. Mike V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotorheadtx Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Gareth has one he's trying to move... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry894262 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Is the F-35 (wash your mouth out) a real aeroplane, doesn't seem capable of putting the skin back on a rice pudding let alone pulling it off. Talk about pulling it off, it doesn't seem capable of that either, weren't they grounded AGAIN recently? Don't know what was wrong with the Boeing offering, at least it would have been a continuation of the Harrier lineage. Colin @ the bottom of Africa, with an X-32A in the display cabinet and none of the other rubbish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Don't know what was wrong with the Boeing offering, at least it would have been a continuation of the Harrier lineage. It failed the "Is the plane to pig-ugly to live?" test and was put down out of kindness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrvr6 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 im detecting an awefull lot of hate for this plane lol why do we all hate it so much? i dont like the fact the yanks refuse to let us into the software! (is that still the case?) i feel like its being forced on us and isnt actually as good as advertised (f111 anybody?) i stand to be corrected on both counts is it a bad airplane or are we all jumping on a bandwagon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 I was commenting on the Boeing X-32 fuglyplane rather than the F-35. Personally, I don't have a problem with the latter other than it being over-budget. As an unqualified civilian, I'd rather we the taxpayer spent money on a B, than spent yet more money learning how to do CTOL all over again (and redesign the carriers to suit). I think the software thing is effectivelty a red herring. The UK should have sufficient leverage to gain access to the source code (ultimately). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 im detecting an awefull lot of hate for this plane lolwhy do we all hate it so much? i dont like the fact the yanks refuse to let us into the software! (is that still the case?) i feel like its being forced on us and isnt actually as good as advertised (f111 anybody?) i stand to be corrected on both counts is it a bad airplane or are we all jumping on a bandwagon? I'm old enough to have heard this kind of rants before when other new aircrafts were due to replace old favourites. When the Hornet was selected to replace the last F-4s and the A-7 in the USN, there were plenty of cries against it: it will never be good for anything, it's too slow, lacks the robustness of the older types and so on. The F-16 was also heavily criticised for its radar and its artificial stability. Yet today both types have been in service for many years and many complain that the F-35 will never be able to replace these. Even the now legendary Tomcat met heavy criticism as many thought it was an overcomplicated aircraft, too heavy and too expensive and there were several proposals to replace it with someting cheaper. And the same has happened with many other weapons, like the Apache or the Abrams tank. Guess that any new aircraft brings doubts of some kind. The huge costs associated with any new program are also more and more difficult to justify to the public opinion, more so as no big military program in the last 20 years has managed to be in time and within the original budget. Personally I believe that the F-35 is a huge improvements over the planes it's supposed to replace, and whenever all the development bugs will be ironed out it will prove its worth. If however we tal about the Panda model F-35, then some "hate" is justified: to me it looked like a scaled up copy of the Italeri kit, so a prototype with very little detail, more a toy than a "serious" kit. As soon as the first F-35s will reach the operational units, I'm sure every manufacturer will have a kit of it and there will be plenty of options in every scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike V Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 im detecting an awefull lot of hate for this plane lolwhy do we all hate it so much? i dont like the fact the yanks refuse to let us into the software! (is that still the case?) i feel like its being forced on us and isnt actually as good as advertised (f111 anybody?) i stand to be corrected on both counts is it a bad airplane or are we all jumping on a bandwagon? Spose it's the nature of new fighter aircraft. The F-15 and F-16 went through similar resisitance. Considering that the F-35 is going to outfly and out fight most anything in the sky today, may also ahve something to do with it. It's definately going to be among a handful of elite Fighters when it goes full rate production, though there's still a lot of bugs to be worked out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Av8fan Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 As Mike V pointed out, the design is still changing..so an accurate kit will be a while yet. Although it would be nice to have something soon. I just hope that when one does come out, that it has multi national markings like the Acad F-18. I've been looking for a good line profile to see what it could look like in CAF or even hmm RCN markings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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