Uncle Uncool Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 On 5/23/2018 at 3:21 AM, Homebee said: Wow, this piccy just hit me in "they're" skull harder than my sheila when I tamper with her acetone. Wonder how it'll look in some Argie Air Force Flight School scheme! Looking noooiiiceee... but can't seem to find any store which has it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/695711033832473/permalink/1945479408855623/ Quote David Cooper Today, I am starting on the creation of vacuformed canopy parts for the new Minicraft 1/48 Beech T-34A/B Mentor! I'm doing this for those modelers who may want the option to display their canopy sections, in the on the ground,open position. If built as is provided in the kit, the glass kit parts are engineered to fit tightly together, in the closed position. But, if you want to display the model with the canopy sections in the open/partially open positions, the kit clear parts are too thick, to position them any other way. STEP 1: I am going to make vacuformed copies of the kits clear canopy parts, D2 & D3, to see if these thinner parts, will provide good enough clearance for each other, to allow the forward sliding section to fit inside the mid section. V.P. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 On 7/11/2018 at 12:48 PM, Homebee said: Davide Cooper I'm doing this for those modelers who may want the option to display their canopy sections, in the on the ground,open position. --->>><<<--- That c'est moi, mon ami! I'm buying this so that I can display Ensign Carlos Rinke & Marcos Carballo when they were students at the Argie Air Force Flight School in Córdoba, circa... 1970? Cheers 'em, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Croco Model decals - ref. CMDA7202 Beech T34A/B Mentor and T34C Turbo Mentor (Equador, Uruguay, Bolivia) Source: https://www.aviationmegastore.com/beech-t34ab-mentor-and-t34c-turbo-mentor--equador-uruguay-bolivia-cmda7202-croco-model-company-cmda7202-aircraft-scale-modelling-decals/product/?action=prodinfo&art=156082 V.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) New boxing - ref. 11695 - Beechcraft T-34A Mentor "Civil Air Patrol" - release expected August 2019 Box art Sources: https://minicraftmodels.com/products/11695-1-48-t-34-c-a-p https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10623880 V.P. Edited February 22, 2021 by Homebee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/695711033832473/permalink/1945479408855623/ V.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 6 hours ago, Homebee said: Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/695711033832473/permalink/1945479408855623/ Hi V.P., mate. D'ya know how old this news is? Three months back I once took advance that my sheila had left her Facebook page active to have a chat with Mr. Cooper, who said to me that the vac-form canopy for this kit was a no-go. I'm not a Facebook user 'cause I was told that Mr Zuckerberg is the Anti-Christ. Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold55 Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 (edited) MiniCraft has been able to get distribution into some big box hobby retailers in the past so it is possible you could find this kit on sale with a coupon that would make it very attractive price wise. In any case I would love to add this to my collection but would opt for a colorful version. Btw, I am also not on FB either. Not certain about Zuckerberg being the Anti-Christ but have heard that past girlfriends could be out there lurking, which scare me so best let sleeping dogs lay. Edited July 2, 2019 by Harold55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Harold55 said: MiniCraft has been able to get distribution into some big box hobby retailers in the past so it is possible you could find this kit on sale with a coupon that would make it very attractive price wise. Hi Harold! Tried getting it directly from the MiniCraft site some months ago, but it wasn't the kit price which put me off getting it as it was the shipping fare down to Argieland (steeper than the kit price). My mum is to visit Yankeeland in mid September, so I'll have her get it for me. 1 hour ago, Harold55 said: Btw, I am also not on FB either. Not certain about Zuckerberg being the Anti-Christ but have heard that past girlfriends could be out there lurking, which scare me so best let sleeping dogs lay. Bwahahahahaha... See that's yet another very good reason not to go to Facebook. Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Bryon Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 The UK rrp for this kit is £45 for the A and £50 for the upcoming A/B which I just think is insane. I would genuinely like to know who's happy to pay so much for so little. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 29 minutes ago, Jon Bryon said: I would genuinely like to know who's happy to pay so much for so little. Also, I would genuinely like to know what the £5 difference is for a B version kit that's exactly the same, externally, yeh? Just different decals, perhaps? Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold55 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 21 hours ago, Jon Bryon said: The UK rrp for this kit is £45 for the A and £50 for the upcoming A/B which I just think is insane. I would genuinely like to know who's happy to pay so much for so little. Have to agree with you, that price is nuts! ScaleHobbyist.com has it for $24.59 but I have no idea what shipping and other taxes would end up being. I don't think it is made China or we would see it on the more prominent sites there but no such luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistervampire319 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 7 hours ago, Harold55 said: Have to agree with you, that price is nuts! ScaleHobbyist.com has it for $24.59 but I have no idea what shipping and other taxes would end up being. I don't think it is made China or we would see it on the more prominent sites there but no such luck. 8.95 here in the US at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areva Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 What happened to the Freedom Models 1/48 scale T-34C? areva 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 On 7/2/2019 at 4:56 AM, Homebee said: Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/695711033832473/permalink/1945479408855623/ V.P. This is what David Cooper replied on my sheila's Facebook account with regard to the making (or not) of the vac-form canopy for the MiniCraft 1/48 T-34A Mentor kit: "Sorry, the replacement vacuformed canopy for the Minicraft T-34A, is on hold, until enough interest is shown in it, to warrant production." Anyone interested in this vac-form bit happening should go to David's page in Facebook and ask for it to be done. Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistervampire319 Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Uncle Uncool said: This is what David Cooper replied on my sheila's Facebook account with regard to the making (or not) of the vac-form canopy for the MiniCraft 1/48 T-34A Mentor kit: "Sorry, the replacement vacuformed canopy for the Minicraft T-34A, is on hold, until enough interest is shown in it, to warrant production." Anyone interested in this vac-form bit happening should go to David's page in Facebook and ask for it to be done. Cheers, Unc2 Yeah I asked him that. Also someone responded there will be more interest when the C model is released. (Whoever releases that one.) To which I am definitely interested in! Edited July 7, 2019 by sinistervampire319 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 On 7/3/2019 at 10:53 PM, sinistervampire319 said: 8.95 here in the US at least. Say WHUUUT...??!! $8.95 where in the US, please! It was offered at almost $35 on the MiniCraft site last time I asked. Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistervampire319 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 4 hours ago, Uncle Uncool said: Say WHUUUT...??!! $8.95 where in the US, please! It was offered at almost $35 on the MiniCraft site last time I asked. Cheers, Unc2 Sorry. Meant US shipping. Move to US, get cheaper shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, sinistervampire319 said: Move to US, get cheaper shipping. I might as well do that! Used to have a sweetheart who dwells at Ukiah, Cali, some five years ago. Oh, but then she started reading Ayn Rand and everything went down the drain in our relationship... Yeh, it did. Cheers, Unc2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistervampire319 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 That's funny. I will be making a delivery Friday in Ukiah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 15 hours ago, sinistervampire319 said: That's funny. I will be making a delivery Friday in Ukiah. No way! I could give you the address to my ex so that you go ask my Afrikaner girl to tell you the story of that strange job interview she had when she arrived in Cali, where she explained that she had lots of experience in logistics 'cause she'd worked in a "wh(*)rehouse" in Cape Town, and that her duties consisted in the selection and classification of goods with respect to their countries of origin. She never quite understood why the interviewer asked her to leave at once all of the sudden. The anecdote would crack me up everytime! Aw, gawd... tee-hee. Cheers, Unc2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) New boxing - ref. 11697 - Beechcraft T-34B Mentor Sources: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10696739 https://minicraftmodels.com/products/11697-t-34b-u-s-n-1-48-scale Box art V.P. Edited June 12, 2021 by Homebee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Uncool Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 That's "them" beauty... Unfortunately, shipping price is almost the same as the cost of "they're" kit... Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 (edited) New Academy boxing - ref. 12361 - Beechcraft T-34B Mentor - US Navy - VT-5 Training Air Wing Sources: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AC12361 https://mmzone.co.kr/mms_tool/mt_view.php?mms_db_name=mmz_media&mms_cat=[����] �&no=8670&keyword=&where=&mode=&start_page= Review: https://mmzone.co.kr/mms_tool/mt_view.php?mms_db_name=mmz_media&no=8670 V.P. Edited October 10, 2023 by Homebee 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Bryon Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Finally at a realistic price! Jon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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