Silverkite Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 36 minutes ago, madcop said: You'll have to wait until 2011-2015 for these ….. Madcop 😶 Aoshima also made a Delorean Luigi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Soon Miniworld metallic set for the Eduard 1/72nd "Fishbed" - ref. ? Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenmats/permalink/1891824404210426/ V.P. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcop Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 7:06 PM, Silverkite said: Aoshima also made a Delorean Luigi Italy. 10 Points. ! Madcop 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 New box art Mig-21MF - ref. 70142 Quote This is the perfect time to introduce new items for September, and these will, of course, be available there. For fans of 1/72nd scale, we will have the MiG-21MF Fighter Bomber kit. This is the more interesting of the two MF kits, serving with something like fifty countries around the world and carrying a like number of interesting marking and camouflage possibilities. The BFC component of this kit will include an SPS141 ECM pod. Sources: https://www.eduard.com/store/out/media/InfoEduard/archive/2018/info-eduard-2018-08en.pdf The story behind : http://vovworld.vn/en-US/dien-bien-phu-in-the-air/hero-pham-tuan-shot-down-b52-stratofortress-126721.vov V.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 (edited) Great looking box art from Adam Tooby who does the ones for Airfix. Robert Edited August 2, 2018 by Robert Grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Uh, no B-52s were shot down by MiGs, though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ya-gabor Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) On 8/3/2018 at 1:45 AM, Procopius said: Uh, no B-52s were shot down by MiGs, though. Sorry I have to remove my posts Good Bye Gabor Edited March 1, 2019 by ya-gabor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Hothersall Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Isn't a dramatic box art supposed to grab your attention and you may think i will buy this kit, whether the box art is accurate or not?. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ya-gabor Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) On 8/3/2018 at 10:08 AM, Ryan Hothersall said: Isn't a dramatic box art supposed to grab your attention and you may think i will buy this kit, whether the box art is accurate or not?. Sorry I have to remove my posts Good Bye Gabor Edited March 1, 2019 by ya-gabor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBr Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Well, it is authentic -- at least when it comes to Vietnamese side of the story... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phạm_Tuân Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 52 minutes ago, JBr said: Well, it is authentic -- at least when it comes to Vietnamese side of the story... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phạm_Tuân Sure, it's as true as Duke Cunningham's Colonel Toon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewr9fkr9595 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 History, whether true or not, is written by the ‘winners’. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG-Mech Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Tony Oliver said: History, whether true or not, is written by the ‘winners’. Killer phrase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 (edited) This all reminds me of a poster on my study wall that I bought in Vietnam, showing a flight of MIGs with guns flaming and with Thuds heading earthwards. I love the Thud but appreciate the propaganda factor. We should all remember that we only see and know what we are "allowed" to know and see, and by those who show us. Martin Edited August 5, 2018 by RidgeRunner 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 23 hours ago, Tony Oliver said: History, whether true or not, is written by the ‘winners’. 8 hours ago, RidgeRunner said: We should all remember that we only see and know what we are "allowed" to know and see, and by those who show us. This is tin-foil hat territory. B-52 losses are a matter of public record. The war in Vietnam has been dissected endlessly in America by people with a wide variety of viewpoints. The USAF has not escaped very intense criticism for poor performance by SAC planners and heavy losses in LINEBACKER II. But no B-52s were lost to MiGs. Many to SAMs, none to MiGs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbolt Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Procopius said: This is tin-foil hat territory. B-52 losses are a matter of public record. The war in Vietnam has been dissected endlessly in America by people with a wide variety of viewpoints. The USAF has not escaped very intense criticism for poor performance by SAC planners and heavy losses in LINEBACKER II. But no B-52s were lost to MiGs. Many to SAMs, none to MiGs. Public record is still only what they want us to see Next you’re going to say men landed on the moon Edited August 5, 2018 by Tbolt 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG-Mech Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 (edited) Decal versions:https://www.facebook.com/EduardCompany/posts/2185380731476862 Edited August 5, 2018 by MiG-Mech 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ale85 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 😍 ciao Ale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Eduard's press conference at Nuremberg Toy Fair 2019 (01/02) report: http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2019/Eduard_PK/Eduard_PK_1.htm V.P. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Source: https://www.facebook.com/EduardCompany/posts/2494737503874515 Quote March Limited Edition kit’s box of MiG-21MF in Czech and Czechoslovak service in 1/72 scale. Its box-art is based on an artwork by Martin Lébl. It will be available under cat. no. 2127. Inside the box you will find: - parts for two complete models - MiG-21MF Interceptor and MiG-21 Fighter-bomber, - Cartograf printed decals for 39 colour schemes, - pre-painted PE parts, - pictorial book about MiG-21MF service in Czechoslovak, Czech and Slovak Air Forces in Czech (2nd edition). English translation will be available for download. V.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG-Mech Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Hope english translation will come. I still wait for the Mi-24 book translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 8/5/2018 at 8:39 PM, Tbolt said: Public record is still only what they want us to see The story that I tell a lot. Once (2002 or 2003 year, don't remember, but it was summer) I met one of the authors of this book in the city local book market. Then he had his first book published in Russian. This book was about the history of the Israeli Air Force. (I was not alone, there was one local modeller with me. Aha, witness this dialogue!) I read his book, and I asked him: - Misha, how did it happen that in your book you say, “ Israel Air Force has not lost a aircraft in air combat, for all its existence (since 1947)”? - Oh, it's simple! There is such a Jewish agency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Agency_for_Israel . They paid me $ 300, which I would not write in my book, any negative info about Israel. - You see, Kiril, ( I said, turning to my companion) the modern exchange rate for one silver is ten dollars, ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver ) but otherwise the price is the same! Then we coldly said goodbye to the author of these books. Crime this story? Not! Just someone for ridiculous money formed the necessary public opinion for him, but someone was swaggering and not modest to boast about it! Therefore, while there will be war there will be military propaganda. As long as military propaganda is going to be something like this: Translation caricature. Inscription from top to bottom. On Left: - Our sacred land; - Our glorious leader; - Our noble people; - Our brave heroes. On right: - Their barbarous desert; - Their treacherous tyrant; - Their primitive superstitions; - Their backward savages; - Their cruel invaders. About B-52, in some Russian magazine I read that, according to the Vietnamese version, they shot down two B-52s in air combat. In the first case, the Vietnamese pilot rammed the B-52 and himself died, the second case is Pham Tuan. It sounds incredible that the MiG-21 can shoot down the B-52 with AIM K-13 (in fact Soviet copy Sidewinder) , by the way the pilot shot down the South Korean Boeing 747, also claimed that his missiles were too weak to bring down this Boeing. But if only one Sidewinder from F-100 was enough to bring down the B-52, during this incident: http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/images/Shootdown.html then why Pham Tuan could not have enough two K-13 (Soviet copy Sidewinder, with some more powerful explosives warheads then AIM-9B) to bring down one B-52? And if the B-52 down in the territory controlled by North Vietnam, how do you know him shoot down AIM or SAM? Losses B-52 in Vietnam war in Russian: (48 - losses) https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Потери_авиации_во_Вьетнамской_войне and English: (31-losses) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War versions of Wikipedia somehow differ greatly ....17 aircraft(!)...where does this difference come from? B-52 is not MC-15 Cri-Cri Jet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri to hide his loss.... B.R. Serge 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komoras Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 8 hours ago, MiG-Mech said: Hope english translation will come. I still wait for the Mi-24 book translation. Here you go: https://www.eduard.com/out/media/1199_TXT_EN.pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 2 hours ago, Aardvark said: Translation caricature. Inscription from top to bottom. On Left: - Our sacred land; - Our glorious leader; - Our noble people; - Our brave heroes. On right: - Their barbarous desert; - Their treacherous tyrant; - Their primitive superstitions; - Their backward savages; - Their cruel invaders. Classic! I love it! John 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12by12 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Here's a listing which attempts to reconcile US losses and Vietnamese claims using multiple sources. https://web.archive.org/web/20120331182753/http://mysite.verizon.net/anneled/usloss.html It's air combat, sometimes things are uncertain. Neither side has the monopoly on truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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