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I wonder if it's germain that WNW would have little experience with designing large clear parts?
It may be that the tool needs redesigned to eliminate multi gate feeds into certain parts.
Soome photos show the feeds haven't fused together the way they should.
Not such an issue with ordinary opaque parts, but clearly not working on transparencies.

I wonder if it's germain that WNW would have little experience with designing large clear parts?
It may be that the tool needs redesigned to eliminate multi gate feeds into certain parts.
Soome photos show the feeds haven't fused together the way they should.
Not such an issue with ordinary opaque parts, but clearly not working on transparencies.

I wonder if it's germain that WNW would have little experience with designing large clear parts?
It may be that the tool needs redesigned to eliminate multi gate feeds into certain parts.
Soome photos show the feeds haven't fused together the way they should.
Not such an issue with ordinary opaque parts, but clearly not working on transparencies.

Looking at the online build of the BM Lancaster, It's obvious that the expertise and attention to detail exemplified by Wingnut Wings 
has been a major design influence. A B-29 may be a possibility, but it'll be of a half-baked (in comparison) standard like the other big Lanc, B-24 and B-17.
 
For improved standards and innovation, it looks like Kotare are the company to watch. Now if Revell were to rebox/market those kits as they appear ....

Hello all!
Yes, there has been progress in the many corrections on the kit.
Just did not make photos!
I continued on the fuselage sections preparing the surfaces to redo the engraved details.
Also am reworking the fin so a correct size dorsal fairing will fit in place and improving the details too.
Sometime next week I will try to make photos!
 
Thanks!
Alain

I'd be up for a 1/32nd scale one done to the same standard as Eduard's current 1/48th outputs.
 
Of course, in my typical for me way, I've already got a Trumpy one and am studying Alain Gadbois' LSP article on fixes for it.
The work involved doesn't look too onerous, but it'd be nice not too have to bother, and I'm sure an alternative or aftermarket spine
would yield a Bis fairly painlessly.

Good news: Special Hobby kindly replied to my email, and their 1/32nd Typhoon project has been delayed but they still plan to do it. Updates will be posted on Special Hobby’s Facebook page when they’re ready. 
 
Cheers,
Adam
 

 
 
 
 

Most of those old kit-bash builds & write-ups miss one essential fact:  Both the Revell and Hasegawa fuselages are about 3/16" (5mm) too wide, which throws off the shapes of the nose, canopy and fuselage in general no matter what anyone tries to do with those kits. 
 
Yeah, one can get closer to a P-51B by bashing those two kits together than using the thing Trumpeter tooled, but it still misses the mark by a wide margin. 
 
HTH,
D

A quick question for the conosent.... cognisent... those in the know, if you don't mind.
I'm being offered the old (60s?) Revell kit, which from the online photos looks highly or at least very simplified.
The main gear bays for instance while boxed in, are featureless vertical cliffs.
I had a Scale Models mag back in the 70s describing a build, but I think it's succumbed to damp and paper rot.
 
Is it still a worthwhile purchase these days? ISTR that one was being mooted by a Czech manufacturer around the time of the Special Hobby Tempest's release.
Either SH or Fly, I'm not sure which now. But so much so I bought a second Barracuda nose correction set just to be prepared.
Alas, no further news has been forthcoming which may be a consequence if the pandemic, and/or a current lack of interest in central Europe with other preoccuptions to fry.

I've got a 3/4 built Hasegawa P-51D converted to a B/C model with a built up spine patterned on the one by Paul Budzik in a 1995 Finescale Modeller.
I've got as far as chopping back the wing leading edges and detailing the main gear bays before taking a break.
Then I found out the Hasegawa fuselage is too wide, so I acquired a second Revell P-51D onto to which I'll now transplant and fettle the hi-back already fabricated.
I just want a P-51, a Malcolm hood P-51B and a P-51D bubbletop. Why does that got to be so hard?
 

I've asked myself the same question for 30 years, but all we seem to be getting is yet another 109.

It's a sad fact that an unbuilt kit retains or even gains more value than a built one, regardless of the builders skills (or lack of, judging by some eBay specimens).
That said, ask your prospective buyer to make you an offer.
As they say, any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay.

I've got a 3/4 built Hasegawa P-51D converted to a B/C model with a built up spine patterned on the one by Paul Budzik in a 1995 Finescale Modeller.
I've got as far as chopping back the wing leading edges and detailing the main gear bays before taking a break.
Then I found out the Hasegawa fuselage is too wide, so I acquired a second Revell P-51D onto to which I'll now transplant and fettle the hi-back already fabricated.
I just want a P-51, a Malcolm hood P-51B and a P-51D bubbletop. Why does that got to be so hard?
 

I've got a 3/4 built Hasegawa P-51D converted to a B/C model with a built up spine patterned on the one by Paul Budzik in a 1995 Finescale Modeller.
I've got as far as chopping back the wing leading edges and detailing the main gear bays before taking a break.
Then I found out the Hasegawa fuselage is too wide, so I acquired a second Revell P-51D onto to which I'll now transplant and fettle the hi-back already fabricated.
I just want a P-51, a Malcolm hood P-51B and a P-51D bubbletop. Why does that got to be so hard?
 

A highly creditable effort on the Martin-Baker machine, but sadly the seat is the least of the the Trumpeter Lightning's problems needing correction.

New tooled 1/32 Harrier FRS.1?  

I think the Javelin also used them but it is not available either in large scale. They created the 3D file and so they can print the parts in any scale.

It's a sad fact that an unbuilt kit retains or even gains more value than a built one, regardless of the builders skills (or lack of, judging by some eBay specimens).
That said, ask your prospective buyer to make you an offer.
As they say, any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay.

It's a sad fact that an unbuilt kit retains or even gains more value than a built one, regardless of the builders skills (or lack of, judging by some eBay specimens).
That said, ask your prospective buyer to make you an offer.
As they say, any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay.

Apart from adding my vote for a P-51B/C in either 1/32 or 1/24 ( and maybe a state of the art P-51D/K in 1/24 )...
 
I would love to see this in 1/32:
 

 

 
And this, Meteor NF.14 ( artwork for 1/48 Special Hobby kit by Standa Hajek ):

 
Richard

It's a sad fact that an unbuilt kit retains or even gains more value than a built one, regardless of the builders skills (or lack of, judging by some eBay specimens).
That said, ask your prospective buyer to make you an offer.
As they say, any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay.

I'd like to see a decent 1/32nd 3D printed Harrier Pegasus fan.
It's an in your face feature of every Harrier model, yet the Revell one is hopeless and the Trumpeter one
as well as being similarly simplified, has the wrong rotational direction to boot.

Tamiya does an F4U-1 which IIRC is close enough to an FG-1D.

According to the usually reliable Aerialvisuals photo selection (and Abpic) C-GSBR is a Canadair CL-13A Sabre Mk5 painted as 23314 of the Golden Hawks in the livery worn between 1959 to 1964.
The Golden Hawks flew Mark 5s and latterly Mark 6s.
It flew for many years in spurious F-86E markings as F-86E 51-2897 FU-897 'The Huff' (NX8687D) before being returned to Canada in 2009.

According to the usually reliable Aerialvisuals photo selection (and Abpic) C-GSBR is a Canadair CL-13A Sabre Mk5 painted as 23314 of the Golden Hawks in the livery worn between 1959 to 1964.
The Golden Hawks flew Mark 5s and latterly Mark 6s.
It flew for many years in spurious F-86E markings as F-86E 51-2897 FU-897 'The Huff' (NX8687D) before being returned to Canada in 2009.