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Great work as always Peter

Nice work man - easy to make and nice looking details Ads

A great idea for those who don't like or can't paint eyes or faces very well Nice work mate Ads

Hey man this is really nice! Ads

Hey man - it's great to see such a lovely set of figures from Andrew come to life "in colour" - a great match to "Old Ironsides III" Ads

Hey Peter! I love how you have tackled (and succeeded) in detailing the top of the fuselage spine and nose sections because as you know they can be difficult! A great and clean looking model - are you going to dirty it up ( just a little?) Smashing Ads

Rick i have seen some Jugs and yours is among the best - and hey i have seen much worse photography in my life ( some of my own rings a bell) ads

I found out that a certain option was unchecked on my word document - so it wasn't checking me up! Fingers crossed buds :-)

Ha ha point well and truly taken boys - I will work on my SPEELING! It's a case of me usually being too rushed, and having too much to do always - Mainly because of all the extra effort that is put into the work - but I'll slow down and get a better checker I promise! Please don't associate my bad spelling with all of the other fellows good work on the site tho - 'cos they can actually write :-) Glad to see you have good taste (LSP and TMN) Ads

"For the gun doors he calls the ejector pins sink marks" Thanks for that mate i just fixed it. /that's what happens when you write so much on one subject you get lost a little! Ads

Right on Ron! Although i have found (some) modellers to be fanboys and push products at the expense of all others it seems there is a lot of what i would almost call product assassination of some kits in the last few years. Sometime from people with agendas against the company which is unfortunate to say the least. I think some of the psychology is to put something down that isn't perfect. Sometimes it's a first world problem and sometimes its a cop out to keep waiting for "perfection or to make themselves seem all-knowing. Fact is - no kit is perfect... Look at the Tamiya mossie and the HK Mossie - two very different kits that will look really similar once finished but because of brand favoritism some people might only buy one or the other. Fact is both of these are great models and both of them require a different modelling mindset. Simple and ready for superdetail vs super-detailed but complex. You know there are some modellers who would prefer to make the very simple Revell Mossie - they are probably having a field day!! I say different strokes for different folks! Let everyone enjoy this hobby in their own way. I know i do. Ads

Gary did make it out of the box Brad - the only addition are sutton harnesses from Radu and the Airscale dials from Peter as the test kit did not have any (so far). As an extra to the readers he went to the risky method of detailing the cockpit a little more by cutting it in half so he could better access it to super detail. It was risky but you can see by the results just how good the kit can be with some simple research & scratch building and modelling "chutzpah". Although this method isn't for everyone but he wanted to make the kit into something as good as he could. But yes - out of the box :-) Ads

Hope those eggs don't hatch on the plane over! It takes some balls to make a kit that is new and to know that everyone is going to see it - again i doth my cap to you sir! What's next? Ads

Well done Brian my man you are a great modeller and it's stressful making something when no one else has plowed the field before you so congrats mate! Ads

Congratulations to Gary who has made this kit into something much more than the contents of the box which were already pretty good to start with. Simply by using little more than Radu's seatbelts, Peter's Airscale instruments and some lovely scratch-building on his behalf. Also Kudos for taking the steps he had to to be able to super detail the interior like he did. Ads

Please do let us know Harold they are shaping up well! Ads

Nicest i have seen built yet Jon well done! Ads

Nice work Jan - how did yours look finished? Ads

Shows how much can be done with this kit with just modelling skills and some spare plastic and wire - well done mate! Ads

AS Airforce page has plenty of very high res photos too - you could spend a lot of time and bandwidth there...Example below Ads http://www.af.mil/News/Photos.aspx?igsearch=Thunderbolt

A (little bit OT) but pertaining to this Did we know if anyone ever attempted a front windscreen fix for the trumpeter bubbletops? ads

Really nice work on all of that extra Eric well done mate Ads

As soon as you turn off ad-block the image appears. Several companies re-release kits in different boxings.(See Hasegawa and new decal limited editions that go on forever) I suppose if indeed the model is being re-designed using original materials that it must be a good thing for modellers. We have "given it" - to model companies in the past who have the right resources and do not use them. Here is a company that now has the info and after the fact improving their kit, and that is a rare thing. (remember the Trumpeter Wildcat) after all most people will not shell out for another boxing so their main competitor is their own , older kit. It looks like a noble effort to improve, and it depends on your love for the aircraft if you want another or not. It is your choice to buy or not after all, so criticizing them seems a bit pointless. ads

Ill take one for my Horten! Ads

I don't think it's a deal - i have seen someone saying this on another forum in Czech. It's the angle of de dangle i reckon Ads