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    Cuban MiG 21bis in 1/72

    in Non-LSP Works

    Posted · Edited by BradG
    Corrections made, this is a bis, not MF

    This kit is one of the very nice Fujimi Mig 21s, of which I have built several of. My particular boxing was the SMT, or the Hump Back as they are know. One problem was, the plastic that appeared in the box was that of the Bis, as indicated by the word being molded into the inside of the fuselage spine. The main external difference between the Bis and MF is the fuselage avionics hump proceeds further down the base of the tail in the bis. I think this may have been a packaging error as I've seen other boxings online with similar parts and those with the correct parts for the SMT. Anyways never mind, I can make an MF from the parts I have, so that's what I did.

     

    Aztec Decals Latin Eagles II was used. I was rather attracted to the top surface camouflage of this particular mig. The kit itself builds very well with adequate detail for the scale, it does not require any nose weight but it is recommended to put a couple of grams in the forward nose just to make sure. Decals are also very nice and lay down well under Mr Mark decal solution. Another aircraft is added to my Cuban collection.

     

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    LSP Group Build Calendar

    in LSP Discussion

    Posted

    On 5/30/2023 at 10:45 PM, artoor_k said:

    1/32 Ju-87 from Hasegawa in Revell box is suitable for Hasegawa GB?

     

    Yeh go on, Kev always tells me to err on the side of inclusion, so as long as it was a Hasegawa kit. Also sorry for the late kick off, my motherboard decided to die and a new laptop had to be obtained.

    SpaceX Starship Launch Tomorow

    in Aviation Discussion & Research

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    Just now, Smokeyforgothispassword said:

    Yep, he's an annoying prat, but his team have launched the Falcon over 220 times with a success rate slightly over 99%, at a far lower cost than any other launch method.

     

    He's also kick started the EV industry, (even though Tesla's aren't exactly high quality cars), pioneered E-Payments, pushed VOIP, low latency satellite internet amongst others.

     

    He's had a lot of not so successful ideas (the Boring Company, Hyperloop), and he's a complete twatwaffle, but you have to give him credit for what he's achieved.

     

    Even those success' aren't much really. I mean Tesla has never made a profit off just selling cars. SpaceX went from saying they would have a totally reusable rocket, just refuel and go, to only having a reusable booster, after a minimum of 50 days turn around. He never did anything much with regards to e-payments, X.com was an online bank he started with several others people that merged with another company that had the basis of paypal already down. That merged company eventually became paypal, Musk had little if anything to do with their success, he was just lucky enough to retain his shares in what would become paypal and cashed out big time. His setellites aren't very good either, and certainly not cheap.

    SpaceX Starship Launch Tomorow

    in Aviation Discussion & Research

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    Elon Musk is literally a 5 year old child with money. He has (or just rips off) any crazy idea then tries to make it work without really doing much in the way of research beforehand ie; tesla truck/bot, full autonomous driving, hyperloop, solar roof tiles to name a few, It was painfully obvious to anyone who know's anything about rockets that not having any kind of blast deflecting was going to have trouble. Hell even the Germans had rudimentary blast deflection on V2 launchers! Then he puts the fuel storage tanks within shot of the launch pad....but it doesn't surprise me, he was after all, fired from Paypal for incompetence. 

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