Darren Howie

Beautiful build love to hear what Trumpy bits you used. Cowl etc? super well done

thanks mate most apprecited now to work out how many i can fit in my suitcase!

Just wondering if anyone with the kit would have the time to measure the dimensions of the box? Need to work out some shipping cost stuff and would be greatly appreciated to get the box size. cheers

Its out now was looking at the kit yesterday. Looked pretty nice. Hard to really tell through plastic bags but looked very similar to other modern Trump stuff ie very nice tooling. Big box.

Just wondering do we have a list of what can be built oob from the kit?

My question would be in attacking the Trumpeter kit have ever even looked at the Tamiya kit? i mean seriously have you? Half scribed, half raised, decals yes flat 2D decals for the flat cockpit panels. Hardly an assembly free of work for a result with far less detail oob.

The place Quinta is in a league of there own is the instrument detail. They get the actual instrument faces and colours spot on something none of the others do. If i can get Quinta i get them over and above every other producer.

Covid has taught many lessons im wondering how many will remember them in 5 years time when the beanies start whinging again that you can do it cheaper over there..

Might be nice if Radu chimed in but i believe the story for the two seater Revell kit is different than the single seater. Single seater A ok. Two seater released first had the final round of engineering changes omitted/ignored so kit went to tooling with size issues on internal bulkheads etc creating numerous fit problems that have been seen in reviews and builds. Similar issues to the initial run of the F-18E. F-18E has been tweaked a but but still has a lit of work AND instructions tell you now to modify numerous parts to get some fit with less issues but still issues. No idea if the 262 two seater has had anything modified. There was a long post where Radu spoke about the production issue at the time ie Revell going live while issues remained in the engineering. Pretty sure the single seater was fixed ie bulkhead fit etc as i have one that fitted well.

Stressed skin effect ie rippling of the skin caused by manufacture process ie riveting ie what the Lancaster and many WW2 aircraft had as its caused by skin loads created by riveting. Its present on all of those aircraft as opposed to oil canning. Oil canning is rippling of the skin caused by fatigue like you get on the B-52 fuselage. They are quite different things and oil canning is clearly defined in several maintenance handbooks for aircraft which suffer from it.

I’ll get one as id rather spend a year or more building this than trying to elevate my HK kit to the same level. I’m really interested to see/hear how people would build it to easily display the mass of interior detail. Ive seen some very inventive ways armour modellers are finishing full interior tank kits to display the interiors and already thinking how to finish this to show it off. Having a mass of detail is one thing but being able to successfully display that is going to be a real challenge.

First they have not declared bankruptcy nor has any part of the Jackson empire. So again why would their be lawyers??

I think there was a discussion at Hyperscale that had quite a few good images of red legged 109’s.

If your fuselages where splayed out by an inch each side it was a defective kit you had not defective plastic. None of my Hellcats have any issues except not being built yet. If the Spit is to the same standard as the Hellcat count me in for a couple especially with Mk8 conversions sure to come out maybe Airfix will pop one out themself.

If someone ie Barracuda would do an entire new lower nose cowl for the Trump kit its single obvious deficiency would be fixed. Once you see the pointy nose with the lack of bulk on the lower cowl it stands out massively.

The Singaporean boxing sold out extremely quickly all through Asia and now sells for big money if you can find one. A single seater with a parapack tail will walk out of shops faster than they can get them in. Enjoy trying to get one in 6 months time with every modeller wanting a parapack tail A for how long? Good luck!

Anyone who thinks they can “wait for reviews” and still be able to get a limited run AFV club kit is fooling them self. The AFV limited stuff disappears extremely quickly. Buy now ask questions later. They will always sell secondary easily in many cases at inflated prices.

Thanks for spotting that ill adjust my post thanks! Id write to Lone Star if they are not available on the website.

Tamiya did not include the, 165 Gallon tanks in the Pacific kit only the 110’s. Lone Star released 32nd 165’s with sway braces a while back but they are easy to make if you can grab some big P-38/P-61 tanks. 165’s where used on any edge of range missions plus every later war mission where rockets where carried. PS its nice to VLR Mustangs getting some love. Having flown from Guam(Over) to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya several hundred of times the thought of strapping on a Merlin and flying over water for many many hours with some crazy thunderstorms en route and very strong seasonal jet streams fills me with awe for the men doing this flying. Ask any pilot in a single engine aircraft what they fear most and in 90% plus cases its an engine failure at sea. Combine that with an enemy who would kill you rather than capture you and VLR Mustang and Thunderbolt guys where a breed apart. No forced landing in a green paddock in Germany here.

Heaven forbid what will be for the first time a highly accurate incredibly detailed version of the most famous fighter of the second world war from the battle in which it made its name. Say it isnt so… Good on them finally based off the WW releases what will be a stunning Spitfire from the battle of Britain.

Not sure if its been mentioned but the Trump wing is missing the landing lights and fairings fitted to Air Force Spads.

in the contrary of Quinta , these parts are not decals but , I think are resin made , and perfectly fit to the kit cockpit parts Alain Quinta are not decals but full 3D resin parts with amazing switch reproduction. They are shipped on decal paper to secure them and generally are simply superb. They also come with ejection seat belts plus cushions etc.lSuoerb products. Dirrctly comparing Redfox to my Quinta stuff im waiting for Quinta. The clarity of instruments and the superb repriduction of glass on Quinta ive not seen matched yet. With a wash and weathering cockpits gave never looked better whichever riute yiu take.

Except one us in 48th and one 32nd and as has been very clearly learned simply blowing something up to a larger scale is a far more complex undertaking than just copying. All panel lines, raised detail etc will be far far overscale and look horrendous if simply copied. Besides that a cursory glance at both the kits gives immediate huge differences in the look of the two kits. About the only similarity is they both look like Fairy Swordfish. Different fuselage designs, completely different style wings with completely different canvas effects. Not only are they not copies a quick look side by side shows they are not even distant cousins. I have even after sitting them side by side for under 2 minutes no idea how anyone could think one is a copy of the other.

Well given the issues both these kits have by the time you get the resin for the Revell kit it will be the same price and nothing can save the nose on the Trump 109’s. The ZM kits come into a very open market. Hasegawa kit- Nice kit but pretty old and lacking in cockpit detail and needs a new spinner. Revell kit-numerous replacement resin parts required and complex over engineered design. Trumpeter kit. Needs new rudder and entire new lower nose for the overly curved lower cowl which gives it the distinctive pointy nose. If ZM nail it the 109 will be the only real all in one box accurate 109 and it will come with a full engine. Door is wide open for the 109 not so much for the 190...

A quick look at the GWH SU-27’s will quickly relax those fears. The GWH Flankers have better surface detail than any kit i er ever seen including the Minibase kit.. Simply superb...