Darren Howie

What price inside the EU? Only stuff i have seen on Ebay is near 40€. Im waiting to see it shipped from Korea who do good shipping rates and grab several.. Great looking chopper, plenty of weathering opportunities. And its coming soon in DCS as well!

Be aware Academy are repopping the 58 in March fir 1/3 of the Revell price... https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10026635 be even cheaper direct from Korea..

To give you some idea of what 1% of Smug Mug is capable of in under an hours work.. Shameless sharing! https://www.vortexaviationphotography.com PS im a big believer of taking ownership of your photos to guarantee changes in terms etc wont remove very valuable info from still being shared years later.

Smugmug, i have been with them over 10 years. I run a photography website off them and astonishing functionality that i use only a fraction of. Cant recommend them highly enough.

Maybe they corrected it after the D/G release...?

I have not assembled it but the detail etc is simply fantastic. The seat alone is stellar. After buying 1 i bought another 2...

Same here. Ive had more bad Ebay purchases from the USA from careless sellers. The big Chineses dealers package fantastically and ship quickly.

Hopefully they scale them up! I have the 48th ones and they are a nice selection..

Love to see Eagle editions do a sheet or two. The kit comes with early and late exhausts which is nice.. So decals please!

Did Trumpeter come into posession of the molds from 21sr Century at some point?

Why on earth would Hobbyboss/Trumpeter rehash the 21st Century kit when they have the CADS of a very nice 262 in their library already released in 48th and 32nd? If its simply the 32nd kit blown up it will be a great start point for a collection center piece.

If your getting serious about F-4’s id highly recommend these drawings as a great place to start. Particularly the poorly represented front end. http://soyuyo.main.jp/f4/f4e-1.html PS that was an awesome find on FB of 680 taxiing in after Bolo. Only photo of the aircraft showing the front other than those i was told where taken by Olds crew chief with his camera on the pre flight. Seems Robin Olds memory is to be trusted unlike what a thousand voices saying it wasnt. I guess having photos of the aircraft you flew standing by its nose helped his memory..lol.

Hi Barry PM me your email and ill forward you the image with info. cheers Darren PS just notced somene posted them. They where sent to me via Gen Olds daughter and an artist andcwhere taken by his crew chief with his ever present camera you see in many videos. The images where of the Bolo pre flight around his aircraft.

And dont forget to leave off the IR sensor..it was a dorkless F-4C...as where several of the Bolo aircraft a great topic in its own right. The image shot by his crew chief with Gen Olds camera post walkaround prior to the mission shows exactly what he had told Keith Ferris prior to him painting his great artwork. 680 was quite heavily paint chipped being a early camo bird many air raft had poor paint application. The images from before and post mission show quite a bit of paint scuffing on the splitters etc. https://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2013/01/MiG-Sweep-by-Keith-Ferris-watermark.jpg

The Spad reboxes are already out in Japan. Hs129 on the 23rd Nov.. Did they actually sell any 129’sat Telford?

Perfectly happy to see WNW stay with WW1. Beautiful kits of great subjects on an era that was effectively dead to 98% of the modelling community brought to life. If Roden had half a brain then a retool of the Spads to a higher quality would see the expanded WW1 market generate sales they have never seen. They just have to be good ie like the CSM Nieuport, and if they did they could of sold a boat load.

Out on the 23rd in Japan... Going to be a cracker..

Well it gets you a significant discount if you can afford Eduards insane shipping prices. P-40E is widely available for not much ie 3200¥ so it better not be to mch. Love those Bunny markings!

Id be in for several...ie 3 or 4

I have two sitting in my dining room its been out for almost two months. Excellent kit with two nice schemes and enough differences to be well worth the purchase. I really hope some decal manufacturers get behind it. No info at all on the HS-129 in Japan. No test shots on display at any Volks stores which is rare for soon to be released so maybe its running behind schedule. No release date up there either..

And there it is “its not hard to do it right”. That sweet chestnut the should be sent to the dustbin of history never to be seen or heard from ever again. If its not that hard id recommend you go chat with Peter Jackson about just how difficult it is to do right even with basically unlimited funds, on tap research information at your fingertips and an incredibly talented design team. IIRC the figure used was a quarter of a million in software costs in 5 programs to “get it right”. 5 tries to get the Fokker D VII correct, 5 different CAD design programs, training courses etc. Oh its insanely more difficult to get right. Whats even funnier is the Monogram 1/48th B-24 which is just as wrong in the reverse way from a nose fuselage section point of view has never seen a single bad word spoken of it. Funny that hey...

Unless you have been to Japan, seen the size of the shops and the number of kits walkng iut doors of all shapes and sizes its hard to comprehend. Still their fascination with the late Zero is almost like no other models exist. I thought Hasegawas new series would rapidly expand to cover the M3 and earlier.

I wouldnt say its just ZM..its every F-4 that has ever been released has not got the canopy area correct. That crazy Japanese modeller whos name eludes right now did some incredible work proving that everyone has got it wrong. His work was incredible. He also did an incredble job on a Trumpeter 105 rebuilding the canopy section to get the true shape and his finished kit was simply incredible. It shows up just how bad the 105 situation is in every scale. Ill dig his link out i have it somewhere along with piles of his images. Rivet counters need only apply..lol start here and crank up your translation site http://soyuyo.main.jp/f4/f4-2.html#ej

Im not sure why not. A single piece lower cowl part that could be mastered straight off the Hasegawa kit would take a man of his skills not long at all. If you build the kit nose fully opened up the problem almost disappears as well. Pastor John at Aims has already released a lower cowl mod maybe it could find a good use here as well?

I hope Roy Sutherland comes to the rescue here. As i passed on in the email some time ago the lower cowl and lower nose front below the exhausts need modification to increase the squareness of the corners. Thanks for putting up some great pics which highlight the issue. On the length it was measures and found to be almost spot on. If someone has some new info there it would be interesting to see as previous work highlghts its only the lower contours which need modification to get rid of the pointed nose look.