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Do you have any plans to make copies and sell this? A 1/32 YF-23 is a dream come true and i would definitely be interested. Either way, really nice job and look forward to seeing it come together.

I did a Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-29 Fulcrum C in the Ukrainian Digital Camo, lots of fun to build and paint, the touchups can be time consuming but overall it'll look great in the end. I really though that Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-29 is a highly underrated kit as it came together really well, about the only place it needed a little work was where the intakes/nacells meet with some of the landing gear bays. I'm planning on another one of these in Russian Sea of Avoz unit camouflage. Anyhow, really nice work youre doing, landing gear looks great! Dan

I saw some 1/48 F-15QA decals I think from Caracal recently, but didn't see them in 1/32 scale. Anyone know if there's plans for some 1/32 F-15QA soon? I really like that new camouflage on those new F-15QAs and would love to do some, or maybe some masks as there's some pretty cool tail art and I also saw one that had some big wings painted on top.

I just finished a super detailed Tamiya 1/32 F-14D Tomcat conversion I spent 9 months working and I used ReedOak for the pilot and RIO and they look simply fantastic, really adds a new level of realism and detail on an often neglected part of models, the crew.

This is amazing I've always been so impressed by your skills with modeling, I love your 1/32 EA-6B conversion (maybe a 3D printed conversion set for production? :-). Im already so impressed by all the wonderful new aftermarket 3D printed parts coming, and seeing things so amazing as this; this new technology is really going to take our hobby to a new level. My dream of a 1/32 YF-23 Blackwidow and 1/32 Su-34 Fullback are seeming closer to reality...speaking of which anyone here able to do a 3D printed 1/32 F-8C Crusader conversion since unfortunately Fisher Models had that fire, I'd be very interested.

Considering it doesn't seem Fisher Model and Pattern will be up and running any time soon if ever (such a shame as they really did some wonderful stuff) and their 1/32 F-8C conversion is REALLY hard to find I was wondering if some of the members here may have some advice on what would need to be done to convert the Trumpeter F-8E into a C, is it doable? I wish there was a 3D printed conversion set available, alas, maybe someday in the near future as it seems 3D printing is really starting to takeoff and some of the parts are really detailed. Anyhow, any advice, input, etc would be much appreciated. Dan

Damn! of course the decal set doesn't have the ejection seat decal sheet in it, back to square one, any ideas or anyone have a spare sheet?

Nevermind, my Fightertown 1/32 F-14D VF-31 decals sheet comes to the rescue! But any other recs are appreciated too!

So I'm almost at the painting stage of my super-detailed Tamiya 1/32 F-14D, but one of the last steps prior to this, is that I need to get the SJU-17 ejection seats done. I have a Trumpeter kit that I know has a couple decals for the sides of the ejection seats and I have the 1/32 US Modern Ejection seat decal set (but these appear to be mostly for seats on F-16s and F-15s, although they are small enough I can 'bluff' my way with them). A cursory search via google didn't return anything so I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas? Dan

This is a real work of art Rom, your attention to detail, airbrushing, weathering, oil paints, all, I mean Im just speechless. I hope I can do something like this one day. You should write up a little bit on how you did the weathering and airbrushing. One of the best models I think I've seen, Bravo! Dan

I'd keep at it with the thinner solution you were using, it might take time but it's better than scraping a beautiful plane and paint job like you've done. After trying really hard with that you could use some heavily thinned/lightened base color/white/light grey, etc to "blend" some of it in, and then additional weathering might even enhance the look as you could try to make it a little more weathered to get it to work (stencils do weather and fade especially on a USN bird so I think you can salvage the project. I had something similar happen with a UH-1Y venom build i tried a few years back, very frustrating. One thing comes to mind, I noticed you mentioned "Decided for a sludge wash, you know some waterbased dark gray paint, water and dishwasher, what can go wrong." I think using water-based actual paint may be your trouble spot as those usually tend to be acrylics difficult to remove, especially with a sludge wash. Have you tried Florymodels clay based washes (over tamiya x-22 clear)? I use oil paints with mineral spirits, over a well cured coat of Tamiya X-22 clear and that works really well. If your primer and/or base paint are lacquers you can do a heavily thinned enamel paint wash (see Masa Narita's 1/32 Tamiya F-14D build for details on this)

So I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a 1/32 Su-37 Terminator, and I know the Radome is a little bigger and has a slightly different shape than a regular Su-27, I was wondering if anyone has experience with 3D printing if they may be able to assist me with such a request? I would of course be willing to provide compensation please let me know Dan

Really really nice looking P-51 Mustang you've done there, the weathering is just perfect and nicely detailed, your should be proud of a job well done.

I recently finished a backdated Tamiya 1/32 F-14A to a Block 70, VF-1 “Wolfpack” and it took about 10 months to finish, so I know what you mean it takes a lot of work but the Tamiya kit I think has the best “shape.” I ended up rescribing all the panel lines and had to carefully find and check references for them, scratch built the 7-vent gun panel, scratch built the intake bypass ducts (next time the ramps go down to hide it), had to modify the wing sweep device to make them fit and still move, redid the canopy with a combination of kit, resin, photoetch, and scratch built parts, cut off the tail widened the fuselage, and scratch built the “boat tail” of the early blocks, used a whole bunch of resin items like a cockpit, exhausts, resin missiles, added detail to the phoenix’s pylons and zactoman front phoenix pallets, had custom vinyl masks made for the wolf head and stripes on the fuselage and vertical stabilizers, stars and bars, and some various lettering, and other various upgrades like having to heavily modify the air brake, detailing the landing gear, etc. I like to think it came out really quite good (gotta upload the photos). But man was it a lot of work, What I think would be really cool is if Tamiya updated/scaled up the 1/32 F-14 to look like the current 1/48 I’ve heard so much about. The next time it’ll be a Tamiya F-14D from the last catapault shot “112” from VF-31 from 2006 updated as I won’t have to mess with the gun vent, intake bypass ducts, canopy closed, and tail left as is.

Yes, I'm so sorry I didn't reply sooner, life sometimes gets a little hectic, I did receive them, as things worked out I was able to finish the 1/32 F-14A Tomcat from VF-1 however, I didn't end up using the decals, I ended up contacting DN Models that does paint masks and they end up scaling up a set of VF-1 and I finished it a couple weeks ago. With that said, I would like to return the decals to you if that'd be alright?