Marcel111

Fantastic work!

Love that scheme! Dan, if you PM me your email I can send you a few more pics of A-7Es in temp schemes, although I don’t have any more pics of this one. Marcel

This is really fantastic news! Can’t wait to get my hands on this. Marcel

Did some further research, TARPS + Sparrows + Sidewinders seem to have been a common loadout, including operationally. The odd Angry Kitten mixed in also. https://fightson.net/607/tarps-tactical-airborne-reconnaissance-pod-system/ http://www.topedge.com/alley/images/f14b/f14b143f.htm https://www.seaforces.org/usnair/VF/Fighter-Squadron-84.htm Cheers, Marcel

Chuck, I’m looking for that kinda loadout together with the TARPS pod…

Thanks guys! Steve, have you ever seen a pic of TARPS bird with live Phoenix? Would be kinda too good to be true. Michael, have a look here: http://www.topedge.com/alley/text/other/f14tarps.htm Cheers, Marcel

Thinking of my next F-14 build (while currently deep into my VF-74 F-14B); it will almost certainly be a VF-111 F-14A TARPS, which if any A2A missiles did the TARPS Tomcat’s typically fly with? Would love to hang an AIM-54 on the wing glove pylon but I’m guessing that didn’t ever really happen. Cheers, Marcel

Red Dog, that's a very nice Tamiya Tomcat nose! As a reminder, here's a magnified shot of the equivalent Tamiya nose. From what I'm seeing, I won't be able to get the Red Pill model to this standard since the surface detail is too coarse. I'm really disappointed. Small producers like ICM with their AH-1 are able to produce kits with beautiful surface detail. In case any manufacturer is reading this, the things that me and my modeller buddies in general find by far the most important when we build models are (1) Accuracy (a) Shape (b) Surface detail and (2) Surface detail refinement. All the bells and whistles stuff is secondary since we can handle that ourselves and/or it will be handled by the AM guys. Coarse surface detail is really a deal breaker since the only way to fix it is to fill the detail and re-scribe. At the price offered, I'd expect the quality of the kit to be at Tamiya Corsair level, not this. Cheers, Marcel

Agree. The rest of the kit looks promising but rough panel lines will kill it for me.

Incredible project, looks awesome!

Excellent news! So looking forward to building an A-7E.

Wow this is very welcome news!

Shape looks really off to me, intakes seem undersized, windscreen squashed, the part at the front of the windscreen should be integral to the fuselage but is not on the kit, the entire windscreen should be angled down towards the front but isn’t. Complete hash and I only briefly looked at the pic and don’t know the Jaguar very well. Nuts to want that much money for something so poor. Marcel

Dmitry, your products look great! For UR32248, is 160660 (Super CAG) included or is that only on the smaller sheets? Thx, Marcel

I’d go so far as to call it « super slow » 😀