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I knew they released some GSB decals originally, the kit description says there are 4 options if I read right, so am wondering if there is anything new and different from the original options. I have always thought this a nice kit and been interested in building one but never have got around to it. In theory later in the year I will be able to get one of these at a hobby show, at a significant cash discount som might do so.

yes, Airscale, depending on what you are looking for. But they make a revised canopy with details for the Tamiya Phantoms.

Sgt York? Or Sgt Rock? I was never a comics person but a friend of mine in the 70s was into Sgt Rock comics. In any event going back to the 1/35 Tamiya thing, those early kits were seen more as Toys than as serious models so I just don:t think Tamiya or anyone else cared all that much about real accuracy. I was an avid armor modeler first once I became more serious and in the 80s I built most of the Tamiya armor catalog. As such even then they allowed for battery packs in a large percentage of kits although I only ever owned one Tamiya kit to my memory that came with the mechanical parts and in fact did build it and run it on batteries. My first tamiya kit might have been their Panzer IV motorized version and I had parental help building it. I remember playing with it and running it under batter power probably around 1977ish. We have gone around and around on this scale debate, at this point it just is. Border for their own reasons are into 1/35. It is not clear to me that anyone else is following them. They are trying to do something different I assume to carve out their own space in larger scale planes. We all know what pays the bills in the modeling world and that leaves a company like border treading a well beaten path. Your can keep tooling the same subjects in 1/32 that everyone else has or you can split and go down the 1/35 path doing your own thing that kind of works with an existing parallel modeling universe. I actually thought when this thread started it was something new and was disapointed to find out our formites were arguing once again about a Border 1/35 Spitfire Mk V which I believe they announced about a year ago and we proceed to have the same argument every time border releases a new kit or someone decides to talk about Border. Maybe that makes Border the smartest model company on the planet as they get free advertising on our forum and in our heads just by announcing anything in 1/35. I still have not yet purchased a Border kit. The first announcement i have seen from them that I am remotely interested in is the He-111 but not sure I would buy and build one. So far I think Border is over rated from an engineering and quality standpoint. They certainly nail complexity but sheer complexity is not a chief selling point to me, when I am choosing a modeling subject. It won:t put me off but it is not a priority. My goal for this year is to learn just enough Japanese to write and prepare a fake apology letter slash announcement to be released for April 1, 2025 in which Tamiya announces that they apologize for every releasing or having anything to do with 1/35 and are buying back all of their 1/35 kits every released to replace them with new issue 1/32 versions. By then most of you will forget about my post and we should all get a good laugh out of it, just to confuse you I will post it on an armor forum on facebook. Then it will filter through as a rumor and soon become a fact.

Is there a chance with Greggs permission we could just permanently save his paint notes for the Zero please. Someday I am going to need this.

What is it? I can:t get the photo to open.

My airplanes are fairly diverse, but I do have 3 1/12 Tamiya Caterham cars.

Airfix next tool kit should be a kit they have already done in large part or in total, so as such any of their originnal tooled kits should be re-tooled. In the alternative do the F6F-3. Just my 2 cents, with inflation maybe that is my 2$.

I do not know if this is true or not but I thought across the board Masters of the Air would increase demand for all things modeling B-17. I mean this scale independent though. Normally I would ignore retail pricing as I would expect to find deals on 1/32 B-17 kits. I have not been looking other priorities right now and I think I would go 1/48 over 1/32 if I were in the market. Masters of the air caused me to have a few thought thoug.

If you are not in a hurry, might be a situation where you can just trade decal sheets with someone who wants the first sheet. I am in the same boat as you have first release, but am contemplating what markings I would do and awaiting more choices.

It looks like just additional decal options from what I can see, it is up for pre-order in the U.S. on the Volks USA site. I have the first release just awaiting markings I want to use for it. At present I am inclined to do something other than the markings in the box. If oneman army releases the masks to do the box version though I would be very tempted.

I am a second, I don:t care if it is a perfect model of the Sptifire from Border, I would go Kotare for a simpler build. Probably will get a V when Kotare gets beyond the early version.

One thing frustrating me a bit at the moment is finding decal options other than what is in the box. I found one sheet by Eagle additions, I am guessing the box art is showing the Nowatony A-4, that is a scheme that is of interest to me. I have the first boxing, but was considering just some variation from box stock scheme.

They are Japan only, I don:t buy often from them, but that is only because I skip the overseas shipping if possible. However with that said if you can only get it over seas, they are one of the go to places to buy from. It used to be you could undercut Tamiya U.S.A. Through them but Tamiya eliminated that some years ago. That is a fine molds kit, you might never see that truck in a U.S. hobby shop, it might show up on ebay, BNA model world might get it also. I actually like BNA better now than Hobby LInk because it often seems Hobby LInk does not have that much inventory, where BNA gets all sorts of aftermarket that can be hard or impossible to get in the U.S.

I am in the U.S. and have frankly been disgusted that the media won't give her and her family some privacy. As she is neither the king nor the queen and has no official government duties and until such thing should come about, I have felt very much that the whole coverage is just awful. I do wish her and her family the best.

Just think without Kotare who we know are going to issue one or more 1/32 kits in 2024, we would be making yet another Tamiya wish list thread.