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You are correct that kit (04720) does indeed have an Alconbury marking option. The actual airplane depicted is still at what's left of Alconbury as a gate guardian. It can be seen on Google Street View.

SR-71

It's sure to happen after I build my HPH kit.

My opinion is the same as yours. If you pull that off please document it.

It was just a bunch of fit problems that I didn't catch earlier on. A lot of it was the kit's fault. I don't know if you've ever bought one of these, but he packs them into pretty small packages, probably to save on shipping costs. Being tightly packed, the resin can get misshapen. The airfoil shape of the wings at the wing root is particularly bad. It can be fixed but I just did it wrong. I have a better idea for next time around.

LEM Kits La-9. It fought with me and I thought I had beaten it until I got paint on it and really saw what an irreparable mess it was. I figured out what went wrong and plan on buying another later on.

I've built the LEM MiG-9 and it was pretty good. I'll definitely be in for the Yak-15.

Ebay rules say items posted must be for sale now. They do not allow pre-orders, etc. I see people doing it but I do not know if ebay pulls those listings or not.

I have a friend who is an insider at Takom. I get free kits from time to time and I'm going to meet up with him later this month. He has a sample Apache kit to give me. I'll definitely provide him with feedback.

Any news on the Daco CM.170 or can I stop keeping my hopes up?

The best model club experience I ever had was in the 1990's at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It was a mixture of Americans and local Germans and one Arab that lives in the area. Everyone got along beautifully. I made plenty lifelong friends from that experience and about 80% of us are still in touch despite the distance between us. We have a reunion of sorts every year (November) at the USAF Museum. The chemistry between us is as good as it ever was.

I was an IPMS/USA member on two occasions. Late 1970's I let the membership lapse because there was some serious infighting between two factions. I don't remember what the fighting was over. Gave them another chance in the early 1990's and different war was in progress. That was enough.

Same result. On Firefox, Edge, Chrome, and Brave browsers. [EDIT] It worked on my iPhone but I don't want to deal with that small screen. I sent a message directly to Aviattic.

I get this: Error code: SSL_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED_ALERT for aviattic.com. Aviattic.co.uk works fine.

There's still a Red Box at the local Walmart here.