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  1. Dave Williams
    FYI, he's also the guy behind Buffmaster.
  2. Dave Williams
    To be fair, the Tamiya kit is light years past the old Revell kit, and few people will notice the E airframe details on the C kit. It hasn't stopped many people from building the Tamiya kit.
  3. Dave Williams
    Actually, it's the F-15B (TF-15) Dual Role Fighter Demonstrator, which was sort of a Strike Eagle Prototype, and came with markings for that aircraft in the Lizard Scheme. Since then, they've reboxed it as an -E or a -D/E, but except for adding some crude unfeathered exhausts, the plastic still represented the F-15B DRFD. There are some significant differences from a production F-15E, like no ACES seats, no LANTRIN pods, no CFT side pylons, no larger main wheels and bulged gear doors, no M61 clip load fairing, etc. It does better represent a -D, but the only rear IP is the one from the DRFD, which differs from the standard B/D rear IP. Also, as noted, the kit only comes with the old ESCAPAC seats.
  4. Dave Williams
    The CFTs are separate in the Revell kits, and are more the type used on albino Eagles, not the production -E CFTs
  5. Dave Williams
    Note that the Tamiya -E kit fuselage has the CFTs molded in. If you want to delete the CFTs, you'll have to cut them out and make new fuselage sides. Some modification is needed even if you want a -D CFTs, because parts of the -E weapons pylons are molded into the CFTs
  6. Dave Williams
    FYI, the drop tanks are also in their earlier D-3 release. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10173880 The small drop tanks were a part of the mold for the G sprue from the first release. However, they were gated off or cut off for all of the other releases except the D-3 and E-2. In fact, the sprue layout for the very first C-7 release shows the tanks, but there was only an empty area on the sprue where they should have been. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10076897z/70/1
  7. Dave Williams
    No problem. If no one has gotten a box pic by the weekend, I'll dig mine up.
  8. Dave Williams
    I've got the kit in storage, but I probably won't be able to get to it until the weekend.
  9. Dave Williams
    The latest Dragon kit is only about 6 months old http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10250178 For the deeper Trop oil coolers, you have to cut off the standard oil coolers that are molded on the lower engine cowling.
  10. Dave Williams
    I'm not sure if Dragon will do a G model. For the C/D/E versions they have done, it's pretty much the same mold with just some minor tweaks like the main tire size, nose, and tail. The G would require bigger mold changes for the canopy, nose guns, and new engines and props. Not sure Dragon is willing to make that kind of investment.
  11. Dave Williams
    Best print reference for USN F-4s these days is the Daco book.
  12. Dave Williams
    The new 110E-2 kit may be better because it comes with the larger wheels and inclusion of the underwing drop tanks. For References, the Vasco book is the best, but it only goes through the C/D/E versions. For the G, maybe the old Aero Detail book?
  13. Dave Williams
    The pictures of the sprues on the Italeri web page shows that to be true, but they did make some other changes in addition to the tail, although I think they left some out, as mentioned previously. http://www.italeri.com/scheda.asp?idProdotto=2356&idCategoria=1&idSottocategoria=1 Still, can't be worse than the Revell or Hasegawa kits, where the only change was the tail and the refuel probe (in the Revell kit, and only the most recent "Vietnam War F-104C" Hasegawa boxing)
  14. Dave Williams
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/121361533775 I bought one, so we'll see what it's like when it arrives.
  15. Dave Williams
    Also different IP and HUD control panel.
  16. Dave Williams
    Forgot about the other versions, but the bottom line is that Trumpeter only makes the MiG-21F-13 and MiG-21MF kits (also the -UM), and the Chinese F-7II kit doesn't match any of the versions used during the Vietnam war.
  17. Dave Williams
    Have to get a better look at the kit part, but the Canadian one had two spheres on the forward facing angled corners of the fairing. On the US -C, they were flat faces. Looking at what I assume is the undernose RWR on the sprue with the short tail, it looks like it's the flat faced US one.
  18. Dave Williams
    Most should be. The F-7 kitted by Trumpeter differed from the 21F-13 in the following areas: canopy, seat, number of cannon, and para brake container under the tail. Eduard stuff for the F-13 not related to those differences should work fine.
  19. Dave Williams
    If I understand the question correctly, you're basically asking whether the VPAF used Russian or Chinese MiG-21s. I think they only used Russian MiG-21s, the F-13 and the MF, during the war.
  20. Dave Williams
    The "F" nomenclature between the Russian and Chinese MiG-21s aren't related. The Chinese Mig-21 variant was just called F-7, and is a designation for the type, like the F-16. The Chinese MiG-19 was called the F-6/J-6. The Russian MiG-21F-13 was a specific model of the MiG-21 series, like F-16C Block 40. The -13 in the Russian designation was because it was a MiG-21F modified to carry the K-13 (AA-2) missle. The Chinese F-7 was based on the MiG-21F, but I believe it used a different ejection seat because the canopy was different. The MiG-21F used a forward hinged single piece canopy, while the F-7s had a side hinged canopy with a fixed windscreen.
  21. Dave Williams
    The LANTIRN pod in the Trumpeter kit is molded upside down. When the holes on “top†of the pod body mate with pins in the adapter pylon, the rear air scoop is on the wrong side as well as the angled part being inverted. The easy fix is to rotate the pod body 180 degrees, however you'll have to relocate the small round vent on the rear of the pod as it's now on the top instead of on the bottom as it should be (it was in the right place when the pod was upside down).
  22. Dave Williams
    I don't believe a 1/32 LANTIRN is in production. The Wolfpack stuff are later LITENING and SNIPER pods. Isracast also made LITENING, but not LANTIRN. If it's LANTIRN you need, the old Teknics is about the only aftermatket one that I remember. As Don said, the last Tamiya F-14 boxing has two LANTIRN pods due to duplicate sprues.
  23. Dave Williams
    No problem. Fortunately, you should be able to easily cut down the long tank fin, using the short fin as a template.
  24. Dave Williams
    I remember AFV Club announcing they were working on a -G, but never heard them mention a -C. AFV Club has yet to release any F-104.
  25. Dave Williams
    Those are the underwing tanks, not the tip tanks.
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