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This monster just gets better and better! Can't wait to see it finished!
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Just outstanding work going into this.....Always liked the Stirling and to see it in 1/32 is just a treat!
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White would be the normal color.
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This will be lovely...I spent two days there back in 2005 getting every picture and measurement I could.Can't wait to see your progress!
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For all the ink/pixels flying about this kit I have to say that looks superb.
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Looks delicious! I had wanted to kit this up for many years but feared that it would not sell well.I think time have changed enough that it should do well, I certainly hope so. These guys are doing some great stuff!
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Your best and lowest cost solution is to use the Trumpeter AD-4 Korean War kit, the conversion is really designed for it , using the ZM kit is a major adventure and a big waste of money as said above.You'll want to get the nifty corrected propeller for Roy Sutherland at Barracuda Studios. Also remember to put a .040" sheet plastic shim between the wingroot and the fuselage to correct the excessive dihedral of the Trumpy wings, it makes a huge difference in getting the proper look.I can't help with the decal issue, but scrounging up the right stuff should be possible.The kits all came with decals for multiple aircraft so perhaps someone who built their model has some leftovers? good luck!
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I'm going to jump in here to try and clarify a few things. Firstly, as far as going back into manufacturing and casting, I am not planning on doing it.I don't have the tools or facility to do what I used to do before the fire, and I'm getting too old and lazy. I used to work seven days a week to maintain a big enough catalog of stuff to make a living.I can't even imagine what it would take to bring all of the stuff back to life.Much of it is not worth the effort, the kits that were and are still in demand are all pretty big and expensive to mold and cast. As a few have mentioned, you can't just copy-mold a large, fairly complex model and expect it to come out OK.Shrinkage happens at a number of stages from master to finished castings and you'd end up with some undersized junk that might look OK in the box but it would make for very unhappy customers when they tried to assemble it... That hasn't stopped a few people from doing it over the years, especially with the race cars.What a nightmare that was.... The best way to bring something like this back now that the technology has matured would be to 3D scan the best example possible , build the correct shrink into the model parts on screen and then print out the parts in high resolution for masters if you planned on casting in resin.Better to just 3D print hi-res finished parts on demand and avoid the huge expense of tooling. Still a fairly slow process if you want hi-res, and still expensive.I can see it coming down to a practical level in the near future, but we ain't there yet.The progress along these lines since I got sidelined has been amazing. I am indeed working with an old friend here in the US to bring back the Red Baron racer one last time but the other kits were going to be made in Europe by a company that folded up during Covid so I have no idea if or when anything will happen along those lines.I am still looking into other options here in the US. I agreed to Alistair doing something with the Hunter two seaters and the Meteor conversions but nothing else.We recently talked at some length about Skyraiders, I encouraged him to do the AEW.1 since that's the missing link and saw service with the Royal Navy.That 'plane is based on the single seat fuselage, not the wide body anyway and would be a great project for someone to do in 3D print....hint hint... I have no problem with someone one-offing parts for their own use but I would very much like to be in the loop if somebody wanted to do production based on my work like any craftsman. We all know that as soon as somebody invests a bunch of time and money in this a plastic kit will be announced anyway, right? Many thanks for listening, Paul
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I wanna see some pics of the actual kit.....This is making me nervous.It's either gonna be a stunner or kind of meh like the Stirling or the Sunderland.I could get all twitterpated about WW-2 Italian airplanes again .Or not.
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Well that just sucks....Hopefully things can continue on .
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Another great mash up!
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Very Cool! About 45 years ago (!!!!) I modified the then new Frog Sea Vixen backwards to FAW.1 standard. I have been thinking of doing the same to the Airfix 1/48 kit but I am just getting back into model building and it will be a while before I get into that one i think. Scale up your files and maybe offer them for printing in 1/32? Could be fun!
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It's just crazy how well this works! Can't wait to see it finished up.