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Forums Works / Re: Magazine

« on: June 13, 2011, 11:20:02 PM »

I fully agree on this approach and I think it is a very good idea to review kits that have been gathering dust for many years and that now will be eventually built. I hope it will indeed result in review of really rare kits out of production for many years!

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Warplane Art / Re: Hamilcar

« on: June 11, 2011, 12:33:56 PM »

Strange looking machine, but it even could transport a light tank!
General Aircraft developed it further into a motorized version powered by two Bristol Mercury engines.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Boeing B-47 Stratojet

« on: June 09, 2011, 09:15:40 AM »

I have seen one on Internet: http://www.amazon.com/Hasegawa-1-72-B-47E-Stratojet/dp/B002I8M8JS.
Price is fierce////

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Boeing B-47 Stratojet

« on: June 08, 2011, 09:40:11 PM »

There must be a B-47E released in the past by Hasegawa at 1/72 scale.
I can still remember from my childhood (the fifties!) that Revell had one at 1/144 scale, but that was quite primitive and even without an undercarriage. It had to be fitted 'in flying position' on the well known transparant plastic stand in the form of a half world globe.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Boeing B-47 Stratojet

« on: June 08, 2011, 08:54:05 PM »

Only foreign operator of B-47 was Canada. The US supplied one for engine testing for the Avro Arrow programme.

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Warplane Art / Re: Schwalbe

« on: June 07, 2011, 10:00:26 PM »

I would say just correct it and apply 'White 13'! You have a good example how it must look from the Messerschmitt AG photo release!!

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Warplane Art / Re: XB-28

« on: June 04, 2011, 02:38:32 PM »

Think this is the best ever published!
Bare metal version flew without armament!!!

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Warplane Art / Re: XB-28

« on: June 03, 2011, 11:35:12 PM »

Just be patient! An article on this type including some rare photographs will be published in Letletlet Magazine 003! For the model builders: there IS a 1/72 scale kit of this plane! More details in article///

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Group Build> Japan

« on: June 03, 2011, 11:31:19 AM »

Hasegawa offered in 1989 Zero kit with decals for aircraft captured by U.S. and British forces.
I still have it here in the original box. Think it is a real collector's item now!!

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Warplane Art / Re: XB-28

« on: June 01, 2011, 10:15:52 PM »

XB-28 article will be published in Letletlet Magazine 003!!!!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Curtiss-Wright CW-21

« on: May 27, 2011, 05:00:18 PM »

Just for historical interest: two nice images of the Dutch Buffalo before delivery still with its civil US registration.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: B-45

« on: May 26, 2011, 11:49:21 PM »

Price is EURO 42.95. Exotic birds also means exotic prices!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: B-45

« on: May 26, 2011, 10:55:46 PM »

Purchased today that nice 1/72 MACH 2 kit of the B-45! Noted that it is indeed 'limited production': sink marks, ejection marks and flash; they are all present. Although the box cover states that B-45 A/C/RB versions can be made, and although radar nose of RB version is also present, kit offers only one version B-45C with very basic decals for one plane only (no. 48-080). Locating pins are absent and instruction for use is a bare minumum A4! Clear parts are quite thick and in fact not 100% clear at all!!
In spite of this, it IS a kit of a B-45 so I should not complain! Interior is for a limited production run surprisingly complete. After-sales wanted are: an extensive decal sheet with all stenceling , clear vacform parts and a set of various resin parts including bomb-bay details.
Kit was second last available at Aviation Megastore at Aalsmeerderbrug near Schiphol airport, so there is only one left!!

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Warplane Art / Re: Schwalbe

« on: May 26, 2011, 09:21:33 AM »

'Weisse Dreizehn' was after the war officially released as a company photo by Messerschmitt A.G. Also original of this photo bears the M.B.B. stamp on the reverse side! It must be said that also other photos are known; one with a complete formation in flight and another one with White 13 parked on the ground. I guess that the last one was the original photo and that the other shots are the results of very early Photoshopping. Even without a computer very realistic results have been obtained! So, in a way we could say this photo is indeed too beautiful to be true......

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Warplane Art / Re: Schwalbe

« on: May 25, 2011, 10:06:23 PM »

This is reason why!!