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  1. Clunkmeister
    Tony, just remember to always cut a bit short of where they tell you to. I’ve been there, done that, and made me a ton of extra work
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    Next, we’ll explore nosecone fitment. The Trumpeter part looks kind of fictional. Too long and pointed.
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    I absolutely live for this stuff. Cutting plastic, then pushing, prodding and massaging resin to fit where plastic once was. It’s simple exercises, but they keep you sharp because you can screw up oh so easy if you let your guard down. The dorsal fin replacement is one of the easiest exercised in modeling. The Trumpeter supplies abomination looks hideous, like a blob of plastic the GT Resin replacement component simply slides into place, no muss, no fuss
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    Update 01/15/21 Got both smooth sides of the fuselage installed and some handy dandy Milliput filled the gaps for me. On the right side, I got cocky and in a rush and started drilling holes too far back. The result? I created myself a bit of extra work. But my good friend Uncle Milliput came to help. This weekend, my goal will be to complete the resin conversions and additions, plus drill any holes, vents, and drains left out by Trumpeter
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    Thanks for the clarification, Hubert. I’be seen pics of Vietnam D’s In NMF, but like you said, they’re few and far between. to me, the G is the ultimate Thud. They did a thankless dirty, crazy, insane job and did it well. The F did the same thing, but without all the fancy electronics. Insanity!
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    Yep. I think thy called it “Air Defense Grey” or “Canadian Voodoo Grey” by ModelMaster. It’s a odd color and hard to match. P,us, yes, it’s some seriously boring.
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    Some of them did, yes Carl. But it was a very short lived experiment.
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    A lot of soul searching going on here. My heart says “speedbird”, a slick early F in NMF, but my brain say Vietnam, possibly Ryan’s Raiders or Red River Showboat.
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    I decided to look very closely at the canopy. The single seat D kit has a canopy that is more fiction than fact, although someminor vixen and posing it open will hide much. The two seater seems to fare a bit better. A bit of shaping on the turtleneck and we should be OK
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    I’m at a standstill on my Fokker project as I wait for reference material, so.... Here’s my take on one. I’m thinking I’ll do an EF-105F from the Trumpeter G kit so obviously there’s plenty of hacking, cutting, and sawing go do. An F looks NOTHING like a G. Someone dared me to do it, so here we are. But before we get crazy into details, the shape needs to be fixed. If I can’t get the shape more or less right, I’ll pass on it as a valiant try The Trumpeter Kit is legendary for its basic shape issues, from the nose all the way to the he fin and even the ventral fin being all kinds of goofy so, we start with the most basic, remove the ECM pods and insert some smooth side in hid place
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    Phil, this is looking phenomenal! Wow!
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    I have some of Buchon Models, uhhh, Buchons, and they’re absolutely first rate in every respect!
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    Phenomenal!
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    Good to hear ICM marches to their own drum. A Cobra in 1/32 is something I’ll certainly build. Kitty Hawk and Academy have been giving us phenomenal helicopters these last couple of years, and it’s nice to see another player enter the fray.
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    That might be it. Although why Tamiya got going on 1/35 when 1/32 was a standard established accepted scale. It just places helicopters in that murky grey area where they’re out of scale with airplanes. And the odd manufacturer who dares kitting a helicopter in 1/32 gets bitched out by the armor guys.
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    There isn't much hate here, except that 1/35 was a scale Tamiya settled on for it's armor. All the other armor companies kinda somehow followed suit. I think much of the "hate" from airplane guys revolves around helicopters. Airplane guys think of helicopters as "theirs", and armor guys feel they "belong" to them. By default helicopters end up in a grey area. 1/32 and they're out of scale with the airplanes, 1/32 and you can't use them in a diorama with armor.
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    Krow, I agree. It’s a great time to be a builder of 1/32 scale aircraft. Never have we had so much love from so many manufacturers. We can trash Tamiya all day long for their adoption of 1/35, and believe me, I’ve said a few bad words about their decisions, but they sure brought 1/32 into the mainstream with the release of their incredible line of kits. Starting with the F-14, and the F-4, the A6M series, P-51s, Corsairs, Mosquitos, etc, etc, they broke it wide open. Then Roden and WNW with the WW1 crowd and away we go. Revell, Trumpeter, HK, KH, Eduard, SH, HPH, CMK, ICM, IBG, and many more, you name it, the line of high quality accurate 1/32 Aircraft has never been greater, and more are coming every month. The Eastern European Companies are now fully onboard, and unlike Trumpeter, which is hit or mostly miss, we’re getting some incredibly fine, accurate, and affordable models out of Eastern Europe. It’s an AWESOME time to be a builder in The One True Scale. We were just a fringe for so long. Heck, IPMS still doesn’t give 1/32 it’s due in the National Meet. We still have classes with everything lumped together, because they’re still living in ysterday’s World. They haven’t seen it, or refuse to see the change. It’s coming, and it won’t be long now. I thing a couple years more of strong attendance with showings of large scale models at the big shows around the world will wake these fools up. IPMS USA still lives in 1/72 and 1/48, but they’re living in an obsolete world. Show your stuff. Fill the tables. We keep doing that, they notice, magazines notice, and manufacturers notice. Heck, they’re even bringing out a 1/35 109! Someone’s betting huge, guys!
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    I’ve never gotten how the armor guys enveloped and adopted 1/35 as their standard scale. It’s just all kinds of odd.
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    Yep. Doing a G is a no brainer, but a a build wouldn’t feel right unless I hacked it to pieces and inserted resin all over.
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    And it seems her decision will also of course mean a fair bit of scratch work in the rear pit. The F and the G are somewhat different in rear seat panel layout. OH yay. I sooooo love scratching panels after my amazing B-36 experience.
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    Why not? Let’s just cut along the dotted lines..... After all, who needs them? Jammers flames, the ALQ-105 sets will need to be c’est histoire.
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    So then I show my wife both Super Set boxes and ask her which version she likes. She then makes a scientific ladylike proclamation: “I like the black and white picture”. Me “But the G has more rockets on it” Wife: “I like the black and white one” Me: “But all the extra rockets” Wife: “Black and white”. - Death Stare - Me: silence, muffled “gulp” and you’ll need to know the Thud to understand this, but....
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    Those should nicely augment some of the other things I have here. Plus the Zotz 105 F/G In Vietnam decal set.
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    Santa showed up with three small packages, which nicely augmented a kit I have in the on Deck circle.
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    If I tried for an output like that, they'd look like they were built by a third grader. I might manage 4 or 5 Tamiya kits, but a B-24, a resin kit, a Tamiya Mossie plus others, YIKES!!
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