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AndyFettes
Master at Arms
Nice job James those belts do look the business
jknaus
Administrator
Thanks fellas. Dave and Matroxone, in my humble opinion this is light years over the Hasegawa kit. I ordered Barracudacals Bf-109K-4 tires www.barracudacals.com/proddetail.php?prod=BR32074 which look better than the kit wheels. I would also on my next one either get new instrument decals to replace the kit ones or use the plastic ip and drybrush the details. Seriously, this is an awesome kit so far.
Tony, yeah from my reading it was scary. Pilots melting in the cockpit, a/c exploding on landing if they had some fuel left and hit wrong, people getting burnt. But about 9 kills with only 2 combat losses isnt bad. Its the ground and pilot error crashes that make it look worse. I would have to say that these were some very very brave men.
James
Tony, yeah from my reading it was scary. Pilots melting in the cockpit, a/c exploding on landing if they had some fuel left and hit wrong, people getting burnt. But about 9 kills with only 2 combat losses isnt bad. Its the ground and pilot error crashes that make it look worse. I would have to say that these were some very very brave men.
James
jknaus
Administrator
Let me try and drag out my old Hasegawa kit and try to do a side by side. In the mean time I did a photo review here
James
James
Old Dog
Well-known member
I didn't mean to make extra work for you, thought maybe there was something specific. I don't plan on tossing mine in the dust bin just because a new one comes out. I already have a resin pit for it. While there may be a lot more detail on the new one, other than the pit, how much of it will be visible ?
jknaus
Administrator
Well this one can be posed with multiple panels open and the fuse split. They also give stands for the aft and fore side. The aft fuselage has panels so if you look in you dont have to scratch an interior. There are 2 ammo feeds with rounds for the MG 151 and the Mk108 guns and 2 complete guns for each. A biggy in the cockpit is behind the pilot. The frame work is open as it should be and a complete T stoff tank is in there The skid well has detail (but more could be added. The armoured glass has a separate frame. There are 2 different tail wheels and they are extended or retracted. The wing flaps are PE. You could go nuts and have all panels off if you wanted and there would not be much more to add. Lastly the engine is very well detailed. Its no problem for looking for the Has kit as I have to find some stuff for another friend at the same time.
James
James
phantom II
Master at Arms
Interesting . Hydrazine is pretty nasty stuff. 
Is this the component that could remove your flesh or was it the Methanol.
Neither chemical is friendly but I don't recall that being part of the briefing on the F-16s
Cheers, Christian
Is this the component that could remove your flesh or was it the Methanol.Neither chemical is friendly but I don't recall that being part of the briefing on the F-16s
Cheers, Christian
phantom II
Master at Arms
That would explain why the fuel guys had to wear cotton around the F-16 . Nice of GD. to give us jets that had so much potential for trouble . They sure made it sound reasonable though.
Cheers, Christian B)
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
Really nice work James!
