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NickZour
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Posted: Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 09:22 AM UTC
Can you please suggest me an 1/32 scale ww2 kit that can be used on detail sets platform (can it be cheap?)

Cheers Nick


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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 09:17 AM UTC
Any thought

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 09:29 AM UTC
Hi Nick

Revell's re-boxed version of Hasegawa's Bf 109K can often be found selling cheaply and is a great basis for adding detail to.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 09:35 AM UTC
Hi Nick

would love to help but i do not see what you are after?! Do you want to add as much AM as possible .. mybe do teh Revell Tiffie and add all teh corrections for it)

BTW 2010 will be a good year for you large scale lovers again

greets

Steffen
NickZour
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 09:38 AM UTC

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Hi Nick

Revell's re-boxed version of Hasegawa's Bf 109K can often be found selling cheaply and is a great basis for adding detail to.

All the best

Rowan



In my last visit on a modelshop I was so close to buy it!!

Thanks.

Any other suggestion?

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 10:39 AM UTC
I agree with the 109 series. You can get a resin engine set. PE to your hearts content. There is a good availability of 109 G models.

A little more expensive, the Trumpeter ME 262 (TSM2260 Messerschmitt Me-262A-1a Fighter w/ R4m Rocket is the better one) with the big ed set. I did one already and loved it. So I got a second one. It is a great Base for learning how to use PE. There are some nice decals available also. There are resin cockpit and wheel bay sets available.

The Encore Albatros D.II (ENC32001 Albatros D.II Bolelcke). It comes with all the extras already in the kit. (I know it is WWI, so sue me)

Hasegawa F-104 if you are into sleek and shiny. The amount of Resin available is declining though it can still be found.

Good luck.
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 04:56 PM UTC
I'd guess the Bf-109E has a lot of AM, but the FW-190 A-E would have a ton-more if you can make a german aeriel launched torpedoe P-47's have a growing field of AM and accy's. I guess Zeros,Dauntless SBD's and Avengers would round out WW2. Jump to modern and Phantoms probably dominate with F-14,F-16 close behind. Just guessing from a mostly treadhead kinda styrene mangler.....
Rick
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 08:30 PM UTC
Thanks for both of your replies!!

Any url's of the kits and the detail sets?

What means AM??


Cheers Nick
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 08:57 PM UTC
Nick

AM means "After Market" its a term used for all the resin, photoetch and other little add ons you can buy for your kit.

As most say the 109 is probably one of the most AM catered for kits out there and Revell are reasonably priced and available.


Keith
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 10:23 PM UTC

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Nick

AM means "After Market" its a term used for all the resin, photoetch and other little add ons you can buy for your kit.

As most say the 109 is probably one of the most AM catered for kits out there and Revell are reasonably priced and available.


Keith


Thank you

I always want my kits to have a detail set (even my bristol had the detail set in the box)

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Friday, December 04, 2009 - 10:42 PM UTC

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Any url's of the kits and the detail sets? ... Cheers Nick


Hi Nick

Here you go:

Revell Bf 109K-4

and here are reviews of some of the details available for the Bf 109K, and late-model '109s:

Eduard - BIG-Ed

Eduard - Instrument Panel

Eagle Editions - Cockpit

Eagle Editions - various correction sets

RB Productions - Seatbelts

RB Productions - Rudder Pedals

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 12:35 AM UTC
Oh my god!!!

What about a P-47 (suggestion)??

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 07:19 AM UTC
This is what I'm building over on P-47 Heaven at the moment:



1. Hasegawa's 1/32 P-47D
2. MDC's Resin Cockpit set
3. RB Productions 1/32 US Seatbelt set
4. Quickboost's Gun Barrels
5. Eduard Etch sets (32000, 32204 and 32616)
6. Eagles Editions P-47 Decals for Daddy Rabbit

The full build log can be found Here
NickZour
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 07:51 AM UTC
I love this kit and all that detail sets!!

But the floor of the cockpit is wrong!!!

It's flat in the kit but the real is corrugated:

http://kbarondc.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/img_5747.jpg

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 08:40 AM UTC
Some production batches of the P-47 had flat, some corrugated floors.
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 08:43 AM UTC
Hi Nick

And notice - Allen has included a replacement cockpit in his line-up. You did say you want to add detail sets...

All the best

Rowan
NickZour
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 09:08 AM UTC

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Hi Nick

And notice - Allen has included a replacement cockpit in his line-up. You did say you want to add detail sets...

All the best

Rowan


Oh yes...

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 10:33 AM UTC
Flat floors were used from the D-30 Batch onwards but the MDC set has options for both floors and types of instrument panels. Read my blog for some pictures of the cockpit set and a review of the item can be found HERE
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 11:41 AM UTC

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Flat floors were used from the D-30 Batch onwards but the MDC set has options for both floors and types of instrument panels. Read my blog for some pictures of the cockpit set and a review of the item can be found HERE



Photos of the restoration of "Dottie Mae" can now confirm that the D-28 batch had the later style smooth floor.
Nige
NickZour
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Posted: Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 07:25 PM UTC
Ok!!

Now we can stop to be

Cheers Nick
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Posted: Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 09:56 AM UTC
That's not being off topic they were replying to your statement! You said the cockpit flooring was wrong they informed you about the AM set and the different floors that were used. You asked for suggestions about models which members have kindly given their advice and found lists of AM things for you. You said there was a problem with the flooring which people have kindly given you guidance on.

Personally I think off topic would be posting nose-arts etc not offering guidance about the cockpit floor which could influence what kit you decide to buy!
NickZour
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Posted: Monday, December 07, 2009 - 12:51 AM UTC
You're right

Cheers Nick
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