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NEWS 1:48 Devastator - First Look
Merlin
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Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 - 08:35 AM UTC
Great Wall Hobby have released CAD images and sprue-shots of their forthcoming quarterscale Devastator.
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litespeed
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Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 - 08:50 AM UTC
Well I'm not expert on the Devastator, but I have to say it looks superb. Right I off to hide behind the sofa before the flack starts 
Nice one Rowan
Nice one Rowan
Merlin
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Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011 - 09:28 AM UTC
Hi Tim
Judging by the sprue-shots, GWH have adopted a much better way of depicting fabric surfaces than in their previous kits.
All the best
Rowan
Judging by the sprue-shots, GWH have adopted a much better way of depicting fabric surfaces than in their previous kits.
All the best
Rowan
Tailor
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 05:23 AM UTC
Wow!
750+ clicks and 36 hours after posting the kit has not been rated the disappointment of the century. Either we have a decent job on our hands or a love 'n joy 'n peace epidemic has spread.
Quite frankly I am surprised!
Merry Christmas!
Guido
750+ clicks and 36 hours after posting the kit has not been rated the disappointment of the century. Either we have a decent job on our hands or a love 'n joy 'n peace epidemic has spread.
Quite frankly I am surprised!
Merry Christmas!
Guido
lampie
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 07:23 AM UTC
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Wow!
750+ clicks and 36 hours after posting the kit has not been rated the disappointment of the century. Either we have a decent job on our hands or a love 'n joy 'n peace epidemic has spread.
Quite frankly I am surprised!
Merry Christmas!
Guido
All depends which modelling website you visit
Nige
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 08:19 AM UTC
I am no expert either, but it seems to me that the GWH is fast progressing and surely advances their reputation in the plastic nebula. This looks more than a decent kit to me, but let's wait what others have to say. You guess my point, don't you! 
Merlin
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 08:43 AM UTC
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... the kit has not been rated the disappointment of the century...
Hi Guido
Ooh - I don't know... those moulded painting lines on the prop blades had me all set to declare it "fatally flawed"!
All the best
Rowan
lampie
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 08:51 AM UTC
The fusalage comes in two halves, the wings are in top and bottom sections, so it's obviously a copy of the Monogram kit!
It's true, I read in on the internet!!
Tongue firmly in cheek folks,
Nige
It's true, I read in on the internet!!
Tongue firmly in cheek folks,
Nige
Merlin
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 08:58 AM UTC
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The fusalage comes in two halves, the wings are in top and bottom sections, so it's obviously a copy of the Monogram kit!
It's true, I read in on the internet!!
Tongue firmly in cheek folks,
Nige
Hi Nige
And it'll come in box - you forgot that piece of damning evidence!
All the best
Rowan
AussieReg
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 09:12 AM UTC
Oh come on guys, it's christmas, don't be so mean !
Cheers, D
P.S. the first thing that I noticed is that the radius on the tailhook is out of scale by at least 0.025mm, I would never buy it based on that !!
Cheers, D
P.S. the first thing that I noticed is that the radius on the tailhook is out of scale by at least 0.025mm, I would never buy it based on that !!
lampie
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 10:24 AM UTC
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And it'll come in box - you forgot that piece of damning evidence!
Dagnammit!!
Another plan for World Domination foiled
Nige
Holdfast
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 05:10 AM UTC
That cannot be right, the canopy looks blue to me! 
I wonder how many are out there trying to find a photograph of a real Devastator at almost the same angle, so they can point out that the canopy is wrong? That is apart from the fact that it is blue!
I wonder how many are out there trying to find a photograph of a real Devastator at almost the same angle, so they can point out that the canopy is wrong? That is apart from the fact that it is blue!
GastonMarty
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 06:58 AM UTC
Sorry but the canopy IS wrong on this realease: They just can"t help themselves...
The HB"s tilting sliding-opening canopy part of the pilot"s station has the U frames about as tall in the front as in the rear: Look here and tell me if that even remotely resembles the opened and tilted part here...:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e44/modeldad/2675e57f.jpg
The good thing is, we have the 35 + years old Monogram canopy to fix that, and the GW release might be improved enough in other ways to make it a good purchase, provided the Monogram kit"s outstanding clear parts will fit it...
If they don"t, then you probably want to keep the Monogram kit...
Squadron-Falcon vacu form clear parts might have more flex to fit this thing as a last resort... It does look promising, if nothing else, considering GW"s habit of copying major Monogram dimensions to a T...
Gaston
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 08:35 AM UTC
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Sorry but the canopy IS wrong on this realease: They just can"t help themselves...
Oh my, I really wanted to give'em a try... It's lost for me now. You are right, how come I couldn't figure it out on my own.
AussieReg
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 09:33 AM UTC
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Sorry but the canopy IS wrong on this realease: They just can"t help themselves...
The HB"s tilting sliding-opening canopy part of the pilot"s station has the U frames about as tall in the front as in the rear:
provided the Monogram kit"s outstanding clear parts will fit it...
Here is a clear pic of a Mongram Devastator build on the Airbrush Technique website. It appears to me that if the front U-frame on the tilting/sliding section was the same height as the rear, there would be a gap above the windscreen about 8 inches high. Plenty of fresh air in the pilots face. Either that or the "outstanding Monogram clear parts" are fatally flawed also.
Merry Christmas, D
NickZour
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 09:49 AM UTC
Oh man, I really like this aircraft.
Cheers Nick
Cheers Nick
vanize
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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 10:04 AM UTC
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e44/modeldad/2675e57f.jpg
The good thing is, we have the 35 + years old Monogram canopy to fix that, and the GW release might be improved enough in other ways to make it a good purchase, provided the Monogram kit"s outstanding clear parts will fit it..
This time i can't even keep quiet about this nit-picking
in the picture you link, clearly the back side of pilot canopy frame matches the frame immediately behind it. If the front of the frame was nearly the same height, the bottom of that front frame would nearly rest on the fuselage since the top of it is right on top of the rearward frame.
not even remotely buying your argument this time, as no amount of arguments about angles or perspective can save you on this one.
Holdfast
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Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 02:50 AM UTC
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Sorry but the canopy IS wrong on this realease: They just can"t help themselves...
No Gaston...........you just can't help yourself, how about, just once, looking for the good in a kit?.............................Na, that will never happen, but that doesn't matter to me, I don't listen to your ramblings anyway; I like to enjoy my modelling, it is a HOBBY after all
errrrrrrrrr isn't it?Tailor
Joined: May 26, 2008
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Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 06:45 AM UTC
... it would have bordered a miracle, but then ...
It's a pitty that even though you can hide a user, you can't hide him when being quoted.
It's always sad to see someone suffering a hobby.
My sincere condolences to that tragic fate!
Cheers,
Guido
It's a pitty that even though you can hide a user, you can't hide him when being quoted.
It's always sad to see someone suffering a hobby.
My sincere condolences to that tragic fate!
Cheers,
Guido
Jessie_C
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Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 09:46 AM UTC
Once again I invoke the Gaston Rule: Gaston hates it, therefore it must be good.
Mecenas
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Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 10:11 PM UTC
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750+ clicks and 36 hours after posting the kit has not been rated
No need to worry, these things just work this way...
Tailor
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 01:20 AM UTC
Indeed they do! 
Monsoon
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2012 - 09:01 AM UTC
Quoted Text
The fusalage comes in two halves, the wings are in top and bottom sections, so it's obviously a copy of the Monogram kit!
It's true, I read in on the internet!!
Just remember the famous quote by Thomas Jefferson: Never believe everything you read on the internet!
Looks like a cool kit to me. My only complaint is that it probably will be out of my price range.
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