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1:32 Curtiss A3 Falcon
Mecenas
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 10:36 AM UTC
The gallery presents one of the latest releases from Lukgraph company from Poland - the 1:32 scale resin model kit of the famous US Curtiss A3 Falcon.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
CaptnTommy
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 05:52 PM UTC
Did you know that if you put a Radial engine on this Curtiss, you could go up against any large gorilla terrorizing New York City, especially in the early 1930s.

This is the trivia fact of the day.

Enjoy

Captn Tommy

The model, is OUTSTANDING. Nice set of photos.
Joel_W
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 06:59 PM UTC
Ryszard,
I'm truly speechless

A resin, limited edition, 1/32 scale between the wars bi-plane. My word, it's a perfect build, a perfect model, and a winner in every sense of the word.

Outstanding paint scheme and perfect detailing that looks like it was painted on, and your rigging is just excellent.

Sir, you are a true craftsman, and a credit to Aeroscale.

Joel
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 07:26 PM UTC
Beautiful build of a beautiful aircraft.....At last someone kitted an interwar USAAC aircraft, an area long overdo! It would nice to see this as a trend, sooooo tired of rampant Luft kits.
RYSZARD
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 08:06 PM UTC
Many thanks for the kind words .A as a bonus to the gallery link to the page where it is shown interior model

http://lukgraph.pl/assembly%20Falcon.html
Joel_W
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Posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 - 10:19 PM UTC
Ryszard
I just went to that site and viewed your build pictures. The interior is just amazing.
Joel
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Posted: Monday, June 08, 2015 - 06:23 AM UTC
Ryszard, that interior is as wonderful as the rest of your spectacular Falcon!
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Posted: Monday, June 08, 2015 - 12:22 PM UTC
Hi Ryszard

Another beautiful build! A great subject, superbly done.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 06:42 AM UTC
This is a true masterpiece; however... the blue in the insignia is way too "blue." The proper blue is so dark as to be almost indistinguishable from black; check out Yellow Wing's website: http://www.yellow-wingsdecals.com/ their stuff is historically accurate. I don't mean to detract from the model in any way; keep this for future reference
RYSZARD
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Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 04:24 PM UTC
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Blue is Ok, it's a question of light when shooting, bad setting and the colors are a bit different. Khaki color on the hull or the pictures came out different than in reality
Joel_W
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Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 09:52 PM UTC
Brian,
Welcome to Aeroscale.

I never really get into exact colors when viewing online pictures. Often the uploading computer's graphics card isn't calibrated nor is the viewing computers graphics card, so there is usually some differentiation between the actual colors and what we're seeing.

Joel
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Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 08:01 PM UTC
I really want one of these.
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