Kitty Hawk

[KiwiZac]

Ok, ADF camo MH-6s is something I can get behind. Maybe I do have a reason to purchase one of these kits after all! 

[Volkodav]

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Anyone planning to whiff a littlebird into an Australian Army SOF support bird had better be quick in the new defence white paper reference to light helicopters for special forces means what it seems to mean.

I'm safe, we still don't have Marines! :)

You never know, 2 RAR battlegroup to RAM MEU is just a name change away

2nd Commando Regiment was 4 RAR (Commando) not so long ago and simply 4 RAR before that.  In fact you don't need to go back too far and 2 and 4 RAR were the amalgamated 2/4 RAR brigaded with 1 RAR in the Townsville based ODF (Operational Deployment Force) which was Australia's rapid deployment capability.

[Old Wombat]

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Anyone planning to whiff a littlebird into an Australian Army SOF support bird had better be quick in the new defence white paper reference to light helicopters for special forces means what it seems to mean.

I'm safe, we still don't have Marines! :)

You never know, 2 RAR battlegroup to RAM MEU is just a name change away

2nd Commando Regiment was 4 RAR (Commando) not so long ago and simply 4 RAR before that.  In fact you don't need to go back too far and 2 and 4 RAR were the amalgamated 2/4 RAR brigaded with 1 RAR in the Townsville based ODF (Operational Deployment Force) which was Australia's rapid deployment capability.

I can't see the Army willingly handing over a battalion or two to the RAN just to create a new arm of the military.

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[Jeffry Fontaine]

I am happy to report that KittyHawk Models customer service is excellent. 

A recent purchase of the KittyHawk Mirage F.1B that had no rear fuselage halves has been resolved by Sophia at KittyHawk Models sending me the replacement parts. 

[Old Wombat]

YES!!!!!

[GTX_Admin]

It is tempting - for me though I am thinking UCAR

[LemonJello]

I'm getting at least one to go next to my Dragon "Killer Egg"

[The Big Gimper]

Hyperscale Kitty Hawk 1/48 scale Preview F2H-2/2P Banshee






Full review at Hyperscale.

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[Daryl J.]

Now *this* interests me.    Maybe on skiis in some Tintin-esque markings for some northern climate winter adventure.   As in an arctic Khemed or something similar.   

[GTX_Admin]

As such:

[KiwiZac]

Now *this* interests me.    Maybe on skiis in some Tintin-esque markings for some northern climate winter adventure.   As in an arctic Khemed or something similar.   

Borudurian! 

[GTX_Admin]

1/48 WZ-10 coming:



and a 1/48 Etendard IVP/IVM:

[The Big Gimper]

and a 1/48 Etendard IVP/IVM:

Question on the Etendard "goatee". I always wondered why it has this under the nose. Was it required to a address a lateral stability issue?

[Rickshaw]

I think it was to contain a single, forward looking camera for the Recce role, there not being sufficient room in the nose otherwise.

[KiwiZac]

But it's so thin!! What did they use, prototype iPhone cameras?!

[jcf]

Missile guidance antenna housing:

The Nord AS.30 radio-guided air-to-surface missile for ground or antiship attack, with the radio command guidance link antenna fitted to a distinctive fin under the nose. The pilot guided the weapon by "eyeball", with a flare on the missile's tail to keep it visible and the pilot steering by joystick. Some sources claim the fin was also to improve yaw stability. The similar but smaller AS.20 missile could also be carried, but it was generally used as a training store.

From Airvectors site: http://www.airvectors.net/aveten.html#m2

The recce version, the IVP, had five nose mounted cameras in a redesigned nose.

[Daryl J.]

When one ventral anterior fin will do, why not use two?  Canted ones.   

As to why?  I have no idea.  Perhaps the second one is for iPhone cameras.....

[The Big Gimper]

Kitty Hawk is to release a new tool 48th scale version of the Sukhoi "Flanker-E" to eager modellers. In view of what was seen as a disappointment in a rival's kit of the same airframe we would like to see how this one turns out.





Source: The Modelling New

[The Big Gimper]

Missile guidance antenna housing:

The Nord AS.30 radio-guided air-to-surface missile for ground or antiship attack, with the radio command guidance link antenna fitted to a distinctive fin under the nose. The pilot guided the weapon by "eyeball", with a flare on the missile's tail to keep it visible and the pilot steering by joystick. Some sources claim the fin was also to improve yaw stability. The similar but smaller AS.20 missile could also be carried, but it was generally used as a training store.

From Airvectors site: http://www.airvectors.net/aveten.html#m2

The recce version, the IVP, had five nose mounted cameras in a redesigned nose.

Thank you Jon. Airvectors has been bookmarked.

[GTX_Admin]

Folks, if you look at the following, you will see just how thin the Etendard IVP/IVM nose fin is and also the positioning of cameras on the IVP variant:

IVM:




IVP:

[GTX_Admin]

Kitty Hawk is to release a new tool 48th scale version of the Sukhoi "Flanker-E" to eager modellers. In view of what was seen as a disappointment in a rival's kit of the same airframe we would like to see how this one turns out.

Hmmm...doesn't really excite me...however, what if we give those wings a forward swept look...