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Offline Rickshaw

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Modelcollect
« on: June 28, 2016, 03:32:44 PM »
Newly announced, Modelcollect are going to release a new 1/72 B-52H model:


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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2016, 11:36:06 PM »
Honey! Sorry but you won't be able to park car in the garage anymore!

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2016, 07:49:05 PM »
Honey! Sorry but you won't be able to park car in the garage anymore!

And the reason for that is after I buy the kit, I too will be living in the garage along with my stash.
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2016, 07:55:21 PM »
B-2 Spirit coming soon ...

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2016, 07:19:07 AM »
I'm glad to see some CAD for the B-2, there will be a lot of excited builders out there. Looks good!
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2016, 09:40:32 AM »
It's been over a quarter-century since I worked on the B-2, but I can already see errors from those pictures.  Mind you, you would have to be intimately familiar with the aircraft to spot them, but I can claim that (especially the #1 aircraft which I am very intimately familiar with).  OTOH, none of them are particularly visible, so no harm, no foul.

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2016, 09:08:41 AM »
It's been over a quarter-century since I worked on the B-2, but I can already see errors from those pictures.  Mind you, you would have to be intimately familiar with the aircraft to spot them, but I can claim that (especially the #1 aircraft which I am very intimately familiar with).  OTOH, none of them are particularly visible, so no harm, no foul.

Might not production aircraft be different to the prototype?

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2016, 09:28:34 AM »
Not in the areas I know about, I've seen aircraft #2-4 also and they all were the same.

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2018, 12:31:05 AM »
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2018, 12:33:50 AM »


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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2018, 12:34:08 AM »
Work in progress ::

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2018, 08:56:10 AM »
Gah!  More fantasy Panzers.   

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2018, 09:12:30 AM »
Gah!  More fantasy Panzers.
Yes.  And is a good one.

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2018, 11:38:31 AM »
Gah!  More fantasy Panzers.
Wonder if World of Tanks will be offering those things as DLC? :)
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2018, 12:23:49 PM »
To model company:  How about a US Army '46 counterpart to these huge German tanks ?
Figure shipped as a bare hull "kit" due to weight for final assembly in Europe or wherever.
Early cold war monster tank a counter part to SAC getting big bombers and USN getting Midway and Forrestal class carriers.  ;)

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2018, 01:27:29 PM »
To model company:  How about a US Army '46 counterpart to these huge German tanks ?
Figure shipped as a bare hull "kit" due to weight for final assembly in Europe or wherever.
Early cold war monster tank a counter part to SAC getting big bombers and USN getting Midway and Forrestal class carriers.  ;)
Perhaps a modified M103 as a first effort?  Then on to "bigger and better" efforts.;)

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2018, 06:49:12 PM »
To model company:  How about a US Army '46 counterpart to these huge German tanks ?
Figure shipped as a bare hull "kit" due to weight for final assembly in Europe or wherever.
Early cold war monster tank a counter part to SAC getting big bombers and USN getting Midway and Forrestal class carriers.  ;)
Perhaps a modified M103 as a first effort?  Then on to "bigger and better" efforts.;)

I think the cheapest counter to these tanks would be a Tallboy bomb (maybe something half the size). I'm doing a project of a De Havilland DH 101, which was a much larger Napier Sabre powered Mosquito fast bomber (see below), a variant that I'm building I'm calling a Tallboy bomber.

On a side note, I helped Tony Butler with determining the actual size of the thing and he has added my name into a book he has written.

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2018, 05:26:35 AM »
@Robert (KitNut617) - Since you already have a TV-Guided Tallboy in your arsenal, why not add a Laser Guided Tallboy!  :)
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2018, 05:33:01 AM »
@Robert (KitNut617) - Since you already have a TV-Guided Tallboy in your arsenal, why not add a Laser Guided Tallboy!  :)

Bah!!  Go the good ol' ASM-A-1 Tarzon style:

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2018, 09:35:47 AM »
@Robert (KitNut617) - Since you already have a TV-Guided Tallboy in your arsenal, why not add a Laser Guided Tallboy!  :)

Nice idea Jeff, but did they have lasers back in the late 40's though.

Thinking out loud now, if they used Tallboys to sink the Tirpitz, maybe a half sized one would do the trick here. Does anyone know if there's 1/144 scale Tallboys on the market ?
« Last Edit: January 27, 2018, 09:40:12 AM by kitnut617 »

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2018, 09:37:09 AM »
@Robert (KitNut617) - Since you already have a TV-Guided Tallboy in your arsenal, why not add a Laser Guided Tallboy!  :)

Bah!!  Go the good ol' ASM-A-1 Tarzon style:



I think I saw one of those done to scale on Shapeways website

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2018, 03:03:57 AM »
Indeed:



Click on image to go to dedicated page - comes in 1/72 and 1/48.  One could always use a 1/72 one on a 1/48 aircraft too. ;)
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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2018, 07:34:09 AM »
pre-ordered this cool walker in 35th...turret might find its way onto something more 'real world' though.


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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2018, 09:48:57 AM »
1/72 Lockheed A-12 coming soon.

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Re: Modelcollect
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2018, 06:47:19 PM »
Is that a new tool kit Carl, I've got a Revell one in the stash somewhere ---