1/32 Super Hornets from Trumpeter...

Jan 16, 2009 10 Replies

...BUCKETS of DROOL!!!



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Just to add my own comments to the reviewers, something that seems to have slipped right past him is that it looks like Trumpeter are also planning F and G variants - given the photo of what is clearly (hmmnnn...sorry 'bout that) an F model canopy, and the inclusion of a sprue containing ALQ-99 pods. And the sprue with two sets of seat parts. These will build up into LARGE kits if the dimensions are correct - something nearing the size of an F-14.



Just looking at the pics, the seat doesn't seem quite right to me, but that's easily solved with resin, which is what I'd do anyway. And I'm a bit disappointed that the landing gear aren't made up from multiple parts, but I can do some scratch building there, too. What I really hope is that they didn't repeat the two biggest problems in the 1/48th scale kits - the sizes of the wheels/tires and the exhaust nozzles. And that they captured the shape of the aft fuselage at least as well as Hasegawa did (the Revell kit is slab-flat wrong). The 1/48 manufacturers made the mistake of simply copying F/A-18A-D parts for inclusion on a Super and that just ain't right, folks...hope this one's right...



...I'm already starting the procurement fund for all three...DROOL...now



- where's my 1/32 Mig-23, Su-22, and P-61?..


Hope they can run to a spell-checker on the decal sheet this time as well.

if anyone does a 32nd SU22 then i will drop my kegs on here all to see!

no matter how expensive, its a kit i want (i hate F18's anyway, just like the F16 so no loss to me...)

you mean it's not united snakes air force?

how did you become a russophile?

Better do it over on the binaries group.

got some good "engrish" examples for us?

Craig

From the 1/32 Lightning sheet - Sqdn Ldr becomes Sow Lord. I'll drag some out next time I visit the attic, the Wyvern has some particularly good ones.

So they would have you put 'snakes' on a plane?

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. ;)

You mean like THIS?..

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keep the lice off your piano and the crabs off your organ.

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