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aferguson wrote:i bought the F Toys blue nose P-51B. Does anyone have any info on it ie when and where it was based? I can't find anything on that specific plane.

Bodney, England Col John C Meyers, 352 FG, 487 FS, "Lambie II"

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/meyer.html

I think the Old Crow P-51 is a regular issue in the Select Vol 1. This almost like a "best of" series with the P-51, F-86, F-4, F-14, Bf 109, Fw 190 and some others.
I have the yellow tailed special also. Did some checking, it is from the 5th FS, 52nd FG, Madna Italy, 1944

Dauntless wrote:Don't have either. Didn't know F-Toys had a JU-87.

F-toys had a Ju-87 in Wings Kit Vol 4. Cafereo had A Ju-87 in the Dive Bomber Series. Dragon Can.Do had arelease of 6 plus the Special. I have an extra set of the Can.Do if anyone is interested

The 3 WM I drive by everyday still have various combinatons and numbers of all 3 planes. In fact the WM closest to me just restocked the mustang after not having any since last summer

There have been a couple threads on these. The Red Tail Mustang came out about a year ago. Over the summer there was an Me109 and this past fall a P-40. Distribution seemed to be very spotty

Thanks for the list. I have 46 different listed on my spreadsheet. I will have to double check what I may be missing Let me know if you come up with something different than I listed. Also note that some of the same aircraft were put in the single as well as the double packs. You were correct I did...

Does anyone have an opinion on the Doyusha f-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet?

Stopped at a Big Lots today that had no PTE prior to Christmas but now they have the Blackhawk and Aerial Rocket Helicoptors, the IFV and a few of the small playsets with a figure and a vehicle or horse

Thanks for the list. I have 46 different listed on my spreadsheet. I will have to double check what I may be missing

Quite a hall there jlspec. Don't have many of those except the Mariner and Coronado. A lot of good IXO/ Altaya across the pond if you can get a deal on shipping. Are you relatively new to the 1:144 scale like me? How do you like that Nell? I almost want both the new F-Toys in green and an IXO/ Alta...

For a jet I would like the F-4 Phantom for a prop the A-1 Skyraider. Especially since both had prototypes pretty far along at Admiral

I recieved my shipment from England today. Added the Altaya G3M Nell, Ki-49 Helen, and DeAgostini Ki-21 Sally. The Sally was much nicer than I expected after all the negatives about DeAgostini. These are added to my other diecast acquisitions this year. Altaya PBM mariner, Amercom PBY Catalina, PB2Y...

I just palced an order from Radjapan for some F-toys. They also had a company, Algernon, listed that i had not heard of before. Did Algernon take over for Cafereo?

Corey Thanks for your great review and pictures (as usual)

Mine did arrive on Tuesday. Have not assembled it yet but did open th box to inspect it. I really like the new packaging and the plane itself was extremely well done. I like the S1 Jolly rogers scheme better but the finish and quality on the S2 is every bit as good.

Got my shipping notice today, should be here next Tuesday

Did anyone get their new BBI F-4 yet?

The_Helicopter_Pilot wrote:Well the PBY was a complete loss, so I guess I'll get the Altaya PBY later,

Why was the PBY a loss? I have been conidering the Cafe Reo PBY and I have the Altaya PBY on order from one of the dealers in Poland and it should be here later this month

Thanks
I have a couple CafeReo Bettys. I was looking for some additional Japanese aircraft and the price seemd pretty decent. But it some sounds like they are not worth it at any price

Does anyone have the Deagostini Sally or Betty? Are they worth getting?
Thanks

I can't remember the name of the product, but it's a purple engine cleaner degreaser you can get at Walmart. Is it Castrol degreaser? It's a purple fluid. I checked and Castrol is the name brand but I have an off brand that I tried on some small pieces. Most of the paint was removed after an hour o...

Thanks for the feedback (there are some spots I may have to resort to sandpaper to remove some glue). I have used the purple degreaser to remove chrome palting from plastic but not paint, yet

I have resisted buying helicopters but these pictures have me rethinking my decision

Is there a way to remove paint and/or glue from old plastic models. I friend gave me a box of plastic models that are in a sad state but there is some potential if i can clean up some of the paint jobs without damaging the plastic
thanks

I think the low discount is more result of the duplications of the schemes. If new schemes were issued I think the scale would still be popular.