well i suppose it is the same color?

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:56 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-18-1-16-Ultimate- ... tsupported

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:09 pm

its wrong on many levels

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:21 pm

All I can say is....wow.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:23 pm

500 dollars is a lot for a piece of crap!!!

GooglyDoogly · Post by **GooglyDoogly** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:25 pm

...I think that's a Teller mine on top of the rear machine gun...

But yeah, that's a nice Zer....er, Kate.

Yeah...a Kate...

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:25 pm

Yeah, 2 Zero's died in vain for that jobby...

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:27 pm

what a way for two 1/18th zeros to die,,,,,,,what a disgrace,,,I can't look at it any more...my eye are hurting to much.

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:31 pm

I hate to be over critical but if you're gonna put out work like that then dispense with all the "I'm a professional" rhetoric and the "worth more than I start them at" jazz....just my opinion.

Dauntless · Post by **Dauntless** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:52 pm

I could accept him tooting his own horn on some of his stuff, but this "Kate" is so wrong.

If he had any credibility before, this pretty much shoots that down the toilet.

Going to have to watch this auction to see where it goes. For the price he wants right out of the gate, I seriously doubt he'll get even one bid.

All you have to do is look at a 1:72 Hobbymaster Kate on ebay and see what an abomination this is.

BTW: VMF214, those Rufes are SWEEEEET!!!

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:58 pm

what joke

Post by **aferguson** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:19 pm

inventive as usual

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:15 pm

if some on buys that

maybe its a Japanese secret weapon

am6 z will smith

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:23 pm

He states he did it from a couple of 21st Zero's...must've enlarged some of the 1/32 ones I reckon...

Coreyeagle48 · Post by **Coreyeagle48** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:06 pm

Greetings

It kind of looks like the mock "Zeros" used by the airshow team Tora Tora Tora, which are really converted AT-6's

I don't think our resident customizers have anything to worry about

Corey

gburch · Post by **gburch** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:12 am

I spotted that the other day in my ceaseless prowling of eBay for 1:18 militaria. I wondered how long it would take before the knives came out here over it!

It did make me wonder how hard it would be to scratch build a Kate. We have a few folks here who could do it ...

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:34 am

You know I think they made some zero trainers . Posssibly for the Navy and target tows with some kind of wire thing around it. Maybe I have know idea what I am talking about.

But if he would have painted it orange made a 2 seater rather than a 3 seater and call it is a trainer it would not have been that bad off.

Actualy they did. Here is what I came up when I googled Japanese Zero trainer. So he blew it .

AGAIN.

http://www.j-aircraft.com/a6mresearch/zerotrnr.htm

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:38 am

Um.. yeah.

-Ski

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:42 am

pickelhaube wrote:You know I think they made some zero trainers . Posssibly for the Navy and target tows with some kind of wire thing around it. Maybe I have know idea what I am talking about.

But if he would have painted it orange made a 2 seater rather than a 3 seater and call it is a trainer it would not have been that bad off.

Actualy they did. Here is what I came up when I googled Japanese Zero trainer. So he blew it .

AGAIN.

http://www.j-aircraft.com/a6mresearch/zerotrnr.htm

This was exactly what I thought it was on first sight. I agree, he could of made a real bundle if he stuck with the trainer.

-Ski

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:21 am

pickelhaube wrote:You know I think they made some zero trainers . Posssibly for the Navy and target tows with some kind of wire thing around it. Maybe I have know idea what I am talking about.

But if he would have painted it orange made a 2 seater rather than a 3 seater and call it is a trainer it would not have been that bad off.

Actualy they did. Here is what I came up when I googled Japanese Zero trainer. So he blew it .

AGAIN.

http://www.j-aircraft.com/a6mresearch/zerotrnr.htm

See this link

viewtopic.php?t=14718&highlight=a6m2k

You mean like this:

</p>

Been there, done that.

flayrah · Post by **flayrah** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:51 am

I've tried to make new aircraft out of existing models. It's very hard. I can't do it, my results were laughable. Even so, what I ended up with is better than this. I thew mine away out of disgust. He'll probably sell his to someone who doesn't know better. Pretty sad, really.

King O' Fools · Post by **King O' Fools** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:15 am

vmf214 wrote:
pickelhaube wrote:You know I think they made some zero trainers . Posssibly for the Navy and target tows with some kind of wire thing around it. Maybe I have know idea what I am talking about.

But if he would have painted it orange made a 2 seater rather than a 3 seater and call it is a trainer it would not have been that bad off.

Actualy they did. Here is what I came up when I googled Japanese Zero trainer. So he blew it .

AGAIN.

http://www.j-aircraft.com/a6mresearch/zerotrnr.htm
See this link
viewtopic.php?t=14718&highlight=a6m2k

You mean like this:

</p>

Been there, done that.

Wow, that's a neat trainer there.

What did you use for the canopy? I thought you’d actually vacuformed the pieces, but, upon closer inspection, they seem to be a little too translucent compared to the BBI original or other vacuformed canopies I've seen in the customs' threads (there’s even a sort of grainy texture in the pics).

Anyway, real cool.

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:44 am

now that looks NICE

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:30 pm

...OMG. If the Zero is a "Coupe", then that thing on ebay is the station wagon version...

Pa Deuce · Post by **Pa Deuce** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:53 pm

what really finishes it is that the aileron horns are still backwards... retains that BBI authenticity