Re: landing gear
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:12 am
Im with you on that. I use a small block of wood for my F/A 18 to help with the weight.supersonicfifi wrote:i really hope the landing gear will stand the weight of that beast !
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Im with you on that. I use a small block of wood for my F/A 18 to help with the weight.supersonicfifi wrote:i really hope the landing gear will stand the weight of that beast !
I think the company will f up the high vis paint.. with so many detail needed to be shown and the complex bird the high vis will most likely be more complicated thus people will complain more when QC are off.. the more you see of the detail the more the company can go wrong with it. the company should come out with the low vis and an unpainted one so that people can add detail to the one they already have....Killerf6 wrote:I think a hi-vis paint scheme, no matter the squadron, hanging from the ceiling of my airplane room would have a wow factor of eleven. I just don't think the low-vis schemes would have quite the same effect. Don't get me wrong any 1/18 F-14 is going to have a high wow factor, I just think a high-vis scheme will have more.
Anyway if you all want a low-vis paint scheme just get yourself a can of grey and a pencil. Shoot the grey on the plane and pencil in all the markings.
hay remember we pay $200 for this and a lot of guy want perfection and i do not blame them... but with such a large plane and detail things get lost in the loop...Killerf6 wrote:The thing is that the hi-vis, especially VF-84 would sell much better than a low-vis version of any squadron imho.
Skull and Bones sell, and that particular paint scheme appeals to many people. Truthfuly I think they would have to F it up pretty bad for the average buyer to notice.
It is also kind of a sad state of affairs if it is better that a company not produce a certain paint scheme that would do well in the market place because it would be too hard to do correctly. I'm not sure what that says about our hobby.
I'm new to the hobby but I would say it says larger scales are very hard to deal with.. because the detail really stands out.. good and bad, and the difficulty is compounded by the process to mass produce them - but honestly, with some of the models I own, I am awed by the final product.. and the minimal price of ownershipKillerf6 wrote:It is also kind of a sad state of affairs if it is better that a company not produce a certain paint scheme that would do well in the market place because it would be too hard to do correctly. I'm not sure what that says about our hobby.
mountian-man wrote:BBi Does a fine job with the paint schemes on their big birds, I can't see why JSI wouldn't be able to....
On a side note, the only paint schemes with consistent problems that I can remember, were checkerboard patterns from 21st century... but that was back in the Walmart days of mass production. I don't think these big JSI fighters are going to have production runs anywhere near the same numbers.
JSI has been doing their toy thing for over 20 years.Black_Dragon_One wrote:mountian-man wrote:BBi Does a fine job with the paint schemes on their big birds, I can't see why JSI wouldn't be able to....
On a side note, the only paint schemes with consistent problems that I can remember, were checkerboard patterns from 21st century... but that was back in the Walmart days of mass production. I don't think these big JSI fighters are going to have production runs anywhere near the same numbers.
bbi is a vary large company... jsi i do not know..
Ta-152 wrote:JSI has been doing their toy thing for over 20 years.Black_Dragon_One wrote:
bbi is a vary large company... jsi i do not know..
I don't know but they say its an a model could also be an A+ version too!supersonicfifi wrote:Does anybody knows if it s an early A model or a late D model ? ( i would love to have a "BOMBCAT" to compliment my futur F 15 E !!!!!
I met them at the Sun 'n Fun at Lakeland (FL) 3 years ago and have bought from them: first class people to deal with!Black_Dragon_One wrote:any one deal with this company before...
are they legit...