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| Would you buy and build this?; Just curious | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 18 2016, 10:15 PM (888 Views) | |
| Harold K | Sep 18 2016, 10:15 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.72news.eu/2016/09/az-model-mart...hatif-camo.html Very snappy looking markings on what is (IMHO) a very attractive airplane to begin with. The raspberry ripple scheme is especially striking. I come to modeling though a love of history, so what-ifs like these hold no appeal. I have the Pegasus kit marked as the prototype and will stay with it. How about you? |
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| Greenshirt | Sep 18 2016, 10:36 PM Post #2 |
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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My rare whiffs are in response to my local club's theme that requires some sort of out of the box thinking. Last year, as an example, we had a "build the same kit" theme that was the AM P-40 (wrong scale). So instead of doing nothing I built it as a whiff racer with modern Kellogg markings (Tony the Tiger). Fun... So would I? Possibly, but likely a whiff would be with one of the kits already in the stash. Tim |
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Tim Holland I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea. http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Chuck1945 | Sep 18 2016, 10:37 PM Post #3 |
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Agree, while snappy looking I have too many real in service types yet to do. My only concession to the 'what if' category would be a B-35 in camouflage and 8 AF markings |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| Graham Boak | Sep 18 2016, 10:41 PM Post #4 |
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I wouldn't, even as a What If, because the periods of the aircraft and the markings are too distant. I don't object to What-Ifs, but for me to model it there has to be some kind of genuine possibility in there. So I would model an MB-5 in post-war RAF fighter colours and markings: I don't think I'm going to but wouldn't have any kind of objection in principle. |
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| Harold K | Sep 18 2016, 10:55 PM Post #5 |
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I like that; very much
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| kingofmen | Sep 18 2016, 11:28 PM Post #6 |
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Sure, I likely will give it a shot. I've always liked the MB-5. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Sky Keg | Sep 19 2016, 12:10 AM Post #7 |
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I`m with you Harold on your opinion but this "What If" scheme looks appealing however I would not likely venture into that subject matter. |
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Sky Keg Mr Dorfman……..Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life. -Dean Wormer | |
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| Big Kohona | Sep 19 2016, 12:15 AM Post #8 |
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Hero
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| dknights | Sep 19 2016, 12:59 AM Post #9 |
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The court of LAST RESORT!
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Not me. |
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David M. Knights Fortes fortuna adiuvat 14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51 15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine 16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane. 17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, 18 Finished: NONE The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40 Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11 | |
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| Mark Schynert | Sep 19 2016, 03:24 AM Post #10 |
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Doing canned what-ifs that anyone might turn up with at a contest doesn't interest me. On the rare occasions I'm inclined to whiff, I want it to be original. I would consider doing the MB-5 as a Reno air racer. Or the prototype as actually marked. Anything else, probably not. |
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| MDriskill | Sep 19 2016, 10:31 AM Post #11 |
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Hero
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I'd buy the kit, cuz I think the MB-5 is fascinating, but I wouldn't use the "whiff" markings. If AZ offers a version with the machine's real-life prototype livery as an option, I'll buy that instead. |
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| Graham Boak | Sep 19 2016, 10:59 AM Post #12 |
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Hero
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As I understand it, the Whiff markings are optional, and the kit will come with a more conventional set. |
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| jvenables | Sep 19 2016, 12:30 PM Post #13 |
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Quite likely that I would buy one. Why? Because I think it would look good beside my CA-15, which was very similar in size, shape and performance, in addition to reaching about the same level of development before its demise. I'm not sure what scheme I would choose to finish the MB-5. Those "whiff" schemes are interesting and attractive but none really calls out to me. I think I prefer the original prototype scheme. |
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James from Brisbane, Australia Now living in Laos Nil illegitimi carborundum | |
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| Harold K | Sep 19 2016, 01:51 PM Post #14 |
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As with your Ki-78
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| Starfighter Decals | Sep 19 2016, 03:57 PM Post #15 |
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Hero
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Sorry, No. Not my subject area. |
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