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Would you buy and build this?; Just curious
Topic Started: Sep 18 2016, 10:15 PM (887 Views)
Mark Schynert
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Harold K,Sep 19 2016
01:51 PM
As with your Ki-78 ;)

The two done up racer-style next to each other? Very tempting.
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Zambudio
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Hmmm... No, sorry. I like the MB-5, and will probably buy the kit but I'd rather prefer to finish it in the original prototype livery. I am not against whiff stuff, but it has to be original and plausible (a MB-5 in Portuguese naval air service markings, circa 1950, would be interesting though).
"Don't tell my mother I'm a banker, she thinks I play the piano in a brothel"
Great Depression joke
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Flyboy72nd
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I will have to add another vote to the above - buy it; yes - build as prototype!
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Building something Canadian, Eh! Graham; to avoid confusion M., from Canada's Capital!!
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meisnerr
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These camos are special free additional bonus "Boscombe Down Special" set for release with pure, kosher, non-fictional livery for MB-5 prototype.
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John Thompson
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The optional decals are cute, but I don't think I'll use them. The real (i.e., non-"What if") MB.5 offered a few options, the most notable being MB.4 fin, rudder, and tailplanes in its initial rollout configuration.

John
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keefr22
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No - for exactly the reasons Graham mentioned. It would be as daft as a Qinetic schemed Spitfire XIV or a Rasperry Ripple Hurricane IIC.

A whif too far...!!
Keith Ryder
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keefr22
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Greenshirt,Sep 18 2016
11:36 PM
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...


Funnily enough the last whif I built was for the same reason - a local chain of bargain shops had got hold of a pile of 21st Century Toys kits and were selling them off ridiculously cheaply, so we used club funds to buy each member a Bf109G. Not wishing to do yet another late war Luftwaffe thing I did a modern day Reno racer - chopped wingtips, P-51 type underfuselage intake, bubble canopy, squared off fin, contra prop - & painted it with candy apple red wings & tailplanes & a gold fuselage. Hand painted the name Iron Eagle in German (I forget the translation, Adler something!) in a suitable gothic font & slapped on some Nascar number decals.

It really looked the part & was the most modelling fun I'd had for a long time! Think I might do some more. When's that MB5 coming out...?! :D
Keith Ryder
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Yellow or sky?
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Graham Boak
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It was Yellow. Had it been standard fighter colours it would have been Medium Sea Grey, not Sky.

(OK, it wasn't your question in the first place.)

I've a sneaky little memory that I read once that the tailplanes were exchangeable. Which doesn't mean that they weren't painted yellow once on the aircraft, of course.
Lancashire, UK
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