Does anyone know of any on-line outfits that tend to have odd PE sets you won’t find anywhere else, or decal sheets or any other type of unpopular or hard-to-find model stuff? I need to find Eduard frets 48130 and 48132 for a 1/48 Buccaneer. Or any, and I many ANY, aftermarket stuff for this kit? Even Airfix knew how badly they screwed up, because after modelers waited years for it to appear, it was on the shelves about two years. Not that it isn’t a beautiful conglomeration of parts. It’s just that the two biggest parts seem to have absolutely nothing in common, like, for instance, the places where they join together.
As for AM parts, the big houses like Squadron discontinue AM parts and decal sheets as soon as the kit goes out of production, as though modelers immediately throw out the kits on their shelves the minute they no longer appear in Hasegawa’s or Revellogram’s catalogue. It is annoying, yes?
Good luck Tom. When I had the kit I did not see a thing here state-side. Check into that reference material I sent with the kit. Inside that article they list a vendor for some AM 1/72 stuff in the U.K. Perhaps they also offer it in 1/48?
BTW thanks for the update on Emil!
Ray
Well, it seems there is a race of English gnomes that do nothing from generation to generation but make AM parts. If you don’t believe me, look at a complete Hannant’s catalogue. It’s so full of things I want I avoid looking at it for fear of a) hurting my eyes from staring and b) going to hell for pure greed. Surely those Brits, so proud of their once magnificent a/c industry, have something to help this thing. I read a review on a Spanish site that said the author made the fuselage halves line up by installing a bunch of plastic card bulkheads. How in the devil do you ever make patterns for those? I think I’ll cut shims for it likeyou do for building a vac-form and see how that words. Cut off the alignment pins, which are worthless. I hope the Lightning is kinder, but Ray, I’m gonna make a beauty outta this Buccaneer if it kills me. 'Course, it’s about tenth down the list of builds on my bench.
Sharkskin:
Don’t know if you saw this or not but here ya go…
I have sometimes found that if Squadron doesn’t have what I am looking for these guys do.
If you go here and type buccaneer in the search keyword box. It comes up with a couple of am sets for the Airfix kit. You could also try to type the Eduard set numbers in the product search and see if they may have what your looking for too.
Hope this helps ya out…
Paul
Thanks, guys. The 1/72 Buc seems to have all the parts. Lots of decals in 1/48, though, which will be needed to replace those pretty, but too stiff, Airfix thingies. By the way, Warlock, but what does a winged grenadier’s insignia stand for? It’s probably something I should know, but I’m not good a remembering these things unless they’re real obvious. I nailed a guy in EWO’s wings trying to convince these two girls in a bar that he was a gallant fighter pilot. But those things you’ve got on your signature look more serious.
Sharkskin:
Those are the wings of an Aviation Ordnanceman. They are a Naval Designation, but the Marines adopted it while we were on the flightline so the pilots new who we were.
Plus we figured if we were to fly on the helos and they wouldn’t give us the regular Aircrew Wings. We would just wear wings of our own.
Paul
Try www.hyperscale.com an enquiry there can sometimes find the most unexpected things
Well, Paul, I figure if anyone on a carrier deck deserves a distinctive insignia, it’s those gallant red-shirted souls who race around hanging bombs, missiles, rockets, 20 mm rounds and on and on, all without blowing the rest of the ship’s crew to hell and back.
Tom