The (still shrinkwrapped) item in question was this A-4 Shyhawk kit made by the previously unknown to me company of 'Starfix'. I wonder where they got the idea for the name...
Monday, 9 February 2015
The generosity of others - part 2
The (still shrinkwrapped) item in question was this A-4 Shyhawk kit made by the previously unknown to me company of 'Starfix'. I wonder where they got the idea for the name...
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With a vote of confidence like that, how could it go wrong?
I almost paid $5.00 for this kit last week. I then read a review which made me reconsider.
http://modelingmadness.com/review/viet/previews/709.htm
Its right up your alley Tim. I especially like the reviewers comment about landfill.
Conrad Kinch
Perhaps the post title should have been "Beware of wargamers bearing gifts...."
Paul Foster
Sounds like that would have been at least $4.95 too much. Going by the review (though they can be rather sniffy) it sounds a dreadful kit - now I'm really looking forward to trying to assemble it!
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/a/783
Take your pic from here Tim.
Cheers,
Pete.
My Andreivian Air Force has one of those Starfix A-4s. It's an easy kit to build but you might decide you want to blank off the engine intakes so you can't see so d
far not the interior.
Pete
Thanks - but it may be some time before I need a painting guide!
Counterpane
This just keeps getting better!
Hi Tim,
Paint it as a Kahu era ('90s) RNZAF A4K - basically an A4F with the cockpit and radar of an F-16!
Or as a Royal Australian A4G with Kiwi roundels - we bought their Skyhawks when the sold the Melbourne. A few were flying around in their [rather fetching dual grey (or was it white and grey)] Australia colours when they got here.
Nick
Nick Grant
That would be tempting - but I already have plans to shoehorn the A4 into a game. If you chaps would go and invade somewhere I'd have more opportunity to use NZ forces....
:-)
Which is why the government got rid of them.
:-(
You could always pretend that they were part of a UN force!
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