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Title: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: B_Realistic on December 05, 2012, 09:19:46 PM Hi,
saw this cockpit set from Res-im improvements for the Yak-23 from Bilek. http://res-im.webnode.cz/products/a4802/ Michel Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: learstang on December 06, 2012, 12:41:34 AM Looks nice! I just got my catalogue from Squadron today - they list two new Yak-23 Flora kits from Special Hobby, in 1/72nd scale. It looks like the kits are the same, but with different markings. The price is $24.29USD. I'm tempted to buy one. Now you can get recent kits of the Flora in all three main scales; 1/72nd from Special Hobby, 1/48th from Bilek, and 1/32nd from Planet Models.
Regards, Jason Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: JP on December 06, 2012, 05:45:32 AM Yeah, but who builds 1/72? :P
Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: learstang on December 06, 2012, 06:06:05 AM Yeah, but who builds 1/72? :P 1/72nd scale is the one true scale! So it was in the beginning (Penguin), so shall it ever be! Or to be more practical, even if somebody came out with a 1/48th scale B-36, where would I put it? That's as crazy as a 1/72nd scale An-124 Ruslan - oh yeah, right. I'll just stick with my impractically enormous An-22 Antei, thank you very much. Regards, Jason Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: B_Realistic on December 06, 2012, 01:25:47 PM Let's say that I like 1/48th scale Yak-23 the most. It's not too big and you can enhance it. :D
Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: learstang on December 06, 2012, 05:41:30 PM Of course, that's the nice thing about 1/48th scale. It's small enough to where you don't have to buy another house to display them, but big enough to be very detailed. Years ago, I used to buy a lot of 1/48th scale kits, but I quit when I realised I wasn't building them, just collecting them. I still have a few I'll probably build, such as the Tamiya Il-2 arrow, the Eduard straight-winged two-seater, and the AM arrow and single-seater. I even have a few non-Shturmoviks I'd like to build, such as the Tamiya Swordfish, and the Classic Airframes A-8 Shrike and Westland Wyvern. For my limited budget and space, however, I've found 1/72nd scale to be a better fit. But I say the more VVS kits the better, in whatever scale they are - I'm tempted by the Xuntong Tu-2, now that they have a VVS example, and I'd almost certainly buy a 1/48th scale Il-4, if it were reasonably priced.
Regards, Jason Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: B_Realistic on December 06, 2012, 11:08:35 PM Of course, that's the nice thing about 1/48th scale. It's small enough to where you don't have to buy another house to display them, but big enough to be very detailed. Years ago, I used to buy a lot of 1/48th scale kits, but I quit when I realised I wasn't building them, just collecting them. I still have a few I'll probably build, such as the Tamiya Il-2 arrow, the Eduard straight-winged two-seater, and the AM arrow and single-seater. I even have a few non-Shturmoviks I'd like to build, such as the Tamiya Swordfish, and the Classic Airframes A-8 Shrike and Westland Wyvern. For my limited budget and space, however, I've found 1/72nd scale to be a better fit. But I say the more VVS kits the better, in whatever scale they are - I'm tempted by the Xuntong Tu-2, now that they have a VVS example, and I'd almost certainly buy a 1/48th scale Il-4, if it were reasonably priced. Regards, Jason I've got the Wyvern also but from Dynavector with the Compass sets for it. But I'm afraid to start it because it's vacu. I'm going to compete with my Il-2 this weekend in a local modeling contest and I hope to have some pictures from it because our modeling club KMK also is represented. Title: Re: Cockpit set for Bilek Yak-23 Post by: learstang on December 06, 2012, 11:24:17 PM Good luck on your Shturmovik, Michel - I hope it brings home a medal!
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