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The Wooksta!

#240
February 24, 2026, 05:16:05 PM
One featured as a USAF trainer, the Skyfox, in an early season 1 episode of Airwolf
"A Romany bint in a field with her paints, suggesting we faint at her beauty, but she's got Dickie Davies eyes!"

Weaver

#241
February 24, 2026, 06:05:29 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2026, 06:07:43 PM by Weaver
Just to be clear, the "Skyfox" that KP are producing is the Aero L-39NG Skyfox, which is basically an L-39 Albatross trainer with a new engine and avionics. If it's a refit then it keeps the original wing and permanent tip tanks, but if it's new-build, then it has a wet wing and no tip tanks.
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PR19_Kit

#242
February 25, 2026, 02:23:49 AM
Didn't one of us here build a T-33/Skyfox lookalike just a short while ago?
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

NARSES2

#243
February 25, 2026, 05:25:32 AM
Me 262 with the engines mounted above the wings anybody  ;)
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Thorvic

#244
February 25, 2026, 09:30:37 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 25, 2026, 02:23:49 AMDidn't one of us here build a T-33/Skyfox lookalike just a short while ago?

Phil Cater was working on a resin kit, not sure if martin actually built the Skyfox from it or not.
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NARSES2

#245
April 11, 2026, 03:38:28 AM
KP have come out with 4 boxings of a "newly tooled" Ouragan. I'm strangely tempted  :unsure:

Here's one of the boxings

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/KPM72531?result-token=I5D2T



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kitbasher

#246
April 11, 2026, 04:54:28 AM
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What If? & Secret Project SIG member.
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Martin H

#247
April 11, 2026, 11:04:33 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on February 25, 2026, 09:30:37 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 25, 2026, 02:23:49 AMDidn't one of us here build a T-33/Skyfox lookalike just a short while ago?

Phil Cater was working on a resin kit, not sure if martin actually built the Skyfox from it or not.
Only a few ever made it into the wild.
I never finished my one. Its still on the shelf of doom.
The only one i think was ever finished was by the late jim bricknall.
And theres not much hope of any more as the masters have long since gone awol.
I always hope for the best.
Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

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The Wooksta!

#248
April 11, 2026, 11:45:03 AM
If you have one, it's cloneable...
"A Romany bint in a field with her paints, suggesting we faint at her beauty, but she's got Dickie Davies eyes!"

PR19_Kit

#249
April 11, 2026, 12:55:45 PM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 11, 2026, 11:45:03 AMIf you have one, it's cloneable...


Isn't everything?   ;D  ;)
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Gondor

#250
April 11, 2026, 01:18:12 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 11, 2026, 12:55:45 PM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 11, 2026, 11:45:03 AMIf you have one, it's cloneable...


Isn't everything?   ;D  ;)


Up to a point I would agree, see THIS
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Charlie_c67

#251
April 11, 2026, 05:53:45 PM
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 11, 2026, 03:38:28 AMKP have come out with 4 boxings of a "newly tooled" Ouragan. I'm strangely tempted  :unsure:

Here's one of the boxings

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/KPM72531?result-token=I5D2T



Hmmm, French version of the Hawker Sea Hawk, would that more likely be the Mystere


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PR19_Kit

#252
April 12, 2026, 01:52:03 AM
Surely the Mystere was a French Hunter, just not as pretty.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

kitbasher

#253
April 12, 2026, 04:27:02 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2026, 01:52:03 AMSurely the Mystere was a French Hunter, just not as pretty.

I've always felt that the Super Mystere was more the French equivalent of the Hunter, with the Mystere and Ouragan more somewhere between the Sea Hawk and the Hawker P.1081.
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Rheged

#254
April 12, 2026, 06:16:13 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2026, 01:52:03 AMSurely the Mystere was a French Hunter, just not as pretty.

Is there an aircraft as pretty as a Hunter?            Discuss, as they say in exam questions.
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Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
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