Wing Nut,
Nice collection you have there. May I know what brand are they, esp. those 1/72 F15, F14 and Russian MIG and where did you buy it.


This post has been edited by JDK: Jul 29 2014, 10:01 PM

jdk, all witty wings. mostly from ebay seller modelarena. so far dealing with this seller has been very positive. don't have to wait too long for your jets to land and they do have a reasonable selection of jets. do let me know if you do get the rmaf or any other mig29s. for some strange reason, i find from actual pics of the model jets that the nose cones do not seem to replicate the actual droopy nose of the migs... and seem to be linear like the american jets. mebbe it's just me but shouldn't the nose cone antennas be pointed slightly downwards rather than straight ahead?

This post has been edited by WingNut: Jul 30 2014, 02:40 PM

Just to share my latest new added SR-71A Blackbird U.S.A.F 9th SRW 61-7960 1986 50th Anniversary

Nice~~~

Actually how many Blackbird are produce and service?
Most of them retire rite?


*EDIT:
found this at wiki.
List of SR-71 Blackbirds
AF Serial Number, Location or fate
61-7950 SR-71A Lost, 10 January 1967
61-7951 SR-71A Pima Air & Space Museum (adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base), Tucson, Arizona
61-7952 SR-71A Lost, 25 January 1966
61-7953 SR-71A Lost, 18 December 1969
61-7954 SR-71A Lost, 11 April 1969
61-7955 SR-71A Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California
61-7956 SR-71B Air Zoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
61-7957 SR-71B Lost, 11 January 1968
61-7958 SR-71A Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia
61-7959 SR-71A Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
61-7960 SR-71A Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base, Atwater, California
61-7961 SR-71A Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
61-7962 SR-71A American Air Museum in Britain, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England
61-7963 SR-71A Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, California
61-7964 SR-71A Strategic Air and Space Museum (west of Offutt Air Force Base), Ashland, Nebraska
61-7965 SR-71A Lost, 25 October 1967
61-7966 SR-71A Lost, 13 April 1967
61-7967 SR-71A Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana
61-7968 SR-71A Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia
61-7969 SR-71A Lost, 10 May 1970
61-7970 SR-71A Lost, 17 June 1970
61-7971 SR-71A Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
61-7972 SR-71A Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia
61-7973 SR-71A Blackbird Airpark, Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California
61-7974 SR-71A Lost, 21 April 1989
61-7975 SR-71A March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base (former March AFB), Riverside, California
61-7976 SR-71A National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio
61-7977 SR-71A Lost, 10 October 1968. Cockpit section survived and located at the Seattle Museum of Flight.
61-7978 SR-71A Lost, 20 July 1972
61-7979 SR-71A Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
61-7980 SR-71A Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California
61-7981 SR-71C Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah (formerly YF-12A 60-6934)

This post has been edited by strikermac: Jul 31 2014, 02:40 PM

wiki lists 32 (as per the list). i think all retired already...

"the plane was permanently retired in 1998. the air force quickly disposed of its SR-71s, leaving nasa with the two last airworthy blackbirds until 1999. all other blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few D-21 drones retained by the nasa dryden flight research center." - wikipedia

if you saw comrade blu3hamm3r's collection, the trainers are the ones with nasa... 61-7956 (17956) and 61-7980 (831).

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 1 2014, 12:05 PM

Currently CW had produce 12 SR-71, if CW planning to make all 32 Black bird, i got to buy another 2 Billy book case cabinet just to display all black bird.....

you may need more... one of the cw's twelve sr-71 is in fact a yf-12c:

sr-71 black bird usaf 60-6937 nasa yf-12c 1975



and by the way, there are three different releases for srw 61-7960

sr-71 usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1978 kadena ab
sr-71a blackbird usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1986 50th anniversary
sr-71a blackbird usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1986 50th anniversary signed edition




This post has been edited by WingNut: Jul 31 2014, 04:50 PM

The Yellow NASA i have alrdy, 17978, 17960 50th anniversary and with pilot signed edition i also have alrdy. Haha,.....now waiting for crossbone. All buy with AdilNiaga at Gombak.

This post has been edited by blu3hamm3r: Jul 31 2014, 05:11 PM

bro, what's that black oblong mark below the tail fin?

my very first century wings received yesterday. awesome details but not without some niggling issues. not sure whether those issues are model specific or cw's recent poor qc. definitely disappointing for a model that costs this much. will include more on those issues later.

Wing Nut
If I am not wrong, in your showcase there are the F15 Eagles and six F14 Tomcats.

Wing Nut
If I am not wrong, in your showcase there are three F15 Eagles and six F14 Tomcats.

This post has been edited by JDK: Aug 1 2014, 11:37 AM

Just a dust.....u really scared me lo.......

correct! correct! correct!

phew! i thot is oil/glue residue...

ot: your nikon really sharp. what lens u using? f2?

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 1 2014, 12:22 PM

U mean the SR-71 17960 photo? Hehe...i use Note 2 took tat photo only....lazy to shoot with DLSR.

note 2? sharp indeed!

back to topic... my cw grim reapers had the following issues:

1. loose canopy (turns out cw didn't glue the windshield down properly);
2. no green hue on windshield;
3. tight wings (cannot fully sweep backwards);
4. loose fitting missiles (but that seems to be a problem with all diecast models... with the exception of my ww's f15s).

but like i said... detailing is awesome. just that for that price, i would've expected better. oh well... now i know.

here's my F/A-18D
Hasegawa 1/72 scale..not finish yet...
color not super accurate...just wanna build and keep for self collection

from this



to this


This post has been edited by '62jaguar: Aug 5 2014, 11:47 AM

impressive!

VMFA(AW)-224 Fighting Bengals

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 5 2014, 01:37 PM

my first hobby masters...







first impression: far simpler assembly than witty wings, but they don't make f/a-18e/f super hornets (or f-14 tomcats, for that matter). personally, i much prefer witty wings detailing, although the assembly for the f/a-18s can be a bit of a pain with the miniscule parts. i tend to agree with the gurus in terms of ranking... 1. century wings; 2. witty wings; 3. hobby master (they do seem relatively lighter too! ). thinking of getting a forces of valor model to see how it stacks up against the likes of cw, ww and hm...

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 6 2014, 10:40 AM