April 1, 2021 through 12/31/2021 - Anything from the Vietnam Era, aircraft, helos, trucks, boats, tanks, artillery, figures, dioramas....if it walks, crawls, rolls, rattles, flies, hovers or goes "boom", it is in. Any scale.
Time to jump into this build! I got about as far as I can on her this weekend. Saturday night I realized that I didn't have any Tamiya Dark Sea Grey, the LHS is closed Sunday and Monday so I will be going Tuesday (hopefully if I wake up in time) Here is the cockpit so far, It really builds up nice and solid.
So far my only gripe with this kit is no belts, not molded onto the seat, no decals, no PE. As much effort that ZM put into this kit I don't understand why they just completely bailed on seatbelts. Honestly if they was decals I wouldn't have used them but at least they would of had a option for people to use. I ordered some HGW cloth belts for this, I couldn't find any of the USAF version in the US only the Navy so I ordered from the manufacturer all the way in the Czech Republic. Should be here in about three weeks.
What's in the box
Thanks for looking in!
March as one, Don't look back
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
Thanks for following along. Hopefully I can build her up nice with the honor of first ZM Phantom on here!
March as one, Don't look back
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
Looks like ZM did the proper detailing in the cockpit. This should be good!
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
Looks excellent already! Way to go! I'll be following also.
Perhaps ZM didn't include seatbelts is because they knew about the large number of after market seatbelt choices and that almost all modelers that buy aircraft models invariably buy aftermarket seatbelts anyway. Given that, they probably figured "why bother?"
Makes sense to me....
The Duke
Virtuoso of Miniatures
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Glad to have you following Duke! Not sure what they was thinking but If this is the only issue with the kit I will let it slide lol
Mike got any good photos of the exposed wiring on the back of the copilots IP?
March as one, Don't look back
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
