Mycroft Holmes
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No. It's scratch built. I have seen the EAD up close and personal and you can see it's scratch built. I looked at all sorts of aircraft wings as well:cool
Mark
Mark
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belleauwood
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The EA Destroyer's wings are actually the THUNDERFIGHTERS wings. The main "intakes" on the hull are from the F-15, two were used.
The only scratch part on the EAD is the "bridge" hammerhead that was a vac formed piece.
All courtesy my Ken Larson, who I've had a few good conversations about working on Buck and the tail of BSG. Most of the is on his site, http://www.universalhartland.com/
And no, he doesn't have any more pics to share right now . . . I've asked!
Ryan
The only scratch part on the EAD is the "bridge" hammerhead that was a vac formed piece.
All courtesy my Ken Larson, who I've had a few good conversations about working on Buck and the tail of BSG. Most of the is on his site, http://www.universalhartland.com/
And no, he doesn't have any more pics to share right now . . . I've asked!
Ryan
Run Runner
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This is one for the military historians or model builders. Does anyone else think this decal looks like a shark over a boat/torpedo?
I've looked through over 900 U-Boat insignias and none match. This is an example from a U-Boat showing a fish with a curved tail. Maybe it's a logo from some submarine hunting squadron??
I think I may have found the mystery marking. It looks a lot like a marking for a WWII German Armor Unit. Check out this set of Microscale Decals.
What do you think?
Mycroft Holmes
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Sorry Ryan, the head of the EAD is not a vac form part. It's from the 1/25 M23. It's an indy car but not Tamiya's. This kit also has parts for the Base Star. The vac formed ones he is referring to are the ones made for the spin off that was planned for the Terra and EA cast.
The wings are from the TF yes but they were scratch built. Not kit bashed.
And it takes 1 Fujim F-15 and 3 Revell F-15's to make the main body. And the Fujimi and Revell necks are used for the extended neck and the Airfix/MPC hawk kit is the engine portion of the head section. I can back this all up with picts.
Kenny's memory is going bad it would seem.
Mark
The wings are from the TF yes but they were scratch built. Not kit bashed.
And it takes 1 Fujim F-15 and 3 Revell F-15's to make the main body. And the Fujimi and Revell necks are used for the extended neck and the Airfix/MPC hawk kit is the engine portion of the head section. I can back this all up with picts.
Kenny's memory is going bad it would seem.
Mark
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belleauwood
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Mark,
Thanks for the info! I've been working on trying to get one of these up and running as yet another side project since we started the SS Thunder. Would love to see your pics, but I don't want to hijack this thread anymore than its already been, any chance you'd want to start it off with a bang and post those?
Would be a nice collaboration build . . .
Ryan
Mycroft Holmes
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Ryan, Steve and I talked about this already. Drop me a PM.
Now back to Buck Rogers
Now back to Buck Rogers
RKW
Sr Member
I think I may have found the mystery marking. It looks a lot like a marking for a WWII German Armor Unit. Check out this set of Microscale Decals.
What do you think?
The one in the middle of the sheet just to the left of the circle decals has to be the best candidate I've seen so far. Very promising indeed :thumbsup
Do we know what the purpose of that marking on the vehicle means?
Run Runner
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RKW,
I think the markings are German Armor Division markings.
The first ones I found were on a pic of a decal sheet on the side of the box for a 1/35 Flak kit by Dragon. I decided to check after market decals made by Microscale. I went to their website and the first one I pulled up had the markings on it in 1/72 and 1/48 scales. The decal sheet is $6, but is currently out of stock. I suspect the decals they used on the Thunder Fighter came out of one of the kits used for parts.
http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...e=13-1&Category_Code=MILITARY&Product_Count=0
I think the markings are German Armor Division markings.
The first ones I found were on a pic of a decal sheet on the side of the box for a 1/35 Flak kit by Dragon. I decided to check after market decals made by Microscale. I went to their website and the first one I pulled up had the markings on it in 1/72 and 1/48 scales. The decal sheet is $6, but is currently out of stock. I suspect the decals they used on the Thunder Fighter came out of one of the kits used for parts.
http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...e=13-1&Category_Code=MILITARY&Product_Count=0
Krachenvogel
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Those are indeed divisional markings, identifying the what unit the vehicle belongs to. They were used early in the war, and LOTS of the Tamiya German armor kits include some of them. Typically, they were white or yellow (to show up against the dark grey base color used before 1943), but the marking on the Thunderfighter looks black.
Run Runner
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I just got an e-mail back from Microscale Decals. They are currently redrawing decal set 13-1 to computer artwork and it will be out of stock for at least 90 days.
