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Ye Olde Revell Vought Cutlass

Started by kitbasher, September 04, 2020, 01:36:28 AM

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kitbasher

September 04, 2020, 01:36:28 AM
Pondering a possible whif using - honest - the so old the instructions are in Latin Revell Cutlass.

IIRC it scales out at 1/60 (or similar), so would that make the jet effluxes about the same size as a 1/72 Javelin's (any mark but mainly m the Mk 7 onwards)?
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PR19_Kit

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September 04, 2020, 04:51:36 AM
Is that the early version with the straight nose or the later. drooped version? I can't even remember it!  :o
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zenrat

#2
September 04, 2020, 05:16:28 AM
If the instructions are in Latin it's the later version.  The earlier one had them in Cuneform...
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Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

kitbasher

#3
September 04, 2020, 05:22:44 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 04, 2020, 04:51:36 AM
Is that the early version with the straight nose or the later. drooped version? I can't even remember it!  :o

Ye olde classic fit the box scale model at https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-00019-f7u-3-cutlass--102123, Kit.

Fujimi produced 2 kits but I think Revell only ever produced the one kit.
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PR19_Kit

#4
September 04, 2020, 08:27:07 AM
Oh yes, I'd forgotten that one.

I've got one of the Fujimi ones..........................somewhere..............  :-\
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Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

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Regards
Kit

The Wooksta!

#5
September 04, 2020, 09:26:36 AM
The Fujimi one is a beauty.  I've got one somewhere....
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#6
September 04, 2020, 11:51:11 AM
Fujimi did three versions of the basic kit. The F7U-3, the F7U-3M with lovely early Sparrow missiles, and the F7U-3P with the camera nose.
I have the first two of those in the stash.
The early version with the straight nose was by, if memory serves me well, by Linbderg/Aurora and was very close to 1/72 scale.
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kitbasher

#7
September 04, 2020, 12:50:05 PM
Didn't realise Fujimi did 3 kits, Jim.
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PR19_Kit

#8
September 04, 2020, 01:18:39 PM
The -3P is singularly ugly to my mind, but the others look terrific.

Did the Lindberg/Aurora one have an engine hidden behind a removable hatch, or did I imagine that?
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

JayBee

#9
September 04, 2020, 01:31:10 PM
The Linberg/Aurora one that I had did not have an engine hidden anywhere as far as I can remember, but the years can tell.
I never did get it built but sold it on in the end. I got it during my Aerobatic teams theme era.
I have seen one of them built, I think by TSRJoe and it had the correct position for the arrestor hook for the early version. ON TOP of the fuselage!
When in use it swung down between the jet pipes. !!!
Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

PR19_Kit

#10
September 04, 2020, 03:43:13 PM
That's similar to the Flapjacks hook, which did the same thing.  :o

There must have been something in the water at Vought around that time.............   :-\
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

#11
September 05, 2020, 05:51:02 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 04, 2020, 09:26:36 AM
The Fujimi one is a beauty.

Yup, like a lot (if not most) of Fujimi's output.

I must get around to building mine at some stage
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jcf

#12
September 24, 2020, 10:41:20 AM
The Lindbergh and Aurora Cutlasses are not the same kit:

Lindbergh F7U-1, 1/48th, first release 1952.


Aurora F7U-3, 1/70th, first release 1959.
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