Kitty Hawk

[NARSES2]

Here's my 1/72 one

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Very simple kit, nice build, but £60......No 

[Wardukw]

Here's my 1/72 one

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Very simple kit, nice build, but £60......No 

I definitely want one but the math says..maybe not so much 😕
$135 nz and that's at that price ..that's not before it gets here 

[PR19_Kit]

There's always lots of interest in the Pancake, I'm surprised they don't just re-pop it, it's quite a simple kit, and not that bad to build either.

[Old Wombat]

Largely because Kitty Hawk has "gone out of business", folded into some other Chinese model manufacturer I believe, but they don't seem to be rushing to re-pop any of KH's kits.

See the following post from this thread:

i bumped this topic to bring you some bad news

i few hours ago, Kitty Hawk posted a message on facebook, allong with Panda Models, that they are closing down.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4163654523686802&id=736521713066784

no details are known about the reason, but i did hear the company has been in financial problems for a while now.

This may, possibly, be because they were on the rather chunky side, using more styrene than necessary for what they were (not always a bad thing for we whiffers), & the fit was often not spectacular.

Looking at the Jag GR.1/GR.3 & the Jas-39A/C in the Model Room chapter of the Wombat Stash, they are both made with considerably thinner styrene than I remember the F9F-8 Cougar, that I built some time ago, being, but are still a touch thicker than a couple of my (close at hand) Special Hobby kits.

[kerick]

Thicker plastic means more leeway for sanding down kit bash joints!

[Spey_Phantom]

i remember the Panda 1/144 B-1 Lancer being quite chunky and thick, the wings were warped and detail and panellines were in most cases absent.

[Wardukw]

i remember the Panda 1/144 B-1 Lancer being quite chunky and thick, the wings were warped and detail and panellines were in most cases absent.

It's one of the reasons I'm going to hack up my F-35B...even test fitting it dry the result was not very pleasant 😒
Perfect for me to Viggenise it 

[DogfighterZen]

KittyHawk kits were are (supposedly) going to be reboxed by Zimi models but no new boxings have been announced so far.
I've bought a few of the KH kits that i actually thought i'd never seen selling on stores since they closed but i recently bought the JAS-39C and UH-1Y on one of several EU shops that have had them in stock in the past months but, availability seems to be uncertain and not all of their kits have been available.

[jcf]

i remember the Panda 1/144 B-1 Lancer being quite chunky and thick, the wings were warped and detail and panellines were in most cases absent.

It's one of the reasons I'm going to hack up my F-35B...even test fitting it dry the result was not very pleasant 😒
Perfect for me to Viggenise it 

"Viggenize" it into something that looks like the Lockheed canard delta that eventually led to the F-35?

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[Wardukw]

i remember the Panda 1/144 B-1 Lancer being quite chunky and thick, the wings were warped and detail and panellines were in most cases absent.

It's one of the reasons I'm going to hack up my F-35B...even test fitting it dry the result was not very pleasant 😒
Perfect for me to Viggenise it 

"Viggenize" it into something that looks like the Lockheed canard delta that eventually led to the F-35?

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Hahaha 😀 😆....i didn't even know 😅
So I'm back dating it forward with my aay of thinkin 🤔
One thing I will do Jon mate is move the wings back further down ..pit abit more space between the canards  and the wings