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That other thread has way to much craziness, too much stuff to weed through for someone just looking for info on the jet itself, so I thought I would start a new one. Mine arrived, with the new wing, and it's pretty impressive. The first thing I thought is that they really went all-out on the detail side of things. Three big sheets of transfers, many, many, many fiberglass detail parts, full gear doors, lots of panel lines and such, tailhook, it's really got a lot of stuff going on. I'd kind of like to actuate the speedbrakes and do full gear doors, but maybe I will just built it plain first. I was also thinking of scanning the sticker sheets and making decal sheets instead. The landing gear is superb, really nice. It's not particularly light, glasswork-wise, but not especially heavy, in my opinion. I felt like the stabs could be a little lighter. The stab mechanism seems great. Some nice touches, like the inside surfaces of the flaps are painted red. The paint job is matte, not gloss, not sure what the prototype is, but the matt finish definitely makes it looks less "arfy" than most.
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Hi Jim,
I received some T45's with the new wing - unfortunately DHL had decided had used their new economy delivery service of kicking them to your front door!
Jeff
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Hi All,
I am interested in one of this, but what engine size is this for? I have a spare Artes Falcon. Will it be too big an engine? Any other paint scheme besides the red/white training planes?
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Mike
The Falcon is too big for the JL T45, I would have a look at the Feiboa Hawks (Three colour schemes T45, Red Arrows or all Black) or wait for the new Skymasters Hawks. Falcon would be good in any of these.
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Mike
Both the Super Bee and Supersport would be perfect as these are the lightest turbines in their class.I understand that only the factory has flown with the new wings, shouldn't be long before some customers have their new wings and can file a report ,hopefully.
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Hi All,
I am interested in one of this, but what engine size is this for? I have a spare Artes Falcon. Will it be too big an engine? Any other paint scheme besides the red/white training planes?
Mike
I THINK the reason only one paint scheme is offered is because the full scale T-45 differs pretty substantially from the Hawk, and this is the only full scale paint scheme that there is for the T-45. I like the way they gave a whole ton of different serial numbers on the decal sheets.
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Skymasters are doing a cockpit for their new Hawks, it may be possible to modify it to fit a 1:6 Hawk. BTW the shots are of my SM Hawk cockpit at 1:5.5 scale, home made because there was no commercial cockpit at that time. But a1:6 would be no problem to make, I suspect you could even use the same instruments, at that size 1:6 or 1:5.5 probably doesn't look too different.
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