ORIGINAL: Adil Nasim
ORIGINAL: EASYTIGER
Ugh. Here we are, just having a nice conversation about a toy airplane on the internet, which Al Gore invented, and there you go with your muckraking about Super Bandit spars, smashed Kingcats and Bobcats, all this CARP we have to weed through! Lissen, son...if these guys had bought a proper VioTrailer and the Violett Edition Cadillac Escalade(TM) to PROPERLY transport their aircraft, as stated on pp. 308-319 of the Kingcat manual, they would not have these problems. End of story! Someone started this thread to talk about the Skymaster F-4, I think they probably don't appreciate your off-topic spit-stirring comments!
Hey, does this thing have recesses on the fuse for four sparrows? What scale is it again?
As Usual ET, you are right
I have been recently subjected to a lot of "its a exact copy and a rip-off of our beloved manufacturer" yadda yadda and I "slipped".
It won't happen again. On to the topic at hand....
The fuse bottom does have the sclae recesses for the sparrows. I do hope that in near future, they will have available some external options as well as cockpit..
Adil
I did not know you were being hammered that way.
As far as copying goes...I'd bet that SM would start with somebody else's mold if they could, so would anybody else with half a brain, but all the internal layout and all that, the surface detail, it's all Skymaster's own, certainly enough so for them to say it's theirs. And if there is anybody concerned about the injustice of it all, my best guess is that the original mold started by Skymaster is now going to be produced by Tamjets, so I guess it all evens out. I assume the F-4 that someone mentioned was coming from Tamjets is the mold at Feibao that recently dissapeared from their website, and that tooling was started by Skymaster. Oh, well! One thing is consistent...you will hear all these people talk loudly about right and wrong, who copied who, but when push comes to shove...if a distributor sees a good deal, or the customer sees a good deal, all those high-minded principles go right out the window, and they will go for the deal. Time and time again. They may RATIONALIZE their behavior, and say it's okay because of this small detail or that stretch of the soul, but the fact is, business is business, and they will do it every time. So, I don't get too worked up over it!
I saw this morning on another manufacturer's site(I won't name them, lest someone say I was shilling for them) a new armament set at 1/8 scale, looked to me to be both Sparrows and Sidewinders, plus tanks and pylons, for an F-16, I have not seen them up close, but they looked good, never saw anybody who had sparrows before, and to me, they are a real part of the "look" of the Phantom, and the fuselage ones, well, you can add armament without a lot of drag and storage and transport problems like the wing mounted ones.