Corey121281
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Really like the new Val. Think this is one of the better planes I have seen done by K&C. Also like the deck figures that go with it.
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Larry Allen
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I agree 110% with that.
I have mine sitting to join the other Zero's on a display the (someday :rolleyes2: ) I will finish.
Really a grat K&C offer as is all the new Pacific items .....
Keep em' coming Andy.
--- LaRRy
I have mine sitting to join the other Zero's on a display the (someday :rolleyes2: ) I will finish.
Really a grat K&C offer as is all the new Pacific items .....
Keep em' coming Andy.
--- LaRRy
villagehorse
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My carrier has a full deck and is now sailing toward Midway Island.^&grin, Robin.
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Watch out for those SBD's.:wink2: -- Al
Larry Allen
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Robin, I will put to sea and meet you north of the Hawaiian Islands in about a week .....{sm2}
--- Larry
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The summer was full of (non-toy solder
) projects. But now that winter is here I can devote my time to FUN!!Tom, I will try to get a few progress photos out this week or next.
--- LaRRy
villagehorse
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Top secret message to (LA) from the AKAGI. Imperative rendezvous no later than 6th December 150 miles North West Hawaii, for pending strike. Proceed at Battle Speed. Directive from Imperial General Headquarters and Operation Z planning.
^&grin,
R.
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Hi Guys,
Many thanks for the favourable comments on our AICHI "Val" Dive Bomber... much appreciated.
Hi Robin (Village Horse). Looking at what K&C have in store for 2017... You're going to need a bigger aircraft carrier!?! Or perhaps a second one
Best wishes and happy collecting,
Andy
Many thanks for the favourable comments on our AICHI "Val" Dive Bomber... much appreciated.
Hi Robin (Village Horse). Looking at what K&C have in store for 2017... You're going to need a bigger aircraft carrier!?! Or perhaps a second one
Best wishes and happy collecting,
Andy
Corey121281
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Andy:
Hoping you guys do a Kate in Pearl Harbor colors. A must have to go with the Zero and the Val. I hope you guys keep making some more of the not so often offered planes in large scale.
The Val was my first K&C plane after a long absence. I had bought some earlier WWII planes awhile back but was not too impressed with them. The Val and the Zero show lots of improvements in the casts and the detail. Bought the Val also because no one else makes a Val in such a large size and I am not the best at building models. Liked it so much I bought the Akagi Zero to go with it as they were both from the same carrier.
Would love to see an SBD in early war or midway colors. My great uncle was a mechanic for SBD's during World War II.
Corey
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Gents,
I was lucky to see some some these planes in real life in Japan. There is a hanger in Iwankuni Air Base that was left intact after the war with a Zero still in it. Man, it is like walking back in time. One foggy night I was walking to my billet and passed the hanger and in the mist I could have sworn I saw a crew there working on the bird. It was eerie.
Anyway, I am so happy that the team and K&C has began producing this series. I think it was long overdue and Corey...I too was loved to see a SBD. The SBD was the first model plane I ever made. It was awesome and disappeared in a move. Sigh.
When I was in traveling around Japan, every once in while you would be faced with a really old Japanese Man or Woman on a train. Either sitting next to you or standing and sometimes me and my buddies would just get stared at. A stare that was not evil or anything, or made a ugly face. Just a stare like...defeat, bad memories or reconciliation. I never knew how to take it, but even if you smiled and nodded back you got nothing but a emotionless stare. God knows what they were thinking or had been through, but this only happened to me from the very oldest of Japanese men and women.
John from Texas
I was lucky to see some some these planes in real life in Japan. There is a hanger in Iwankuni Air Base that was left intact after the war with a Zero still in it. Man, it is like walking back in time. One foggy night I was walking to my billet and passed the hanger and in the mist I could have sworn I saw a crew there working on the bird. It was eerie.
Anyway, I am so happy that the team and K&C has began producing this series. I think it was long overdue and Corey...I too was loved to see a SBD. The SBD was the first model plane I ever made. It was awesome and disappeared in a move. Sigh.
When I was in traveling around Japan, every once in while you would be faced with a really old Japanese Man or Woman on a train. Either sitting next to you or standing and sometimes me and my buddies would just get stared at. A stare that was not evil or anything, or made a ugly face. Just a stare like...defeat, bad memories or reconciliation. I never knew how to take it, but even if you smiled and nodded back you got nothing but a emotionless stare. God knows what they were thinking or had been through, but this only happened to me from the very oldest of Japanese men and women.
John from Texas
hotel3alpha
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Terp,
Like the ship or the one off? I am sure they were made at the HK workshop.
John from Texas
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That Val looks great. I hope KC also does a Japanese "Kate" torpedo plane. And that would seem like the next logical choice.