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NEW ITEM: 1/72 scale Edo upgrade set. This set provides standard Edo Beaching gear for Beavers, Otters, Kingfishers, Northrop N-3PB's and others. Larger aircraft like the Otter and N-3PB used four units; smaller aircraft like the Beaver and Kingfisher used two. Six deck cleats are also included; that's two for the "carpet monster" in most cases. |
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1/72 scale Wright J-6 Whirlwind, same as on the Khee-Kha Pacemaker kit, with Hamilton Standard ground-adjustable prop and 1 exhaust manifold of your choice (please specify single or double exhaust). Perfect for accurizing, conversions and scratchbuilding; many possible applications. |
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Fairchild P-6 floats for the Khee-Kha Fairchild 71 are now available. Each pair of cast resin floats comes with 6 mooring cleats and a 2-sided sheet of drawings providing 3 views of the float installation and 2 color schemes for Alaskan F.71's, with technical and historical notes. |
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suitable for the Khee-Kha Fairchild 71, Alaska Coastal Airways Vegas after 1944, or for converting the Special Hobby Lockheed Orion into Wiley Post's red and silver Orion/Explorer. Additional uses may occur to the dedicated scratchbuilder; these floats were specified for the Fokker Super Universal and Consolidated Fleetster. Comes with 4 mooring cleats & a double-sided 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of general arrangement drawings and color scheme profiles for 2 Alaskan Fairchild 71's and a Canadian FC-2W2 on J-5300's. |
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Edo K-4650 floats perfect for most Bellanca Pacemaker and Lockheed Vega floatplane replicas. Comes with 4 mooring cleats and a double-sided 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of general arrangement drawings for K-4650 installation on a Lockheed Vega, with color scheme information for 2 Lockheed Vega floatplanes and one Bellanca Pacemaker floatplane. Click here for a build review of the CH-400 on K-4650 floats, by Gabriel Stern. |
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Extra nose parts in the MPM Vega floatplane kit add the possibility of modelling some very interesting examples of the type: Alaska-Washington Airways Lockheed Vega NC103W "Juneau", circa 1930 |
...then
there's the Norwegian Vega, N-41/LN-ABD "Qarrtsiluni";
an Antarctic explorer: |
