[Waltz41]

Originally Posted by ZS-VAN

The Spangdahlem A-10 does look good indeed.

This looks like an older squadron version from the 90s, it's definitley not current. My only problem...Corgi has a Spandahlem A-10 due out as well, but at least it is a different scheme, the current one. At the very least, if they keep it they way they have it in the drawing, it should be very easy for me to due some custom jobs on, getting some of the modern day squadrons represented.

[hawkonevoodoo]

December 17 2007 I added a couple of pictures for the Premium Series 1/32 SBD engine HA0200.

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by PH-LKK

Hey Hawk, really appreciate the work you are doing on the site! One quick question, and tell me if this isn't the right place to ask it: HA1106 is listed as a F6F-5K drone controller on your future releases list (with a note that it's been delayed until "later this year"), but the same model number is listed by quite a few retailers as being the No.800 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm) Hellcat Mk.I that was originally intended to be released by Corgi as PR99414. Could you clarify the situation with this model or models?

Sorry for the delay getting an answer for you. This model has been delayed, not cancelled but it isn't planned for 2008, probably early 2009. Don't know why but this is what I was told. I guess it fits very low on their To Do List.

[Shawn 507]

I don't know that I can bring myself to get the multi-colored drone control Hellcat. Were the blaze orange ones drones or drone contril a/c as well? I could do the blaze orange one without wing tanks.

[PH-LKK]

Originally Posted by hawkonevoodoo

Sorry for the delay getting an answer for you. This model has been delayed, not cancelled but it isn't planned for 2008, probably early 2009. Don't know why but this is what I was told. I guess it fits very low on their To Do List.

Thanks Hawk! Sorry to pester, but could you clarify what's up with the model number? Are we talking about a single model or two? If it's one, which one is it: No.800 Squadron or Drone Controller?

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by PH-LKK

Thanks Hawk! Sorry to pester, but could you clarify what's up with the model number? Are we talking about a single model or two? If it's one, which one is it: No.800 Squadron or Drone Controller?

The 800 Squadron was/is a Predator that at one time HM was thinking about releasing but C---i ended up responsible for its release. The HA1106 referred to is the US drone K version.
I think some retailers have never changed their sites so they may still have HA1106 listed as 800 Squadron but that is incorrect. Updating web sites seems to be taken very lightly by the occasional retailer. I hate it when I contact a shop going to buy a model and they say they are sold out and just haven't had time to update the web site. This is fine and understandable but when I go back to the same site a month later and they still have the model listed as available and I check again and they are still out of stock it really leaves me a bit ticked off. Some just don't seem to realize the power of the internet and the necessity to keep it as current as possible.

PS. you aren't pestering me, ask any time.

[Celtic]

Originally Posted by Shawn 507

I don't know that I can bring myself to get the multi-colored drone control Hellcat. Were the blaze orange ones drones or drone contril a/c as well? I could do the blaze orange one without wing tanks.

In 1956 when I was in Okinawa, there was a blue F6F and an orange F6F drone assigned to NAS Naha. The control plane in that case was blue. Whether that was true in all cases, I don't know. However, my brother and I had the privilege of watching both planes flying through the valleys in southern Okinawa while we sat above the planes on a hill behind our home. I believe the drone led, and it may have been piloted, as both planes were fairly close to the ground and were hotdogging somewhat. These were probably two of the last F6F in service at the time. The blue version was also used to "attack" facilities on the island during exercises (I was in high school at the time), and one time I got to see the plane dive on the ships in the port of Naha (the dive angle was greater than 45 degrees), but the pull out was behind the school buildings, and to this day I can hardly believe the pilot was able to pull out without hitting something! I loved going down to the flightline and seeing both planes tied down on the ramp next to the P2Vs and ADs (the Neptunes were all blue -- actually a kind of greenish blue -- and I think the ADs were blue also. During the typhoon season the first year we were on Okinawa, a freakish tornado-like storm hit Naha and pushed one of the ADs into one of the P2Vs, collapsing the P2V gear and crushing the AD. Wish I had pictures of the real thing, but the color of the HM Hellcat below is pretty close...

[Celtic]

Originally Posted by hawkonevoodoo

Updating web sites seems to be taken very lightly by the occasional retailer. I hate it when I contact a shop going to buy a model and they say they are sold out and just haven't had time to update the web site. This is fine and understandable but when I go back to the same site a month later and they still have the model listed as available and I check again and they are still out of stock it really leaves me a bit ticked off. Some just don't seem to realize the power of the internet and the necessity to keep it as current as possible.

Right on! This is one reason I gave up shopping the "little guys". It just wasn't worth the hassle. (I once found a valuable older model on the net, and when I ordered it -- salivating all the time -- I got a message back from the vendor that the box was in bad shape and he didn't feel right selling it; yea, sure... )

[hawkonevoodoo]

Check my site for news Dec.18 2007. Releases for February are up.
Hobby Master News page please click on the HOME button one time during your visit just so my visitor counter gets some use and keeps track of how many visitors a get. Thanks. Companies love stats/numbers.

[flyXwire]

Hawk, the links to pictures on your site seems 'dead'? Anyway, I'm looking forward to these two new schemes.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XIV (RM656)
Flying Officer Jean-Marie Maridor
N°91 Squadron
West Malling (GB), August 3rd, 1944



Bf 110G-4 - Maj. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Gruppenkommandeur IV./ NJG 1 - St. Trond, 1944