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Antony Theocharidis
There is already a 1/72, also from Arma models. There's also a Navalised version of it in 1/72.

Eric Silbaugh
Really? But it's impossible to find to ship to usa

Eric Silbaugh
Any links to a spot I could get it that will ship to the usa

Antony Theocharidis
Unfortunately Arma Models is russian so it might be very difficult to get them right now, especially since they already sold to very few re-sellers even in Europe before the current events. Maybe try ebay sellers?

Eric Silbaugh
Yeah ebay is the best bet

Sprue Legend
Try contacting i-modelist. I have been able to get kits through them. Got the Ka-52 preo order with all the 3Dprinted Am parts an an arma model Kinzhal off them. Shipping took about a month with Russian post.

Eric Silbaugh
I'll try that. Need this in 1/72 and a 1/48 mi28

gorby
WOW, amazing! Excellent work on the rigging.

David Taylor
Brill.

Anatolii Smyshliaiev
The rigging is amazing! Big and painstaking work.

Friedrich
Great work! Can we have some more pictures?

Michael Kohl
Incredible. Fantastic rigging indeed.

Mr D
Nicely done, very unusual scheme, the engine details are nice, looks like a great little kit for the money...lve just started a flying boat, the Beriev be-6
Built it as a boy n re-visiting for nostalgia.
Well done..👍👍

Oleg Smilyk
Outstanding work. Love it!👍👍👍

David Taylor
Oh my.

Alexander Perov
I wanted to pass by, but you're just a miracle, it's not my thing, but hats off, it's genius.

Łukasz Gliński
Magnificent, like an airborne sailing ship 👍

Ben M
What a beautiful build and paint scheme!

Ethan Flory
Incredible job!!

J35J
Excellent work!

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful!

Ctirad B
Many thanks for all comments! 🙂

Zbynek Honzik
Beautiful monster!!! 👏👏👏

Friedrich
Just stunning!

Ben M
🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

Thomas Kolb
OMG, all that wiring, however did you make it without losing track? But a very beautiful model it turned out to be, I am super impressed!

Neuling
Just wow! 👍👍👍

Ctirad B
The wiring was really quite challenging. I used the instructions for the model from Wingnut wings in 1:32 scale as a good wiring diagram. It took me about about a month to stretch all the wires.There were moments when I did not believe that I would finish it. 😉

Ben M
Okay. I thought this was 1:32 when I saw it. Now that I realize it's 1:72 I'm even more amazed.

Guy Rump
Superb modelling. 👍

Finn
An absolute gem, awesome!

Landlubber Mike
Just came across this - amazing work! Did you use the AIMS decals for the white swirls?

Mr James
Amazing amount of detail for 1.72. Beautiful build

Ctirad B
To Mike: I couldn't find decals from AIMS here, so I decided to make an airbrush mask. I used the decal image as a base and redrew the whole thing in Corel. Then I cut them out of paper and tested how they fit on the fuselage. After many adjustments, I had the mask cut out on the plotter. It took a lot of time, but I think the result is not bad. (this mask is now available from MH models)

Villiers de Vos
Beautiful work.

Landlubber Mike
Wow, that's even more impressive then! I did see the MH Models masks. I have the AIMS decals, but I like the idea of masking the plane instead - plus, I read somewhere that some of the decals aren't the correct shape so hopefully MH got it right.

Ctirad B
The mask from MH models should be the same one I created and used on my model. I gave them my data for cutting.

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful indeed!

Bruce Huxtable
Wow! Stunning! Superb work, so many details to enjoy....even the transport cradle.

Peter Wu
Great master piece.

Landlubber Mike
Good to know, thank you Ctirad!

Thomas Wirsching
what a beautiful beast!

gorby
WOW! I missed this beauty.

Ctirad B
Thanks a lot for all the comments. I am very pleased 🙂

Michael Kohl
Amazing result - particularly for that scale. Wow.

Marius
Top job for an unusual subject! Very nicely done!
How was the kit? any issues along?

Mid Franconian
Hi Marius! Thank you!
The kit is nice. Reminded me of an early nineties Italeri kit if I can say so. Engravings are a little bit shallow, more a short run kit but at any case buildable. Nice cockpit with 2 types of seats made of resin provided (at the end of their time in the Luftwaffe a Martin Baker seat was used). Fit was good, just a gap between fuselage and wings required some attention. The camera windows required some putty and sanding to make them blending into the fuselage. I tried to recover the glass shine by applying some AK Gauzy inside and outside. But some humidity from cleaning the model before painting came inside the fuselage, reacted with the Gauzy and the transparency was gone - my fault. So I painted them black in the end. Nice decals. In the end a very enjoyable build and the best way for a 72 scale RF-84 I think.

Marius
Thank you for the detailed answer!

I was thinking in the past of buying this resin kit, which had many positive reviews:
Republic RF-84F Thunderflash (PJ Production 721023, 1:72)
but for almost 40€ I thought it's a bit too pricy and I was looking for a classic injection kit. I might taken the Sword kit in consideration mabye.

Neuling
Very appealing result, beautiful colors!

Mid Franconian
Thanks Neuling!

Mirko Römer
A rare sight, but a great one!

Mid Franconian
Thank you Mirko! You are right, the RF-84 is not seen as a finished model very frequenttly. Even if you consider the widespread use of this recce plane. Lots of of nice schemes to choose from like Belgian, Greek, Dutch, U.S. of course...

Neil
Just fabulous! 👏👏

Oleg Bogolei
Nice result! i am on a finaal steps of the same model and my thoughts of this model are nor so good) how did ypu do yellow line around the cocpit?

Mid Franconian
Thank you Neil!
@ Oleg: I used small strips of beige colored decal. Available here: tl-modellbau.de/Streifen-schmal_1
I have cut them smaller by using a fresh scalpel blade.
Would be good to have a source for pink strips which could be used for Russian planes´ cockpit sealings.

Skyhiker
While looking at your photos I was also asking myself how you make the canopies so perfectly. The beige decal strips are a great solution. Beautiful results.

gorby
Lovely result!

Neuling
Yes!

Mid Franconian
Thanks guys for bringing the RF-84 up again 😀 Glad you like it!
Regarding the decal strips: sometimes I have my moments and things work well 😄 as planned! Took a long time to find such kind of colored decal. Dirty pink stripes would be good as well for Russian planes…

Ekki
Excellent!

Michael Kohl
Immer wieder interessant, was bei uns so alles rumgefligen ist. Schöne Maschine.

gorby
No doubt this will be an interesting build. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat on this talent-show!

Zsolt Czegle
Welcome ont the aboard mates!

Villiers de Vos
Nice progress.

Bohrmann
👀 On board

Michael Kohl
Me too.