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David Auer (dauer@lfpd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM) wrote:
: 2)  KIT:  AC130 Hercules Gunship (A or H?)
:     SCALE:  1/48
:     MFG:  Testors
: 
:     This kit was first released around 1986; I purchased its
:     sister kit, C130E/H Transport, for around $27.  Testors also
:     produced the gunship in 1/72 scale.  The 1/72 gunship seemed
:     to have been produced in far greater numbers than the 1/48
:     version.
: 
:     A dealer in California informed me that Testors was getting
:     ready to re-release this kit.  He was unsure of the variant
:     (either A or H).  Has anyone heard similar news?

I am currently  building the 1/48 scale AC130  Spectre  gunship.  I found it in
last year's Squadron catalog as a bagged (not boxed) kit with  instructions and
decals  for  about  $30 (it  may  still  be  available  there).  It is made  by
Testors/Italeri.  The kit is enormous and contains  hundreds of little  pieces.
This has therefore  required me to dry fit it together several times to get the
'big'  picture:  what a monster!  It is a well-fit model and I intend to finish
it within the next 6 weeks.  Hopefully.  I've been working on it on and off for
the last 6 MONTHS.

Chris Anderson (chrisa@hpfcqc.fc.hp.com)