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Gulfstream I -- AKA Grumman G-159

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Gulfstream I -- AKA Grumman G-159
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 18, 2003 12:06 PM
Are there any kits of this plane (I suspect not)? If there aren't, are there any reasonable kitbash possibilities? Any diecasts or replicas of any sort with at least halfway decent accuracy?

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Posted by Bones-coa on Monday, August 18, 2003 3:37 PM
I've been looking for Gulfstream aircraft for a long time. I did engineering work for Gulfstream for 4 years and still doing some now. I asked at the time why no one had made models for them and, the answer I was given, was that GAC would not give the specs out. Don't know how true that is, but that's what I was told. I do know that Collectaire will be releasing a C-20 (GIV-SP) next year, but that's all I know about. The GI is a beautiful aircraft and I too would love to have one.
Dana F On the bench: Tamiya DO335B-2 with LOTS of Aires stuff (On Hold) Trumpeter A-10 with LOTS and LOTS of aftermarket goodies! (On Hold) Tamiya 240ZG (In work)
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Posted by djmodels1999 on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:06 AM
My searches only came up with the Gulfstream IV, from Welsh Models...

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:31 AM
I did manage to find a ridiculously inaccurate, ridiculously expensive wood desktop model. -- but even if it were cheap, it wouldn't be good enough for my purposes. So ... again, any kitbash possibilities? This would be for a personal piece that I'd want to pass muster for the general public, not necessarily the more anal model-building crowd, if that helps any. Anything out there that even looks a lot like it? I don't know a whole lot about this area of aviation ...

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Posted by Bones-coa on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:26 PM
Well, the only thing I can say that may help, is that, besides the windscreen, the G1 shares the FWD frames and stringers of all the latter aircraft. That however, would not be enough to even scratch build one though.
Dana F On the bench: Tamiya DO335B-2 with LOTS of Aires stuff (On Hold) Trumpeter A-10 with LOTS and LOTS of aftermarket goodies! (On Hold) Tamiya 240ZG (In work)
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