Hoping this will be a relief after my Mosquito!
Looks good, nice crisp mouldings with fine recessed surface detail. Just a trace of flash on some parts, but rather a lot of ejection marks. Most are in places that won't be seen, which is just as well as they'd be impossible to sand. I'll put a drop of Me Dissolved Putty in the worst ones.
Dry fitting the fuselage halves together, they're almost a snap-fit - locating tabs on both halves so they interlock.
There are two schemes offered - one is a 1949 one based in Malaya, with a black underside, the other an RNZAF example based in Scotland in 1945. I'm going to build the RNZAF version so it can carry a torpedo, as we don't see many of those. I'm not sure about the additional armament though, as sources state that the wing machine guns were sometimes removed when a torpedo was carried, and some state the the machine guns were removed when rockets were carried. I'm tempted to forget about realism and add the rockets as well as the torpedo. The only evidence of wing guns in this kit are the inspection panels and the cartridge ejection ports, so I think I'm OK to use the rockets. They're too nicely moulded to leave them off!
More later
Pete
Looks good, nice crisp mouldings with fine recessed surface detail. Just a trace of flash on some parts, but rather a lot of ejection marks. Most are in places that won't be seen, which is just as well as they'd be impossible to sand. I'll put a drop of Me Dissolved Putty in the worst ones.
Dry fitting the fuselage halves together, they're almost a snap-fit - locating tabs on both halves so they interlock.
There are two schemes offered - one is a 1949 one based in Malaya, with a black underside, the other an RNZAF example based in Scotland in 1945. I'm going to build the RNZAF version so it can carry a torpedo, as we don't see many of those. I'm not sure about the additional armament though, as sources state that the wing machine guns were sometimes removed when a torpedo was carried, and some state the the machine guns were removed when rockets were carried. I'm tempted to forget about realism and add the rockets as well as the torpedo. The only evidence of wing guns in this kit are the inspection panels and the cartridge ejection ports, so I think I'm OK to use the rockets. They're too nicely moulded to leave them off!
More later
Pete
