For the moment this
is the only aftermarket set for this kit (maybe there are some more but I
am not aware of them, otherwise I would have get it). Price is good for the size
of the kit, only thing that is questionable is accuracy of certain parts,
but since I am not that sensible it looks mighty fine to me.
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Instructions are
very basic and without good reference pictures you will have a bit of a problem
fitting all those small thingies around the cockpit area. PE parts cover most of
the important things such as replacement doors with internal structure and also
middle internal structure section of plane. Buckles are something that you are
always happy to see and so on and so on.
Resin parts cover mostly cockpit
and behind cockpit area plus machine gun pipes, resin is nicely caste with no
bubbles and almost no flash, details are good but not perfect. Machine gun pipes
are slightly bended in my set and point of each gun miss little part of
resin (that will be hard to putty). Dash looks very good judging by many
reference pictures I have but on some pictures lower part of dash has one more
gauge, side panels are almost identical to the real thing and with good painting
you can make those surfaces look very good. Cockpit is very close to the
Trumpeter one but with some more details, only thing that I don't like is that
it is visible that only plastic rods were used to make some improvement and then
it is all caste in resin. This is not bad but when you know what is possible in
this scale you are not happy with half job. Rest of the parts cover water tank,
oxygen regulator, seat, radio (I was so happy to se it), new stick (much much
better then original), side cockpit walls etc.
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All in all I am very happy that I
have this set, it will improve cockpit of this kit from 5 to 9 on
scale to 10. PE parts look very nice as well as the casting of resin parts only
instruction manual is not very helpful. To bad Verlinden didn't include more
goodies for this large kit but of course in that case price would not be same.
Sasa
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