Eduard Model Accessories

1/48 SE.5a guns 

Product # 648299 for Eduard kit

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Apr 11 2018

 

      

This resin and photo etch set from Eduard is part of the Brassin series and is available directly from Eduard Model AccessoriesThis set includes two guns for the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a in 1/48 scale.

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was a British biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. It was one of the fastest aircraft of the war, while being both stable and relatively manoeuvrable and was referred to as the 'Spitfire of World War One'.  Together with the Camel, the S.E.5 was instrumental in regaining allied air superiority in mid-1917 and maintaining it for the rest of the war, ensuring there was no repetition of "Bloody April" 1917 when losses in the Royal Flying Corps were much heavier than in the Luftstreitkräfte. 

 

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This set for the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5. had 2 guns.  One was forward of the cockpit above the fuselage with a fixed mount permitting it to fire forward.  The second gun has a curved mount that goes from the top wing down to the cockpit area permitting the pilot to move the gun along a rail to fire forward of fire at planes above.

This resin set includes 2 guns:

  • 10 resin parts

  • 16 photo etch parts 

There are 4 pages of instruction in the usual line drawing format that Eduard is famous for and which are so easy to follow.  The instructions also include painting instructions.

You will be required to fold the photoetch in this set, but if you have one of the Hold & Fold photo etch benders from The Small Shop, then this will be an easy process.  They have a variety of benders for sharp corners as well as rounded corners and in many different sizes.

The guns in this set are very well detailed and broken down into quite a few resin parts with added photo etch parts to add further fine detailing.  The forward gun has a fixed mount firing forward.  The rear gun is also configured to fire forward, but with some modification to this set, it would be possible to have the rear gun firing at an upward angle.  A nice touch is the spare ammunition drum that is included in this set and will be mounted in a photo etch mount above the instrument panel.  The photo etch parts include crosshair type of gunsights.  This is a very well done set and a must have if you want to energize the level of detail in this area of your SE.5a.

You can buy this detail set and thousands of other items directly from Eduard Model Accessories.

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Steve Bamford

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