Aaaaaagh!!! My eyes......
I'm blind!!! Something tells me I should build my stash
of 1/144th scale kits in the next couple of years as it
really is getting to the point where I'm finding these
things just too damn small to see. Don't ya love getting
older?! NOT!
Nothing special about this
build, it was straight out of the box except I replaced
the antenna on the spine and added the tiny IFF antenna
on the nose from .005" plastic. I broke the pitot
getting it off the sprue so I turned a new one from brass
rod in my Dremel. The instructions show the nosewheel
door to be a different colour but don't tell you what
it is. As there is a tiny yellow chequerboard marking
above the 'N' I made an educated guess (asked the studio
audience & phoned a friend) and did the door in the
squadron colour of blue. Looks pretty anyway....
My only real complaint
is that the panel lines are just too big for the scale
and give it a bit of a "Matchbox" look, but
I guess if it really bothered me all that much I would
have filled them in. That smacks of effort though.
This is a terrific little
- and I do mean little - kit from Revell. The wheels
in particular are beautifully moulded and complete down
to the hole for the valve!
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