Aires

1/48 F-5E Tiger II wheel bay

 product # 4490 for AFV Club kit

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Feb 4 2011

 

This latest release from Aires features a complete resin wheel bay set for the F-5E Tiger II from AFV Club. 

This is a straight forward set.  You get two main wheel bays and a nose gear bay.  The main wheel bays are loaded with delicate detail including rivets and hydraulic lines that will look excellent once installed.  The nose bay is quite narrow on the sleek little F-5, so it is hard to see in there, but there is ribbing, rivets and hydraulic lines as well.  You also get two main gear bay door actuating rods in resin with this set.  

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The quality of the resin casting is flawless and bubble free.  There's 4 pages of instructions that show you what to cut away the kit gear bays to make room for these resin wheel bays.  The kit has simplistic wheel bays that you remove (with a Dremel etc) and then glue these beautifully detailed gear bays into place.

These are a very nice set of wheel bays and they will look excellent once installed. 

You can purchase this and other fine resin detail items directly from Aires or from the many retailers that carry their products.  A list of some of those retailers can be found here.    

I would like to thank Aires for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford