Paraphrased from the Anigrand
Craftswork website:
"In 1943,
Arado began a work on the Ar E.555 Amerika-bomber project. This flying wing
configuration was thought to be the best design to meet the requirements of high
speed, heavy load-lifting and long-range aviation. Due to the design acceptance
by the Reichsluftfahrt Ministerium (State Ministry for Aviation) in early 1944,
the Arado design team scaled down the same configuration to design a smaller
size fighter version, the Ar E.581-4. It was a single-seat fighter powered by
the single HeS011 turbojet engine. The delta wing with the twin fins were based
on the same design as the Ar E.555 bomber. In the fall of 1944, the Reich
had been depleted of design resources and concentrated their facilities on the
production of existing fighters. Arado was ordered to stop all the new
projects, which included the Ar E.581-4 fighter."
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This is my first experience with
Anigrand. If you like their subject matter (mostly X-planes and
lesser-featured aircraft), I would highly recommended them. The detail is
good for a kit of this size (fits in the palm of my hand), and finishing it was
about as simple and fun as model building gets.
The whole build was a breeze,
using cyanoacrylate glue for assembly and gap filling. It's an all-resin
model (except for the canopy), but all the parts are sturdy and well cast with
very little flash. Paint was MM Dark Green, Flat White, Flat Gull Gray and
a mixture of various metallics and flat black for the details. The kit
decals were nice and laid down without a problem. I finished it off with a
sludge wash for the panel lines and pastels for the exhaust.
Total build time was a blistering
(for me) 3 days, which in the end yielded a pretty decent first foray into resin
kits.
Sean
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