Verlinden

1/24 Fw-190D-9 detail set

Product # 2205 for Trumpeter kit

Product Article by Sasa Jelic on Dec 8 2005

 

 

 

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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Photos and text © by Sasa Jelic