1. Model Subject : Northrop P61 Black Widow
2. Scale: 1/33
3. Publisher and model number: Fly Model, #13
4. Designer: T. Grzelczak
5. Distributor: GPM, antiquariat
6. This is a preprinted product.
Body
As the source indicates, this is not a new model. I don't know why but I have a soft spot for models of years gone by. probably because I can link that to my youth.
Never the less, upon receipt of the kit, I was a bit astounded to receive a plastic bag containing 8 A3 sheets instead of the expected booklet. two and a half A3's contained drawings, work instructions and the cover sheet with overview diagrams on its back and the remainder containing the parts.
The parts are clearly printed with perhaps the inner cockpit parts being a bit too green and the colour fields not 100% aligned with the parts. I do not see those as serious issues, though.
The cockpit is well established but details like fire extinguisher and oxygen bottle are printed on and green as the cockpit itself. So not the most luxurious innards to build but for someone who never attempted a plane in cardboard of this scale before, that might be better anyway. :mrgreen:
Half an A3 contains the work instructions where the general comments take up as much space as the building instructions ut there are plenty of drawings so that may not be such an issue. It will, at least, save loads of time with translating the instructions which are, of course, solely in Polish.
I like the fact that they did not fill in the windows so glazing will have to be done with acetate sheets and that the kit does supply you with formers to shape the 'glass' with.
The layout of the parts with section letters should help with identifying what to do when. For the rest it will be simply following the numbers I guess.
All in all, it is big, black (matt), and just about right for me, with not too many fiddly bits, but the end result should be a very interesting model.
I have attached two pictures of the kit to give an overall impression of it. The top of the second picture shows also my current ship-project, the 1:400 JCS de Ruyter light cruiser.
Anyway, wish me luck when I tackle this black monster. If it doesn't go too badly, I might even drop in a few pictures of the build. :mrgreen:
2. Scale: 1/33
3. Publisher and model number: Fly Model, #13
4. Designer: T. Grzelczak
5. Distributor: GPM, antiquariat
6. This is a preprinted product.
Body
As the source indicates, this is not a new model. I don't know why but I have a soft spot for models of years gone by. probably because I can link that to my youth.
Never the less, upon receipt of the kit, I was a bit astounded to receive a plastic bag containing 8 A3 sheets instead of the expected booklet. two and a half A3's contained drawings, work instructions and the cover sheet with overview diagrams on its back and the remainder containing the parts.
The parts are clearly printed with perhaps the inner cockpit parts being a bit too green and the colour fields not 100% aligned with the parts. I do not see those as serious issues, though.
The cockpit is well established but details like fire extinguisher and oxygen bottle are printed on and green as the cockpit itself. So not the most luxurious innards to build but for someone who never attempted a plane in cardboard of this scale before, that might be better anyway. :mrgreen:
Half an A3 contains the work instructions where the general comments take up as much space as the building instructions ut there are plenty of drawings so that may not be such an issue. It will, at least, save loads of time with translating the instructions which are, of course, solely in Polish.
I like the fact that they did not fill in the windows so glazing will have to be done with acetate sheets and that the kit does supply you with formers to shape the 'glass' with.
The layout of the parts with section letters should help with identifying what to do when. For the rest it will be simply following the numbers I guess.
All in all, it is big, black (matt), and just about right for me, with not too many fiddly bits, but the end result should be a very interesting model.
I have attached two pictures of the kit to give an overall impression of it. The top of the second picture shows also my current ship-project, the 1:400 JCS de Ruyter light cruiser.
Anyway, wish me luck when I tackle this black monster. If it doesn't go too badly, I might even drop in a few pictures of the build. :mrgreen:
