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Article by Andy Bannister |
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Designed by a madman and flown by raving lunatics, I think
that pretty much sums up
"the flying coffin".
These Toko/Roden kits
are the greatest thing since Revell's line up of 1/72 WW1 kits from the sixties.
The only problem I had with this was the struts, not surprisingly. The kit ones
didn't fit at all so I replaced them with Contrail
(now available from Aeroclub) extruded
strut stock. There are no locating holes in the wings for the struts so I just
scraped away a tiny bit of paint and glued the struts right to the wing surface.
Worked fine but some sort of jig is a necessity.
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The prop is carved from two pieces of 1/16” plywood
laminated together with a photo etched prop boss, there's a bit of extra detail
in the cockpit and the tail struts are from heat stretched Contrail
strut stock. The under- carriage rigging, rudder control cables and aileron
actuating rods are stretched sprue. Radiator hoses are brass rod.
Otherwise it's pretty much straight out of the box.