1/48 RV Resin and Dragon Focke wulf Ta 152C

Gallery Article by Rafi Ben-Shahar on Sept 23 2010

 

I present two Ta 152C, the one made of resin by RV Resin and the other is made of plastic by Dragon. If you read these lines, then you may consider buying the recent Dragon offering. The good news is that the model is much easier to assemble since it is made of plastic and the price is more than reasonable. The bad news is that you need to know the aircraft well to avoid numerous omissions and errors in the design of the "clipped" Kurt Tank fighter that was derived from the excellent Ta 152H, also by Dragon. While no "fatal" errors were noted, you would need to fish a large number of parts from your 190s spares box including the spinner that I took from Eduard's 190D kit.

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If you read so far, you may had also built the older RV Resin kit and appreciate this type of aircraft. Sorry for not finding the pitot tube for the photography session. You may observe that although the RV Resin kit is much more detailed, the texture of plastic beats resin as far as metal skin aircraft are concerned. Here also, the vacuformed canopy freely "floats", which disturbs the authentic look that matches the well known photographs of this rare and advanced Wurger bird.

As a foot note, I was disappointed to see the upward pointing gunbarrels in the photographs. Yet, they were dead on position and it is probably the curvature effect of the wide angle lens that I used (28mm).

Rafi Ben-Shahar

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Photos and text © by Rafi Ben-Shahar