Steel Beach Accessories

1/48 F/A-18A/B/C/D Intake Covers

Product # SB106 

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Dec 6 2004 

 

 

 

Darren Roberts is a regular on ARC and is producing a range of resin items for the jet modeller.  This is another of his engine intake cover sets.  This particular set is designed for the 1/48 F/A-18A/B/C/D Intake Covers cover.  Darren also produces a variety of cover for intakes and exhausts for other jets. 

This FOD cover set is designed to be a direct replacement for the Hasegawa kit parts D9 and D10.  This is  a strapless cover and if you want your cover to have straps to hold it on....then you can replicate these straps with stretch sprue, fine wire or very thin thread.

There is one page of instructions that you can see to the right.  The casting quality is flawless.  This is a very welcome product product that is well done and nicely cast and should be very easy to install.  It is sure to be popular with the F-18 Hornet builders.

Steel Beach Accessories produces other FOD covers for intake and exhaust for the F-14, F-16 and F-18.

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I'd like to thanks Darren Roberts for the review sample.  You can buy this and other Steel Beach Accessories direct from Sprue Bros Models.  Price is $4.99 for this resin item at the time of this review.  The package includes 2 of these resin intake covers....enough for one model.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford