C.A. Martin Baltimore recieved!

[Rodrigo]

Hello, I have recieved this morning my nice Classic Airframes Martin Baltimore in RAF service. Altough it is out of stock at the moment I was able to found it in a new for me shop called Omnimodels www.omnimodels.com

I am very pleased with their service, the kit was the cheapest I saw, the States-Tenerife shipping cost very reasonable and very fast!!!

I think that they still have it in stock.

Once the box opened I was greatly impressed, a lot of nice resins details, clean plastic parts and fairly done panel lines.

I compared the kit against two scale plans: the AJ press ones and the ones that came with Sanger kit.

The first are very beautiful and technical plans with the whole riveting plan but the kit doesnt fit against it...............................oh bad news I tought because there are a lot of "inaccuracies" BUT I was VERY and gladly surprised when I compared the kit against the Sanger scale plans.........It fits almost perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can´t say which scale plans are more accurate but I have detected a very bad shape on the engine nacelles in the AJ press scale plans....it is pretty easy detectable looking a picture of the plane from above. I enclose some pics:

regards

[KLP Publishing]

I have the AJ Press Modelmania book on the Zero, I don't trust the scale plans in that one at all. I wouldn't want to tar them all with the same brush, but I'd be happy enough that the kit matches the Sanger plans.

Kev

[keith in the uk]

Kev. Nice choice of kit , i have it on my to do pile as well. Plans can somtimes be a bit misleading but from what i can make out it looks pretty good to me.

Also check out this months Model Aircraft Monthly, 22 pages devoted to building the Classic Airframes kit as well as 1 72nd kits as well :

[Test Graham]

I would agree that plans should always be treated with great caution, especially those which come in kits, but in favour of AJ Press I will say that their Hurricane plans correctly show features that are missing from other ones I've seen. Of courss, there is no guarantee that reads across to the Baltimore. Thankfully the AJ Press book does include many decent-quality photos. Photographs can be equally misleading, but sadly there are no Baltimores to go and check.