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Are you sure the nose intake is lemon shaped? This is a serious flaw of the kit. It is possible to get the right shape of the intake simply by sanding. Otherwise a nice done model!

You will never find a photo of a Swedish Coast Guard aircraft that dirty! The weathering is overdone, and that detracts from an otherwise splendid model. I always prefer a clean aircraft, fresh from the painting shop.

There might be an almost invisible frame. However, this frame should not be painted, as the photo clearly shows. The frames must be sanded away,since they are far out of scale thickness The special masks of the kit suggest that the frames are to be painted! This is flaw of the kit. The canopy of another Stelio Frati design, the Aeromere F 8L Falco, has a similar look, however, with painted frames. This fact could explain the fake frames of the canopy of the SF 260. If the frames are unpainted, there are no frames to be seen on a model in such a small scale. The painted frames belong to the F 8L Falco! However, the only problem of this nice little model is in fact to avoid tail sitting, since it is a born tail sitter.

Nice model! Unfortunately Monogram forgot to get the right dihedral of the wing.

All those black lines are barely visible on the real thing. Therefore, they should not be visible on a small model to a 1/72 scale.

I wonder why the two canopies have frames. The photo of the Belgian SF-260 shows clearly no frames!

Only too bad, that Tarangus forgot the dihedral of the wing!

Only a true master modeller can build a nice model from a hopeless kit! Congratulations with the very nice result of your efforts

Large and impressive model of the Dak! However, I wonder why Monogram forgot to make the correct dihedral of the wing?

A very realistic model of the Hustler. It is exactly, as I remember the aircraft looked like, when I visited Bunker Hill AFB and the 305th Bomb Wing in 1965. It was a very informative visit, and I watched a B-58 taking off with full afterburners - rather noisy! Before the bomber took off, three KC-135 tankers took off just to replenish a single B-58. I have realized that at least one of the KC-135 I watched back in 1965 is still in service with the USAF! The Hustlers only got a short service life. They were too expensive. For the running costs of one B-58, two and a half B-52s could be run.

The modelled aircraft is a TU-104. This version has three windows in the cabin roof in either side above the front of the engines. The TU-104 A has two windows placed a little higher than the others, also above the wing. The TU-104 B has three windows placed higher than the others above the wing. It is refreshing to see a model of the classic TU-104 and even to a 1/72 scale. Congratulations with the very nice model! All three TU-104 variants could be seen at Kastrup Airport in the sixties from the airlines Aeroflot and CSA. The twin engines of the Tupolev jet had a very distinctive sound, sufficient to identify the type of jet aircraft. For a long time these engines were the most powerful jets of any airliner. The size of the TU is comparable with the four engined De Havilland Comet 4 B.

Great model! However, Monogram forgot the right dihedral of the wing. The correct dihedral is important for the right look of a C-47.

A nice kit and an interesting model. However Tarangus forgot the dihedral of the wing, and that is too bad.

The Danish SAAB 17 is not a C version, it is an A. However, it is painted as a C aircraft from the Danish Brigade in Sweden, May 5 1945. The 15 aircraft of the Brigade never entered Danish skies, because the Danish government did not want this to happen. The very disappointed pilots, who had been training intensively to participate in the liberation of Denmark, had to go home by train! The museum plane was one of the last of the B 17 civil target tugs operated by AVIA at Visby, Gotland, and it was registered as SE-BWC. After being phased out, the overall yellow target tug was rebuild as the original B 17 A, and painted in the colors of the Danish Brigade, and later presented to the Royal Danish Aeroclub as a museum plane. At first, the aircraft was exhibited at Egeskov Castle for many years. Now it is hanging in the Danish Technical Museum at Elsinore. There are some obvious errors, compared to the B 17 C of the Danish Brigade: The engine should be a Piaggio with two intakes on top of the cowling. The propeller blades are broader, and the engine is left running. The propeller has no spinner, and the tips should be yellow. The shown tips, white with a red stripe, are the colors of Svensk Flygtjänst! There is certainly not a Pratt & Whitney emblem on the cowling. The frontring of the cowling is light blue gray on the underside. The national markings should be placed closer to the wing tips, about half a roundel. Another target tug B 17 SE-BYH was restored to flying condition in the beginning of this century, and flies as blue Johan of the F 7 Wing. I have seen this plane in the air in 2006 at Roskilde Airshow, and it was a pleasure to watch the Swedish Stuka being flown by a veteran pilot, who knew how to handle the aircraft as a dive bomber. I have modeled the B 17 C of the Danish Brigade and a B 17 A target tug, the SE-BYH, both from Marivox kits scale 1/72. The kit is very recommendable because of the many options, 5 versions of the aircraft and 12 decal options! Torben Plesberg, Denmark "Nymfen"

A pity that Tarangus forgot the dihedral of the wing. Otherwise a perfect model!