Procopius
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It sometimes feels like every recent Airfix 1/72 new-tool kit is like HMS Hood: splendid to look at, but with a hidden flaw*:
Typhoon: too short, rear fuselage too slender
Hurricane: Incorrect canopy framing, erroneous fabric behind the guns
P-40: too tall canopy
P-51: Incorrect tailplanes
Bf109: Canopy framing again
Spitfire 22: Nothing comes to mind
Blenheim: Nacelles too portly, Bolingbrooke details
Harrier GR3: Too short tailfin
Wildcat/Martlet: Some sort of endemic shape problem
Fw190: Who cares, Fw190s suck.
Lightning F.6: A right bitch to put together.
I mean, obviously, their track record might be pretty good if you were to compare it to other manufacturers' clangers in the same timespan. But Airfix makes a large proportion of the kits I want to build, so I feel it more.
* I know the loss of the Hood was the result of a confluence of factors and had little to do with a design flaw per se, but bear with me here.
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Spitfire 22: the nose may be just a little slim in width
Wildcat/Martlet: the spine is too shallow - apparently the Smithsonian did Airfix no favors and sent the prototype dimensions - it's on BM somewhere.
Tell me more about the Bolingbrooke details on the Blenheim kit, an Alaskan based RCAF Bolingbrooke is on my list and this 'flaw' could work out well for Cookie.
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