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I have always wanted the chance to build an injection-moulded Blackburn Beverley but all we had to choose from for many years were either a 1/72 vacuform or a 1/72 resin one. What I really wanted was one in a smaller scale, ideally 1/96, or 1/144. Here is why I wanted one So when eventually an injection-moulded one came along it was not by Airfix, or FROG, but by a Ukranian company, MikroMir. And here is the box it came in with a sort of sickly touched-up photo superimposed on a very fluffy sky ............. I am not keen on their box presentation but do not let that put you off as the contents are of excellent quality and detail. So thank you MikroMir for finally providing us with a superb kit of a very important Royal Air Force transport aircraft. Their boxing does remind me however of the 1970s Russian NOVO boxings of the FROG kits, I wonder if this is just a coincidence. So I arrived at Scale Model World back in 2017 with the intention of seeking out one of these recently appeared kits. And I found a small number remaining on S & M's stall so I was lucky to get one because they were soon sold out. I was at the show all weekend as our Club had a display table there and I was preoccupied so much that I did not bother to check the contents of the kit, until I got home. When I finally did open the box and start examining the contents I was shocked to find that a whole sprue of parts was missing .... this whole sprue was missing, a good proportion of the kit. So I sent an email to S & M and I also sent an email to MikroMir. I had a very polite reply from S & M and a sort of acknowledgement some time later from MikroMir. Guess what happened next ............ two envelopes arrived through the post from both of them containing the missing sprue, so bad luck had now become good luck as it gave me the extra parts I needed to really go to town on this model.
