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Time to knock over this little beastie. I have wanted to add a French aircraft to my collection for a while (about due with 50 or so built), and Clive's P-40 was a bit of a knock-off. The AML kit is typical short run Czech stuff: beautiful surface detail, resin and photoetch. The P-36 has been released by Azur and Special Hobby, presumably there is an interrelationship beween these but my sprues look entirely different to those of the Special Hobby kit. This is what it looks like all spread out: Sprues, usual short-run, a little soft in the detail, big gates, very fine surface detail: The destructions depict here the aircraft I am aiming at, probably the first. The layout of the instructions is pretty good with aprts for each version clearly labelled. There is a general vagueness about exactly where parts go, however.: The decal sheet is generous. Two Armee de l'Air, two Finns and a German. One of the best reasons to build kits like this is the unfailingly superb decals and usual offering of many choices. This means you can dig out, say, an old Revell P-36, knock it together, and finish it nicely. Resin and PE are also good, two-piece Pratt and Whitney (in the 1990s you often had to tediously assemble radials from separate parts, then sand off the cylinder heads to make the engine fit into the cowling), cockpit floor, back wall and much detail in one piece. Lumps and bumps for the different versions. If you build the A-4 with the Wright single-row engine, you use the injection moulded part with rather thick pushrod tubes. Canopy on this kit (2002) is vac... can't have everything. You get two main canopies but only one attempt at the 'back windows'.
