Avenger kit difference
I have been looking at the Airfix and Academy 1/72 Grumman Avenger kits and I am curious as to why there is 6mm difference in the length of the main undercarriage bay between these two kits ? Airfix has this as about 32mm while Academy is about 26mm . Both kits have main undercarriage legs of approximately 25mm and the wheel diametres are 12mm for the Airfix and 10mm for the Academy .
I add my pennies worth (based on various postings made here and elsewhere) - sorry for the picture distortions. If you click on them, they revert to original size.
FAA AVENGERS (TARPONS until January 1944)
Production details and Exterior/interior colours
Wheel wells, struts and covers were normally the underside colour. The wheel wells on camouflaged TBF/TBMs of the RN were usually either painted to match the undersides Sky or in a few cases bright yellowy-green Zinc Chromate.
