Eduard B-24 Wheel (632145 & 632149 for Hobby Boss) 1:32

[Mike]

B-24 Wheel (632145 & 632149 for Hobby Boss)

1:32 Eduard Brassin

 

 

Hobby Boss’s big-scale B-24 is a massive kit, and with massive kits come massive wheels with massive seams round them.  Not any more!  Eduard have created two sets of replacement resin wheels for the Big Liberator, substituting those annoying seams for a small contact patch pour stub and some exceptional detail.  There are two sets as mentioned, one in a thin Brassin cardboard box, the other in a fat one for no reason that I can divine, but not to worry – it’s all recyclable and a lot better for the environment than the old clamshell boxes, and easier to stack too.

 

 

B-24 Wheels – 8-spoke Front Wheel (632145)

This set contains three wheels and a separate hub with eight spokes to it as you’d expect.  There is also a mudguard for the nose wheel with a ribbed framework and a small flat-spot where it fits to the nose leg, and a full set of masks (not pictured) for painting the hubs with a perfect demarcation.  The main wheels are handed monolithic parts with moulded-in hubs, while the nose wheel has a separate cap, which you will need to remove the flash from the interstices between the spokes before you glue things together.

 

 

 

 

 

B-24 Wheels – 9-spoke Front Wheel (632149)

This is ostensibly the same set as above, but with a 9-spoke hub cap instead, which will be useful if your chosen decal subject flew with a higher spoke-count.  Construction is the same, just one extra gap between the spokes to clear flash from.

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Take care with the correct handing of the wheels, and other than that they are a drop-in replacement that adds a huge amount of detail as well as a very slight sag to the tyres, inferring weight to the model.  The masks are always welcome to ease painting.

 

Highly recommended.

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[JohnT]

Very handy Mike

 

IIRC I read that the kits wheels are way the wrong size - something about being too big for the wheel well recess???  These should fix that issue nicely

[Mike]

7 minutes ago, JohnT said:

Wheely handy Mike

I'm ashamed to know you John.... you wheely missed a trick there

[JohnT]

7 minutes ago, Mike said:

I'm ashamed to know you John.... you wheely missed a trick there

Well it after 5 on a long hard Monday and I’m tyred