Eduard SC50 German WWII Bombs (632170) 1:32

[Mike]

SC50 German WWII Bombs (632170)

1:32 Eduard Brassin

 

 

Bombs.  They’re thrown or dropped from the bomb bays or pylons of aircraft, and unless they’re dud or on a timer, they go bang when they hit the ground, generally making a mess of anything nearby.  During WWII the Germans did a lot of bombing of the British Isles and other countries they didn’t like using their standard iron bombs with the nomenclature SC followed by the weight in Kilograms.  The SC50 was one of the smaller bombs, sometimes carried by fighters or other aircraft that weren’t capable of lugging anything larger over long distances, or when they wanted to make lots of small holes instead of a few big ones.

 

 

As is now usual with Eduard's smaller resin sets, they arrive in the new shallow Brassin cardboard box, with the resin parts safely cocooned in bags, and the instructions folded around acting as padding.  Inside are parts for eight bombs, which have the four fins cast into the body, with the casting block joined at the tips of the fins.  Four “whistler” tubes are included for each bomb, and these are fitted to the sides of the fins, and give the bombs that typical whistle as it drops, presumably to instil even more terror into their intended victims, in a similar manner to the Jericho Trumpets on the gear legs of Stukas.  There are also separate suspension lugs on a cylindrical plug that fits into a corresponding hole just behind the moulded-in fuse depression on the “top” of the bomb if it was carried horizontally on a pylon.

 

A set of stencil decals are included with yellow or red stripes that differentiates between otherwise identical HE and fragmentation fill variants, with additional stencils on the topside around the lug and fuse showing type, fuse & other check marks.  The colour callouts are Gunze as usual, but there were some variations in in the body colour later in the war, so consult your references if you are unsure.

 

Highly recommended.

 

 

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[JohnT]

Nice set Mike. I gather the whistler tubes were fairly common on early Ju87’s 

They look pretty cool from those photos