Eduard F4F-3 Exhausts & F4F Gun Barrels (648766 & 648769 for Eduard) 1:48

[Mike]

F4F-3 Exhausts & F4F Gun Barrels (648766 & 648769 for Eduard)

1:48 Eduard Brassin

 

 

We’ve just reviewed the super new tool Wildcat from Eduard, and this is one of the many aftermarket sets that they have released at the same time for those that want to increase the level of detail over and above what’s achievable using injection moulded styrene.  Although the sets arrive in a flat package, the directly 3D printed parts are safe inside a clear plastic clamshell box inside the package, which also has a sticky pad inside to prevent the parts from rattling about. The parts are printed resin, attached to the base via thin tendril-like fingers that are easy to cut off and sand the little upstands away, leaving them ready for action.

 

 

F4F-3 Exhausts PRINT (648766)

The sticky pad in this set holds two exhausts on its print base, which have super detail and are totally hollow, with crisp detail around the lip and along the weld-lines.  There is a tab to fix the parts to the kit in a drop-in manner, once they have been prepared and painted appropriately.

 

 

 

 

F4F Gun barrels PRINT (648769)

Although the very early Wildcats only had four .50cal machine guns, later output had their armament increased to six, although with no extra bullets in the magazines, doubtless leading to some frantic clicking and the lucky escape of a Zero on occasion.  This set contains six barrels with hollow muzzles and recesses to depict the holes in the cooling jacket all over the sides of the tubes.  Once removed from the base, they’re a simple drop-in replacement, and although tiny, the detail is exceptional, just like the exhausts above.  I couldn’t resist cutting one free just to see if the hole went all the way through.  It didn’t, but it looks deep enough for our needs.

 

 

 

Highly recommended.

 

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