Eduard Anson Mk.I Guns & Lewis 97 Magazines (648844 & 648861) 1:48

[Mike]

Anson Mk.I Guns & Lewis 97 Magazines (648844 & 648861)

1:48 Eduard Brassin PRINT

 

 

We reviewed the newly tooled 1:48 AVRO Anson from Airfix here last year, and it’s a great kit that has made many WWII modellers very happy.  Eduard’s new Brassin PRINT sets brings superb detail to the light armament that the Anson sometimes carried, despite it not being a combat aircraft, and that armament is how Faithful Annie achieved its only kill of WWII, when a brave gunner took out a Bf.109 in a lucky/gutsy attempt to keep the enemy from downing the aircraft he was in.  There are two sets, one provides the three Lewis guns that were fitted in various locations around the airframe, the other provides extra magazines to fill the racks near the mounts for reloading purposes during a fight or weapons training.

 

Both sets arrive in clear-fronted Brassin vacformed boxes, with the header card and instructions at the rear, whilst the 3D printed resin parts inside are safely stored inside a crystal-clear plastic clamshell box that sometimes has a sticky pad in the bottom to prevent the parts from rattling around the little box.

 

 

Anson Mk.I Guns (648844 for Airfix)

Printed on three bases, there are three incredibly well-detailed Lewis guns and one barrel for fuselage mounting, all of which far outstrip the finesse of the kit parts, and include their mounting posts, plus a half-dozen magazines, none of which will be needed to arm the guns in their emplacements.  The small Photo-Etch (PE) sheet contains a vane sight for one of the weapons with a spare, and each gun mounts on the styrene parts from the kit, removing one kit gun that is moulded into its mount, and drilling out two 1.1mm holes to accept the uprights.

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis 97-Cartridges Ammo Magazines (648861 for Airfix)

This set contains one printing base that holds a dozen additional magazines for either your Anson model, or any other Lewis gun installation that accepts the ‘dinner plate’ style magazines, which all have their grab-handles printed integrally, just needing painting a red brown colour to represent leather.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

The detail alone will bring extra realism to your model, with finer barrels and sighting equipment, with more detail squeezed into every square millimetre of the surface.

 

Very highly recommended.

 

Review sample courtesy of

[Rulaman]

On 17/08/2023 at 17:05, Mike said:

Anson Mk.I Guns & Lewis 97 Magazines (648844 & 648861)

1:48 Eduard Brassin PRINT

 

 

We reviewed the newly tooled 1:48 AVRO Anson from Airfix here last year, and it’s a great kit that has made many WWII modellers very happy.  Eduard’s new Brassin PRINT sets brings superb detail to the light armament that the Anson sometimes carried, despite it not being a combat aircraft, and that armament is how Faithful Annie achieved its only kill of WWII, when a brave gunner took out a Bf.109 in a lucky/gutsy attempt to keep the enemy from downing the aircraft he was in.  There are two sets, one provides the three Lewis guns that were fitted in various locations around the airframe, the other provides extra magazines to fill the racks near the mounts for reloading purposes during a fight or weapons training.

 

Both sets arrive in clear-fronted Brassin vacformed boxes, with the header card and instructions at the rear, whilst the 3D printed resin parts inside are safely stored inside a crystal-clear plastic clamshell box that sometimes has a sticky pad in the bottom to prevent the parts from rattling around the little box.

 

 

Anson Mk.I Guns (648844 for Airfix)

Printed on three bases, there are three incredibly well-detailed Lewis guns and one barrel for fuselage mounting, all of which far outstrip the finesse of the kit parts, and include their mounting posts, plus a half-dozen magazines, none of which will be needed to arm the guns in their emplacements.  The small Photo-Etch (PE) sheet contains a vane sight for one of the weapons with a spare, and each gun mounts on the styrene parts from the kit, removing one kit gun that is moulded into its mount, and drilling out two 1.1mm holes to accept the uprights.

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis 97-Cartridges Ammo Magazines (648861 for Airfix)

This set contains one printing base that holds a dozen additional magazines for either your Anson model, or any other Lewis gun installation that accepts the ‘dinner plate’ style magazines, which all have their grab-handles printed integrally, just needing painting a red brown colour to represent leather.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

The detail alone will bring extra realism to your model, with finer barrels and sighting equipment, with more detail squeezed into every square millimetre of the surface.

 

Very highly recommended.

 

Review sample courtesy of

Those printed guns look great, but I'm wondering why Eduard is offering them as upgrade for the 1/48 scale Airfix Avro Anson as the kit is armed with Vickers K machine guns, not with Lewis guns. That's why I've used some of the 1/48 scale Vickers K guns from Eduard's detail set for the ICM Beaufort Mk. I instead for both my Airfix Anson and Blenheim Mk. I. Same what I'll do with my Tamiya Swordfish models, though I maybe will also try out the Vickers K guns from either GasPatch or Quinta Studio instead. Cheers!

[georgeusa]

The turret fitted Ansons had a Lewis machine gun.  Those without a turret had the Vickers weapon.  At least that is what some really old reference books I have detail.  I am all up to being corrected with some modern day, (this century) references.