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ZECHMATE
Zdenek Sebesta’s Beaufighter Mk.VI
CONTENTS
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Post War Bristol F.2B
Michel Gruson builds the new version of on of Wingnut Wings very first kits.
10
Short Sterling Part 4
Megas Tsonos continues to scratchbuild the heavy bomber in 1:48.
20
Half Heinkel
Florin Claudiu Silaghi builds the HPH He 111 interior in 1:32 scale.
30
S-3B Viking
Andrea Paternieri details up the vintage 1:48 Viking kit.
36
Czechmate
Zdenek Sebesta reworks the Tamiya 1:48 kit and models a
Czech Beaufighter Mark. VI
48
Air Born
New releases.
58
F-16E
Kinetic’s 1:48 Block 60 Desert Falcon modelled by Periklis Salessiotis.
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WINGNUT WINGS 1:32
POST WAR
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MODELLED BY MICHEL GRUSON
A
survivor of the First World War, the
Bristol F.2b stands out as one of the
most successful designs of its
engine bearings had to be cut short in
order to have the radiator aligned with the
engine covers. Another tricky point of the
assembly concerns the long wings and the
fragile struts which support the whole
assembly. I chose not to glue the half-
wings to the central part giving better
flexibility during the assembly. WNW has
accustomed us with plenty of options in
the past, but that is not the case with this
F.2b where a spinner cap option is missing
and metal wheel hubs could have been
provided too, the fabric ones are not
correct as some references show.
One last complaint concerns the normally
excellent Cartograf decals which became
fragile as soon as they hit the water and
which proved resistant to various doses of
decal solvent!
I decided to use the first of the five
markings provided with the kit, aircraft n°
F-4392 pictured in Aboukir, Egypt in 1926.
The Silver Doped scheme was not the
easiest one to reproduce correctly as I
discovered!
I have to admit that my choice of doing an
‘all closed’ version led me to some extra
work fitting the cowls to my liking, even if I
might sound pessimistic, this is still a
Wingnuts kit with all of their usual high
quality features to enjoy. Nevertheless, I
would not recommend the Bristol to a
modeller without some experience,
definitely not the kit to start your WNW
collection, as the F.2b is a complicated
design.
generation. The fact that it remained in
service with the R.A.F until 1932 speaks
volumes as 15 years of operational service
is no small feat!
Of all the Wingnut Wings models in my
collection, this one stands-out as one of
the most demanding so far. It is based on
one of the very first WNW releases with
new parts added so, before starting this kit
my advice is to dry fit, then dry fit then dry
fit again! Having chosen the ‘all closed’
option, I did discover that the engine
covers were too short and would result in a
poor fit without a little work. To reach a
gap-free finish I had to use every trick I
knew, using some surgery with the X-acto
knife, to allow the parts to sit correctly. The
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