Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 19, 2013 0:06:02 GMT 12
The following photos and text comes form Kerry Carlyle, who has asked me to post it:
Just received my PCM Tempests, thought some of you would like to see whats in the box and an impression of the kit. Finally an accurate large scale Tempest! As many of you will know the previous effort by Eduard in 1/48 was a bit of a dud, the a fuselage was short, and the fin was a joke. This kit gives you are very good impression of the size of the Tempest.
PCM's kits whilst being limited run build up very well, there are some beautiful builds of there kits online.
With the PCM Kit you get:
Limited run plastic is by Sword
Decals are by Cartograph
Etch is by Eduard
Comes with a colour markings guide
Well done set of instructions
The kit has been overseen by Roy Sutherland, so you know it will be accurate.
The main kit parts give the impression of being very accurate in outline. The panel lines are more than acceptable, and will improve a lot with sanding and priming. The plastic detail parts are pretty good, though they will require quite a bit of clean up. The seat is the worst part of the kit and could do with being replaced. The Wheels also could be better. I suspect we will see resin replacements for both of these parts.
The wheel wells, exhausts, rudder pedals and gun sight are supplied as resin parts. Wheel wells could do with some plumbing and wiring, but acceptable as they are. The rest of the resin parts a very good.
There are a lot of details for the cockpit supplied as Colour-Etch and they will look superb through the small cockpit opening.
Clear parts look very good, and they have correctly supplied the drop tank fairings as transparencies. They have also include decals to detail the fairings.
The decal sheet look super, with options for 486 sqn SA-M. These include the swastika kill markings, so one can assume the PCM doesn't stand for Politically Correct Models.
All in all a comprehensive kit, which will result in some really good looking builds.
Roll on the kits from Special Hobby and Zoukei Mura, can you have too many Tempests in your collection?
Just received my PCM Tempests, thought some of you would like to see whats in the box and an impression of the kit. Finally an accurate large scale Tempest! As many of you will know the previous effort by Eduard in 1/48 was a bit of a dud, the a fuselage was short, and the fin was a joke. This kit gives you are very good impression of the size of the Tempest.
PCM's kits whilst being limited run build up very well, there are some beautiful builds of there kits online.
With the PCM Kit you get:
Limited run plastic is by Sword
Decals are by Cartograph
Etch is by Eduard
Comes with a colour markings guide
Well done set of instructions
The kit has been overseen by Roy Sutherland, so you know it will be accurate.
The main kit parts give the impression of being very accurate in outline. The panel lines are more than acceptable, and will improve a lot with sanding and priming. The plastic detail parts are pretty good, though they will require quite a bit of clean up. The seat is the worst part of the kit and could do with being replaced. The Wheels also could be better. I suspect we will see resin replacements for both of these parts.
The wheel wells, exhausts, rudder pedals and gun sight are supplied as resin parts. Wheel wells could do with some plumbing and wiring, but acceptable as they are. The rest of the resin parts a very good.
There are a lot of details for the cockpit supplied as Colour-Etch and they will look superb through the small cockpit opening.
Clear parts look very good, and they have correctly supplied the drop tank fairings as transparencies. They have also include decals to detail the fairings.
The decal sheet look super, with options for 486 sqn SA-M. These include the swastika kill markings, so one can assume the PCM doesn't stand for Politically Correct Models.
All in all a comprehensive kit, which will result in some really good looking builds.
Roll on the kits from Special Hobby and Zoukei Mura, can you have too many Tempests in your collection?
