Armory AMG 1/48 Flycatcher
| KIT #: | 48001 |
| PRICE: | £45.99 |
| DECALS: | Seven options |
| REVIEWER: | Dan Lee |
| NOTES: | Includes resin and p.e. parts |
| HISTORY |
The Fairey Flycatcher was an interwar Royal Navy biplane fighter that served from 1923 to 1934 that could be flown off aircraft carriers or modified with floats to allow it to fly off capital ship catapults. Most of the served off RN carriers like the HMS Argus, Furious, Eagle, Hermes, Courageous and Glorious who would later serve in WW2. According to wiki some 196 examples were built and none of them survived today except a replica that was built in the 1970s.
The Flycatcher's importance was helping develop the air combat tactics that the Royal Navy would use in WW2 like most of the more obscure interwar naval aircraft of the era.
| THE KIT |
Armory
Models Group is from the Ukraine and this is their first (hopefully of many)
1/48 scale biplane kit. It comes in a sturdy two section box with an outer cover
and an inner box that folds open. The model's instructions are several giant A4
instruction sheets of the parts assembly, painting guide, rigging diagram as
well as marking schemes. The paint schemes are printed on glossy paper while the
assembly instructions are done on regular paper.
The parts are listed out on
the instructions and come in two different big ziplock bags. The first bag is
the grey plastic and cast resin parts (which come in a separate smaller bag
tucked inside the big
bag.) The
parts sprues are free of flash, the surface detail looks really good and the
spruegates are small (injection molded) compared to the typical giant spruegates
of small run model companies so parts removal will be easy.
The kit has a total of 62 plastic parts, 13 different types of resin parts (with multiples) and 44 different photo etched parts (with multiples.)
The plastic detail is pretty good, on a similar level to Eduard's biplanes in the same scale. Most of the fuselage and wing components as well as the struts. The resin parts concern the detailed engine and guns.
The second plastic contains the Photo Etch (PE) and decals.
| CONCLUSIONS |
It's definitely not for the short run, biplane and rigging phobic, but the parts all look really good in the box and from what I can tell from Tom's build review that with careful work and following the instructions, this will build into a very nice replica of a Royal Navy interwar fighter.
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