After two WNW Camels the time has come for something completely different. I am going to build a 1/72 resin model of British flying boat trainer, the passing step for future Felixstowe crews.
The kit comes in a nice box
Instructions booklet is quite fine and clear
and shows the one I plan to build
and there are also Japanese and Norwegian post-war examples
The fuselage and the interior bits are fine for the scale
The flying and control surfaces have nice rib detail, the wings are reinforced with hard steel wire
So are the main interplane struts
NT.2Bs flew with three different engines: Beardmore, Hisso and Arab. All three are finely featured, here is the Hispano, which I will use for my example
Some other resin bits
The remaining bits include a small PE fret, self adhesive instrument panel, templates for window panes for Jap and Norw versions and a foil sheet for the British glass canopy.
I am currently working on cleaning the resin parts. Keen-eyed may notice in the photos above the numerous patches and funny blobs indicating the places where air bubbles were filled with pieces of plastic rods. Surely, cleaning and sanding will take some more sessions.
