RES-IM 1/72 EF-10B Skyknight, FJ-1 Fury & A-1H Skyraider PE Sets Review by Mark Davies

EF-10B Skyknight, FJ-1 Fury & A-1H Skyraider PE Sets

RES-IM, 1/72 scale

S u m m a r y :
Catalogue Number:	PE72030 – EF-10B Skyknight (Sword) PE72032 – FJ-1 (Valom) PE72033 – A-1H (Hasegawa)
Scale:	1/72
Contents & Media	PE72030 – 1 x Coloured PE fret of 29 parts PE72032 – 1 x Coloured PE fret of 31 parts PE72033 – 1 x Coloured PE fret of 33 parts
Price:	Available online from:
	Part No.	RES-IM	Hannants	Modelimex
	PE72030 PE72032 PE72033	€8.52 €7.04 €8.52	£9.42 £7.83 £9.42	€9.50 €7.86 €9.50
Review Type:	First Look.
Advantages:	High quality production, good clear instructions.
Disadvantages:	None noted.
Conclusions:	These are very good sets to enhance their intended kit. The production quality is excellent, and the supporting instructions very clear and comprehensive. I highly recommend all three.

Reviewed by Mark Davies

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RResin Improvement has quite an extensive range of detail and conversion parts in resin and both coloured and plain PE; they also offer and pre-cut paint masks. Their PE products are manufactured by Eduard, so the quality is automatically good, and I assume Eduard is behind the paint masks and resin as well, as their quality is certainly excellent as well.

They sets reviewed here come in a resealable cellophane bag with card stiffener and well-drawn diagrammatic instructions.

The Sets

PE72030 – EF10B Skyknight. Intended for the Sword kit which includes the option of the F3D-2. Res-IM’s instrument panel would seem to be perfectly suitable for this night-fighter variant after checking Steve Ginter’s Naval Fighter No4; there does not seem to be anything specific to the electronic warfare variant looking at the PE parts. The set is focussed on the cockpit, but also provides replacement main undercarriage (u/c) doors and torque-links, plus a facing for the tail bumper.

PE72032 – FJ-1. Intended for the Valom kit; the set is also focussed on the cockpit, but provides replacement u/c torque-links, u/c door braces, and brake calliper detail as well.

PE72033 – A-1H. Intended for the Hasegawa kit, and again the set is focussed on the cockpit; although it also adds a number of small details to various airframe areas including the arrestor-hook, the top of the u/c legs inside the tail-wheel well, as well as providing a boarding step and what I think are two antennae.

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Conclusion

These are very good sets to enhance their intended kit. The production quality is excellent, and the supporting instructions very clear and comprehensive. I highly recommend all three.

Recommended.

Thanks to Resin Improvement for the review samples.

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Review Text and Images Copyright © 2015 by Mark Davies Page Created 3 February, 2015 Last updated 3 February, 2015

Review Text and Images Copyright © 2015 by Mark Davies
Page Created 3 February, 2015
Last updated 3 February, 2015