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Zero Type 21/22, Petty Officer (Flight) 1st Class Saburo Sakai, IJN,
Tainan NAG, Rabaul 1942 |
Warbirds
Series. An attractive, well proportioned model, with an accurate,
durable paint job and generally good assembly.
Bird cage woes. The canopy is pretty
ugly, with a poor fit fore and aft, and an ugly gap under each side
of the aft bird cage. The gaps allow the silly sliding canopy to (guess
what) slide back and forth. The gaps are definitely not to scale;
of course, the sliding part of the canopy isn't to scale, either.
Lots of lines. The accents around the
panel lines were apparently introduced to give the model some character,
and to eliminate the need for rivet heads on the panel edges. The
lines are a matter of taste, and I'm not sure whether I like them
or not.
Witty-less. I think
Witty is the winner when it comes to rivet/panel-line design and
Zero canopy execution.
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Carrier-based fighter |
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50010
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Unlimited |
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Zero Type 21/22, Pearl Harbor Attack, Kaga, 1st Sqn, 11th Section,
No. 1 Aircraft, Lt. Yoshio Shiga |
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Warbirds Series. Another
nice model with a good paint job, and good fit and finish. An especially
nice touch is the manufacture's build data on the port-side red
stripe.
All the comments about 50010
apply to this model, though the canopy fits a little better. However,
the "bird cage gaps" are even worse on this model.
| Type |
Carrier-based fighter |
| DW item # |
50021
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Unlimited |
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