The Eduard 1:72 photo-etched set for the ordnance bay of the Short Sunderland Mk.V flying boat replaces simplified plastic parts with thin metal pressings with crisp edges. It is an accessory to a model, not a kit of the aircraft.
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This item is not a kit of the aircraft but a photo-etched detail accessory intended for a Sunderland Mk.V model in 1:72 scale. It deals with an area that injection-molded plastic can manage only in simplified form: thin brass sheet makes it possible to create stiffeners, profiles and edges in a thickness that is technologically unattainable on a plastic part. The manufacturer is the Czech firm Eduard, which has been making photo-etched accessories since the 1990s.
The Short Sunderland was a British four-engined flying boat derived from the Short Empire airliner. It served mainly with RAF Coastal Command on long-range patrols over the Atlantic and in anti-submarine work, where its great range and long endurance came into their own. It did not stow its ordnance in an ordinary bomb bay in the bottom of the fuselage but on traversing beams that were run out through openings in the sides of the fuselage beneath the wing before release, and that is a detail which will set a model with this area opened markedly apart. The Mk.V version received Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp radial engines, which replaced the older Bristol Pegasus and improved behavior at high takeoff weights.
Separate the parts from the fret with a sharp scalpel on a glass or other hard surface, not with nippers, which bend the thin sheet. Make the bends in a bending tool or between two blades, always along the scored line. Before gluing, degrease the sheet with alcohol and let it dry completely. It is glued with cyanoacrylate, ideally in a gel consistency or applied at points with a thin cyanoacrylate; ordinary plastic cement does not hold on metal. Start the painting with a good primer, otherwise paint flakes off smooth metal during handling alone.
This is an accessory, not a complete model. The base kit, glue and paints are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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