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Aires |
1/48 P-39 Wheel Wells For the Hasegawa Kit |
Stock Number: 4420 |
Reviewed By Charles Landrum, IPMS# 26328 |
MSRP: $13.00 Website: www.aires.cz Aires has introduced a set of replacement wheel wells for the Hasegawa P-39. Made of durable gray resin, the set includes: the main wells, main gear doors and nose wheel well. The kit details are pretty nice and begged the question, do they need replacing. So I did a side by side comparison of the parts.
The question the modeler needs to ask - " is the effort to remove the main wheel wells worth the extra detail that Aires provides? " In my opinion no; unless you are a diehard fan of the P-39 and want that extra level of detail I think that the kit components are workable. I also think that the replacement nose wheel well adds little in additional detail and that the kit main gear doors are fixable. So I recommend the Aires set based on level of detail and cleanness of the casting. I let the modeler decide if the additional detail is worth the labor. |
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