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Platz: He219A-0 Uhu
betheyn
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Posted: Friday, February 17, 2017 - 05:49 PM UTC


Dragon and Hasegawa have previously released this kit in bygone years, but now Platz have released this with some very helpful additions.
Andy Brazier delves into the box.

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GazzaS
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Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 02:39 AM UTC
I built the original Dragon kit 2 years ago...for the second time. I was a kid the first time...

I had to weight behind the radiators as well as every nook and cranny in the forward fuselage and ventral gun bay. So I'm glad to see some lead parts!

The white metal PE was a nightmare and I ended up breaking so many of the aerials that I scratch built the dipoles from stretched sprue.

That being said, when I was a kid, and two years ago, it was a putty eating build. Make sure you have lots of sandpaper.

Still, it's an Uhu in 1/72 scale. Depends on your values, I guess.
betheyn
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Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 02:50 AM UTC

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I built the original Dragon kit 2 years ago...for the second time. I was a kid the first time...

I had to weight behind the radiators as well as every nook and cranny in the forward fuselage and ventral gun bay. So I'm glad to see some lead parts!

The white metal PE was a nightmare and I ended up breaking so many of the aerials that I scratch built the dipoles from stretched sprue.

That being said, when I was a kid, and two years ago, it was a putty eating build. Make sure you have lots of sandpaper.

Still, it's an Uhu in 1/72 scale. Depends on your values, I guess.


I too had the original boxing, but lost that when I split from the Ex (along with pretty much most of my stash, insert plenty of swear words here lol), and was quite impressed with the contents, but never got too build it, so its nice too know how it goes together.
The photo etch is produced by Eduard so its going to be good quality.
The inclusion of the weights is outstanding, especially in aircraft where there isn't any room to put any, so top marks for Platz for that.
Andy
GazzaS
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Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 08:21 AM UTC
The PE is really...ugh...
The FuG 220 aerials are too broad front to back and the FuG 212 aerials broke on me when I tried to bend and twist them to the correct angles.

Maybe annealing them would have helped. I'm still pretty new to PE and am determined to be able to build any radar dipole with soldered brass rod. The flat cross-section of the FuG 220 aerials really put me off.

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