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it, with 22 tiny fingers bent at 45

degrees, seems totally unnecessary.

I fitted it anyway, and I know it’s

there, but you can barely see it

on the completed model. Once

the exhausts were assembled, I

put them aside for adding later.

I wasn’t initially that taken with

the look of the intake trunking, but

once I started putting it together, it

works quite well. There is some nice

grille detail on the outside of the

forward inlet area, but there should

also be corresponding

detail on the inside of

these parts, which is

lacking. Fortunately,

this is included in the

Eduard “Exterior” set. There are

also no colour callouts for the

intake trunking, but most of the

walk arounds I found had FOD

covers in place, so I went with

X015 RAF Light Aircraft Grey. This

looks pretty close to the colour

of the undercarriage and wheel

bays in the pictures I looked at.

The trunking does give you

the full depth to the compressor

face, and there’s an etch part,

which I assume represents a pitot

for the intake ramp system. I

finally found a few pictures taken

down the intakes, and found that

the underside blue colour extends

quite a way into the trunk. I would

“THE EXHAUSTS ARE MADE UP

FROM SIX PARTS EACH, AND THEY

LOOK GOOD OUT OF THE BOX”

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