Scale aviation modeller international

The instructions are Revell’s new-style

diagrammatic, multi-lingual colour version

The 40 plastic parts come on a single well-moulded sprue. There’s a small clear

sprue with the canopy and nose panel

This is a comparison of the decals offered in the three issues of this

kit. The current box only has a single scheme. Note only eight prop

tip markings on the current scheme rather than sixteen!

five versions of the E2-C are

possible without trying too hard

or resorting to the aftermarket.

In terms of aftermarket

options, Retrokit and Wolfpack

do wing-fold resin conversions,

Retrokit and Ozmods offer the

eight-blade props, and Ozmods

have a nice fuselage conversion to

model the C2 Greyhound carrier

onboard delivery (COD) derivative.

Starfighter have a sheet of decals

depicting North Atlantic units.

The kit comes on a single main

sprue of 40 parts, and a smaller

clear one with the windscreen

and nose panel. All the parts are

cleanly moulded with neat recessed

panel lines and no flash, although

the clear parts are inevitably

rather thick for the scale.

The instructions are in Revell’s

new multi-lingual pictorial style.

These contain some minor errors

associated with decal placement;

Stage 7 deals with painting and

decalling the propellers and should

be ignored completely. Rely only

on the marking sections here.

There is another small mistake

on the decal sheet, as there are only

enough tip markings for one propeller.

CONSTRUCTION

The build is straightforward and

barely needs any reference to the

instructions. There’s a rudimentary

cockpit (most likely invisible in

the closed-up model), which I

painted grey, adding black for the

instrument panel, green for the

seats, and painted-on tan belts.

I rolled up 10 gm of lead sheet

and installed it behind the

cockpit to ensure that

the model was no tail-sitter.

The fuselage halves fit together

with only a little minor cleanup

of the seam needed, although the

main windscreen/canopy needs

careful placement during gluing

to get the best joint at the upper

surface. Having masked the canopy

windows with Tamiya tape, the

whole lot can be blended

in; I used DeLuxe

Perfect Plastic filler

because its water

cleanup minimises

collateral damage in

small scales like this.

One could drill out

the three portholes on the

starboard side of the fuselage

and glaze them with white glue,

but I chose to just paint mine

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