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Curtiss Mohawk from Answer - 1:33 - 2019 design by Lukasz Fuczek
Summary: Awesome kit subject, nice graphics, terrible build experience.
Hello, gentlemen. I haven't posted any reviews here in quite some time, but I thought I would toss this one out to you. I have always liked the lines of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk, so I was quite excited to see this one from Answer available on line. The kit is designed by Lukasz Fuczek, who probably needs no introduction in this forum. The kit is dated 2019 and became available very early this year. The kit shows an export version of the P-36, the H-75 or Mohawk in RAF service, in the colors of an Indian Air Force training squadron. The printing is quite nice, and the coloring exhibits some nice weathering. I purchased the kit and a set of laser-cut formers. I really wish I could say that I enjoyed building this kit, but sadly it had a number of unforunate -- and surprising, for a Fuczek design -- drawbacks that resulted in an early termination of the build. These included:
The final item on the list proved to be the deal breaker. By the time I got around to assembling the landing gear, I had already had to navigate my way through several head-scratching assembly sequences that were not clearly illustrated in the diagrams, required no small amount of guesswork, and resulted in parts being left over thanks to their being both not illustrated in the diagrams and having no obvious location on the assembled model. The landing gear were especially irksome in this regard, thanks to the P-36 already having a complex set of gear doors, and after much time spent trying fruitlessly to figure out the construction sequence, and not having any fun while doing so, I finally decided enough was enough. So this kit has been packed off to the Island of Misfit Models. As I suggested earlier, this is not the kind of experience one would expect to have with a Fuczek design, so I'm rather disappointed with the outcome, especially since the P-36 is one of my favorite warbirds. However, I still have Lukasz's Ki-43 Oscar from Orlik in my stash, and upon close scrutiny it does not appear to have the same shortcomings as the Answer kit. So hopefully, that one will be much more enjoyable to build -- whenever I get around to it. Cheers! Chris
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