Fouga Magister "Red Devils"
Commentaires
Album info
Hi Guys,
Here is my interpretation of the Fouga Magister, KINETIC kit in 1/48 scale. I also used the resin cockpit from the Wingman brand. Overall, this model is quite mediocre. It appears even more so since I had built the Fouga Magister from AMK some time ago, in the same scale, which is a very good quality kit. With this KINETIC kit, while the parts are relatively well detailed, the fit is very average, if not mediocre, for some parts.
I had to face several problems:
- If you use the Wingman resin cockpit, the fuselage gets too wide for the canopy. If you want to represent the entire canopy closed, you will have a serious step to fill, with the fuselage (like 1.5mm on each side).
- There is no instruction about it, but I' missed to add weight to the front section. As a result, the model hast its nose pointing towards the sky. I'suspect that it would need a lot of weight to bring it to normal (while there is no room for that in the nose….)
- Both ailerons are represented "falling down", which doesn't make sense… this has to be corrected.
Ultimately, the most annoying thing was the very poor quality of the assembly instructions. Incorrectly numbered parts, lack of indication on the positioning of the pieces, etc...
I'think that there is not one step in the document, without a mistake or flaw. I' had the same problem when I' built their Pucara, and it's incomprehensible to me. Basically, this means that the Kinetic guys are not able to spend 1h to read back the assembly instructions and check the mistakes…
My conclusions are that if you want to built a nice Fouga Magister, you would better use the AMK kit, which is far above the Kinetic in every aspect.
Anyway…. I'hope you will like this "Red Devils" scheme…
Thanks for looking
