Unfortunately this is not the deeper review we'd like, but it offers the chance to compare sprue images with the 1/48 AM kit:
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/aca/kit_aca_12417.shtmlMicheal Benolkin refers to the kit as a copy and a scaled-down version of the AM kit, which of course it is, but he seems unaware of the probability that it's a
10-year-old copy, originally planned by Accurate Miniatures themselves. In his defence (if he needs any), he's probably not a total VVS freak like some of us (me, at least!), to whom any tiny rumour about VVS kits is something to be chased and analysed to shreds. In other words, he probably has no idea AM were planning a 1/72 Il-2 before they stopped production, and actually had the molds ready!
(As a sidelight, there is someone out there somewhere who knows the truth, besides the former employees of AM - I remember reading somewhere that AM had "test shots" of the 1/72 Il-2 on display at the IPMS USA Nationals that year, and someone STOLE them!!!) (No, it wasn't me...)
John