Kit Accessories
last modified on December 20, 2003
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The Polish firm Parts makes an apparently good photoetched sheet for 1/72 RPM kit.
It looks good, but I've not used it, partly because I didn't know it when I began the model, partly because my scarce feeling for photoetched parts.



The Russian firm Equipage makes resin wheels with rubber tyres both for 1/72 (EQU-72167) and for 1/48 (EQU-48055) kits.


The New-Zealand firm Falcon produces a 1/72 vacuformed canopy, that fits on the Red Star/Emhar kit.
It is inserted in their set Clear-Vac CV-024 alongside many other canopies for the most famous Soviet aircrafts of WW2. 
The canopies are extremely clear and well moulded, even if some of the kits for which they fit are obsolete.
The release of another sheet (part 2) is expected for the near future.



 

The firm Cutting Edge produces a resin cockpit interior for the ICM MiG-3, 1/48.
Please see the review of Peter Vill.

It is surely a good set, but I would observe that the technical drawings of the MiG-3 show that a large amount of space should remain between the tube strut and the inner face of the side panels, and this could suggest to take in consideration the use of the original strut of the ICM kit, maybe detailed with some pieces from the side walls of this sheet. 
 

 


 The firm Fusion produces a resin propeller and spinner to improve the 1/48 ICM kit. Here we see a comparison between the kit's propeller (light) and the resin one (dark). 


 



The firm Aeromaster Decals makes two 1/48 decals sheets, n.48-313 and 48-314; they seems good, but the colorful instructions sheets makes no difference between early and late versions and has some errors.

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The firm Travers (P.O.Box 1227, 344007, Rostov On Don, Russia) made a decals sheet for 12 different examples in 1/72 scale.
The instruction sheet looks interesting and well documented, making difference between early and late examples.
This decal sheet looks to be no longer available.
 
See instruction sheets: 

Travers 1
 
 
 
 
 

Travers 2



The firm Datadecals produces one beautiful decals sheet for 1/32 Trumpeter kit, and another sheet is arriving.
A sample was kindly sent by the owner, Mr. Adam Batkiewicz.
 
The sheet DD32001 shows five late version aircrafts, all described in the profile pages of this site too;
black 12
Smert to Nemetsim Okkupantim
red 02
white 54
Za rodinu

The instructions sheet is very exhaustive, with color profile and upper views, and written comments about the photos from which the profile is taken. This demonstrates a good and original research work.
In my opinion, some of these aircrafts should have stars with thin black outline.
The sheet is neatly printed and well centered, on a very thin trasparent film that will be nearly unvisible on the painted model; I think that such thin films will require an extreme care in positioning, avoiding softener liquids.
The sheet includes thin white lines for correcting eventual out of register white outlines, and a piece of red scrap decal to help for adapting it to movable surfaces.

The sheet DD32002 has further examples:
white 12
black 36
yellow 27
white 44
white 64

 
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