lancerunolfsson
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My Journeys today brought me into close proximity of the only Hobby shop in town. If nothing else I figured I’d see what they had in 1/72 scale. With the thought that if I was saving shipping I might buy something that was otherwise low on my list. Besides maybe I would luck out. And I sort of did. They had mostly jets and not a lot of those; a few well known WWII planes and a Czech fighter. Interwar stuff is right up my alley and this was too weird to pass up.
Development of the B-35 was begun at the Czech Avia Factory in 1936 as a replacement for Czechoslovakia’s Biplane fighters. The prototype flew before the Anschluss. Development continued under the Germans. The final prototype was the B.135/1. Eventually arrangements were made for the Bulgarians to go into domestic production. Which apparently they were technically incapable of achieving 12 Czech built examples were taken into service by the Bulgarian air force. A Victory over a US B-24 was claimed in 1944.
My 1/72 Avia B-35 is produced by a company called Kopro. A firm obviously somewhat challenged in the mold making and or quality control departments. I just can’t believe they kicked so many of these models out the door that it would explain the flash from a worn out mold. It does not look like it will be too hard to remove. But flash means the mold is not fitting together right. So what does that mean for the way the model is going to fit together?
Development of the B-35 was begun at the Czech Avia Factory in 1936 as a replacement for Czechoslovakia’s Biplane fighters. The prototype flew before the Anschluss. Development continued under the Germans. The final prototype was the B.135/1. Eventually arrangements were made for the Bulgarians to go into domestic production. Which apparently they were technically incapable of achieving 12 Czech built examples were taken into service by the Bulgarian air force. A Victory over a US B-24 was claimed in 1944.
My 1/72 Avia B-35 is produced by a company called Kopro. A firm obviously somewhat challenged in the mold making and or quality control departments. I just can’t believe they kicked so many of these models out the door that it would explain the flash from a worn out mold. It does not look like it will be too hard to remove. But flash means the mold is not fitting together right. So what does that mean for the way the model is going to fit together?