Avia B.534 Quattro Combo Royal Class
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Kit Review
This is a brand new tooling from Eduard and it is being offered here in a Royal Class limited edition with no less that four complete kit of parts in the box. There are twelve sprues of dark grey-coloured plastic and two of clear. Surface detail is via raised ribs for the fabric covered areas, and engraved panel lines and other details for any areas covered with metal. There is also a set of die-cut self-adhesive masks and five frets of photo-etched, one of which is pre-painted for the instrument panel etc., while the remaining four are surface details and rigging. The instruction booklet covers all the assembly stages and with so many options each stage is marked with what parts relate to what versions. This is a bit complex, so take some time before you start to identify which parts you need and I would therefore recommend building one version at a time so you don’t get completely confused. Detail is excellent, both inside and out and you have options like the wooden or metal propeller and some clever bomb fins that just fold up from an etched piece.
The masks deal with the wheel hubs for either the spatted or unspatted versions, the tailwheel, both sorts of canopy, the wing tip markings and the tailplanes, which on some options have a thin coloured edge to them. What we really like about the instructions are the rigging diagrams on pages 10 and 11, which show where all the holes have to be drilled in the wings and then how all the etched rigging wires fit in place. Now I know most will say that photo-etched is ‘flat’, but flight wires are also pretty flat when you look at them and certainly not round as would be the case with thread, so this is a valid way of depicting this in this scale.
Now this kit, or should we say, kits, come with a lot of decal options, and we mean a lot! In all there are 30, so as all the details about these machines are in Czech on the instructions, we will just offer you the side profiles for each so you can see what is on offer.
The decals are beautifully printed and come on three separate sheets, with the larger almost A4 sized.
The final thing that is included in this special edition is a 64-page full colour book in an A4 format that contains a wealth of period images combined with modern side profiles and detailed captions that are all, sadly for those of us who don’t read it, in Czech.
Conclusion
A superb product that should give you all the B.534s you want to build, although if you want more the type is now available in the Weekend Edition series individually, so you can buy those and use up the excess decals in this edition; all 26 of them!
Buy it, build them and marvel at these little gems.
Our thanks to Eduard (www.eduard.com) for the review sample
This is a brand new tooling from Eduard and it is being offered here in a Royal Class limited edition with no less that four complete kit of parts in the box. There are twelve sprues of dark grey-coloured plastic and two of clear. Surface detail is via raised ribs for the fabric covered areas, and engraved panel lines and other details for any areas covered with metal. There is also a set of die-cut self-adhesive masks and five frets of photo-etched, one of which is pre-painted for the instrument panel etc., while the remaining four are surface details and rigging. The instruction booklet covers all the assembly stages and with so many options each stage is marked with what parts relate to what versions. This is a bit complex, so take some time before you start to identify which parts you need and I would therefore recommend building one version at a time so you don’t get completely confused. Detail is excellent, both inside and out and you have options like the wooden or metal propeller and some clever bomb fins that just fold up from an etched piece.
The masks deal with the wheel hubs for either the spatted or unspatted versions, the tailwheel, both sorts of canopy, the wing tip markings and the tailplanes, which on some options have a thin coloured edge to them. What we really like about the instructions are the rigging diagrams on pages 10 and 11, which show where all the holes have to be drilled in the wings and then how all the etched rigging wires fit in place. Now I know most will say that photo-etched is ‘flat’, but flight wires are also pretty flat when you look at them and certainly not round as would be the case with thread, so this is a valid way of depicting this in this scale.Now this kit, or should we say, kits, come with a lot of decal options, and we mean a lot! In all there are 30, so as all the details about these machines are in Czech on the instructions, we will just offer you the side profiles for each so you can see what is on offer.
The decals are beautifully printed and come on three separate sheets, with the larger almost A4 sized.
The final thing that is included in this special edition is a 64-page full colour book in an A4 format that contains a wealth of period images combined with modern side profiles and detailed captions that are all, sadly for those of us who don’t read it, in Czech.
Conclusion
A superb product that should give you all the B.534s you want to build, although if you want more the type is now available in the Weekend Edition series individually, so you can buy those and use up the excess decals in this edition; all 26 of them!
Buy it, build them and marvel at these little gems.
Our thanks to Eduard (www.eduard.com) for the review sample
