Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey
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Kit Review
First of all let's clarify that this is a reissue of the Italeri tooling, not the Hasegawa example. OK, with that clear you know you are dealing with a kit of the V-22, which was first produced in 1989, then reissued again in 1996. The kit comes moulded in two grey-coloured sprues with the clear one separately bagged within the main bag. All surface detail is via fine raised lines etc. The kit can be built with the rotors up, and wheels on the ground, or rotors forward and wheels up. I say this, but there is no display stand included for the latter option. The kit is very much a V-22, not an MV-22 and you will note on the box art and the profiles for the painting guide that the kit lacks many of the lumps, bumps and blade antenna that the production examples have. A little scratchbuilding will cure all this, but you will have to trawl your references for photos. Interior detail is pretty good, and you can have the rear ramp down if you wish, although the instructions show this in stage 11, then it is completely forgotten about, with all subsequent diagrams showing the ramp closed.
Colour Options
There is just one option in the kit.
• BuNo.168300. VMM-264 'Black Knights', MCAS New River, NC, USA, 2013.
The full colour instructions show the scheme nicely, but the only colour references are to the Revell paint range, and really nowadays there should at the very least by FS numbers or 'authentic' paint names? The decal sheet has been designed by Daco in Belgium and printed in Portugal. The images have perfect register and colour and a satin sheen to them. The carrier film does not extend much past the boundaries of each image, but that which can be seen within such things as the intake warning triangles and other stencil 'surrounds' appears translucent, which will thus probably be visible once applied to the model.
Conclusion
OK, nothing new here except that decal sheet, and really not an up-to-date kit of the MV-22, but it is massively cheaper than the Hasegawa example and, with a little extra work, will produce a nice looking Osprey for very little effort as Italeri kits usually build well.
Our thanks to Revell for the review sample, see more about this and all the other Revell products on their website (www.revell.de/en)
First of all let's clarify that this is a reissue of the Italeri tooling, not the Hasegawa example. OK, with that clear you know you are dealing with a kit of the V-22, which was first produced in 1989, then reissued again in 1996. The kit comes moulded in two grey-coloured sprues with the clear one separately bagged within the main bag. All surface detail is via fine raised lines etc. The kit can be built with the rotors up, and wheels on the ground, or rotors forward and wheels up. I say this, but there is no display stand included for the latter option. The kit is very much a V-22, not an MV-22 and you will note on the box art and the profiles for the painting guide that the kit lacks many of the lumps, bumps and blade antenna that the production examples have. A little scratchbuilding will cure all this, but you will have to trawl your references for photos. Interior detail is pretty good, and you can have the rear ramp down if you wish, although the instructions show this in stage 11, then it is completely forgotten about, with all subsequent diagrams showing the ramp closed.
Colour Options
There is just one option in the kit.
• BuNo.168300. VMM-264 'Black Knights', MCAS New River, NC, USA, 2013.
The full colour instructions show the scheme nicely, but the only colour references are to the Revell paint range, and really nowadays there should at the very least by FS numbers or 'authentic' paint names? The decal sheet has been designed by Daco in Belgium and printed in Portugal. The images have perfect register and colour and a satin sheen to them. The carrier film does not extend much past the boundaries of each image, but that which can be seen within such things as the intake warning triangles and other stencil 'surrounds' appears translucent, which will thus probably be visible once applied to the model.
Conclusion
OK, nothing new here except that decal sheet, and really not an up-to-date kit of the MV-22, but it is massively cheaper than the Hasegawa example and, with a little extra work, will produce a nice looking Osprey for very little effort as Italeri kits usually build well.
Our thanks to Revell for the review sample, see more about this and all the other Revell products on their website (www.revell.de/en)
