Mach 2 C-54/DC-4-In Box Review

Maiesm72 · 2004-07-19T19:44:18+00:00

Picked up the new Mach 2 C-54/DC-4 at Berkeley Ace Hardware a week ago. Having had nothing but bad experiences with Mach 2 kits in the past Iapproached it with some trepidation. It turned out to be a very pleasantexperience.Dry fitting the parts I found the fuselage halves to be a pretty good fit. Asis often the case with many large models, there is a bit of a bow at themid-point, but it looks like simple glue-then-rubber-bands should do the trick.Surface details are recessed and very fine. There were a couple of surfaceproblems that appear to be rectifilable with light sanding. As with almost allof the parts in the kit there is a minute amount of flash. Fuselage doors haveto be cut out and there is a replacement door provided. Three of the windowsfor the DC-4 variant are flashed over and have to be opened for that variant.There is a seperate nose cone for some variants.The cockpit consists of an aft bulkhead (which doubles as an aft bulkhead forthe nose gear bay), a floor with central console, instrument panel cowl,instrument panel with recessed instruent faces, two seats and two controlyokes. Detail is a little heavy for the seats and yokes, but they can barely beseen. There is no cabin interior whatsoever. The cockpit windscreen isincorporated in a single part including the appropriate part of the fuselage.It's a good pattern for a vacuform part as it's so milky that it's opaque. Thecabin windows and astrodome are just as bad with a couple of ripples marringsome of the parts. Kristal Klear or white glue should suffice for the windowsand the astrodome can be done with a vacuform part.Wings are as good as the fuselage, maybe better as there are no flaws and thefit is very nice. Undercarriage bays are seperate parts with nice detailing.Landing gear legs look a little clunky, but should clean up nicely. Wheels andtires are done in halves and include nice detailing. All gear doors are a bitthick, but they also have interior detail. The wings fitted almost perfectly...

Jul 19, 2004 22 Replies

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Dave Fleming 21 years ago

Academy stopped doing big 1/72 kits after no-one bought the KC-97s

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Norm Filer 21 years ago

And your source for this information is?????

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Dave Fleming 21 years ago

(i) Academy rep in UK (ii) Article in FSM (I think?) (iii) Seen any since then?

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