I don't know how long it will take to get to the North American continent but, Upnorth posted this on another site. Thought some of you might find it interesting. ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif)
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It was just brought to my attention on another site that they couldn't read the post I linked to unless they registered with the site so, I will just quote the post here.
It was made by one of our members here, Upnorth, who is currently living in the Czech Republic. Emphasis added by me.
"Hey all:
Valom's new 1/72 Bell Airacuda kits and Special Hobby's 1/72 H-37B Mojave helicopter kit just hit my LHSs this week and I took a peek in the boxes today.
Both kits look pretty good with a mix of styrene, resin and PE parts.
The Airacuda is a touch crude looking in spots, but Valom did the clear parts in injection rather than their usual vac form plastic with this kit and that's an improvement in itself. The biggest concern I'd have with it is that the styrene has a slight pebbly texture, so if you wanted to to the BMF scheme straight from the box, you'd have rather a lot of plastic polishing to do before you could put your finish down.
The Mojave is quite nice and almost the whole nose section is done in clear styrene parts, so you don't have to diddle about with getting the windows into the cargo doors. It comes with a couple of different decal options, one for a German based US Army machine and two different schemes for one Vietnam machine.
I didn't buy either of them as I'm holding out for Valom's Bristol Brigand and the Xtrakit/Special Hobby Sea Vixen, but for anyone who was toying with the idea of buying the Mojave or Airacuda, they looked pretty decent at a first glance to me."