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AZ models P-36 kits; are they all the same plastic in the box?
Topic Started: Mar 5 2018, 11:12 PM (316 Views)
Blekster
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Can anyone confirm if the AZ model P-36 kits are all the same - ie, the same plastic in the box just different decals depending on the boxing?

I want to build a Finnish P-36 and have an opportunity for a P-36A or P-36C kit and hope that I can build either as a Finnish plane.
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MDriskill
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I have only one of these, so can’t definitively answer the question, but I strongly suspect the answer is “yes.”

All of the variants released so far are Twin Wasp-engined, and the one I have comes with some un-used parts, which indicates to me the others are probably the same. Even if I am wrong it should only take some panel line scribing and other minor stuff to correctly depict whichever variant you have in mind.

This seems like a really excellent kit, by the way, IMHO a major upgrade from all predecessors. It fits the drawings recently published on Japanese master modeler and draftsman Jumpei Temma’s web site, VERY nicely indeed. I have my fingers crossed AZ will get around to the Cyclone-engined variants, which have never been done justice in a mainstream kit.

Check out these superb (and easily downloadable) H-75 drawing (you’ll need to scroll down a bit):

http://www.geocities.jp/yoyuso/p40b/p40b-1.html
Edited by MDriskill, Mar 17 2018, 04:22 PM.
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Hero
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I have 2 ea of the US versions. They were sent to me unpackaged, just a bundle of bagged kits, boxes, and instruction sheets in a box from the Czech Republic. So It's safe to assume they are all the same plastic, different boxes, decals, and instructions. The directions show what parts to use for the variants.
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Blekster
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Thank you. I appreciate both replies. _^ Looks like I will pick up the 2 kits and then just go online to find the instructions for the Finnish version.
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Mark Schynert
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Just got the P-36C iteration, and in the box it looks really good. What its noteworthy to me is that it's straight styrene (except for the seat belts)--no PE, no resin, no vac canopies, and yet the interior is decently detailed. If it fits as well as the Monogram, it'll certainly be the best P-36/Hawk 75A in scale.
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dknights
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Mark Schynert
Mar 16 2018, 09:58 PM
Just got the P-36C iteration, and in the box it looks really good. What its noteworthy to me is that it's straight styrene (except for the seat belts)--no PE, no resin, no vac canopies, and yet the interior is decently detailed. If it fits as well as the Monogram, it'll certainly be the best P-36/Hawk 75A in scale.
Good news indeed.
David M. Knights
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14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51
15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine
16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane.
17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, Belcher SS-4, Italeri AB41, PLAN Type 039A (not 72nd scale)
18 Finished: NONE
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