HISTORY

Build,

build,

build!

TEXT:

MARTIN ČERNÝ

Photographs: KPM Kaznejov

After our quite successful group build

of four Treners by our club memberes

we were offered to build the surprise

new release from Eduard, A6M2 Zero

kit, the limited edition Tora Tora Tora!

By coincidence we had agreed on another group build, the

members agreed as well so there was no obstacle to launching the project Zero. This time we opted for a team work and

each member of the group of four was working on an specific

assignment. Upon my arrival on Friday night Mira Bilek has

completed one unpainted cockpit and was getting ready to

start another one. Vlad Suma glued the separate wing panels

into the bottom part of the wing and put together the wheel

wells. Johnny Hanzlicek in the meantime prepared the horizontal tail surfaces, glued together the engines, drop tanks

and some other small details. And this process went on until

we reached the painting stage. I’m not sure why the guys left

this for myself however I overheard the muffled voice coming

somewhere from the rear: “…let the club president mess it up

himself!”

No issues (except those self-induced)

The new hot Eduard release looks very nice, delicate panel

lines and fully riveted surfaces look simply great even though

the rivets disappear in some areas due to the limits of the

injection moulding technology. Therefore after gluing and

sanding the fuselages we restored the riveting on the upper

and lower sides of the fuselage. Nothing more was necessary. The other parts show very high level of detailing. Cockpit

representation in plastic is amazing, some may want to add

couple of wires though. Also the engine looks nice considering how much o fit will be seen after the installation. Here

we slightly deviated from our original intention to build the kit

just out of the box. We glued pieces of brass tubing on the

ignition harness conduit and attached lead wires to them to

represent spark plugs cables. A radial engine just cannot be

without them!

No hiccup during the building, woth mentioning is coming to

my mind. I mean as far as Eduard is concerned.

On the other hand we suffered from two blunders, well “mini-blunders” to sound more optimistic. I somehow subconciousely transformed the initially selected camouflage scheme

D (blue fuselage bands) into scheme K (blue bands as well).

I overlooked it during the night, flipped one page more in the

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INFO Eduard - December 2021