Teknics

1/48 F9F-2/P Corrected Nose

Product # TK48090 for $19.99 for Trumpeter/Hobbycraft kit

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Apr 27 2007

 

 

 

These new resin set from Teknics includes the F9F-2P Corrected Recce Nose & Cameras for the Trumpeter/HobbyCraft. The F9F-2P was modified from the F9F-2 fighter, and the camera windows were simply applied to the existing fighter nose shape. The -2P had one large window on the upper left side and two smaller square windows on the lower centerline. (Note the later recce Panther, the F9F-5P, had a longer nose than the F9F-5 fighter, and it had a large camera window on each side of the nose). Unfortunately the Trumpeter F9F-2P kit has the same too pointy nose shape problems as their F9F-2 and F9F-3 fighter kits; in fact the noses in all three kits have exactly the same shape. Furthermore, the large upper window is the wrong shape, the wrong size, and in the wrong location, and Trumpeter/HobbyCraft does not provide any semblance of the internal cameras. This Teknics set corrects the nose shape, the upper left camera window shape, size, and location, and provides camera lenses that will show through the clear windows.

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Resin casting is of a very high quality and all the detail is very well done with no air bubbles.  The clear eesin window is crystal clear.  This new resin set from Teknics will permit modelers to take their 1/48 F9F-2P Recce Nose & Cameras  and build it with a correct nose. 

I would like to thank Meteor Productions for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford