...my first retracts
The Sea Fury is the first Avios product I've sampled and it seems like a nice-quality kit - very neat EPO moulding, good paintwork and nice decal application.
The Sea Fury also features a neat magnetically-operated drop mechanism for the drop tanks - a rotating magnet attached to a servo which reacts with the magnets embedded in the drop tank mount. This is a very neat arrangement and which seems to work well in static mode at least.
The Sea Fury features dual split flaps, another first for me, and which looks to give a nice lift-boost for landing and perhaps take-off. And I'm thinking the Sea Fury is going to need it, with a take-off weight north of 2kg!
Another thing that concerns me a bit, although nothing specific to Avios, is whether the retracts will stand the test of time. Retracts in foam models seem to be a liability, and my runway is only sports-field grass. so we'll have to see...
The Sea Fury is the first Avios product I've sampled and it seems like a nice-quality kit - very neat EPO moulding, good paintwork and nice decal application.
The Sea Fury also features a neat magnetically-operated drop mechanism for the drop tanks - a rotating magnet attached to a servo which reacts with the magnets embedded in the drop tank mount. This is a very neat arrangement and which seems to work well in static mode at least.
The Sea Fury features dual split flaps, another first for me, and which looks to give a nice lift-boost for landing and perhaps take-off. And I'm thinking the Sea Fury is going to need it, with a take-off weight north of 2kg!
Another thing that concerns me a bit, although nothing specific to Avios, is whether the retracts will stand the test of time. Retracts in foam models seem to be a liability, and my runway is only sports-field grass. so we'll have to see...
