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RS Models De Schelde S-21
92055

Manufacturer: RS Models

Parts: 1 gray & 1 clear sprue.

Kit No: 92055

Panel lines: Engraved

Scale: 1/72nd

Cockpit: Raised.

Type: Injection molded

Decal options: 3

Decal option 1: De Schelde S-21 Prototype.

Decal option 2: De Schelde S-21 May 1940.

Decal option 2: Focke Wulf Fw-198, De Schelde Renamed by Luftwaffe.

Remarks: The surprise was great when RS Models announched this kit. Mostly because of all those Dutch Aircraft which really became a prototype, or even went into production before May 1940, there aren't much kits around. De Schelde S-21 never even became a prototype. The only thing completed was a mock-up of the cockpit section. The kit itself is a nice short run kit, with some very nice detail on the outside, and a plain simple cockpit. A real downfall of this kit is the canopy, which looks like those old 60's Heller canopies, thick, totaly not clear and the framing is very vague. Three decal options complete this release

Although not even a prototype has been produced of this aircraft it is very nice to see it as a kit. this tiny little aircraft might be the start of something what some people already call LVA '41 (LVA = Dutch Airforce department), in the line of all those Luft '46 projects.