Thanks for the replies mates, appreciated 🙂
Gabor, true ! Thats not too easy on this one but it gets better with every new one.
After the release of the first one, i was busy to buy all the releases from Eduard, always wondering if i get them done at some time, now i am through with most of them.
Open designed hatches means often that you have a deeper and broader panel line to cope with, so you can have much work on other kits as well.
It will be interesting to see how the similar designed Zvezda La-5 compares with the Eduard 190.
Bernard : i have never build the Aurora and never finished the Monogram 190 but i have build the Hasegawa A-3. The kit is o.K, typically Hasegawa but i was not too impressed with it. The landing gear covers are split, this can be handy on eastern front fighter bombers but not for a french based bird.
The A-5 from Hasegawa is unbuild but looks very nice in the box, the parts look better in this kit trhan on the early A-3/4. Should be an improvement. No splitted gear covers that goes for all later Hasegawa variants. Well made and good fitting kits. Hasegawa quality, sadly quite expensive here. Its often said that these are Dragon kits may similar designed but looks like new tools for me.
The Tamiya kits are as most of their WWII fighter range quite simple builds, good fit, good surfaces. The landing gears struts and/or the wheels are too short / small.
The wheel wells are too flat. The F-8 and the A-3 are nice kits and the later A-8/A-8/R2 are good builds, on the A-8 you can choose between the standart fighter and "Sturmjäger". That means you have the additional armor as a self adhesive sticker and you can opt between the different gun bulges under the wing and ejection chutes.
Still good build, you can invest some work and resin to improve them or you have a quick build and soon someting new in the display.
The Dragon 190 are the Trimaster molds and they nailed the form of the 190 in those days, good details but in some areas a very poor fit but nothing some filling and sanding can t cure. The wheel wells are wrong in the D versions, they have no cut out for the engines.
MDC has the right medicine:
http://www.modeldesignconstruction.co.uk/mall/ModelDesignConstruction/customerimages/products/l_CV48043.jpg
I will test this set when it comes to my Drogon ( Italeri ) D-9, looks quite good.
