Tiny Heron

Got this cutie nearly ready to paint. F-RSIN kit. My first F-RSIN kit and I'm not exactly wowed.

http://www.f-rsin.com/pages/collection/14070-717273.html

 
After I got the left wing reasonably un-warped (I've come to expect warp with thin, narrow resin.) assembly was acceptable, I guess. Totally unacceptable were the white metal prop/spinner pieces. Most unfortunate, that, as finding replacement spinner-ed two-bladed props in 1/144th scale is well...what would you suggest?

 
Seen here are three of the four kit-supplied props. I suppose they can be cleaned up, (clutch them with tweezers and oh-so-carefully, times four...yeah, right) but could it possibly take any more time to replace them with something else? All I see are a trio of size templates. I plan to cut down blades from a couple LS H8K2 props. The spinners I made myself; shaped the end of a styrene rod and made resin copies of the result.

For the record, if I was producing resin kits and these were the best propellers I could supply, I'd stick with jets. Glad I didn't pay for this Heron. I'd be angry on top of disgusted.

Nose wheel and strut are white metal as are the main gear legs. Main gear wheels are resin. Though not as awful as the propellers, they too were pretty chunky. I replaced them with a pair of tiny wheels from I-don't-know-what floating around in the spare wheel collection.  Close enough.
 

Comments

[Douglas]

When I first saw that photo I wasn't sure if that was a very large single edge razor or a fairly small model kit!

[Pat Hawkey]

Ha! No, I don't have a special overgrown razor blade I take out for photo purposes.