1/72 Douglas Boston/Havoc

Cheers, can’t find the Revell kit, but i’ve been told the Frog one was an 88 squadron machine, so probably a Boston III/A20C, the same as the Revell version, so might get that. The 1/48 Italeri one is very tempting, even though it’s a different scale from my other kits and also I don’t think I can fit it anywhere, looks very nice though

Revell 1/72 Boston

Rob,

I built this back in the 70’s, assuming it has been reissued without changes. It was a fialry good model, though the nose section/main fuselage joint required a bit of work to smooth/hide it.

Couple of points I remember – the nose section was seperate to main fuselage (see above), so conversion into a Turbinlite Havoc would have been fairly straight forward, thus an interesting diorama with a night-fighter schemed Hurricane would be possible.

The propellors could be left as a push fit onto their shafts/spindles, and the main cowlings were a push fit onto the front of the nacelles, so you could take the prop(s) and cowling(s) off for a diorama. A pair of reasonably modelled radials were provided to mount on the firewalls and go under the cowlings.

Little detail inside the nose glazing, or under the rear turret glazing. Fuselage mounted cannon scabbed-fairings were seperate parts, again allowing more variation.

Cheers
Paul F

Rob, I’m pretty sure the Revell kit is not from the Frog/Novo moulds as I think they only took the moulds for the Axis aircraft that weren’t already in their range.
The High Planes kits are ltd run so need a bit more skill, of the others they all offer a fair representation of the Boston/Havoc.

Kingkit is currently showing the Airfix, Frog & Matchbox kits
http://www.kingkit.co.uk/kingkit/index.php

I sold my Airfix and Matchbox ones on eBay back in March.

Kev the Italeri one is 1/48.

I believe Italeri do one?

Regards,

kev35