Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Revell's Freedom Fighters

 This box contains the three 1/72 fighter models, the rarest of Revell, they are the last molds of that series to have been manufactured, in the seventies, in a very short production, I think it was only once, the Cr. 42 I have only seen it in one edition of the seventies and in this package, the PZL 11 I think was produced more, even in Mexico, the only one that I am sure was produced here is the I-16, because I saw it at the Lodela offices, when they were in Berlin 34.

These molds must have had a problem, they were the last to be made, and had a very short life, in fact the old molds from the 50s and 60s were still used until the nineties, but these were not, maybe it was a technological step. Wrong, the models were much better made, the plastic was finer and they were very well made, perhaps that was achieved with less efficient molding metals, the explanation can only be hypothesis, these models have never been produced again, like this They are very expensive, these are in their original packaging, and I do not intend to open them until I have an event worth celebrating, or perhaps, like the Ar-234, I assemble them to remove the bad taste of these two terrible years.