What is in the Box

• 5 pink injection molded plastic sprues [58 parts total]
• 1 clear sprue
• 1 decal sheet with 1 markings options & damage decals
• 1 full instruction page
• 1 FULL color box top diagram

Construction

The construction begins with the exposed Speeder engine parts. These were all airbrushed with metallic paints-Gunze & Alclad various shades. Fairly simple construction but I suggest some dry fitting before painting. The next phase I pre-painted some assemblies before construction. This is in contradiction of the sequential order of the instructions. This will pay dividends in final construction and save some messy masking. There are two colors that require paint mixing [Tamiya paint codes] which I found the darker color closely resembles Tamiya Dull Red [TS-33] which I used straight from a decanted Spray can [TS-33 ].

Basic Background

For those of an age, you may well remember the 1979 Disney Studios movie, The Black Hole, its basic premise, in the year 2130, the USS Palomino, while returning to Earth following deep space exploration, comes across a black hole with a considered lost vessel, the Cygnus, hovering on the edge of the black hole. As a part of that movie, the evil robot, Maximillian, serves the antagonist, Dr Reinhardt as his personal bodyguard.

When the reviewer corps received Squadrons B-24J “Dragon and His Tail” kit, I said heck yeah, I’ll do it. By the way, I actually used my training and worked a bunch of sheet metal and other stuff on a B-24 over the years when I was the MX rep for a Museum; Specifically, the Willow run Ford-built “J” model Serial Number 44-48781that was, until recently, at Barksdale AFB and is now at Savannah. I also have Bert Kinsey and Rock Roszak’s B-24 Liberator collaboration with Detail and Scale sitting next to me as I write this.