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Fire Drums
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Review Author(s)
Frank Landrus
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$8.00
Product / Stock #
AB 480 102
Company: Aerobonus - Website: Visit Site
Provided by: Aires Hobby Models - Website: Visit Site
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A perfect addition to your diorama or display base is this Aires Aerobonus fire drum set. Aires Aerobonus provides two resin fire drums and a set of decals: “ For Fire Only”. Of note is the Quickboost re-sealable packaging making the parts easy to review and stuff back into the package securely. The supplied instructions provide color and decal placement drawings.

Aires Aerobonus has molded the fire drums in light grey resin with only a few bubbles that are easily filled. There are no mold seams to sand off and the resin plug is easily removed from the bottom with a razor saw or Dremel. The inside rim had a small resin protrusion, but that was easily removed with a swipe of a scalpel blade.

Although most paints will adhere to resin alone, I would recommend that you wash the parts to remove any remaining mold release and prime them first. I painted the fire drums with Vallejo red, sprayed on some Future floor acrylic, and applied the decals. The decals settled down well with no problems. I then painted the sand with Vallejo sand. Once everything is dry I will be applying a Vallejo dark grey wash. Now I just need to find a fire that needs extinguished….

Highly recommended.

Thanks to Aires Aerobonus and IPMS/USA for the opportunity to review this set.

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Reviewer Bio

Frank Landrus

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Frank retired from the Ophthalmic industry with over thirty-six years of Research and Development experience. Frank's first model kit was a 1959 Hawk 1/72 US Marines Vought AU-1 Corsair and has been building models for over sixty years. Frank's first encounter with IPMS was attending a North Central Texas ScaleFest show in 1984. Frank soon became more involved in Make-N-Take activities and became the IPMS Western Coordinator for Make-N-Takes [West of the Mississippi River]. Make-N-Takes quickly became a local model contest and airshow staple reaching a high of reaching over 1,300 children before the COVID shutdown. Frank has volunteered to assist in contest judging since 1985 and is currently the Nationals Head Figure Judge until he is dead or they find someone better.