Cutting Edge Modelworks

1/32 A-10 GAU-8 Gun Muzzle

Product # CEC32075 for $7.99

Product Article by Steve Filak on August 9, 2005

 

 

 

Here's a quick way to add some detail to your Trumpeter 1/32 A-10 on the cheap.  As you know, the Trumpeter kit allows for the GAU-8 30mm gun to be built up and displayed alongside the model, which makes for an interesting visual display to complement the aircraft.  However, this leaves the modeler with a dilemma:  when the gun is built up separately, the one and only muzzle provided with the kit is now used up.  What to do?  Enter Cutting Edge with the answer:  a replacement muzzle.  This way, you can build up the complete aircraft, AND still have all the requisite parts to display the GAU-8 cannon alongside the aircraft.

WHAT YOU GET:

Very simply, you get the muzzle of the gun and the barrel clamp.  These parts are cast together on a single casting block.  No instructions are provided with the set and they're not needed....all there is to do is to remove the parts from the casting block, clean up the flash in the vent holes on the barrel clamp, slide the muzzle end into the barrel clamp, and attach it to the model.  Some sanding of the kit's gun opening may be necessary, but other than that, you're good to go.

As you can see, the detail of the parts is very sharp, particularly the barrel ends.  The debris that you see on the resin parts is just from sanding.  My set was intact upon opening, all parts were cleanly formed, and were removed from the casting blocks with a razor saw.  Total time of assembly of this part (including attaching it to the fuselage is about a fifteen minute job.  This includes removing any flash from the vent holes in the muzzle clamp.  I found that the flash was removed very quickly with an X-Acto followed by a round needle file.

I'd like to thank  Cutting Edge Modelworks for providing me with this review sample.  This muzzle will definitely make its way onto one of my Trumpeter A-10 kits!
Steve
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Photos and text © by Steve Filak