Platz Hobby

1/72 H-19 (S-55) photo etch set

product # M72-022 

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Oct 15 2010

 

Platz Hobby has released a new photo etch set for the H-19 (S-55).

This photo etch set was manufactured by Eduard and is consistent with the high quality pre-painted photo etch sets made by Eduard these days.  

This set adds detail to the following areas: 

  • Cockpit 

  • Tail rotor hub

  • Main rotor hub

  • Windshield wipers

  • Landing gear legs

  • Landing Gear doors

  • Exterior of fuselage (screens and other small detail items)

The 3 pages of line drawing instructions are easy to follow and are your typical Eduard instruction sheets, so you will have no problem following the assembly sequence when using this set.  The pre-painted instrument panels in this set are so tiny (this is 1/72 after all), but they are so wonderfully and flawlessly painted.  Each tiny dial is clearly visible and readable.  The cockpit instrument panel is a 2 piece affair with the pre-painted gauges going behind the pre-painted instrument bezels.  Compared to the kit parts this set is a big improvement.  You also get pre-painted seatbelts.....which are equally beautiful.  Plus a bunch of other parts for detailing the exterior of your H-19.

If you do decide to add the photo etch wiper blades to the windshield.....remember that fumes from CA glue will fog the windshield, so coat your windshield in Future before you use the CA glue to avoid this problem......or don't use CA glue to attach the Photo Etch parts to the windshield.

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Platz Hobby has come out with a very good set for the H-19 and this is definitely worth picking up when you build a 1/72 H-19 as it adds some very critical detail to some very prominent areas on the H-19.

You can buy this set directly from the Platz Hobby website.  I'd like to thank Platz for the review sample.

Steve Bamford

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford