Eduard Model Accessories

1/48 Spitfire Mk. XVI engine

Product # 648217 for Eduard kit

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Apr 8 2016

 

      

This resin and photo etch set from Eduard is part of the Brassin series and is available directly from Eduard Model AccessoriesThis set includes one Spitfire Mk. XVI engine in 1/48 scale.

This is the Merlin 266 which is a Merlin 66 built in the USA under licence by the Packard Motor Company.  Because of a slightly taller intercooler and rearranged accessories on the Packard Merlins a new, bulged upper cowling was introduced and also appeared on late production IXs.

 

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This resin and photo etch set includes:

  • full engine

  • engine exhausts

  • engine mounting frame

  • complete set of engine cowlings

There are 8 pages of instruction in the usual line drawing format that Eduard is famous for and which are so easy to follow.  

You will be required to fold the photoetch in this set, but if you have one of the Hold & Fold photo etch benders from The Small Shop, then this will be an easy process.  They have a variety of benders for sharp corners as well as rounded corners and in many different sizes.

The Merlin 266 engine is a very complicated piece of engineering and this detail set captures all that wonderful detail in all it's glory for you to install in your 1/48 Spitfire Mk. XVI model.

You can buy this detail set and thousands of other items directly from Eduard Model Accessories.

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Steve Bamford

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