A closer look at the Soviet SB-2 high-speed bomber in 1:200 scale made by the Russian company Zvezda. This box is an expansion for their "Art Of Tactic" wargame, but this model could not only be used for this or other ww2 games, the SB-2 was used in China and the Spanish civil war, too.
You may already know that I am no aviation expert, but this should be no big hurdle to give this kit a quick look:
The kit comes in two olivegreen sprues, there are no ejectormarkings and sinkholes, virtually no flash was found on the sprue. Here and there are some mouldlines on smaller parts to remove.
You can build this plane with open or closed landing gear.
As usual, there is no glue required to build this Zvezda kit, but if you want to, you can use normal model cement on the parts.
The next is the clear plastic sprue. It is made from pretty soft plastic and contains 3 canopies to finish the kit.
The final sprue in this box contains 2 parts to build a stand
for the plane. It is included in every "Art Of Tactic" plane expansion.
It seems solid and not too bad and would be a decent model stand if you remove all mouldlines and ejectormarkings.
The decalsheet seems like it is printed in the same good quality than
the other Zvezda decal sheets I know. This one contains some generic
numbers and Red Stars. I had no time to test them at the moment, but
there should be no issues
with them, but...
if you want to use decal setting and/or decal softing solution there is the chance that it may damage them, I had this issue with the decals from Zvezdas Hawker Hurricane (next Saturdays plane) when I used decalsofter.
The instruction leaflet was easy to understand and after some minutes of minimal cleanup and some more minutes to build this kit, the plane was finished and looks like this:
I already have some ideas how to paint this thing, but I do not think this will happen this year. And, as usual, I will have to get some decals to make this version.
I have no idea how to rate this kit, and I can not say if this kit is accurate for its scale, but this may not only be useful for "Art Of Tactic" players.
Whenever you would need a early war Soviet, a Spanish civil war, or even a Chinese nationalist SB-2 bomber, you could use this one.
It seems that the ww2 Zvezda kits in Germany are cheaper compared to most countries, this costs in all of my favorised shops under 4 Euros.
Tomorrow we will take a closer look at another "TANKS" expansion.
Tomorrow we will take a closer look at another "TANKS" expansion.
