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I nearly bought this, but our local hobby shop wanted a R1200 for it. Seemed a bit expensive at the time.

Looking good. What's the fit of the fuselage and wings like ?

Hang type.

Mistral
Fuselage fit OK, the nose area not so good. The cockpit area bulkheads etc needed to be trimmed. When assembling nose bay I would recommend building and fitting oleos.
Engine bulkheads needed some sanding to make for a reasonable fit of engine nacalles.
Upper wing sections were warpped.
As with the DC 3 Revell spent alot on interior 'details'.
Once fuselage glued most of it dissapears so my interior is basically the cockpit till the second bulkhead, rest empty shell.

Mine was AED125.00 here in Abu Dhabi.
If you want to one can detail the kit that'll be a mice addition to a display shelf if you want to do a maitenance or general flightline display.

Do not forget to add some weight in the nose.

From what I recall the SAAF "Pax skymasters" had airline seating in it being ex SAA planes.

T

Correct. Kit has military seats which is incorrect for SAAF bird

I flew on several occasions as pax on the DC-4 to Ysterplaat and back in the early 1980s. The ex-SAA DC-4-1009s (excluding "Spook" 6901/ZS-AUA) - 6902/ZS-ZS-BMF, 6903/ZS-BMG, 6904/ZS-BMH and 6905/ZS-AUB all had their original SAA seating and interiors.

6906 was a C-54A-5DO while 6907 and 6908 were C-54A-15-DCs.

If the ex-SAA planes were actually built as DC-4s, not C-54s, they are rather rare birds. A total of 1170 C-54s or R5Ds were made during WW2, but only 79 DC-4s were built after the war.

ZS -BMH was the last DC4 built.

Starting to fit the ELINT antenna suite to the 'Ghost'

Working on sensor suite





Super Hetrodyne antenna



Test fit to see if the wing fits... (Ooops)

Wing fit looks good to me

But the fuselage may be a problem ....

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