Hermes 450 UPV

Scott Schneider Autore
This kit trying my patience. The it is a tail dragger and there is no way to add weight since the front nose is a solid piece of resin. The tail section is a second piece of resin and the panel lines do not line up. Also the rivets are not recessed, at first I thought I could just leave them alone and cover them up with weathering. Nope I should have sanded them all off and recessed them. I ended up scratch building the muffler(silencer) since one did not come with the kit. The front landing gear is from my spare parts bin. I had to scratch build the arresting hook out of a sewing needle instead of something lighter to keep the kit from being a tail dragger. The decals were nice but the did not want to bend so they are not actually in the right place on the back and wings (the colored squares) (yes I tried micro-sol and micro-set). I am glad that I found this kit on sale and only paid $19.00. I would not have paid anything more for this kit.