For my first ARC
article, here's my latest build, the RVHP Be-12 "Mail". This is
a resin kit with metal landing gear and vacuformed clear parts. Quality of
this kit is outstanding. The only negative is that the clear vacuformed
nose section is pulled so thin at the end the builder has to be extremely
careful, as I found out the hard way. Surface detail is recessed and
raised where it needs to be and is as fine as any I've ever seen. Decals
are supplied for four aircraft, USSR, Ukraine, Egypt and Vietnam.
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The Be-12 was
developed for the Soviet Navy as an ASW replacement for the piston
engined Be-6 "Madge" in the late 1950's. First flight
was in October, 1960 and deliveries to operational units began in 1967-68.
Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991, The type was slowly withdrawn in
favor the the Ilyushin Il-38 "May".
Patrick
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