Teknics

1/48 F9F Corrected "Cougar Nose"

Product # TK48087 for $7.99 for Trumpeter/HobbyCraft/FM kit

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Apr 26 2007

 

 

 

These new resin set from Teknics includes a resin F9F Corrected "Cougar Nose" for Panther & Cougar for Trumpeter/HobbyCraft/FM kit.  Late in their service lives, many F9F-2 and F9F-5 Panthers received the same AN/ARA-25 UHF set as was fitted to most F9F-6 through F9F-8 Cougars. This unit was housed in the nose and required a large fairing to be applied to the bottom of the fighter's gun nose. 

Teknics has created a properly shaped fairing that can be applied to the Trumpeter/HobbyCraft F9F-2 (and Teknics set TK48086 F9F-2/F9F-3 Corrected Fighter Nose), and the Monogram/Revell F9F-5. It will also replace the much too narrow fairing on the Fonderie-Miniature F9F-8 Cougar kit.  

There is one page for instructions that covers the installation of this resin nose addition.  The installation requires scraping the resin piece to obtain the perfect fit for the particular kit you've selected.  This shouldn't require too much effort.

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Resin casting is of a very high quality and all the detail is very well done with no air bubbles.  This new resin set from Teknics will permit modelers to take their 1/48 Panther and build it with a correct nose. 

I would like to thank Meteor Productions for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford