The Ukrainian company’s widely praised 1/48 new-tool OV-10A is repackaged with fresh US Navy decals.
If ever a type was begging to be replicated in scale form via a modern 1/48 tooling it was the OV-10 Bronco. Ukraine’s ICM managed this with aplomb last year, with a kit that oozed fine detail and provided a generous stores election (and which was also released with other parts to represent the OV-10D). Now the ‘A’ tooling returns in a new box (48304) with fresh decals for four US Navy airframes.
The schemes are for examples in Camouflage Green over white (including orange high-vis panels on one machine), plus either black or dark blue topside paint. The airframes are:
• BuNo 155470/8/RA, VS-41 ‘Shamrocks’, Naval Air Station North Island, 1969
• BuNo 155470/8/RA, VS-41 ‘Shamrocks’, Naval Air Station North Island, 1971
• BuNo 155473/09/RA, VS-41 ‘Shamrocks, Naval Air Station North Island, 1971
• BuNo 155480/480, Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, early 1980s
If you haven’t seen ICM’s OV-10A Bronco before, you can read a full in-box review.
Quality offering
The detail is plentiful and this boxing also offers alternative rear instrument panels. Many features are moulded in the busy cockpits, with the seats being multi-part items. Separate flaps and control surfaces are also provided, plus various bombs, rocket pods and napalm tanks. This kit costs £39.80 via UK importer Hannants.
