The box art is similar to the WW2 RAF and Luftwaffe Sets. My RAF set did not have painting instructions, they were printed on the box in colour. The tooling for the RAF set was from ICM. This new set does not look like an ICM tool. The figures are nowhere near as crisply moulded or as well sculpted.
You do get some of the naffest line drawings of figures that I've ever seen in the painting instructions
Honestly, I think the artist has been looking at Scooby Doo cartoons or something...
"I'd have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you durn kids..."
Sorry, Herr Revell, black and white, poor line drawings really don't hack it these days.
Here's the one and only sprue:
Front:
And back;
The mouldings are "okay", but not spectacular. If you need better figures, resin ones from PJ productions are better sculpted and better moulded, but a lot more expensive.
The seated pilots are all smaller than the standing ones - it makes me wonder whether they got two different designers to do the standing and sitting ones.
The ones I'll be putting in my helicopter builds are the ones above with what looks like their entrails hanging under their heads. It's an oxygen mask, which should be fairly easy to remove.
Summary: Cheap and cheerful. Adequate for the purpose of filling cockpits. Unlikely to set the world alight.
