I like what I am seeing! I notice something on this engine that is lacking on virtually every engine, kit or aftermarket---a splined propeller shaft! I've got to machine my own prop shaft for an engine change diorama that I have planned and I've often wondered why someone didn't mold the splines on a kit part. Now they have!
Many years ago a friend of ours forecast that large-scale kits would someday become big business. His reasoning was that many of us that are heavily involved in building are getting older and that the eyesight and fingers naturally lose their "touch" with advanced age. When he advanced this theory he was in his upper sixties and had long before given up on 1/72 scale. 1/48 was beginning to become a challenge for him and he was looking forward to 1/32. The only drawback, in his eyes, was that the larger scale would be too expensive for the average person to afford and that people would be confined to less and less models as they got older.
