Friday, January 06, 2012 - 11:18 PM UTC
Trumpeter have announced a detailed information supported with the sprues pictures of their latest airplane model kit in the offer: the C-48C Skytrain. The following information and pictures were found on the producer website.
The Douglas C-48 was the designation given to 36 Pratt & Whitney powered DC-3s impressed by the USAAF after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They were a mix of aircraft already in service (28 aircraft) and aircraft still in production (8 aircraft), and had quite a mix of facilities, including three with only ten seats that were used as staff transports. Another six Pratt & Whitney aircraft were impressed as C-52s, and two as C-68s.

Item name: C-48C Skytrain Transport Aircraft
Item no: 02829
Bar code: 9580208028293
Scale: 1:48
Length: 405mm Wingspan: 604mm
Total parts: 379pcs
Metal parts: 2 Die cast main landing gear strut
Photo etched parts: 1sheet
Film parts: photo film instrument panel
Resin parts: n/a
Total sprues: 13 sprues plus 3 rubber tyres
Paint schemes:
1. Philippine Air Lines
2. Swiss Air Lines

Kit features
Fuselage
- Left and right fuselage are slide moulded w/ numberless rivets details
- Split cargo door with ladder made from astoundingly delicate  photo-etched parts
- Clear windows to assemble  to show the full interior
Engine
- Finely detailed 2x  R-1830-90C "Twin Wasp" 14-cylinder radial engines
- Air Scoops are slide moulded w/  authentic details
- Dust Filters are slide moulded w/ fine detail
- All intake grill made from photo-etched parts
Exterior
- Optional plastic or  Die cast landing gear struts slide moulded made due to the weight of the plane
Interior
- Finely detailed landing gear well
- Finely detailed cockpit
- The sleeping berth seats on passenger cargo come as separate parts
- Safety harness w/photo-etched parts for great detail
- One-piece cargo floor rendered in fine detail
Wings
- Optional position flaps
PE
- The photo-etched fret include comes as in size 55x70mm, contains numerous safety harnesses

Product website.

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Comments

Good news! But is this kit identical to their original release of the C-47 which had several rather grave inaccuaricies?? I sincerely donīt hope so.... - Harry B.
JAN 10, 2012 - 06:15 AM
I don't know what the C-48 cowlings should look like precisely, but they were apparently a little closer to the strange Trumpeteer cowling shape, which was totally inappropriate for a C-47. The Trumpeteer cowls are not exactly appropriate for the Lisunov Li-2 either, which makes one wonder where their references came from... A big issue is that this entirely new C-48 fuselage is far better moulded than the assymetrical issues that plagued the older Trumpeteer's C-47 rear fuselage (The big door hole simply "pulls" the whole thing completely out of shape for unknown reasons, if less obvious with the big doors open)... The Trumpeteer Fuselage is also broader and far more accurate than the Monogram fuselage, which can only be corrected with great difficulty by putting a 2 mm spacer between the entire fuselage halves contact surfaces (see Replic #121 for the stunning corrective article)... The Monogram nose looks very poor without this correction (and quite a few other fixes, including the nose profile)... To me this Trumpeteer C-48 kit is significant not so much as the intended subject, but as a far better basis for making a Lisunov Li-2, in part because of the much more appropriate nacelle upper shapes compared to the C-47, but also for a sounder fuselage with more compatible door openings... In addition, the rivetting and skin surface of the Li-2 seems a bit more in line with the Trumpeteer skin's appearance than US built aircrafts (less prominent raised rivets)... The short-looking main gear also does not seems that big an issue compared to some wartime Li-2 pictures... The Trumpeteer windscreen could use being made more upright, and this is fairly easy to do by sawing laterally accross the top of the cabin, and "bending" the windscreen posts forward, carrying the roof's "point" forward... I managed easily and could still use the kit's windscreen parts... One of the really big problems with this kit is getting the passenger windows to look "flush" with the soutside skin, as they should, which requires much carving of the fuselage window holes, from the inside, and carving off of the window part pegs as well... Very difficult and tedious, but the difference is worth it... Airwaves does a set of excellent resin Lisunov cowlings, but it seems the louver fronts were not that commonly fitted in place, and removing them would be near impossible on the Airwaves resin parts. For the props, the kit props could be used if the hub is made shorter and more compact-looking... I am at the point of assembling the wings to the fuselage, and my previous (bad) experience with the Trumpeteer C-47 kit indicates the numerous, and tight, wingroot lugs are more an obstacle to a good sit than a help, as is often the case with overdone large parts lug engineering... It is a far better-looking kit overall than the old Monogram. Too bad it wasn't made as a Li-2 from the start, as its errors are difficult to understand, and throw away much of the kit's excellent achievements for no discernible reason. Gaston
MAR 22, 2013 - 02:07 PM
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