>>9184105I have seen profiles claiming that some had Vickers (I know that Type I onwards had Vickers), the example I am painting was in Russian service and I know that the Russians had Vickers on hand so I was willing to work with the kit part. Of note is that the Russians had some type Is, so the platform is there for them.
I did deliberate over this, but I want to use kit parts wherever practical to pay proper homage to a kit of this vintage. That being said, certain parts (like the "windscreen", which was just a frame that snapped in the decades before I even came into possession of this box) are of a type so unseen in any photos I can find that I assume they were designed on the principle of "good enough, no kid has seen the real thing anyway." These instructions (and this is all of them, apart from the rigging diagrams) show how poor the kit's excuse for a cockpit, windscreen, and general level of detail happens to be. It should be a fun build, but a bit of work to bring it up to scratch.
