"Sweet clear plastic kits" Topic

I have just made a pair of 1/144 Sweet Hurricanes – these come in the box with one plane moulded in brown plastic and the other in clear plastic.

Does anyone know why there is a clear plane included?

It was hard to make the clear plane, as it was hard to see! Plastic cement fogs the clear plastic so if the idea is to have a see through model, then this is spoiled by glue.

The kit doesn't contain any interior details that you can see due to the clear plastic?

I have sprayed both of them white, and painted them so it makes no difference now. But it would seem that there is some reason to having a clear version?

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From this sweetaviationmodels.com/it seems that only the British aircraft come with the clear version ????

Wonderwoman's Invisible Plane, before she got the Invisible Jet?

I bought some of these as well and the clear version in that scale made it almost impossible to build. Very strange.

Can't you just apray it with primer on the sprue first?

That may be a sensible approach, in retrospect.

Although the parts seem much more visible on the sprue – its only once you have cut them off then it is hard to see them. And plastic cement doesn't stick painted stuff as well.

You could use contact adhesive if you're careful, or apply the plastic cement with a pin, to eliminate fogging. As to what you use them for, ghosts?

The actual reason was that the kits were produced with two canopies on the sprue, so shooting one of the two Hurricanes (or the first issue of the MC200) in clear plastic meant that there were two clear canopies in the kit. Later releases (Wildcats, Mustangs, 109s and Zeroes) had conventional clear sprues for the canopies, and one of those was added to the MC200.

For what very little it might apply to the question, I've got some vague memory of WWI aircraft kits being done in clear plastic to facilitate the translucent look of dope on fabric.

When I built my Sweet Hurricanes, I mixed and matched the parts, building each plane with a combination of clear and grey bits. It seemed to make construction go a little easier since I could see them better. Of course, once I primed them both in grey it was no longer an issue.