SKY 1: building the sharp end


Mike Reccia launches (and, as fate steps in, re-launches) the new resin kit.


Cassini Models. This initial kit can be displayed on its own or joined to the by-the-time-you-read-this- just-released second kit – DIVER – to result in a two and a half foot long replica. Both kits will be reviewed in this two-part article, but in part one we’ll concentrate on the contents of the aforementioned box – presented to the modeller as a collection of superbly cast resin pieces. Cassini have simplified the plane’s complex shape into just eighteen, virtually bubble-free and super- smooth parts: body, rear plate, wings, tailplane, cockpit canopy, transparent plastic canopy insert, engine/weapons pods, engine/weapons pod exhausts, pilot bust, headrest, control panel and four gun nozzles. Also included is a comprehensive set of pre-cut vinyl decals in black (wing flashes, engine/weapons pods Exhaust warning lettering), white (large and small ‘1s’, side flashes, flap trims, weapon/engine pods piping, Danger Exhaust lettering) and red (underside intake and rear pin striping), plus red vinyl warning triangles and yellow ‘rescue’ flashes, and a small rectangle of fine mesh from which to cut out the inserts for the nose and underside intakes.


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onsidering the finished dimensions, this kit arrived in a surprisingly compact cardboard box. Opening it like a seven-year-old on Christmas morning I was confronted by SKY 1 from UFO, the front half of the iconic Skydiver, and the first of two linked releases from Jim Millet’s


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