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AIM-120C AMRAAM Missiles

FabScale, 1/48 scale

S u m m a r y
Catalogue Number, Description, Scale & Price

FabScale Item No. Fa48054 - AIM-120C AMRAAM Missiles

GBP £10.99 EU Export Price, £9.16 UK plus shipping available online from Hannants and hobby retailers worldwide
Contents and Media:

Four sand coloured 3d printed resin parts and a small decal sheet
Review Type: FirstLook
Advantages: Nicely detailed and accurate sizing to scale over the kit’s parts. Basically, trim off and drop into the kit.
Disadvantages: None noted.
Recommendation:

These are beautifully detailed one-piece missiles which will lift the quality of your build nicely and remove the fiddly clean up of multi-part injection moulded missiles.

Reviewed by David Couche

FirstLook

 

The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance. When an AMRAAM missile is launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code "Fox Three".

 

 

As of 2008 more than 14,000 had been produced for the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and 33 international customers. The AMRAAM has been used in several engagements, achieving 16 air-to-air kills in conflicts over Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, India, and Syria.

 

FabScale AIM-120C

FabScale gives us this set of AIM-120C missiles in a sturdy cardboard box, with the 4 missiles joined at their print bases.

 

 

The 4 missiles come in the sand-coloured resin, along with a small sheet of decals and an A5 colour printed painting and decaling instructions.

 

 

The resin missiles have wonderful raised and recessed detail that is crisply moulded. There are 4 printing supports that will need to be removed before using each of them.

 

 

Very little cleaning up will be required, making these quite simple compared with the old cast resin variety.

 

 

When painted and decaled, as above, the FabScale AIM-120C’s provide a lifelike set of missiles to add to your F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22 and F-35 models. Please check as some variants of those types didn’t carry them.

 

 

C o n c l u s i o n

 

FabScale Studio have again produced the goods here, ultra-high quality and detailed AIM-120C’s for your modern US jets. These will most definitely raise the quality of your build. I can’t wait to use them with my F-16’s or F-18’s.

Highly recommended.

Many thanks to FabScale Studio for the review sample

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Last updated 24 July, 2024

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