NEW! 1/72 Airfix Me410A-1/U2&U4 (AO4066) review 

Yes yes yes! A 1/48 Jaguar PLEASE

Another fantastic review from you again. I look forward to your next review soon. Enjoy your weekend ahead.

Good details all round and weighted tires!. It’s a good little kit let’s face it.

At last they changed the plastic , thumbs up for airfix

Это большой сюрприз от ,айрфикс,...очень неожиданный...😮😂🎉

One on display is at Cosford the one in the US is stored at the Smithsonian

I'm impressed with the quality of this kit and the instructions, especially in this smaller scale and dare I say it, coming from Airfix, although I have found their newly tooled subjects across the board have improved tremendously. Hope it goes together smoothly.

Peter - the Standard arms fit on the Me 410 was 2x 7.9mm Machine guns in the nose, along with 2x 20mm cannon just outboard and below them. The U-2 variant had another 2 20mm Cannon mounted in the Weapons bay under the cockpit, Making 4x cannon and 2x Mgs firing forwards. (There was another version with 4x 20mm cannon in the weapons bay.) The big gun was a 50mm Panzer 3 gun mounted with and autroloader in the weapons bay. It was not used for strafing - it was an Anti-Bomber weapon. (1 Strike and yooouuu're OUT!) The base mentioned was home base for an Anti-Bomber wing of Me110's and Me 410's and their escorting Bf 109G and Fw 190A fighters. ZG 26 was often split between a number of bases all over the westrn fron, and 1 unit was sent to Norway to help hold out the Russians in the far North after the Finnish Armistice in August 1944 , when the Germans had to evacuate their forces from Finnish Soil. Btw the barbette guns were not cannon, but 13mm Machine guns. (Equivalent to the American .50cal....) ... and one last point: That "Fingerprint" (it looks more like a rushed sanding job!) on the top of the canopy is pretty irrelevant - That panel is sheet metal on the actual aircraft, so you will need to paint it!

Just bought this today. Should receive it in a few days. Looking forward to it. Glad I didn't build my italeri and matchbox now!

It is always a great day when a new kit comes out. Back in the recent past great days were much more common!

As slways, a wonderful review Peter. Informative and hugely entertaining...! Defonitely getting this beaitiful Airfix kit for Christmas. Built the fabulous Matchbox version in the 80s and, well, Airfix are choosing some excellent subjects these days; great to see the company doing do well and thanks to all their talented staff. Thanks for sharing....👍

Hi Peter, This looks like a great kit. Thanks for the review. Have a great day. Jeff

Good news Peter re the strange canopy scuffing. This was an unglazed panel on the original, so I suspect the paint will remedy this...hopefully. I took a close look at the built examples on the Airfix stand at SMW first thing Sat. It looked great built up. IMHO the benchmark for this kit is the Fine Molds offering. Like you I love Matchbox, but that's not really a contender anymore. I have two Fine Mold boxings of the 410, and I think the Airfix kit will leapfrog them to the bench.

Thanks Peter!! Another very entertaining and informative video. Most enjoyable!! 10 out of 10! 👍👍🍻

Good video thanks lee

Good review of one of my favorite Luftwaffe aircraft. ME 410s did a lot of damage to 8th AF B-17s and B-24s before the arrival of the Mustang. I built the FROG kit with the 50mm cannon more than 50 years ago! It was not bad for the time but this certainly eclipses it. Thanks👍👍👍

1/48 Jaguar would be my no1 choice too

Well l was waiting for a in depth review of this l saw it on the Airfix stand but was undecided and now l am this will join my stash this year you never know with enough hints the wife might get for Christmas 🤔be a nice tree present, talking about the Buccaneer l think it was these aircraft that bombed the Torrey Canyon l remember watching it on TV in black and white when l was a kid, l say a new Jaguar or a Handley Page Hampden would be nice 👍

Nice kit. It looks like in the instructions that you have to commit very early which version you want to do, as you need to drill holes if you do the big cannon version. You are correct that the Uk ME 410 is at cosford, it was one of 6 410s that were taken back to Britain in 1945 for evaluation and was the only one to survive.The other one in America was found intact at an airfield in Trapani sicily in August 1943 and was shipped to the USA in 1944 it is still awaiting restoration.

In the flesh/plastic (delete as appropriate) this kit is amazing. The detail is amazing and very well done. Its easy to forget when your watching the video how much we are zoomed in.

Weird I'm not building many aircraft in 1/72 scale anymore, just some of the bigger ones. The old Matchbox Me410 had no secrets for me. I don't often build more or less the same kit in the same scale twice but I might tempted with this one.

The Me410 is one of my favorite planes together with the Ju188.

A fair honest review Peter, nicely moulded kit but that scuff mark on the canopy 😐. @Airfix are doing some good things design wise, almost as if the design team have been given licence to be less conservative and more innovative in their processes. We took a spin up to Cosford yesterday morning and spent some time on site. The Me-410 is still on display and is the A1/U2 version, took some photos which I'm happy to share. Great review, cheers!

I have the same issue with the clear part as you have shown.

Is Airfix using a bit of slide-moulding on this kit? On the two sprues with the fuselage halves, it looks as though they have in order to get proper panel line detail on the underside of the fuselage!! A 'first' for Airfix? I don't recall seeing slide-moulding before from Airfix! 😉 Nice review of a very good looking kit here! 👍

Is it just me , or is Peter giving off a Clive Sinclair vibe, looks a good kit and glad you had a good time at Telford

Loverly review Peter, watched it after I had finished editing mine, out tomorrow. Did you miss the slide moulding on the fuselage? apparently the big canon is from a Panzer IV!

Very interesting - I will look forward to this. Could be tempted to buy it. Here's an idea - why not do a side by side review between this new airfix kit and the old Matchbox ME-410 (assuming you have it in your collection).

I hope Airfix is coming out with a 1/48 scale version of this kit in the near future. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

In the latest edition of ‘sprue talk’ about the kit they actually explain why the artwork is less dynamic as apparently there weren’t many ‘on this day an ME410 did this’ incidents so they decided just to keep it fairly action neutral (to avoid critics), but they knew they definitely wanted a Norwegian fjord background!

Hi Peter, It looks to me the issue with the clear part is a bit of scuffing in the bag. I would also like make another comment. Everybody talks about the designers, their designs and the quality (or not ) of the final product but there is NEVER any mention of the mould makers. These are the most important link in the chain, why are they never mentioned? I cannot find a single description of their work anywhere. What do you think?

Would have preferred this kit in 1/48 with a lot more detail, more decal options and finer surface detail, Airfix always seems to have panel lines that’s are 2 feet deep

100% with you on the jaguar. It's mad that nobody has come up with a decent one yet! We live in hope that Airfix are not going for it because they got a tip off from the Yakuza that mister T is working on one.

Gardermoen in Norway is the modern-day Oslo airport - a long way from the Arctic convoy routes.

Your vid on Eduard decals has gone viral in modelling. Now we are getting sites saying they are great. Have you re-visited?

Peter, the centre seams on Messerschmitt fuselage designs are a thing. The fuselage skin was built up in two halves out of a number of preformed sections sections complete with formers, and slotted & riveted together, with both complete halves being rivetted together using a lapped join running down the centre. All flush rivetted of course, and in theory puttied / taped over (very visible in some me-262 unpainted relic/war trophy photographs. PS That scratchy bit on the canopy top section is not part of the transparency. So it is painted over. I guess they wanted to give it a bit of texture? As for the Jag.. As an ex Jaguar mech, if only briefly, I endorse this view. However - I really think they should be giving us a Puma - equally well used.... Wessex & Chinook would be nice, but Italeri have that pretty well covered.

I recently left my aircraft wish list on the Airfix website comments section. I made the point that I thought Airfix as a British company should lead on RAF aircraft and we're missing all sorts of important subjects like a decent new tool Typhoon FGR4 and of course a Jaguar. There are many other RAF aircraft that they could consider that won't be well covered elsewhere - Shadow R1, Reaper/Protector, Atlas, Voyager, Poseidon. Perhaps the last three would give them a chance to break into 1/144?

Could the scuff be a solid panel which will be covered by paint and they scuffed it as a visual aid ??

British polls more often then not as the TSR2 in 1/48 comes close to top!

hello Peter, you don"t just do a kit review but you"re a story teller :) But please please, stop moving the sprues so quickly , gives me a headache.. Anyway, keep going, always most interresting Greetings from France

They probably recognized the black neoprene gloves 😂

Have you seen the new tool f84f by special hobby

If I remember correctly the cannon is from a panzer iii

To be fair it looks really nice and I am tempted to buy one but the only minor gripe I have is why no crew figures? Airfix seem to be doing this more and more, I mentioned this on another post and someone said 'why don't you just 3D print your own?' well I don't have access to a 3D printer and why should you have too? They make it so you can build it in flight yet there's no one to fly it. Also the swastika could be added to the decal sheet in 2 pieces, I find this really annoying, yes you can get aftermarket decals but the up coming 1/24 scale Stuka is going to prove very difficult to source a decal in that scale. So apart from my minor criticisms I do like the look of this kit and I might just treat myself to one.

Think you will find that the large nose cannon is a 37mm weapon.

I no longer have to build in 1/72 thankfully, so my Airfix days generally are long gone. Pricey for a 1/72 kit going by my observation of its domestic GBP pricing. Positively scary what it'll likely cost here when it lands. o.O TBH, doesn't seem a *significant* improvement on the venerable Italeri kit albeit it offers the /U4 variant. A few years back I built their 1998 tool Me 210 in 1/72 which was every bit as good as this in scale, with superior quality plastic and crisper moulds. I do wish Airfix would stop using that soft recycled plastic. Where's it made? India?

Airfix left out the swatsika on the tail.

I want one in 1/48, cant find one.!/72 don't do it for me. I like your lamps.

Your interpretation of aircraft speeds lacks understanding. As usual with dumb as dirt Airfix instruction sheet specs, it quotes the speed you mentioned at MSL. TAS increases with altitude. Although marginally slower, it was roughly comparable with the Mosquito (Mk VI for ref) at altitude in terms of speed. Mosquito 415 mph (668 km/h, 361 kn) at 8,500m (28,000 ft( Hornisse 388mph (624 km/h, 337 kn) at 6,700m (21,980 ft). Context. The minor speed difference is academic in terms of interception. Taking into account that they would seldom have come into direct conflict as their roles were entirely different. Manouvreing, no argument had they conflicted the Mossie would run rings around the 410. Having said that, few aircraft of any national persuasion could compare with the versatility and performance of the Mosquito.

Sorry to be the party pooper but this kit is really a 4 out of 10 for me, I doubt I’ll be getting one