1/72 Heinkel He162 Salamander

Hobby Boss continues their "easy assembly" series with this He162. Kits in this line are molded in the minimum number of parts needed to produce an acceptably accurate 1/72-scale model. The fuselage is molded as one piece, with the entire wing as a second piece, to which are added the engine, landing gear and other small parts. The kits certainly look like the aircraft they are supposed to represent, and seem (in the box) to be pretty accurate in outline. In terms of overall detail level, we would put them somewhere above the older Hasegawa kits. This kit has 23 parts, with decals for a Volksjaeger of 1./JG1 and a captured aircraft tested by the Soviets post-war.