| Now that is one very neat model there Greg,just a little bit of history on this kit,the moulds started life as 'Merit' way back in the late fifties ( yes it has been around that long !) Merit was a company owned by J & L.Randle and Co who had a factory in the London area,they had a useful range of types which included Fairey Swordfish,Vickers Supermarine Walrus,Albatross D.V,Nieuport 11,Tiger Moth,S.E.5A,Hawker Hunter and a few others which my memory escapes me, after a while they dropped the kit side of their basically toy orientated business selling some of the moulds to Aurora,who bagged them up as per the old Airfix header cards etc and produced them in a softish plastic,the models soldiered on for years and the moulds were split up all over the place some vanishing,however SMER produced some of those types in their budget range and that is what you have here,just thought that the history lines would prove of interest,old kits never die,they either vanish into thin air or get revamped.
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