L'Arsenal is a French company that has traditionally focused on high quality kits and accessories of maritime subjects. Recently, they have diversified to included aircraft accessories in resin and photo-etch.

Tonight we will focus on some of L'Arsenal's recent photo-etched aircraft ground support equipment accessories.

L'Arsenal has produced some fine etched metal ladders, wheel chocks, and earth points for modern French Aircraft in both 1/72 and 1/48 scales. The etchings are very crisp with some very fine detail captured in relief etch. All fold points are crisply etched and should allow for easy folding. Once folded and fixed with superglue or a similar type of glue and then painted, the details should look very realistic in particular leaning along side the model kit.

The subjects under examination are:

• AC72-15 1/72 scale earth points

• AC48-05 1/48 scale earth points

• AC72-02 1/72 scale aircraft wheel chocks

• AC72-04 1/72 scale Etendard/Super Etendard aircraft ladder

• AC48-04 1/48 scale Etendard/Super Etendard aircraft ladder

• AC72-05 1/72 scale Jaguar aircraft ladder

• AC48-13 1/48 scale Jaguar aircraft ladder

• AC72-06 1/72 scale Mirage F1 aircraft ladder

• AC72-01 1/72 scale Mirage 2000 aircraft ladder

• AC72-10 1/72 scale general aircraft servicing ladder

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