At 1/72 scale, there was no injection moulded kit of the Bandeirante though there was a rare resin kit from Liberty in Brazil. Fortunately, Amodel has released a 1/72 model kit of good short-run quality in 2024. It is for a EMB-110P1. The EMB-110P1 was a cargo/passenger variant based on the K1 with a 0,85 stretched fuselage to accommodate 18 passengers and fitted with PT6A-34 engines.

There are 7 sprues in light grey soft plastic and 1 transparent sprue, totaling around 148 parts. 

The lower wing is one part, ensuring a strong wing assembly with correct dihedral. 

Some parts are not used, these are for other kit releases such as #72051 for the P-75 Bandeirulha military version under the brand name SOVA-M. (this kit will be made in the future). Other kits are also coming.

No masking set or etched frets are provided. 

In the box you will find parts with neat recessed panel lines, but you could deepen/ inscribe the gaps of the control surfaces as this aircraft was of simple construction. The transparant landing lights in the wing leading edge are nicely provided. 

This Amodel kit #72395 includes decals for only one civilian aircraft, but it's a nice one for me: from Insel Air PJ-VIP as it flew around Curaçao from August 2006. It bears the name Elis Juliana, after a well-known Antillean poet and historian. The aircraft is all white with a blue tail. (It flew in two liveries but decals are for the later livery). 

The decals are excellent and you also get the smaller markings.  

The instructions are in black and white with a separate coloured sheet for the port paint scheme. But no drawing is provided of the starboard side, this can be seen at the box top. 

The instructions are clear with 11 steps but the some smaller parts are better installed at later stages to avoid damage and for easier painting. A small error is that it is not indicated in the instructions that the rear port cabin window aft of the freight door is not there on the Insel aircraft and should be filled. The fuselage appears to be OK for  stretched variants like the P1 with the large cargo door.

There are details in the cockpit, but there is no cabin interior included. As the cabin doors are moulded closed, this is OK. Tip: check out if the rear cabin window is applicable for your desired scheme. 

Applying the window parts is a bit of a challenge as they need to be precisely glued into the openings. Cleverly done is that the cockpit glazing is one part, allowing for easy filling, sanding, and masking. 

The engine nacelles are OK with a neat undercarriage with the larger gear doors closed. Correct antennas are located under the fuselage. The propellers are also neat in a feathered pose.

There are aftermarket 1/72 decal sets available for other civilian Bandeirantes, for example from OldModels decals, and undoubtedly more will follow.

This short-run model requires a bit more work, such as cleaning up mold lines and attachment points. Remove any smaller parts with a sharp cutter. But you'll end up with a very nice 1/72 model of this Bandeirante.

The individual windows fit surprisingly good. Ensure a flush fit and use thin plastic cement fluid.
 
I discovered too late that on the Insel air aircraft the rear port window aft of the cargo door is not there. I overpainted it later on but better close/ fill this one now.
 

If you want to sand and polish the windows do this NOW. This will enable removal of any polish paste from both insides and outsides. Do not postpone polishing until the gloss white paint has been applied, otherwise paste residue may spoil the model. 
 

The kit cockpit parts look OK and were assembled. I added a few pilot seat belts and you get a decal for the instrument panel (which I forgot...). A rear cabin wall was also set from plastic card.
 

The wing parts and engine nacelles were assembled. Fill and sand. I inscribed the flap hinge lines a bit deeper.
 
There are recesses for landing lights in the wing leading edge and the tiny wing fences, very nicely done in this kit. But set these later on.

  

      
The 2 large sub-assemblies fuselage and wing were joined. Some putty and sanding was needed at the wing-fuselage joints. Rescribe some panels at the fuselage spine.

The smaller parts will be set at a later stage.

Now a base grey primer is airbrushed. All clear windows were masked with tape. You get no masking set in this kit but it is not that difficult to do.
 

 

The model got than the base grey airbrushed with Revell Aqua 75 steingrau acrylic. Any flaws were again sanded and puttied.
     

All looked fine.
    
 
  

I liked the Dutch Antilles Insel Air scheme as per kit and shown on box top and on a nice colour paper sheet.
 
This overall Insel Air scheme is gloss white and it is a good practice to airbrush first a mat white coat. Airbrushed were a few layers of thinned Revell Aqua 05 weiss acrylic. Than followed a few gloss white coats with Gunze Sangyo Mr.Hobby H1 white acrylic thinned with 80% Gunze acrylic thinner and 20% Gunze levelling thinner.
     

       

         

A final good effect is obtained with a final thin coat than with Tamiya White X-2 thinned with Tamiya thinner X-20A.
       
I polished a bit the gloss white surfaces with a polishing block and cloth BUT ENSURED not to do this at the window rows

 
 
The tail area was masked and airbrushed Insel Air blue for which I used Gunze Sangyo Mr.Hobby H15 gloss blue acrylic.
 
Next, the leading edges of the outboard wing sections were masked off and airbrushed matt black. (The inboard nacelles edges are not black). Also the edges of horizontal stabilizer and vertical tail.
 
The 2 wing leading edge lights were installed, it needed some sanding of the recess. Ensure not to loose the tiny parts to the carpet monster! On the insides of the lights are the wing fences #70, some white glue closed any gaps here. On the later Insel Air paint scheme as per kit these are red.

The window masks were removed. Any small irregular white spils on the window edges can be removed with a tooth pick dipped in window cleaner fluid or Blue Wonder.
      

All looked OK now. (Note I still have to close the rear window).
  

All decals were now set and these are fine as per kit.
  
When decalling was done, the landing gear was set. I added a hydraulic wire from black stretched sprue at each gear leg. Than the smaller bits like pitots and antennas were installed. I replaced some blade antennas with thin white plastic card that were painted. The flap hinge parts were also set and painted white.
 
The closed landing gear door outlines were suggested with pencil lines.
   

The stabilizers were installed as were the tiny coloured anti-colision lights; there are clear kit parts but I used coloured aftermarket bits. 
 

The engine exhaust pipe parts are a bit rough in the kit and were replaced by bended plastic pipes from the spares box. These were painted dark aluminium.

A small air scope #41 was set next to the tail fin. The last rear port cabin window was overpainted white as on the Insel Air aircraft this is not fitted.

The model was not weathered, this is an airliner. Only the recessed flap lines got a darker pencil stripe. A final airbrushed acrylic coat of Johnson Future / Pledge thinned with 10% Gunze Sangyo Mr.Color Leveling Thinner protected the decals and gave a nice gloss sheen. 

   

The propeller blades are set as per kit and they are in a nice feathered pose as usually seen on parked Bandeirantes.

 
 
Two window wipers were made from black stretched sprue and fixed with white glue besides the front cockpit window frames.

At aileron ends, stabilizer and tail rudder top 5 pairs of static dischargers were set made from EZ line (or use thin black stretched sprue).
 

At each wing tip a very tiny anti-blinding plate was set from thin card.
 

 

 

   

 

... situated at Insel Air home base Hato,

Airport, Dutch Caribbean....