The Revell cure...

[Guest]

Yes Dave, I tend to look on Modellingmadness before buying anything and I'm a fan of Academy 1/72 aircraft. My budget is around £10 at the moment, it will increase when I think I can do a bigger kit justice. It tends to be the impulse buys (like the Revell bi-planes) that I live to regret.

[Guest]

This is actually a Hasegawa kit.Its boxed by Revell as the experimental night fighter version.at considerably less than the Hasegawa price.

Overall its not too shabby, just a bit different from what I'm used to. I have run into a small snag with converting the tamiya 262 pilots into the Ar-234 crew. They fit in the seats reasonably well (the armrests bow out a little), but the pilot does not quite fit the cockpit because of the position of the control yoke. I had to cut his legs off at the knees and then reattach them to the rudder pedals past the obstructions. It looks a little odd up close but I don't care I'm doing it anyway and besides they were pretty well at the bottom of the barrel in men and materials by this point so ...why not?

[Dave W]

Overall its not too shabby, just a bit different from what I'm used to. I have run into a small snag with converting the tamiya 262 pilots into the Ar-234 crew. They fit in the seats reasonably well (the armrests bow out a little), but the pilot does not quite fit the cockpit because of the position of the control yoke. I had to cut his legs off at the knees and then reattach them to the rudder pedals past the obstructions. It looks a little odd up close but I don't care I'm doing it anyway and besides they were pretty well at the bottom of the barrel in men and materials by this point so ...why not?

You wouldn't want to me model aircrew would you?!!.In most of the builds on here they need major surgery,even amputations to fit into the aircraft.

[Vaughan]

I am cured. I no longer look at the new 32 scale Uhu and think about buying it. If I fancy a Uhu I will happily pay out for the ZM kit at 3 times the price. You get what you pay for.

Barry, sad to hear that you have and are having problems with the Ju88, mine still sits at the bottom of the stash pile and after your experiences will most probably remain there for sometime. I bought the UHU when it was released last year but did check several build reviews first and all looks good. So maybe you might be tempted to purchase it sometime in the future. I see that the Sturmovik is next on your list of builds, this comes with it's own problems the main one being the wing roots and it's not a cheap model. I think I paid around £60 for mine. So price doesn't always come into it. Anyway I hope the rest of the build goes ok and look forward to you posting some images.

[BarryW]

Vaughan - don't let this put you off that JU88 THAT much.... It will build into a very impressive model and will have a lot of impact. Just be prepared to have to work for a result, its no shake 'n bake... As I said, I am spoilt...

I have heard of that wing root issue with the Stormovik, all kits do have issues after all. I am not adverse to such matters, even the Tammy Mustang had its own issues but what a great kit it is. The good thing about the JU88 is that my test fits of major parts show few issues, it really is the vagueness of detail fit combined with misleading and poor illustrations on the instructions that are frustrating. Anyway, off upstairs now, a quick bite to eat and back to the fight and get the undercarriage finished....