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  • Vicsal185243
    • Nov 2025
    • 7

    #1

    Just looking for a nice kit to build

    So I’ve just finished building the Revell 1:144 chinook, I had a bloody terrible experience with it, loads of gaps and parts that didn’t fit, and I’m sort of done with small fiddly models. I’m sort of just looking for an easy, nice and simple model to put together that looks nice and detailed. Doesn’t really need to be anything specific, tank, fighter jet/prop or warship, hit me with it!
  • Gern
    • May 2009
    • 9305

    #2
    You'd be really unlucky to find a Tamiya 1/35 armour kit - or any of their kits really - that would give you any issues with construction.

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      Vicsal185243 commented
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      Oh yeah I’ll give that a try, I’ve had good experiences with tamiya
  • Steven000
    • Aug 2018
    • 2943
    • Steven
    • Belgium

    #3
    Yes Tamiya is known to have a nice experience, I've read a few times their 1/48 spitfire is a really great kit (link scalemates) cheers

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    • Richard48
      SMF Supporters
      • Apr 2018
      • 2240
      • Richard
      • Clacton on Sea

      #4
      A good Tamiya kit sounds a plan.Maybe their Cromwell tank or Chieftain tank both in 1.35th.Or perhaps their jeep model or a German Kubelwagen.
      Happy hunting for a model that takes your fancy fella.
      Richard

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      • Tim Marlow
        SMF Supporters
        • Apr 2018
        • 19128
        • Tim
        • Somerset UK

        #5
        Just to drop another name in the mix, the 1/48 Eduard Zero I built for a group build here a couple of years ago is probably the cleanest moulded and best fitting kit I’ve ever made. Decals were several generations better than Tamiya as well….

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        • Tim Marlow
          SMF Supporters
          • Apr 2018
          • 19128
          • Tim
          • Somerset UK

          #6
          The Airfix 1/48 clipped wing Mk XIV Spitfire was a great build as well. It has a cleverly moulded canopy that solves the Spitfire open cockpit canopy issue really nicely as a bonus.

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          • Jim R
            SMF Supporters
            • Apr 2018
            • 16289
            • Jim
            • Shropshire

            #7
            Many of the newer Airfix kits would fit the bill.

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            • pjgtech
              SMF Supporters
              • Dec 2023
              • 1447
              • Peter
              • Swale Kent UK

              #8
              As above, you should not go far wrong with a nice Tamiya kit, or a newer Airfix one. Cheers

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              • Airborne01
                • Mar 2021
                • 4350
                • Steve
                • Essex

                #9
                Tamiya Pz 2 or 3 with a little aftermarket perhaps? Straightforward inexpensive builds that can produce some excellent outcomes - and lend themselves to small dioramas etc! They are both good introductions to the black art of PE to boot! Good luck in your search mate.
                Steve

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                • Mr Bowcat
                  SMF Supporter
                  • Dec 2016
                  • 4713
                  • Bob
                  • London

                  #10
                  Just to add, Tamiya yes, but something from this century, some of the older kits had fitment issues.
                  Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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