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The 4th piece of the puzzle has arrived and I'm now back to my old rule of "No Kits", at least for a while. This kit is from 1991 and I have to say, quite nicely done for a full resin kit,
The pieces were cast and packaged pre-cleaned without casting stubs back then, not like a lot of new resin kits. Here's what I mean,
Hardly any cleanup to be done at all. Also, these Airmodel resin kits sold for over DM100 back in 1991 too. The tiny parts are cast in a very thin resin sheet and a breeze to clean up. I got lucky and snagged this baby for €29 delivered off evilbay. The downside is the tires are molded in two halves. If they don't cut it, Panzer Art makes resin replacements.....Soon I will post up what the puzzle is all about. Some know, most don't...................
Prost
Allen
The pieces were cast and packaged pre-cleaned without casting stubs back then, not like a lot of new resin kits. Here's what I mean,
Hardly any cleanup to be done at all. Also, these Airmodel resin kits sold for over DM100 back in 1991 too. The tiny parts are cast in a very thin resin sheet and a breeze to clean up. I got lucky and snagged this baby for €29 delivered off evilbay. The downside is the tires are molded in two halves. If they don't cut it, Panzer Art makes resin replacements.....Soon I will post up what the puzzle is all about. Some know, most don't...................
Prost
Allen
That almost looks injection moulded quality Allen!
Hi Allen
I've never tackled a full resin kit, only resin conversion kits. This looks a real beauty.
Jim
I've never tackled a full resin kit, only resin conversion kits. This looks a real beauty.
Jim
These old kits are like this Guys. In the 90's there were a few makers that produced excellent kits like this. The downside was the price. They made a lot of kits that were never and still, not made in plastic. Takom did this kit in plastic, but with errors.....
Jim, you should give one a try my friend. With your skills, it should be a breeze for you to build. Have a look at Brach Models, DES and most (no longer made) Airmodel resin kits. Just stay away from the vacuform ones....Oh, and get some Ca to use for them too......
Prost
Allen
Jim, you should give one a try my friend. With your skills, it should be a breeze for you to build. Have a look at Brach Models, DES and most (no longer made) Airmodel resin kits. Just stay away from the vacuform ones....Oh, and get some Ca to use for them too......
Prost
Allen
Don't do it Jim, that crazy transplant is messing with yer mind!!.......He's just saying all that nice stuff coz he doesn't want to suffer alone. Every once in a while (blue moon) you get a resin kit that goes together somewhat ok.....then on the next one you see the 
hit the fan and the sprue with the next to microscopic part on it is the size of a tree trunk and it takes 2 days to get the thing free of its captor, only to break it just seconds before it comes loose! All good........:tongue-out3:if you decide to try one, my advice is not to get too heavily invested in it .....just in case you end up binning it.
hit the fan and the sprue with the next to microscopic part on it is the size of a tree trunk and it takes 2 days to get the thing free of its captor, only to break it just seconds before it comes loose! All good........:tongue-out3:if you decide to try one, my advice is not to get too heavily invested in it .....just in case you end up binning it.
HI ALL a freind gave me this tiger kit yesterday an it will come in very handy to look at an check my biggun to see if im goin in the right direction an he is building a HMS TIGER in 1/96 th scale but as the gun crusier
chrisb
chrisb
That was good of him!!!!!
Motorised! You'll be able to play "Sink the Bismarck" in the bath.
Went to a classic car show and autojumble yesterday:
![IMG_20220418_112113679[1].jpg](https://www.scalemodelling.co.uk/data/attachments/197/197884-aab5b16ce7e6abf4ee60095071ebcbf8.jpg?hash=2yiyHYvybu "IMG_20220418_112113679[1].jpg")
and found these in the autojumble:
![IMG_20220419_122422629[1].jpg](https://www.scalemodelling.co.uk/data/attachments/197/197890-71ddaa119213f48f0ce68a15e359f212.jpg?hash=G39Pougwqk "IMG_20220419_122422629[1].jpg")
£10 for the kit, £1 for the 3M fine line masking tape.
Pete
and found these in the autojumble:£10 for the kit, £1 for the 3M fine line masking tape.
Pete
Good finds Pete. Is that your TR in the line up?
Yup! Free entry for classics, so another bargain.
Pete
Pete
Beautiful car Pete. A real labour of love.
Definitely a bargain kit.
You've done a fine job on it. 68 or 69 Charger in the background brings back memories.
Congratulations indeed on a fantastic looking T there Pete :smiling3:
.... Don't it make you feel OLD when you look at "Classic Car show" pics and think,"I had/remember one of them"!!!
Andy
Good catch on the Charger........almost missed it:thumb2:
Yes, there were quite a few Yank Tanks there.
Pete
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