discussion Model makes.

[Sennbix]

At the risk of repeating myself, back in the game after about 40 - 50 years. Who knew this could be so relaxing? Is my love of Tamiya misplaced or are there just as good models out there, thinking Italeri for instance.

George.

 

[pjgtech]

Tamiya are pretty good, if not the most detailed, but always seem to have a good fit and easy to build (IMHO).
I think the standard of kits in general now has improved over what we had many years ago, only "challenging" kits I've had since my re-introduction to scale model building are the few old/vintage kits that I've built TBH.....

Plus I do think that some people have a bad kit from one manufacturer and then their view of that manufacturer is forever tainted.
I've certainly had bad kits, but I'm usually willing to try that manufacturer again, obviously if I got loads of bad kits then I'd stop buying from them, but so far maybe I've just been lucky?

So far I've built kits from Airfix, Tamiya, Revell, Italeri, MB, Gecko, Mini Art, Dragon, Hobby Boss, Aoshima, Academy, AFV Club, Zvezda, IBG Models, Matchbox, Monogram, and all have been fun, some have been harder than others, but its all an ongoing learning process for me, and I've not come across anything that could not be mastered/completed.

 

[LeytonO]

I have found Hasegawa and Meng to be good quality kits.
Tamiya I agree are consistently good and have been for many years.

 

[PaulTRose]

There's loads of great manufacturers out there...... I really like hobby boss

I think tamiyas problem is they don't do much new stuff but keep punting out old stuff

 

[Geoffers]

It depends what you build really.

For WW2 aircraft, both Eduard (their own tooled stuff, not reboxes) and Arma Hobby produce some excellent kits

Geoff.