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As someone who once worked in the oil industry I most certainly agree. Some of the stuff I worked on went to the cormorant oil field. I remember seeing that copter at Aberdeen airport many years ago.

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Gregers wrote:
A Heller GB sounds good to me.
Oh, I missed out the Heller GB in 2015.
Wouldn´t miss another one next time (now I´m reading this forum a lot more often then back then...)!
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I just got this special ordered from emodels, Its for an upcoming cult TV classic build from the TV series Hogans Heroes

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Gregers wrote:I've never built one I didn't like with the exception of their Spitfire MK1, avoid it like the plague. A horrible kit and a dog of wolfhound proportions, I've built better starfix ones.
Their Draken is superb though, as is the Jaguar.

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Their Hellcat isn't very good either. Poor fit throughout.
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Having just built the Heller Hellcat,I can confirm Saxons view,its a pig of a kit,there is more filler than plastic. :evil:If it was not a present from my wife it would been thrown in the plastic recycling box ages ago.
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....I like Heller kits, but in this case I kept the better parts, like the airscrew, and something of the cockpit, and parts from the undercarriage, and canopy, to "nice up" my
Frog Hellcat, which has a poor looking airscrew, and no cockpit to speak of (well, I have a soft spot for Frog´s Hellcat, it´s not that good, either, but more hassle-free to build, at least I guess, then Heller´s).
My Matchbox Hellcat (soft spot for, of course! :razz: ) will profit from some of those parts, too.
Heller´s fuselage and wings went down the bin (after cutting out and saving ailerons/rudder/flaps: I might use them, another day?) -
not because they look so bad shape-wise, but because the way the fuselage is engineered, makes it very "filler-happy",
and the wing root is too thick, so instead of dumping either of them, I dumped both (there are worse kits out there,
but for some reason this one could get no sympathy....just have too many Hellcats in my stash).
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celt wrote:Having just built the Heller Hellcat,I can confirm Saxons view,its a pig of a kit,there is more filler than plastic
I suspect this may be dependent on when it was moulded. Heller's QA seems very suspect.

I was quite impressed with mine - it was an easy build, much better detail than Airfix, but not as good as Hasegawa:

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