Sir T wrote:Yes really.CementNotGlue wrote:Really?Sir T wrote: I also think there's no such thing as a 'kit not worth building'.
I can think of some atrocious kits the designer/toolmaker must have knocked-up in the last working hours of a Friday.
I'd include Airfix's Me 262, Defiant and Matchbox's Hawker Hunter for starters.
Modern trends I don't like are no pilots and lack of locating holes by some manufacturers.
I have the old tool Defiant and the MB Hunter in the stash (actually I've started the Hunter) and I would consider both perfectly buildable models. Ok so I have the resin correction nose for the defiant, and it'll require some other work - but it's still buildable, and will still look like a Defiant when built (even OOB). Yes ok there's the very nice new tool kit. But why buy another when I already have one in the stash? The same goes for the old tool Blenheim and Battle.
The question is of course - would you want to build it? (Yes in my case).
Can't comment on the 262 as it leaves me cold as a subject, but now you've set a Challange
DAMN my own curiosity - I'm now the 'proud' owner of an Airfix Me262 - blooming ebay.
It doesn't look too bad as a kit from first look, although even not knowing much about 262's I can see the canopy is off
- other than that it doesn't look any worse than the Seahawk I'm playing around with. 'Of it's time' is the expression that best fits. It should certainly be a good exercise in scratch building cockpits. Allan did a really good tutorial on this kit in 2011.