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| Subject: | I have one of his kits |  |
| Date: | Nov 12, 2007 |
| From: | David Nickels | |
I picked up the big 1/16 Type 89 Chi Ro tank off Hyperscale for $50. Its like a $500 kit... The casting quality is VERY good, with all those thousands of rivets, not one has a bubble in it. Fit and engineering are generally good. Its a big, complicated tank turned into a big, fairly simple kit. Some parts like the hatches and tail skid are VERY thin and badly warped. Even hot water didn't help a lot there. I would rate the kit much, much, higher than the big Verlinden resin tanks, which are the only other big resin tanks I have built.
His 1/35 stuff seems interesting. Also, somewhat disturbing. At least some of his kits seem to be copied from Pit Road kits. His own descriptions are a bit vague here but he implies he has made resin copies of the expensive and hard to get Pit Road kits, and added detail to them. He has a lot of figures... some look ok and some seem rather awkward at least going by the photos. He does have a nice big Japanese tank decal sheet. Thats something you don't find every day.
I have not bought anything direct but he was very prompt in answering questions. |
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 | Japanese small arms 1/35 or 1/32 - R Tan - Nov 11, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Japanese small arms 1/35 or 1/32 - bobCollignon - Nov 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . The Japanese Armor King-Ted Dyer - Paul A. Owen - Nov 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: The Japanese Armor King-Ted Dyer - Tony E. - Nov 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: The Japanese Armor King-Ted Dyer - Roy Chow - Nov 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . I have one of his kits - David Nickels - Nov 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: The Japanese Armor King-Ted Dyer - Mike Gardella - Nov 13, 2007 |
| . . . Allarmi - David Nickels - Nov 12, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Japanese small arms 1/35 or 1/32 [IMG] - Mika Harviala - Nov 12, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Japanese small arms 1/35 or 1/32 - R Tan - Nov 14, 2007 |
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