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| Subject: | Two Responses |  |
| Date: | May 2, 2008 | |
| From: | Rob Ervin | |
Response 1,
I must agree with Brian. Seems to me that there are a ton of old cheap kits out there for the Looks Like a Duck crowd. I have commented many times to a friend that if you weren't all that concerned about the quality or accuracy of your kits, you could buy a ton of 70's era Tamiya and Italeri kits at IPMS shows for a song. Build for years for next to nothing.
Response 2,
Having made quite a bit of money on a fix for that huge 2mm inaccuracy in the Academy Lee suspension, I tend to take a dimensional error as a percentage of the whole. 2mm's off on an overall hull length when it's perhaps a 3-4 % error is acceptable. But the 2mm error on the M3 bogie parts were on a part that it's overall height is around 13 mm's. That's almost 20% it leaps out at you. I have been the same way about the fender widths on Dragon's EZ8 fenders width. They are about a scale 2 inches too wide. On a part that's only supposed to be about 7 1/2 inches that's an error of 25%. I know that's the way my tests were graded when I was in school. a 95% was an A a 75% was an F. And F's don't look like Ducks!
Cheers,
Rob Ervin
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 | If it looks like a "duck" ? - Brian J Tears - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . What year car do you drive? - Kip Rudge - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Kurt Laughlin - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Kip Rudge - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Brian Bocchino - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - David Manning - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . 1978 Pz IV's vs the real thing - Robert Gregory - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - steve campbell - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Two Responses - Rob Ervin - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Juan Contreras - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Christopher C. Tew - May 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Scott Fraser - May 3, 2008 |
| . . . This really is simple... - Kip Rudge - May 3, 2008 |
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