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| Subject: | Re: When to give up on a kit? |  |
| Date: | Nov 3, 2003 |
| From: | Andy Herbert | |
I've really gotten into painting figures more than building armor lately, but
today I had a spare hour, and I felt the need to build rather than paint. I
got out my Academy Honey kit started many moons ago. I completed a rudimentary
hull interior, and I had a driver figure started. This was my first kit with
interior, and I'd overcome the many inaccuracies with the supplied interior.
When fitting my driver I realized there is NO WAY that a 1/35 scale figure can
fit in the driver's position without serious modification of the seats and the
driver. I lopped off an arm, a leg (on the driver) and there is still no way
he'll fit. The complete lack of detail on the walls of the hull (like where
the viewing ports to the left and right should be) finally did me in. I put
the kit away (forever?), and started the Tamiya Cromwell.
We'll see if I ever get back to the Honey, but for a kit with an interior it
is pretty pathetic; and the vision I had of a nicely opened up Honey with crew
in place will not be realized...
Sigh
The Crommy is nice though!
Andy |
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 | When to give up on a kit? - MSW - Nov 1, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Andy Herbert - Nov 1, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Eric McClure - Nov 2, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Skip - Nov 2, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Andy Herbert - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . When to give up on a kit? Only two kits qualify - Hassan - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Brian Bocchino - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Adib Yazbeck - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Christophe Jacquemont - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? Choose sooner before too much effort - Ed Kusiak - Nov 3, 2003 |
| . . . . . . my orphans - John Steinman - Nov 4, 2003 |
| . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Scott Jeffery - Nov 10, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Crusader Turret Solutions - Paul A. Owen - Nov 10, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Andrew Herbert - Nov 10, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: When to give up on a kit? - Jeff Larkin - Nov 10, 2003 |
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