IainCleland

My 1/32 PBY will have to sit in the summer house (which is my man cave) when I have finished it as there is nowhere else for it to go.

November is pretty recent so that sounds good. It’s been about three years since I have bought from them. They are terrible at answering emails though as the three that I have sent to three different people there have not replied.

Did you buy your concord within the last year?

Looking at their 1/32 kits on their website they still have the FW 189 listed for sale.

Thank you for all the replies, I will just have to wait and see… I have bought the La 7, PBY Catalina and the Helldiver from them before and I have been impressed with their kits. I mainly build resin kits and theirs are one of the best. I will post an update either way. If the Dornier Do x is anything like their PBY kit then it will be a great kit. I have built their La 7 and the Helldiver both of which are great kits. I was going to build the PBY next but if the Dornier arrives within a couple of weeks then I will get stuck into that. I also have my eye on their Tigercat. Has anyone bought the Dornier Do x?

Thanks for both of your responses, luckily they haven’t sent the email requesting payment so I am hoping that they are actually in the process making the kit. As I said before I have bought about three kits from them in the past and they have always arrived within about ten days. It is really poor customer service to not answer emails, I just can’t think why they would behave in such a way. I even made my enquiry on their Facebook page but still no response and as I said it hasn’t had any updates to it for about a year. Sorry to hear about your bad experience with them Jboldt007, that is gust appalling service.

Hi, Has anyone bought anything from Hph models lately? I ordered their 1/48 Dornier Do x which is not large scale but is a large model about 2.5 weeks ago, I got the email acknowledging my order (they will send a payment request when it is ready) and they do say it tales between 1 - 3 weeks but I have email them a couple of times with some questions and also if they could email to me the instruction manual. However I have had no response from them and their Facebook page hasn’t been updated since this time last year so I am wondering if they are still active. Anyone know? I have bought from them in the past and have those 1/32 PBY in my stash. Thanks, Iain.

Great kit, I built it a couple of years ago. Well worth the money.

I was looking forward to their Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, I would much prefer that it would be in resin but hopefully the plastic version might tickle my fancy. Judging by the responses to this thread I guess that most people prefer plastic over resin? I guess resin is more expensive but when you start adding on all the after market goodies then it sure can push the overall cost up. I have built HpH Helldiver and it was a fantastic kit and I have their monster Catalina in my stash.

I bought this kit off EBay about a month or so ago. It is no where near as nice as a Silver Wings or Lukgraph kit but not too bad either. I had to ask the owner to send me a link to the instructions (a set of photos) so that I could download them, as I have not used CDs in many a year and my MacBook does not have a cb bay, and I guess not many laptops do now ( so he needs to toss the CD). It is a more basic resin kit when compared to the likes of Silver Wings, Lukgraph, Hph etc. However judging by the pictures of the completed model it does look to build into a nice model. I’m not too sure about the butt joints for the wings and this is the first time that I have come across it (I think) on a resin kit. All in not a bad kit.

Too bad, I much prefer resin, which is pretty much all that I build.

I have also ordered one, with their early bird 15% discount price plus shipping to the UK was €120. I should get it mid November.

It's a defo on my must have list. I have Silver Wings Reggiane Re.2000, Silver Wings CR 32, Craftworks MC 200 (which was my first build this year), Craftworks C.202/C.205 and the Special Hobby 1/48 Breda Ba.65; so this will be a great addition to my Italian WW2 aircraft. I've also been eyeing their 1/32 PBY Catalina for the past year and can see myself purchasing it soonish (this year). Of course the price is mental, but I've got a smallish stash of about 35 kits (about 20 of them in resin) and don't plan on buying any more as I pretty much have most of the resin kits that I really want. My current stash is a few years building there, so with the addition of 3 or 4 more must have resin kits I will top it off there. Iain

I bought this kit about two years ago; I've no idea when I will get around to building it as I have about 5 kits lined up in my build list for the rest of this year. I will add, that after being through the kit a few times that it is an excellent kit and top quality; it's not cheap tho! I personally wouldn't bother with any after market parts for it, as mentioned before, a kit of that price it should contain everythng that you need; perhaps with the exception of metal landing gear. Cheers! Iain

I ordered their Helldiver and it arrived last week. Looks great, it's high up on my build list. I've just started AlleyCat's 1/32 Boomerang which has been sitting in my stash for two years. After the Boomerang I want to crack on with the Lukgraph Curtiss F7C-1 Seahawk then probably the Helldiver after that. Cheers! Iain