Tolga ULGUR Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 4 hours ago, dennismcc said: Knew I shouldn't read this thread, I was checking up on my Kotare Spitfire on Hannants website when I accidently ordered a 110E, I always liked the desert colours. Cheers Dennis I'm still resisting, but I'm out of strength Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolga ULGUR Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Rick Griewski said: It happens. The touch screen on my phone is finicky, sometimes selecting the wrong kit. Sometimes I think my phone is controlling me according to its preferences Kagemusha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 20 hours ago, dennismcc said: Knew I shouldn't read this thread, I was checking up on my Kotare Spitfire on Hannants website when I accidently ordered a 110E ...accidently Dennis ? dennismcc, chrish, Christa and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 The instinct to buy overode the fact that I have a Dragon kit in the stash. Cheers Dennis CRAZY IVAN5, Tolga ULGUR and CraigC 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolga ULGUR Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 1 hour ago, dennismcc said: The instinct to buy overode the fact that I have a Dragon kit in the stash. Cheers Dennis Better to have two 110 kits in your stash than one dennismcc and MikeMaben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringleheim Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 On 12/17/2022 at 6:28 PM, LSP_Ron said: I built the Dragon one, great kit, horrible instructions but anyone that has built a few kits will be able to figure it all out. That's the story of every Dragon armor kit ever built! Worst instructions in the industry, and on top of it, almost always wrong in places with typos, deletions, the whole 9 yards. It's like an extra challenge to building the kit--can you figure out the instructions? Otherwise great company that could have done great things to the 1/32 airplane scene had they pursued it. I just heard recently they are in really bad financial shape and likely to go out of business. I don't know anything about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 And this arrived today, it will make a nice distraction build and will be built OOB as I know next to nothing about the subject I will not stress over it's accuracy or lack of it. Cheers Dennis dutik, LSP_Kevin, Tolga ULGUR and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmbock Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Yeessss! dennismcc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastterry Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 On 3/23/2023 at 2:30 AM, dennismcc said: And this arrived today, it will make a nice distraction build and will be built OOB as I know next to nothing about the subject I will not stress over it's accuracy or lack of it. Cheers Dennis As mentioned earlier it's not that the kit has accuracy issues it's trying to fight your way through the instructions that's the problem. TRF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigC Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I'm interested to hear of peoples' experiences of the characteristics of the plastic used to produce the kits from each of the manufacturers. I found the dragon kit is made from plastic with a consistency hard enough to highlight the sharp and also easy to work with, not being so soft preventing the inadvertent removal of too much material. In contrast my experience with other Revel kits is the plastic is softer, producing softer details and being easier to accidentally remove too much material. No experience of hobby 2K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 5 hours ago, CraigC said: I'm interested to hear of peoples' experiences of the characteristics of the plastic used to produce the kits from each of the manufacturers. I found the dragon kit is made from plastic with a consistency hard enough to highlight the sharp and also easy to work with, not being so soft preventing the inadvertent removal of too much material. In contrast my experience with other Revel kits is the plastic is softer, producing softer details and being easier to accidentally remove too much material. No experience of hobby 2K. Hobby2k is simply re-boxing Dragon-produced sprues with new decals, instructions and boxes. So, you will get the same plastic sprues going out of the same machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigC Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Yes the sprues are the same as it's the same tooling. The plastic that is being injected into the tools is not necessarily the same as whoever is producing the parts may use a different source of raw plastic with different characteristics. Thats what my question is about. Only someone who has handled the different kits could or is involved in the plastics industry would have this specific knowledge. MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 3/23/2023 at 11:54 PM, fastterry said: As mentioned earlier it's not that the kit has accuracy issues it's trying to fight your way through the instructions that's the problem. TRF No worries. Hyperscale has a correction sheet and there are kit builds on that site and one or two on this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 The plastic used for the repopped Bf-109E kits are the same look and feel as the original Dragon kits. I bet that the sprues for the one was made at the same company that made the Dragon kit. CraigC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Rick Griewski said: The plastic used for the repopped Bf-109E kits are the same look and feel as the original Dragon kits. I bet that the sprues for the one was made at the same company that made the Dragon kit. Exactly! The same people are producing the same plastic sprues out of the same injection machines. So I do not get how the plastic could be different... Other components are different but not the plastic sprues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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