papa 695's Victory challenge Completed

[papa 695]

It's an awful starter kit, more or less guaranteed to put a potential modeller off. Airfix should break the molds and never do another production run from them.Far better to have a go at a newer kit (like the little Fw 190 Polux sent me) which will fit together much better and can also be brush painted to a reasonable standard by a determined beginner.

The annoying thing is that Airfix have seriously upped their game with some very nice new kits recently, for which they deserve much credit, and yet they still produce crap like this. It can be made to look decent as shown above, but not by a beginner picking up a cheap 'starter' kit.

Cheers

Steve

I do agree with you Steve for a starter kit it's a no no and should be scrapped

I hope you didn't think I was trying to endorse this shabby kit I didn't even got proper decals just printed paper for the backend and flags

[stona]

I hope you didn't think I was trying to endorse this shabby kit

No, not at all. I'm not endorsing it by my build either

Good idea with the paper flags...I might nick that for mine!

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

The flags were a proper PIA to get in place. Having achieved the mind bending feat myself, I would be disappointed to see master builders such as yourself to omit such important aspects of naval sailing of this era...

[papa 695]

The flags were a proper PIA to get in place. Having achieved the mind bending feat myself, I would be disappointed to see master builders such as yourself to omit such important aspects of naval sailing of this era...

I'm not omitting them I'm going to put them on after the second phase of the build when all the rigging is on

[Guest]

Rigging? What have I started!!!

[Gern]

It's an awful starter kit, more or less guaranteed to put a potential modeller off. Airfix should break the molds and never do another production run from them. Steve

Ain't that what I bin sayin' all along!

Gern

[Guest]

Ain't that what I bin sayin' all along! Gern

Then get in on the action before it's gone forever!

[papa 695]

Rigging? What have I started!!!

A great spiral into madness

[Guest]

You did a great job on this, well done.

[spanner570]

Top job Ian....Your sanity and eye sight will return...Then you'll be ready for the rigging soon!