Impressive that Revell still has what is considered the best kit of the Eagle…
It doesn’t have a lot of parts like a modern tooling might. But the plastic is good. There is no flash. No pin marks in stupi place. Major fit issues do not exist. The detail in the cockpit is pretty good. Some resin and photo etch would really set it over the top. I’ll be throwing up a completion thread in the next week. Progress can be seen in the Gulf War GB.
I built the 1/48 Academy F-86 F a few years ago . I thought it was a great kit and the surface detail was outstanding. I have their 1/48 P-47N in the stash too, which also looks like it will build up nice. The latter is on deck soon but I’m not sure why they decided to mold the rock rails right to the bottom of the wing. I’m gonna have to carve those off.
sorry to hear that man. I building a 1/35 Huey frog from Academy and I HATE IT with a raging hellfire. the fit is a joke end up putting the gap like a mad man, missing parts, misaligned everywhere, and no instruction on half of the gun layout.
my last 4 build was Tamiya and 1 from Italeri, the Italeri instruction was very poor but overall fine build. I have to say this academy kit really made me want to give up on model building, so we are in the same boat up shit creek without a paddle.