that just seem to drag on and on and on… and a hundred tiny things go wrong, and so it goes on and on and on, until you reach the point where you just say I don’t give a d*mn anymore, I just want the thing of my dratted workbench no matter how crappy it is? I’ve just about had it with the kit I’m working on now. It’s been on my workbench too long, and I just want it done!!! It’s come perilously close to the throw against wall stage… Sorry, I needed that rant badly.
Classic Airframes Regianne RE 2001. Nothing fits. Putty bomb. Resin kit bits are junk. A whole bunch of nothing for such an expensive kit. I will never look at another CA kit.
Yeah, this AMT F-16, Been working on it since last Nov. or Dec. Dosen’t matter. It’s almost done and it looks like crap. I filled,sanded, then redid that about 100 times. The intake sucks (literally) and I just don’t care anymore. Cracks have come back but I think I stopped it with four coats of future. Oh well, I’m just happy to have it decaled and should be done by Monday. Oh yeah, Thought I would make the Vert Stab stronger by putting squadron white putty in there and getting hard. Only if you want it to melt the plastic. Oh well, It’s on. Whew!! I’m done!
my 1/48 FJ-4b, that thing is a Pain in the 6. I just gave up and put it in the back so you can not see it.
Yeah I’ve had a few builds like that. I usually put it away and start something else. Come back to it later and it usually goes better.
Ranger2seven sorry to here that about your RE 2001. I built that kit very little putty needed went together great.
What kit was that?
The worst kit I ever built was a Classic Airframes Meteor F.8. Bad fit, average detail, and a big price tag. It turned out well in the end, but I wouldn’t buy another.[:(]
| I know cwhat you mean.My ICM ZEno was such as build but it didn’t turn out crappy,just not as good as I had hoped.But this kit was overly complex mostly unnessarily so.I think that the kit designer chose to ignore industry standards and try to design it almost like a real aircraft. |
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Classic Airframes F-5B. I bought the kit and started it a year or two ago when I’d just gotten back into modelling and my skills weren’t up to par, which led to some stupid mistakes. I ended up just putting it a away until a few days ago. I like the way it’s going now, but it ain’t perfect.
I can think of a few builds that went like this for me. Back when I got back into modeling, I acquired a Testors P-47, a Matchbox Do17, and a MPM Dewoitine 520. None of these kits were worth the small amount of $ that I paid for them. I never finished them and for some time after putting them into a storage box, I used them as test subjects while I was learning airbrushing techniques.
More recently I was building the 1/72 Enola Gay by Academy. I had all kinds of fit problems with that kit, and was generally not impressed. Perhaps it was more my work on the kit than the kit itself, as I’ve also built an Academy B-17 that I was impressed with.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Just finish it best you can Tanky & move on to the next.
Regards, Rick
I was having the darnest time with by Revell AG B-26, and just set it aside for a few more builds. Eventually I’ll pick it back up again…
I suggest you hit the “pause button” on your build. Get it back in the box and off of your bench. Even out of eyesight. When you leave it set too long, you start to challenge yourself again and you can always un-pause when you’ve straightened out your midset.
Yup. Another piece of junk.
Hmmmm. Lets see. A Classic Airframes Regianne 2001, a Classic Airframes Meteor F.8, and a Classic Airframes F-5B. Is there a pattern here?
When that happens to me I do one or more of these things:
- Glue it together, paint and decal it with a minimum of fussing about fit,etc, and figure on using it for a diorama background subject later.
- Put it back in the box, and back in the stash to see if I feel like building it later.
- Remember where I put it in case I decide I want to use the kit for spare decals, parts, instructions, etc., and not worry about making finished model of it.
- If I see the kit is horrible before I begin to build it, I then re-box it and seek to sell or trade it off.
I figure item three is better then trashing the kit, since most aftermarket items literally can cost you as much as the initial kit.
At least that is my [2c]
Tom T [C):-)]
Classic Airframes:
Overpriced, foreign styrene and resin parts kits with no domestic contact for customer service issues.
I have yet to read a review about these and feel like going out and getting one for myself.
For my money, I would first simply make the subject from solid wood and balsa with plastic details and seek a nice decal set to go with it.
I built a Check made Su-7 Fitter once, and by the time I got through tooling the parts to fit, I could have literally carved the thing out by hand!
Tom T [C):-)]
It’s not that it was a bad kit- mediocre really, just a bunch of minor fit issues that I made worse. I’m gonna finish it now though. No point in putting it back in the box since it’s painted, decalled, weathered, flatcoated and final assembly is almost done already anyway.
Yeah, so I think I can beat just about anybody’s story.
Revell 1/72 SR-71, copyright 1965. Got it for like $5. No cockpit, just pilot busts; no intake, just annular disks supporting the inlet spikes. I figured no big deal, will make a cool desktop model.
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Built it up–engine nacelles are three pieces and don’t match the nozzles. Enter plenty of styrene sheet and super glue.
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Got it all primed.
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Painted it black.
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Realized no red wing-walk decals.
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Bought red decal sheet.
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Started out with small wingwalks outboard of nacelles. Worked okay.
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Longer strips of decals shattered into zillions of people when cut to wingwalk-size widths…
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Tried to remove the outboard wingwalks…no joy. Tried to remove the bits of inboard wingwalks…scratched the paint.
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Sanded off the decals, sanded down to the primer.
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Painted wingwalk areas red.
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Started masking wingwalks. While positioning one that was misaligned, it pulled up all of the red paint, black paint, and primer, down to the plastic. Wheeee!!!
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Stripped ALL paint down with oven cleaner to wash plastic and repaint.
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Discovered after stripping that oven cleaner also corrodes super glue…remember those nacelles???
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Threw model in trash.
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Started RM Fw190D-11, am MUCH ENJOYING the cockpit detailing effort!!!
Mine was the Monogram AT-6, I dropped it three times, cacking and having to reputty the wing root cracks and tail feathers! Almost “canned” it, but it turned out pretty good. Patience and persistence will overcome most obstacles.
Yes, some kits simply do not cooperate, doesn’t exactly make them bad kits though.
I’ve never had much luck getting Hasegawa’s 1/72 S-2F tracker to play nice with me, I’ve tried it twice and never got satisfactory results, and both times the build seemed to go on forever. I built a little, got angry, put it back in the box; pulled it out a month or so later, built a bit, got angry, put it back in the box… you get the picture.
The first time I got one finished, I just gave it to a neighbor’s kid to play with; the second time, I eventually canibalised it for parts on other builds.
I have seen the Hasegawa Tracker done up very nicely and win awards at shows, how that is done, I have no idea, but I’ve pretty much accepted the fact that the kit wasn’t meant for me, for whatever reason. I likely won’t try it again.