Favorite "Shake n' Bake" kit??

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
1

Just curious to know what everyone’s favorite “Shake n’ Bake” kit is? You know…the kit that is really easy to put together with a minimum amount of work but looks really great in the end.

For me, I would have to select the Hasegawa line of F-4 Phantoms. Yes, they’re expensive, but they go together like a dream and always look fantastic in the end. I usually have to do a little bit of sanding around the nose, but that’s it. And those intakes!! On other Phantoms, such as Testors and Monogram, the intakes always gave me fits, but with Hasegawa, I put on an intake and I can barely see the seam!

2

The Tamiya Beaufighter. Practically snap together. Also paint by part, except for the fuze demarcation line.

3

Revell’s 1/32 Hawker Hunter FGA9. What a sweet build OOB! Fit is superb and it looks oh so nice when completed…[:D]

4

Tamiya 1/48 P-51’s and the 1/32 Haseqawa Ki-61.

5

Mine would be the 1/48 Tamiya ME-109E.

6

1/48 Tamiya P-47 and Tamiya Do-335 so far. Most of the Tamiya kits I’ve built have been awefully hard to screw up, although I’ve found a way on a few!

7

Tamiya 1/48 F4F Wildcat for me.

Regards, Rick

8

Maybe a bit odd, any of the Revell Germany 1/72 “heavies”. I have experience with their He 177, Ju 290, and Bv 222. Big kits with a lotta parts, but MAN do those things just fall together! And the final detail is top notch. I’m really looking forward to the Fw 200 in my “to build” pile…

9

I still haven’t found one that I haven’t been able to screw up in some way or another. [xx(]

10

[(-D]

11

I’m with Dave. The Hasagwa Rufe was going well until I glued the wrong lower wing on. Now I have either a Ruke or Zefe. dan

12

Ditto. I’ll back that up by saying Tamiya’s Mossie & any of Hasegawa’s IJN/IJA planes

13

There simply has been no kit I haven’t screw up. But as for the ones that go together best, they’re all Tamiyas…

14

Tamiya makes a lot of ‘em, but my personal fave is Eduard’s 1/48 Fokker D.VII, about as close as you can get to a shake-n’-bake biplane kit.

15

The easiest kit I’ve made so far has to be Tamiya’s Do 335. I don’t think I used one drop of filler, and hardly any sanding required.

16

Hasegawa’s 1/48 A-7E for me… I was a novice,sprayed with spray cans,and it still turned out pretty descent… and that was 15? years ago…

17

Tamiya Corsair’s. [tup] Give me two weekends and stay out of the way[(-D]

18

I was just saying this to Mike Glinski,

I have botched this kit three times! Each time I think I have it licked, then something goes dreadfully wrong. At least my spares box is FULL of spare parts for this model.

19

tamiya, zero 48 scale so simple and turn out really good…

20

I haven’t build a lot of "shake and bake"high quality kits but I did like the Tamiya 1/48 Kawanishi N1K1 Rex/Kyofu.

Fit was great and because there was no gear it was a very quick build. The only thing I added where some seatbelts.