DIII Albatros in 1/48 scale…what say you my fine gentlemen and ladies ?
Better kits available, but if you are willing to put the time, etc. into it, it will make a decent model
Like a lot of older models, they tend to be a little cheaper but if you’re willing to put some work into them, the results can be very satisfying.
Would they be on par then with common Hobbycraft, Airfix or Heller kits?
IMHO I would rate them to be more on par with the old FROG and Aurora kits.
I agree with Bryan. More like the old Aurora kits. Also, although advertized as 1/48 scale, the ones I’ve looked at are closer to 1/50th. Never actually built one as there are so many superior kits available.
Regards, Rick
Thanks gents…
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !
That was me running away into the night screaming…Roden for me then…
(I Will Not Go Cheap I Will Not Go Cheap I Will Not Go Cheap)
Think the Glencoe molds are the old Aurora molds. Roden is not that much more money and would be better kits
The Roden kit is very nice & if you’re aren’t in a big hurry, Eduard will be doing a 1/48 Albatros in the next few months.
Regards, Rick
Would that Eduard be a Profi Pack kit?
Some of the Glencoe kits, such as the Albatros, aren’t really worth bothering with as there are superior kits of the same subject available for not much more (maybe twice the price, but you get more than twice the quality).
However, there are quite a few, like the MB-2 bomber and 1/32 “Convertiplane”, not to mention their various armour and ship kits (e.g PT-76, USS Oregon) which are the only kits of their subject, and often quite unusual + interesting subjects at that. These are worth building if you don’t mind a fair amount of work (I’ve built the MB-2 and it looks quite nice if you add rigging, cockpit detail, etc.).
AFAIK, Glencoe don’t actually produce any moulds of their own; they’ve simply bought up various old and obscure ones from the 50s and 60s, mostly from defunct manufacturers.
Joe, Eduard has dropped the Profipack gimmick. All future releases will be full multimedia kits with all of the goodies associated with the Profipacks, but will no longer have that moniker.
Regards, Rick
Rick,
so figure on about a $25-$32 price tag then…
They have already done the D.Va
Joe, probably about $40.00 list & $ 30/35 street.
Regards, Rick
They do make nice kits for those 8 or 9 year olds just starting(they don’t really care about detail, etc at that age)
I had the duck, it never got built, wasn’t much of a kit. this is probably about fifteen years ago, I don’t know, it was probably the only 1:48 duck around then though.
complete and utter waste of time and money.
Unfortunately for someone like me who wants to build one of every aircraft flown by the RAN,their Sycamore is the only one around at the moment.And even then I can’t find one!
The Glencoe Albatros was one of their very few “new tool” offerings. Unfortunately, it is a poor offering, even less useable than the old Aurora D.III/D.Va mish-mash. The poorly detailed parts are buried in flash, the wings are detailed topside only, nothing fits (you get the picture). If you’re a real masochist, you could use the nose parts from the Offag Alb .253 version to convert one of the Eduard D.III kits. But otherwise, aside from the decals, the Glencoe Albatros is a waste of your modelling dollar/euro/whatever.
Phil “Silverback” Schenfeld - who would rather scratchbuild than try to rescue this pooch