Greetings all. Have a question about GRAND POENIX of Czeck rep. Seen a cockpit detail set for my Trump 1/32 P38. Has anyone used their stuff? Any good? Hows it compare to other kits. Any feedback would be great.Thanks all…
Hey, DB. I’m sorry I can’t comment to your question, but I happen to be working on the same kit right now (great kit!). Out of curiosity, you’re not happy with the nice details and PE that comes with the kit? I was very happy with the detailing OOB.
Accualy, I havent started on it yet. I have three others to do first. I just dont know if Id be happy with OOB. I do plan on getting the BIG ED set for it latter on.So far the 2 Im working on have BIG ED sets and I LOVE them. So much more detail. I love detail, just cant scratch build worth beans. So I`m just looking around at options.I like to have everything here when I build a model, you know? How is yours comming? how come we havent seen any posts? What are the big issues with it? Let us know…Thanks
I’m definately with you on the “having everything there before you start” bit, as well as the lack of scratchbuilding skills (although I’m trying!).
I think it’s a fantastic kit. I received it for Christmas 2004 and started building through Feb 2005 when I sent it to my father so he could build his part (we were doing a long distance father-son build). This turned into that and he never got around to doing anything on it, so I brought it back home last month. Now, 3 years later, I’m moving along on it.
I’ll get some pics posted once I have something worth showing. Overall I think it a great kit, but not well thought out. The enginers, for example and VERY nicely detailed. Full engines in both booms…but you can see them once you close up the boom halfs. The fit is great so far, but another nit picky thing is that the plastic is a little soft (a Trumpeter trademark!) and it’s easy to over-sand…not that I’ve done that two dozen times or so [:-^]
I’ve not yet tried the Big Ed, but I want to. I’ve used smaller PE sets and while they take time, they definately enhance a model. The Big Ed sets have all the bells and whistles…I’ll be looking for your projects on the forums.
I am building the Trumpy 1/32 P-38 right now. If the Big Ed kit isn’t enough detail to make you blind from all the PE, you are truly someone who needs to be counseled and medicated.
Put the Big Ed over the kit parts, and it will exceed anything you can get in resin. I actually bought a Jerry Rutman resin set for mine, but I sold it after I realized that the kits parts with PE are WAY better than Rutman’s parts alone, and the kit parts with PE would easily equal Rutman’s stuff with the PE. If you are using the Big Ed, the extra resin bits are superfluous.
The Eduard instrument panel is a work of art. Assembled, its a bazillion little bits, but it is GORGEOUS…
The only fit issue I have so far is the radiator housings. If you just try to glue them on, they will take a bunch of filling, sanding, and rescribing to sit flush with the booms. The secret is to do your work BEFORE gluing the housings on. File the back side and inside edges of the housings to fit the indentations in the booms, and they will fit flush with no sanding and no lost detail…
OK, all this talk about PE gives me a chance to show off my F105 pit with Eduard interiorAGAIN. Hope you all dont mind me posting again 
Looks really good, DB. The IP looks FANTASTIC!
Gatormark, any pics of your P-38 so far? I’d like to see the pit as you have it with the Big Ed.
As for me, I bought the Rutman exterior conversion parts for the F version but decided not to use them. Looks like I’ll either build another or put them up for sale/trade.
I thought about back dating mine, just so could use a differant paint scheem. I love NBM, but I have 3 other kits for that. I just think it looks meaner in color. But to back date it was way too expensive and WAY more work than I want to do…