I build WWII aircraft and almost strictly buy Hasegawa. However, I do have some completed models from Academy, Accurate Miniatures, and Eduard.
The best kit I have ever built has to be the Eduard P-39 profipack. It comes with photo etch parts, a weight for the nose, and numerous decal options. The details are amazing. Because of this, the P-39 has become my favorite aircraft.
What is yours?
My favorite aircraft is the Fw-190. If I had eduard’s new kit, it would rpobably reinforce my opinion too.
A tie between the Tamiya 1/48 P-47D & the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Avenger.
Regards, Rick
I’ve enjoyed several, but from what I’ve bulit so far the Accurate Miniatures Avenger was the best OOB.(I have the Tamiya P-47D Razorback in the “on deck circle”).
My favorite would have to be Monogram / Revell’s 1/90 DC-3/C-47/AC-47 kit. There is an incredible amount of variants and schemes that can be applied, DC-3, C-39 to C-53 to BT-67, Li-2 or L2D2, plain green to gold camouflage and everything in between. It is just the right size to add some detail while still remaining a simple build, but not big enough to take up too much of the ever decreasing realestate in the apartment.
This probably doesn’t count to the point of the thread really, but i thought it was worth mentioning. But my Dad and i once did the Red Barons triplane (don’t remember the proper name offhand). it was a balsa wood kit, and there was really nothing all that special about the kit really. But it was a good father son project when i was young, and from the eyes of a 5 year old, it was the most beautiful model i had ever seen…
Mine would have to be the Tamiya family of 1/48 Corsairs.
My vote would go to the 1/48 Tamiya Spitfires and Thunderbolts. They are superb.
The best kit? I guess that depends on what criteria one uses to make that determination. Are we talking the end result or what came in the box, our best overall construction job or the highest quality kit we’ve purchased?
My best build was (and still is) a 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.V that I built for my dad. Everything just came together, but it’s not the best quality kit I’ve ever completed. I find Eduard’s Profipack line of WWI birds to be everything I’ve come to expect in a kit, giving the modeler all the parts necessary to build a show-stopper right out of the box, besides the fact that they are fairly unique subjects, especially when one considers the plethora of WWII up to and including modern subjects that have been almost done to death by the manufacturers.
Anything Eduard makes… presently their little 1/72nd Ni 17 I am working on.
Eduard has done for our hobby today what Hasagawa did in the 70s…And Tamiya in the 80s I never thought a better FW 190 could be done than the Tamiya and Hasagawa kits… But that was before Eduard showed us how it could be done… I can’t wait for their 1/48 DR 1…
Hi All
Best kit I`ve ever built…tricky
Probably the latest model that looks complete to me, that goes into the display case, that gets taken out 6 months later for a tickle to tighten up the detail, that goes into the display case, that gets taken out etc etc
Eduard Fokker D-VII in 1/48th scale. They give you 2 complete kits with photo-etch and decals that work.
I have two favorities. It was who I built them for which makes them stand out. I built two Monogram P-47 Razorbacks for two World War II pilots who hosted a reunion of their outfit in Laconia, NH where I live. The other was a Mongram Bell Huey I built for a man who I learned flew one in Vietnam. It was my way to say thank you to them. Using photographs from the veterans I was able to make them with correct markings of their actual aircraft. I also made a Lindberg LST for a sailor involved in Operation Tiger, the D-Day rehearsal at Slapton Sands which was intercepted by German E-boats. Nearly 1,000 sailors and soldiers died. You can’t imagine the pleasure this gave me.