The Revell EC-135 in 1/72. Really, the astonishing lack of fit is amazing. That I managed to salvage anything from it at all, even after multiple cubic centimeters of filler, is a feat. All the individual components are great. Good, crisp detail. Excellent decals. They just don’t bloody fit together!!!
I was doing well enough until I decided to experiment a bit with Future (never used it before: I usually make tanks, not much call for glosscoat) and panel lines. (Ditto lack of panel lines on tanks). Oh well.
Decals by MaxDecals. Very good to work with, but sadly transluscent.
I don’t know, you seem to have gotten a pretty good end result from the materiels you were given. I’ll even give you bonus points for working in 1/72. That’s a scale that I have sworn off forever, as it makes my eyes itch and burn just to think of all those tiny parts and my big, clumsy fingers.
[:D] well guys the kit im building is from Glencoe,its a McDonnell xv-1 convertiplane 1;32 scale and i had to use alot of glue to make it go toether a real pain,and im still not done.[:(]
Come on Moran, my best kit ever looks a whole lot worse than your EC135!!![wow]
I was relieved to read your post: I always thought I did something very wrong with the 1:72 EC135. I’ve built six of them and the last one hardly came out any better than the first. Besides the poor fit of the fuselage halves, EMS interior and exhausts, I keep having major problems with the windows; they fit like s#8@!
Another worst kit ever, although a rather obscure one: A-Model’s 1:72 Ka226. The plastic is as thick as the plating on a 1:1 T34, the EMS interior is big enough for a 1:32 crew to have comfortable sex on and detail on a 1:700- kit is better than on this piece of heavy industry.
Tell me about it. I did manage to get them in place at one point, but some time after I had the two fuselage halves glued and sanded, stress must have popped one of the sides a little out again. They’re still in place, but visibly recesses.
The way I consider the kit, it’s a beauty in the box. The stock decals are numerous, in register, and great, there’s little flash, no sink holes, the details are crisp and fine, down to the different types of seat belts on the different seats. The problem is that for some reason, they made all the parts different scales. You have a 1/73 fuselage. 1/72 interior. 1/71 canopy. And so on. I never was able to get the canopy top flush with the fuselage roof, best I could do was to create a ‘ramp’ so that it at least looked like it was supposed to be like that.
