We’ve seen several threads on these forums about the best and worst kits we feel we’ve built; so I thought I’d try a slightly different spin on it.
Have any of you looked into the box of a kit that looked particularly interesting at your LHS and upon viewing it, nearly wretched or went into fits of laughter before putting the lid back on and saying “no sale”?
Sometimes you can tell just by looking at the parts that there’s no way that kit is going to work into anything decent regardless of your boundless, but utterly hopeless and foolish, optimism. [}:)]
Today I found a kit in my LHS that redefines cr*p in styrene: Kopro’s 1/72 F-16D Viper.
Panel lines that make Matchbox trenchwork look dainty and graceful
Beautiful translucent canopy (almost a pearly lustre actually)
Horribly mishapen and miles too short radome
On the upshot there was no flash evident and the guy told me the molds weren’t original Kopro, but couldn’t remember who’s originally.
At least Kopro doesn’t have to admit to shoddy tooling, just a poor decision of kits in the range.
So what kits made you run the other way just by a glimpse of the styrene in the box?
The Testors Graff Zepplin that came out in the 70’s.
The main body was all vaccu-formed opague/white flimsly plastic.
Turns out, I had friends tell me the same thing when they saw it back then, i.e.,
eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww [tdn]
You see, back then the plastic model cements all would have eaten and destroyed any and all seams on the thing, as well as “how do you fill in a gap for a flimsy piece of plastic that constantly buckles at the slightest touch”?
Now we got nice brushible CNA glues.
Also I pass on anything that is over $20.00 and also states “resin parts and vaccu-formed canopies”.
I mean, for around $50 you would think that they could get serious all-styrene kit out.
That is my [2c]
Tom T [C):-)]
Any kit from VEB Plasticard fall in this category but somehow, I still manage to buy them…
1/35 AMT T-72. I don’t know what came over me when I got it thinking I could make a half buried Iraqi tank with it. It’s still in box on my shelf awaiting to be taken off of my hand by somebody or simply hit the garbage can by the end of the year. With my long list of to build queue that’s not even worthy of my time for trying, when I have enough old Tamiya 1/12 bikes to worry about.
Testors ME163 Komet talk about no detail, a poor figure was the cockpit that was it.