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    August 2008
1/144 aircraft kits.
Posted by tankerbuilder on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:08 PM

I got a neat liddle boid for pennies.It is an F 14 swing wing thing.Has anyone ever heard of LEE PLASTICS. No city or country of origin anywhwere on or in the thing. Decals ain,t bad.I have used more filler on it though than I ever did on my 1/48 scale builds from the major companies(and I do have a few) besides there no one in the office!,and I mean nothing there except two holes. Sad too,because the canopy is crystal clear, almost scale thin and fits perfect!! The armaments package is right on too!.Oh,well! It will be a widdle biddy boid on my widdle biddy desk!  catchya later    tankerbuilder

  • Member since
    November 2004
  • From: Cat Central, NC
Posted by Bronto on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:20 PM

Lee Plastics was a Chinese company that illegally copied other manufacturers kits in the early 90's.  All of their copies were extremely poor, with bad fit and even worse decals.

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:37 AM

Hey, BRONTO! I did find one thing that fit! The model fits real well into it,s box! Naw , all kidding aside everything you said is true except the decals did work okay.This, next to my early "HARRIER"kit has to be the smallest big bird I have. To coin a phrase "a boid in da hand is woith two inna bush". I don,t usually buy a/c this small but now I have the F-14 in all the model sizes available ! I was just wondering about it because the guy I got it from has a bunch more from the same folks. Oh well---tankerbuilder

  • Member since
    November 2004
  • From: Cat Central, NC
Posted by Bronto on Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:43 PM

Glad i could be of some help.   Its a shame with all of the companies that copy other makers kits, that the copies are always worse than the original kit they copied.  Lets see a pic of the little F-14.

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