A modeler call for help.

I understand what you're saying...   At least Academy could have told you to go "bark up a tree" in an email..

But, having been doing this for the better part of 45 years, I've found that it's just easier to fix things yourself than contact a manufacturer that is outside your own country...

As for rescribing curved lines, it's fairly easy to do... You just need to use the back-side of your X-Acto blade, or pt a needle in a pin-vise and use that...

Go light, and in very short strokes... More like painting a line than cutting into it... Also, get a curved blade and "rock" it over the areas you want rescribed... You have more contol that way.. On long, straight runs, use a metal straight-edge as a guide...

Another thing, like the wing-stubs on that Hind-D, sometimes you have to cut off alignment tabs and glue the part into place without it...  You also should have carved out the pylons to match the stubs's contour... Cut a little, test-fit, cut a little, test-fit, and so on...

 I should be more clear in my ideas, but is a bit difficult to me sometimes express yourself in other language.

Well, the point is, I put a topic like this in others foruns, and the posts was quite similar. In the fact, I would appreciate too much if Acamdemy send me another parts (like Hobby Boss and Kinect do when I purchased kits with a damaged part and missing one, respectively), But I discovered this's probaly a flaw of the mold not a isolated case.
What saddened me is the fact of either Academy and Hobbyeasy, did not answer any of my e-mails, even to say that any of them can't do anything, or something else!

Like I say before, is the neglect with the consumers that let me boring.
The companies should show more respect with us, answering an e-mail with appologizes at least.
If us always shut up when a company sell products with low quality or flaws, the things will never change.

Everyone has his limitations, and I konw my, rescribing a curved panel line in a round suerface will be a challenge to me, but I'll make it (I'll pratice first, of course).
I take my hobbys seriously, mainly when I put some money on it, and for those who can say I'm a lazy guy, I let this pic of a 1/48 MilMI-24 (Mini Hobby Craft) that I finished some time ago, who saw this kit know how bad he is.

HawkeyeHobbies

What you are showing is easy stuff. a short shot then you'd have grounds to seek replacements.  Time to roll up your sleeves, find a mentor to help you develop the skills to tackle this and get building.

THIS is what a "Short-Shot" looks like...

Still fixable though..

Turret bottom of Revell (Ex-Monogram) M48A2 Patton... "Made in China" means "Fixed by Von Hammer"..

This is what separate(s) the real scale modeler from an scale model assembler.

Truer words were never spoken.. 'Cept maybe Manny's "No Crying" line..

A simple backing-strip of strip-styrene will fix it, along with some putty and wet-sanding, looks to me.. Then a rescribe.. I have that same kit around here and it's the same way...

Rescribing is a common skill-set and should be in every modeler's "bag o' tricks"... 

As I used to tell my troopage when they complained that something was "Effef-Up".. "Then, UN-EFF IT!"...

Echo139er

Manstein's revenge:

I think what the guys before me are trying to say is this: "There's no crying in modeling..."

 

I beg to differ.  This forum is different today because of it.  Ok, back to work.

Manstein's revenge

I think what the guys before me are trying to say is this: "There's no crying in modeling..."

I hope you typed that in your best Tom Hanks voice!

Manstein's revenge

I think what the guys before me are trying to say is this: "There's no crying in modeling..."

I beg to differ.  This forum is different today because of it.  Ok, back to work.

Manstein's revenge

I think what the guys before me are trying to say is this: "There's no crying in modeling..."

I think you expressed it there!

I think what the guys before me are trying to say is this: "There's no crying in modeling..."

This is what separate the real scale modeler from an scale model assembler.

There is no perfect model. What you are showing is easy stuff. Now if the fuselage haves were only partially finished...a short shot then you'd have grounds to seek replacements. I don't think anything you'd get from the distributor or mfr would be any better.

The older the molds and the more uses the greater minor issue like this happen. Time to roll up your sleeves, find a mentor to help you develop the skills to tackle this and get building. This might be of some help:

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/2008/07/22/encore-perfect-seams/

Having built 3 of those kits, they all had the marks and soft panel lines that you describe.  The warped top will straighten out once the interior parts are installed.  I don't see anything MRC can do to fix the problem short of making a new fuselage mold.

My copy of that kit was exactly the same. A light sanding took care of the scratches and I rescribed the panel lines with a needle and pin vice. The kit could also use a bit of scratchbuilt detail in the nose area, pretty bare inside the chin glass.

Really?

There's no model company going to care. My best suggestion is that if repairing such flaws in any given kit is beyond your skills, you should pick simpler kits or maybe lower your expectations some.
This is model building. People make something out of nothing every day. The lack of a few sharp lines shouldn't pee in your wheeties.
Heck, by the time the seams were filled and sanded the lines would have to be repaired anyway.