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...without instructions. Who can do it? When I was younger, I used to do a lot of hot rod and muscle car kits. So many, it got to a point I didn't need directions. LOL!! First, I may take a look-see at the directions then dive right in without going back to it.
Car models are always the easiest because the engine step is ALWAYS the first to build. Next is the interior, the the rest well.... there's nothing complicated about doing them.
Sometimes, when I can do it intuitively, some are just too complex nowadays. I built a Hasegawa 1/72 F-18F without them (cuz they weren't there), but I followed Accurate Miniatures Avenger instructions to the letter. With all of those parts, I'm bound to miss something.
Try doing that with some of the Dragon armor kits,some of them can't be built with the directions !!
But then again,maybe you got something,just throw out the Dragon instructions
I've built a Tamiya T-34 without them. Of course there's not a lot to work with so pretty hard to mess up.
Yes, many of Dragon's armor models will include several full sprues that you will only need a part (as in 1) or maybe a few pieces that assemble a component to add to the kit. The excess sprues often have nearly identical parts, just for a different version, that the main kit sprues have.
A Dragon German armor kit or one of their Shermans rarely fit back inside the box once you open it up to look at the sprues.
Yeah, try building one of those without instructions.
Certainly in the days of a car kit (for example) that had a dozen pieces total, including the wheels, it was possible. In these days when even car kits have over a hundred pieces, and ship kits sometimes going over a thousand pieces, I wouldn't try it any more.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
I always have the instructions of the kit I'm building at hand.
Dragon kits are impossible for me to build without instructions, because of the amount of tiny parts.
I am able to build Tamiya's Thunderbolt completely without instructions though. I built one of them already and that was enough to remember every step of construction.
Eduard's aircraft kits are also a no-go to build without instructions for me.
Accurate Minatures' are not that hard to assemble without instructions, but I follow them step-by-step, because they are so nicely written with lots of hints on how to make certain tasks easier.
Just my 2 cents...
Just read a review of a model in the latest FSM- an aircraft kit (1:48, I think it was) that had over 780 parts!
I didn't find such a kit in the my latest issue of FSM. Which issue are you refering to?
SchattenSpartan I didn't find such a kit in the my latest issue of FSM. Which issue are you refering to?
Hey guys come on now! We all know we never need instructions till we get in trouble! Then we read them after the wife leaves the room!
Lon-ski
Hi !
Instructions , what's that ? LOL . LOL . I was one of those who could build a car kit without them . Now that I am into 1/350 ship kits and especially TRUMPETER and or DRAGON and some HASEGAWA as well as TAMIYA , I use them .Sure I know what a FLETCHER is supposed to look like .I lived on one for seven months .Then , oh well , I got transferred to a full fit WW 2 Gearing . Now as to planes and armor , well , it's been so long since I built any I do use the instructions , but , I still build in sub-assemblies .That way if I have to leave it for a while I don't get lost when I come back to it and YES I do check off each step as I do it with a pencil or sharpie ! Tanker - Builder
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