Post stories about your most trouble free build!

I think the build that gave me the least trouble was a resin kit I did of the Fokker D.II last year. Resin kits require CA glues, and often give me lots of trouble. This one reminded me of the old adage "Dump glue and paint into the box, give it a good shake and the model falls out already finished."

What i have done so far living in a travel trailer has got to be Eduards Mig-21pf,perfict fit.

I recently was doodling around in armor and built the Tamiya Tiran 5.

I loved that kit and wish it were my son.

Everything went together perfectly, and there was a lot of detail. Machine guns all over the outside of the thing, really boss.

My first set of metal tracks too, and that was smooth as cognac.

I think for myself that would be Dragons King Tiger. Very low parts count and fits like a charm!

Jay Jay, your luckey on your Hasegawa P-47. Mine has some serious warpage and gap issues where the lower fuselage meets the leading edge of the lower wing... I mean bigtime!!! 

All that aside, my best, most troublefree aircraft build without a doubt has been Revell's 1/32 Hawker Hunter. That kit is simply divine to build. I built mine wheels up as a ceiling hanger while overseas and left it behind when it was time to come home...

For armor, it has to be Tamiya's 1/35 Cromwell and Centaur kits (two versions of nearly identical tanks kitted from the same basic molds). Except for their new "gluable" single run tracks, those kits truly are "shake & bake" in their simplicity of asembly. The soft tracks on both of mine broke within a short period of adding the paint. AM tracks are a must.

The two that immediately come to mind are Fine Molds' 1/72 TIE Fighter and Imai's 1/72 Thunderbird Mole.  The TIE was completed under a week, which is a record for me.  The Mole needed zero modifications, which is also a record of sorts.  The TIE was very simple, the Mole quite involved, but both assembled with no difficulty and the results were pleasing.  Sorry both were built before I got a digital camera, so I don't have any good photos.

JOE RIX

Tamiya's 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt. Simply a remarkable example of styrene engineering. I'm not quite done with it but, let me tell you, it is a dream to assemble.

 

I agree! I'm currently working on the Bubbletop version and do have the Razorback version in my stash. No fit issues whatsoever.

Love dat Goose Lyle! 

Gary

Tamiya's 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt. Simply a remarkable example of styrene engineering. I'm not quite done with it but, let me tell you, it is a dream to assemble.

Believe it or not, it was the Lindberg 1/48 Grumman Goose. Things just fit as well as you could ask for. I messed up the paint and had to strip it and redo that part, but that was not the kit's fault.

My most trouble free build to date is this Hasegawa 1/48 P-47.  Very little filler and it mostly fell together. Very detailed OOB...i did actually finish it but this is the best pic I currently have.

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    I still don't know about posting pics . Now mine has to be Dragon's F-111 Aardvark .It almost fell together .I certainly wasn't expecting this in 1/144 !  T.B.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour - thanks a lot!

Can you post a pic of the SU!

That is one sweet looking Skyhawk! Well done!

Hello!

I'd say the new Airfix scooter - building that kit I understood why the people liked the real thing so much:

Thanks for looking and have a nice day

Paweł

I am building Tamiya's SU-122. Its a breeze, all fits perfectly well. Fairly simple kit. Most of my Dragon kits were trouble free as wll. They are complex and detailed but all fits realy well together with minor trimmings here and there.