Academy - sprue happy?

Ha! I was thinking the same thing about the Dragon 1:35 Sd.Kfx. 251/16 Flammpanzerwagen I started yesterday. I normally build 1:48 aircraft, and was surprised to find itty bitty parts with 4-6 sprue attachments! I shudder to think what 1:72 would be like!

I ran into the same thing with a Bandai HGUC Gundam I built.  Every part, no matter how small, had at least four attachment points.  And that kit used some very hard plastic so clean up was a real thrill.  I suspect that that is done to make sure an adequate amount of plastic is injected into the molds to reduce the number of malformed parts and parts that are broken off the sprue in the production process.

Well, at least you know you don't have to worry about shaking the bags the parts were in for loose ones before you throw them away

I just built 2 Academy 1/72 planes and yeah... I really didn't think about it, but they did have a lot of attachment points.  And in 1/72 that is hard to clean up without marring the part.  Now I'll have to go back and look at the kit I just bought yesterday and see what it's like.. It's also an Academy...

they probably do it to make sure delicate parts don't break but.....

because of so many attachment points the delicate parts tend to break more during removal from the sprues

Bgrigg wrote:

Ha! I was thinking the same thing about the Dragon 1:35 Sd.Kfx. 251/16 Flammpanzerwagen I started yesterday. I normally build 1:48 aircraft, and was surprised to find itty bitty parts with 4-6 sprue attachments! I shudder to think what 1:72 would be like!

I know exactly what you mean. I build my 251 a little while back, and the damn thing had an extraordinary amout of sprue attachment points. Plus those litte knockout tabs were all over the place.