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How good are the 1/48 Hobbycraft tanks?

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  • Member since
    January 2012
  • From: Belgium, EU
Posted by Ninetalis on Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:25 AM

I like those metal hulls, they are ofcourse not that easy to use, but I do like them..
but yeah, that's just me

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:12 AM

Dang, I didn't catch the HobbyCraft vs. Hobby Boss slip; I guess I just went by the box photos and assumed you were asking about Hobby Boss. I have nine of them, 3 different KVs, 5 Shermans and a T-34/76.

As I said before, they are pretty decent model kits with lots of detail. They do not build as easily as the 1/48 scale Tamiya kits, although they are better because they do not have the diecast metal hull most Tamiya kits come with.

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  • From: Belgium, EU
Posted by Ninetalis on Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:58 AM

Thanks for the replies guys!
Good to hear that their not all that bad... and that the T-34 kit provides inside details
(Tamiya doesn't, I have a T-34 in my stash, got it for free from my LHS-shopkeeper)

About hobbyCRAFT, I have a F4U corsair and it looks superb in my eyes, paint shemes are not that decent, but the rest looks okay, on the other hand,I saw the Sea fury at my LHS, and it looks like an od Airfix kit or something...

So yeah, I think Stickpusher is right, some are old, but other ones look great.

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Posted by T26E4 on Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:09 AM

I didn't know that. That's good to hear.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, January 27, 2012 2:21 PM

T26E4

Hobby Boss is a pretty reputable AFV kit maker.  HobbyCraft is a shoddy maker of aircraft models.

Not all Hobbycraft aircraft kits are shoddy. I have built several and been quite pleased with the finished results. While many of their early kits are clones of other companies earlier work, or crude early moldings of their own. Their later kits are not bad by any means. Good enough to be picked up and reboxed by Academy under their label. While not top of the line, the later HC kits are often good deals for the price for the modeler of limited funds.

 

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Posted by T26E4 on Friday, January 27, 2012 12:49 PM

Hobby Boss is a pretty reputable AFV kit maker.  HobbyCraft is a shoddy maker of aircraft models.

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  • From: NYC, USA
Posted by waikong on Friday, January 27, 2012 12:30 PM

The T-34 kits do have full interiors, which you may or may not be a plus.  Squadron has some of these on sale right now for $10 US.

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, January 27, 2012 9:20 AM

As model kits, they are pretty good. Accuracy-wise, the Shermans are not as good as the T-34 or KVs.

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/48/hobbyboss/hobbyboss.htm

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How good are the 1/48 Hobbycraft tanks?
Posted by Ninetalis on Friday, January 27, 2012 7:32 AM

Hey everybody,

I was wondering if anyone ever made any subjects of the hobbycraft 1/48 tanks?
How good are they?they got the Sherman, T-34 and KV-1 (they all got different submodels)
Anyone made some? also read that they were not that accurate in comparison with the Tamiya models


Regards Ninetalis

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