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Posted by marines1966 on Friday, July 26, 2013 9:31 PM

has anybody built armor from Lee ? I got two models of the British main battle tank Challenger as a gift and never hread of the company. Sad to say both  kits had lot of flashing, parts not formed right or bent, not very clear instrucrtions, lousy fitting parts, did a lot of filling seams for sure! the plastic was thick, unlike the newer kits of today. the glue had a hard time setting, had to hold or band the parts together. let me just say would not buy anything from this company.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, July 26, 2013 10:34 PM

I am pretty sure that they do cloned kits.

 

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Posted by TomZ2 on Friday, July 26, 2013 10:45 PM

Has anybody BUILT armor from Lee? No, but Google has this:

  

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, July 26, 2013 11:07 PM

I built that one... it was a nice kit!!!

 

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, July 27, 2013 12:07 AM

stikpusher

I am pretty sure that they do cloned kits.

C.C. Lee is a Chinese model company that tends to make poor motorized copies of other companies' model kits. They often use the box art from a corresponding Italeri, Academy, Tamiya or Dragon kit as their box art leading many folks to assume it is a rebox.

I've bought several 1/72 scale tank kits from them, and they all contain the exact same tracks, regardless of the type of tank it is.

Here's a link to some information about the company: http://www.scalemodelmuseum.com/others/brand/scale-model-brands-c-c-lee/#.UfNTs9LVDQo 

And some discussion regarding the poor quality of Lee kits going back over a decade. http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1114051759/What+is+the+quality+of+Lee+Models+T-55- 

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Posted by marines1966 on Monday, August 5, 2013 7:32 PM

kind of thought so as I was putting it together, Glad I didn't buy them! dressed up one a bit, turned out not too bad, the other one built it, but did nothing else with it. set it aside for something down the road.

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Posted by SprueOne on Saturday, August 10, 2013 12:35 PM

Informative thread and esp funny because I've had this kit in the stash for years... still sealed... 

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