Trumpeter armor quality

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Trumpeter armor quality

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 17, 2004 10:26 PM

I've never seen inside the box of a Trumpeter armor kit. There are 3 kits I'm very interested in:

Trumpeter 1/35 Deng Feng 50 ton Tank Transporter
Trumpeter 1/35 SA-2 Guideline Missile w/ cab
Trumpeter 1/35 BJ212 Jeep

Does anyone know the quality regarding those kits? in terms of detail, accuracy...

Are there any scale figures of China's Red Guard? Or whatever the Communist troops are called...

Thanks

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gdarwin

Member since
January 2004
From: bc,canada

Posted by gdarwin on Saturday, September 18, 2004 2:12 AM

hi, i dont about the other kits you metioned ,but my son built a Finnish army t-55 with mine rollers and it does look pretty good.

gdarwin[roy]

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kaleu

Member since
February 2003
From: Racing capital of the world- Indy

Posted by kaleu on Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:49 AM

Those are all good kits. I have built the SA-2 and have seen the other two built as well. The detail and accuracy are good and Trumpeter has much better instruction sheets now. I haven't seen any Chinese soldiers, but I think Dragon has some sets for the Korean War.

Erik "Don't fruit the beer." Newest model buys: More than I care to think about. It's time for a support group.

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Rob Gronovius

Member since
December 2002
From: Fort Knox

Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:15 PM

I've got the BJ212A with recoilless rifle. It is a really nice little kit.

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cplchilly

Member since
January 2004
From: SO CAL

Posted by cplchilly on Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:42 PM

Hey gdarwin what colors did your son use on the T-55 I have the same kit (gotta love ebay) and Im trying to decide wether to build that or AFV Clubs M-48H (CM-11) kit. Either one will be straight out of the box.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 18, 2004 1:53 PM

I have not built those but I just finished Trumpeter's JS-3M. It was a nice build but there were a couple minor inaccuracies and 2 issues with the instructions;
1) some items were illustrated upside down.
2) A couple parts shown in place were not identified.
Neither of these are major but caused some head scratching for a miniute. Confused [%-)]

Gather your resources/pics and, most important, have fun!

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gdarwin

Member since
January 2004
From: bc,canada

Posted by gdarwin on Saturday, September 18, 2004 3:09 PM

the only colours that my son used was ,od for the main body,light brown for the tool boxes, steel for the treads,and metalic gray for the machine gun,i would have used better colours myself.but what can i say. Big Smile [:D]

gdarwin[roy]

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