 keilau wrote: | | What do you think of the recent Revell 1:350 scale Bismarck and Tirpitz? They sound like wonderful kits for the very reasonable price. |
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The new Revell Bismarck is an excellent kit, light years ahead of the old Tamiya one (which is still a pretty decent kit). It includes loads of surface detail on the deck, superstructure bulkheads, etc. which you'd need several expensive PE sets to add to the Tamiya kit, and the smaller parts and fittings are all very finely moulded (the Arado seaplane even has a clear cockpit canopy with some basic interior detail). The deck is also a single-piece moulding. I'm sure there are still some accuracy issues, and some areas lacking in detail (and the plastic rails, though better than the old Heller 1/400 ones, still aren't much good compared to PE) but overall it's a huge improvement over the old kit especially considering its very reasonable price. Haven't seen in the box of the Tirpitz kit but since it shares many parts with the Bismarck it'll presumably be of the same high quality. In fact the Bismarck kit actually includes quite a few unused extra parts, such as AA guns, presumably intended for the Tirpitz (they might come in handy for detailing or converting the new 1/350 Prinz Eugen and Graf Spee out later this year) |