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    August 2005
stamp of manufacture
Posted by kjudd on Saturday, August 6, 2005 2:00 AM
I just started building my first model kit since I was a kid. It's the 1/48 Revell Spitfire Mk II. Anyway, I have a really silly question... the manufacturer stamped a copyright notice on the underside of the model (© RV-MM LLC 1994 CHINA). Since I want to make this an accurate model, my first instinct would be to file off the text, but I thought I'd see what the common practice is for this kind of thing among serious model builders? Maybe there's a benefit to being able to quickly id the base kit later on?
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    April 2003
  • From: NSW, Australia
Posted by pingtang on Saturday, August 6, 2005 4:07 AM
Sand it off. It was a common practice for kit manufacturers a while ago to stamp things like that on their kits. Don't know why, it just makes more work for us. Modern kit manufacturers are more intelligent, they stamp the copyright notices on inside surfaces of the model. If it wasn't there on the real aircraft, get rid of it.
-Daniel
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    September 2004
  • From: Utereg
Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Saturday, August 6, 2005 4:13 AM
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