brickshooter
Hans von Hammer:
On the other hand, I do avoid the older Revell-Monogram kits. I simply do not have the time nor skill to make major corrections such as re-scribing panel lines.
Then stop doing it!
Most of the "Old School" Revellogram kits are raised lines, sure... But that's a damn-sight more accurate than trying to replicate butt-jointed panels that didn't exist on the protoptype, which, more often than not, had overlapping panels...
Your "major corrections" are self-induced "Major Inaccuracies"...
I did.
I purchased Tamiya and Hasegawa instead.
LOL... Ok..
Look, I ain't tryin' to tell ya what to build or how to build it, only that whatever it is, build it and "accuraize" it after and while looking the prototype closely... Take your own research photos whenever it's possible... One trip to Midland, TX in the fall, and you'll fill a couple memory cards with detail shots of everything from a Sopwith Camel, DH-4, Fokker Dr 1s to a Bucker Jungmiester, Storch, Bücker Bü-131 Jungmeister, Fw-190, "Tante Ju", Ju52, Bf-109, Spitfires, Mustangs, Mike-model P-47s, B-17s, B-17s, FM2, F6Fs, F-86s, T-33s, all the way up to, through, and includng F-117s and C-46s/47s to C-123s/C-17 and the rest of the "heavy iron"... All in one place and in one time...
It's getting much easier to do that, as more and "modern" combat aircraft are entering the museums and posted as gate guards ... And I mean REALLY modern, not just the WW2 Warbirds and their cousins from the Korean war.. The USAF Museum has an F-22 inside its "barn"... The F-117 is completely retired, and there are privately-owned and flown F-104s, F-4s, A-4s, F-14s, A-6s, and still other modern, 4th & 5th generation suck-jobs, as well as US Army L-19s, O-1s, O-2s, not to mention sling-wings like the Hueys, Cobras, Loaches, and Sh*thooks Chinooks...
I've seen far too many kits butchered by "Accuracy N azis" that really don't know their subjects, and haven't studied (Yeah, studied, as in mid-terms and finals) the actual aircraft up close, have mis-interpreted the research photos, or (and this is usually the case) have gone on to doing what they saw someone else do to a model and mistakenly thought they were doing the right thing by following that modeler along... So, if you want real accuracy, it's best to make sure that you're using an accurate source...
Likely as not, that kinda falls right into my usual plan of attack....