Revell and Testors do a little team-up

bobbaily

...Regarding Revell Germany, I was more than a little disappointed when I ordered the current Revell Germany 1/48 P-51C only to open it and see ICM...

Really?!   I didn't know that, and that means that it's really the Tamiya kit, because ICM copied it for theirs.  I built the ICM kit alongside the old Monogram kit a couple of years ago, for fun and to compare, and then I compared the ICM kit to the Tamiya kit and learned that it's a copy.  But at $10 from Squadron, with an additional fret of figures, I don't regret having bought and built it.

the Baron

bobbaily

...Regarding Revell Germany, I was more than a little disappointed when I ordered the current Revell Germany 1/48 P-51C only to open it and see ICM...

Really?!   I didn't know that, and that means that it's really the Tamiya kit, because ICM copied it for theirs.  I built the ICM kit alongside the old Monogram kit a couple of years ago, for fun and to compare, and then I compared the ICM kit to the Tamiya kit and learned that it's a copy.  But at $10 from Squadron, with an additional fret of figures, I don't regret having bought and built it.

Really-and I don't have a big problem with that other than the lack of locating pins (but I already have a plan in place) and the Tamiya kit was only a dollar or two more.

bobbaily

the Baron

bobbaily

...Regarding Revell Germany, I was more than a little disappointed when I ordered the current Revell Germany 1/48 P-51C only to open it and see ICM...

Really?!   I didn't know that, and that means that it's really the Tamiya kit, because ICM copied it for theirs.  I built the ICM kit alongside the old Monogram kit a couple of years ago, for fun and to compare, and then I compared the ICM kit to the Tamiya kit and learned that it's a copy.  But at $10 from Squadron, with an additional fret of figures, I don't regret having bought and built it.

Really-and I don't have a big problem with that other than the lack of locating pins (but I already have a plan in place) and the Tamiya kit was only a dollar or two more.

I'm surprised that they'd put their label on the ICM kit.   I thought the fit was bad.  The instrument panel didn't fit, I had to sand the sides, to get the fuselage to close.  The whole flight deck piece itself fit badly.  It didn't fit on the rails molded on the fuselage halves to hold it, it fit between them.  The tail end of the piece, which forms the bottom of the fuselage immediately aft of the radiator vent, wound up too deep in the fuselage.  It took me a lot of time before I figured out how it was supposed to look, including crawling under a P-51 at an air show, and looking at the Tamiya kit.  The ICM instructions were of little help, too.  The rest of the build was much easier, though.

Revel-Germany has been hit or miss for me.   A few of their models are very poor,  I am guessing those are older or something?  I did build their A10 and that one was pretty decent.   I am currently building the airbus A320 and its rough.  Nothing fits.  The decals are decent though.  go figure.