Tag: short run kit
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Swedish NA-16 – Part One – The Beechnut Models Company
You’ll want to remember that name – in case you are ever faced with one of their kits. If so, you have choices: a. Buy it, spend days of your life coping with its awful nature, and eventually turn out a masterpiece. Then die. b. Save time. Fall to the floor grasping your chest. c.…
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I’m Starting Up My Own Model Kit Company
And I aim to cater for all those modellers who have embraced masochism. The Far King Orville Model Company will be an extremely short-run venture dedicated to producing garage-quality kits in a carport. No cut will be too short to take and no design too unsuitable for our kits. Have you seen our Mucus Canopy?…
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The Peculiar Model
The oddity. The kit that everyone else avoids. The scratch-built model that no-one has ever heard of. In other words – just down your alley. I have been the recipient of numerous models that fit into this category – and I’ve gone out and spent actual money on others. Not a lot of it, mind,…
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Ilyushin IL-10 – Part Two – Mystery Beast
I should be interested to find out from whence the Mr Craft Ilyushin 10 mould has come. It has the hallmarks of either a very old 50’s or 60’s model from Frog or Novo or alternately a short-run kit form an unsuccessful Czech form. Perhaps it is a native product of Poland. I’ll never know.…
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