Comments on: Unboxing the Italeri Tiger

By: mondog

mondog — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:26:52 +0000

A good one to start is the Tamiya Panzer III L 1:35, the kit that comes with some figures and Rommel. It think its about £15. Real easy to make and looks pretty good.

By: Jabster

Jabster — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 06:22:55 +0000

Just a single tube – you got away luckily! Dragon do produce some nice kits but far too many of the have real issues – how can you release a kit that fundamentally does not fit together properly?

With their recent price increases and the number of other vendors who don’t have these problems then why get a Dragon?

Of course let’s not get into the Black Label kits and accuracy issues. I want a Conqueror but will probably pick up the Amusing Hobby one when it’s released.

By: Jabster

Jabster — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 06:06:00 +0000

Meng are lovely little kits but the don’t come cheap. Here in the UK you’re probably looking at £40-£50 which is comparable with the latest Dragon and Tamiya kit prices.

What you do get is some well detailed but relatively easy to build kits and a different range of subjects. They are not quite on the same level as Tamiya with their ease of build built far superior to Dragon in that respect. Then again that’s really not hard.

They’re not kits for absolute beginners (very few kits are) but if you’ve already built a few kits I would certainly recommend them.

By: mondog

mondog — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:32:26 +0000

Meng do some fantastic kits. Tamiya is a mixed bag, they have so many that some haven’t been updated since the 70′s whereas others are excellent. I’ve just finished their 1:16 Leo 2a6 and the casting on the hull is some of the best I’ve seen.

By: mondog

mondog — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:28:35 +0000

No, zimmerit was cancelled due to an assumption it caused fires when hit. The Tiger was out of production by then having been replaced with tiger 2 production.

By: FryaDuck

FryaDuck — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:08:10 +0000

OMG an early production Tiger (commanders cupola) with late production wheels……

By: Rariity

Rariity — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:00:53 +0000

I had a E-75 from Trumpeter and it was meeeeh.
My Type 90 and KV-1 Ehkranami from Tamiya on the other hand are god damn beautiful. I think it’s still right to say that Tamiya is better than Italeri.
Never had a Meng model though. Are they expensive?

By: Ubertoaster

Ubertoaster — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:49:06 +0000

So, basically upscaled Revell 1/72 Tiger, ‘coz’ it sure looks like one.
And by the way, Trumpeters IS-7 is coming this month (AFAIK)

By: Glock17

Glock17 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:33:06 +0000

You can buy extra gun barrels:

http://www.rbmodel.com/

By: Glock17

Glock17 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:30:09 +0000

Maus plastic model kit:

http://www.dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=CHC9133

Complete list of scale model related sites:

http://www.scalemodelindex.com/