Revell (Revell of Germany and Monogram)

[Jennings]

If you thought (as I did) that the Lanc was a waste of resources (reagardless of the price), wait until you see what they have cooking next...




J

[dragon]

At least it wasn't another FW-190 or ME-109.  Why does every model company feel we need another one of those?  

[Jetfixer]

Got to admit, i'm looking forward to getting my greedy paws on one. i've seen piccies of the test shots and it looks sweet, anyone else agree with me that a B2 is possable with the molds?. i hope so. as far as i know I have built every injection model lanc thats been produced apart from the HAsegawa one (have an unbuilt one in the stash) and the Frog one, the worst for me being the 1/96th scale Novo one. probably being matched in sheer crapness by that orrible 1/144th scale minicrap jobbie.


1/72 Lancs that have been available. anyone know of more?
Frog B1/111 (?)
matchbox B1- not a bad kit but a bit basic, only one to give you the bulged bomb doors.
1st Airfix lanc........ basic, nuff said
2nd Airfix lanc........ best of the bunch so far
Airfix dambuster...... as above
Airfix Grand slam...... ditto
Revell B1 ..................whiff fodder
Revell B1 damnbuster (intentional freudian slip there ;-)  )
Hasegawa. B1............. not bad but not an improvement on the Airfix kit and
Hasegawa grand slam....as the Barnsley war cry states. HOW MUCH!!!!!!!!  

other scales. again, anyone know of more?

Minicraft 1/144th sheer crapness in a box
Novo 1/96th, an odd scale, only good for whiffery really
Tamia 1/48th where's the drool smilie when you need it. not a superb kit but a good one. tends to be overpriced though. the only game in town and the largest model lanc thats injection molded
ID models 1/32nd - rare and basic, but as Doug Feeney told me, it gives the modeler a good base to start with and takes care of the hard part.
Heritage 1/24th - yet to see one built but looks good 'naked'

Greg

[Tojo633]

All
Suggest you have a look on hyperscale for shots of the sprues, 27th August I think it was - earlier this week anyway. Have to see what price we are talking for them, but hey if its a good kit and a reasonable price we will be buying them by the case?? Well I know someone in Glasgow who will.
Cheers
Sandy

[Maverick]

Time for a little bit of coincidence.  Cybermodeller has put up a review of the Hase 'Dambuster' and Benolkin goes to great lengths to wibble on as to how good it is.  He goes as far as suggesting a 48th version would surpass Tamiya's earlier effort.  Now I'm guessing he's not a Brit, but is that any excuse for a reviewer of his stature to be singing the praises of an kit that is noted to have some serious failings as has been mentioned here?  Surely he'd be aware of Revell's upcoming kit although is this a case of Hasegawa snobbery over Revell Germany's stuff?

[Maverick]

Wooksta,

I believe this to be very true.  I simply can't understand why this is a regular occurence when other manufacturers have put out kits that quite bluntly leaves some of their Hasegawa stablemates out in the cold.  In the armour world, Tamiya had that same degree of snobbery too.  Anything they produced was perfect, anything else would be mercillessly scrutinized for the tiniest flaw.  As a reviewer, I simply state what the actual kit in the box is like in my own opinion.  Not because someone has given me a kit to review (which doesn't happen) and certainly not with any preconceived ideas as to what the kit will be like based on it's source.  It's just a shame that some of the more widely read reviewers don't do the same.

[kitnut617]

Maverick, as long as the end result looks like what it's said to be, I'm not really worried if a panel is a few mm's out of place, in 1/72 scale it doesn't really matter and for the most part, the general public who don't do models, wouldn't know the difference (when and if they looked), would they!

[Maverick]

617, I quite heartily agree.  I'd be the last to complain if the 'nose profile was the wrong shape' or the 'wingspan was off by a scale 1/2 inch', it just irks me with all the fawning that a whole lot of reviewers seem intent on doing when it comes to Hasegawa products.  Their 72nd Bugs in earlier A & C models are a case in point.  Outreagously priced and quite ordinary to say the very least and yet review after reviewer will quote them as being the standard to look up to.  Fujimi's efforts for te same type are simply awesome and yet Fujimi's products don't come up for review half as often as the glorious 'Hasegawa-san'.  These people will belittle the efforts of Amodel, Italeri and the like, who at least give us something other than another P-51 or Bf-109 and yet when it comes to the flaws within a Hase kit, surprising silence.  I remember reading a review quite some time ago considering the Italeri F4U in 72nd.  This tosser was blibbing on about the nose being a degree off and other poo-poo (with an english accent) but had mentioned some unit who he alleged had flown the type when anyone with even half a brain knows quite the opposite.  The mainstream reviewers seem to put themselves up as some sort of font of knowledge, but at the end of the day are as fallible as the rest of us mere mortals.  Their pretentiousness by and large leaves me feeling quite ill and it wouldn't be the first time I've bought a kit because it got a 'bad' review purely for that reason.

[Daryl J.]

I wonder how good the overall shape will be?


They must be tooling a new Me-109E-4 judging from what J.'s emoticon suggests...or something similar, eh?

I'd take a bunch of B-58's, however........




Daryl J.

[dogsbody]

I know I'm buying the Revell kit. I didn't get the Hasegawa because I didn't want to sell one of the kids just to pay for it.

[cthulhu77]

I've been pleasantly suprised by all of the recent Revell kits, except for that godawful Pirate ship, and am looking forward to this one.

 Of course, I am just a reviewer, and don't pay for the kits, so I am full of sh*t.

[P1127]

If you thought (as I did) that the Lanc was a waste of resources (reagardless of the price), wait until you see what they have cooking next...




J

B-17 by chance?

[Thorvic]

If you thought (as I did) that the Lanc was a waste of resources (reagardless of the price), wait until you see what they have cooking next...




J

Because Revell are replacing their older worn out favourites !!! - The old one still sells well despite its age, so they have decided to give it the once over to ensure that it will remain a top seller in their range (And it looks like it will be - watch the Hasegawa ones start to appear on Ebay in the coming months! )

[upnorth]

Have you seen the re-released Hawker Tempest V?  F*ck me, that's one of the kits that time forgot and no mistake.  Makes the rivets on the old Airfix Typhoon (kit tooling circa 1958!) look positively restrained.

Why on earth they didn't just wheel out the old Matchbox kit?  They own the tooling for Cliff's sake!

Thats an excellent question, especially when you consider that the Matchbox kit has the MK.II option in it.

Would make it a heck of a selling point for those that can't handle or be bothered with the multimedia nature of the newer Special Hobby Tempest II.

What I really can't fathom for the life of me is why Revell insists on reissuing the Frog BAC Lightning, when they have the Matchbox molds on hand.

[Captain Canada]

After seeing the sprue shots, I'm for sure looking at buying my share. I've long wanted to replace my early build post war RCAF Lancs, and I've been wanting to do the Firebee drone carrier. As well I'd also like to do one each of the original bombers ( radial and Merlin powered ) in RCAF service.