Same Old Kit....jacked Up Prices !

[Captain Canada]

What's exactly wrong with the Hasegawa kit?

Oh, I agree...it is a nice little kit, and can be built into a nice representation of the real thing



I'm just saying, a forty year old $10 kit is just that.....a $10 kit !

If you want to charge me close to $40, then give me a cockpit, proper windscreen, some underwing stores, a bomb bay, a retractable MAD boom.......details, dammit !

:dum:  

[The Rat]

They can happily bag out Matchbox for releasing something with 'trench-like' panel lines, but then Revell re-releases it and everybody says 'oh yes, good to see it again'.

Time for my semi-regular post;

I LOVE MATCHBOX!!! They kitted stuff that nobody else would even dream of doing, and they were simple enough for beginners and accurate enough for the more experienced. Deep panel lines? Well if you don't like then then fill them in, if most real aircraft were scaled down to 1/72nd you wouldn't be able to find the panel lines anyway. Matchbox are sorely missed by people who like things like Heyfords and Wellesleys, which I doubt you will ever see again.    

[Brian da Basher]

I second that emotion Mr Rat-San! I LOVE MATCHBOX!!! Their kits were fun and built up to an acceptible replica. To this day I still grin like an idiot whenever I have the opportunity to add one to my stash.

Brian da Basher

[Howard of Effingham]

yer have all missed one out!  

our resident kiwi's luvly_lana and K5054NZ will that heard of falcon industries as
they are a new zealand firm.

eons ago they had a vacform kit that includes a C-1A fuselage and i have one
of these in the stash.

trevor

[upnorth]

I'm another Matchbox lover.

I recently picked up RoG's reissue of their old Heinkel HE-70 airliner. Never thought I'd see that one again and it was one of my favorites. Iloved German planes of that era for their designs, but not for the politics, so to have a model of a plane with that beautiful Heinkel wing that didn't always wreak havok on innocent folks was a great thing to me. And it looks real nice when done to.

I'm still waiting for RoG to repop the old Matchbox Canberra PR.9      

[John Howling Mouse]

Time for my semi-regular post;

I LOVE MATCHBOX!!!

mmm...ten years old and in a single session building a Matchbox CF-5A with white fuselage and sky-blue wings/stabs.  Practically snapped together: glue was optional.

Applied the CAF decals right onto the unpainted plastic.

Must've been a good four or five years until I learned that Canada never actually painted their CF-5's blue and white that way!!!

I think I still have that finished model somewhere too, yellowed decals and all.

And for further nostalgia, here's my Matchbox Me-109, the only German WW2 plane I've ever built:

[upnorth]

And for further nostalgia, here's my Matchbox Me-109, the only German WW2 plane I've ever built:

Oh, do I ever remember that little beauty of a kit!

One of Matchbox's best in my view.

[The Rat]

You know what I've just realised? The Tracker would look great with a planing hull!









SOMEBODY STOP ME BEFORE I DO IT AGAIN!!!

[upnorth]

Well, yes it would.

But you'd have to jack up the wing centre section and put the engines on top of the wings to get prop clearance from the water.

What do you think a Stoof would look like with gull wings?

[JC Carbonel]

Same feeling here regarding the reissues ... except in reverse : why tooling a super-kit when there is a perfectly good one around ? I am currently building side by side the Haseg and Monogram P-39 and the 1964 has more details (but perhaps slightly less crisp) and more options than the 2006 kit.

Regarding the Tracker is there not one by Aurora? except it is not 1/72

JCC

[Howard of Effingham]

You know what I've just realised? The Tracker would look great with a planing hull!


SOMEBODY STOP ME BEFORE I DO IT AGAIN!!!

a tracker would indeey look very good with a planing hull

           


doesn't this apply to us all as wiffers?

the emoticons are on strike so can't use the unsure one.

happy new year rat. PM on HP victor inbound,  B) news within.

trevor

[Maverick]

I agree with those supporting Matchbox here.  They DID make kits that aren't touched by others.  Which is why I ask the question - The Tamigawa JMNs are happy to hang poo-poo (with an english accent) on Matchbox, but 20yrs later cheer the release of one of their kits by Revell.. Doesn't make sense.  It's either a good kit or it isn't, not poo-poo (with an english accent) 20yrs ago and good now.  And if it is re-released, why not retool?  I'm sure the Wellesley & Heyford (two faves of mine) would be awesome with some 21st century tooling.

[Excalibur]

I love simple Matchbox & even Airfix kits. I like the variety in aircraft & air forces. Yes as mentioned before, how many P-51s do we want!! I also like the idea of completing a kit in a day or two. Not to mention its fun to buy a kit for under $10!  

[P1127]

What's exactly wrong with the Hasegawa kit?

It's a pain if you want to do any other version of the Tracker (e.g. the one sused by Argentina)

[cthulhu77]

I like matchbox, revell, and airfix...but charging 30+ bucks for a rehash is getting under my skin.
 It seems odd that some of the kits, like the Constitution ( a very complex kit with hundreds of parts, and massive) costs about the same as some simple airplane kits.  I see these new 1/32nds coming out, topping 120 bucks, and just kind of sigh.