Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Jeffry Fontaine on December 30, 2014, 03:50:40 AM
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R.V. Resin (http://www.rvresin.com/) from the Czech Republic has now expanded to include injection molded models.
A recent release is the 1:72nd scale MiG-21bis "Over Europe" (kit number 72044) (http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=10261) which is the subject of an in-the-box review at modellversium.de courtesy of Bernhard Pethe.
(http://www.modellversium.de/kit/bilder/2/6/1/10261-tumb.jpg) (http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=10261)
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I was eyeing up some of the R.V. kits in one of my local shops a while back.
It definitely looks like a nice kit, but every pitot boom in every kit I looked in was broken in exactly the same spot because of how the sprues had been packed in their bag.
Unless they've changed their packing style to better protect that part, I'd be budgeting for an aftermarket brass pitot when buying one of these kits.
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I was eyeing up some of the R.V. kits in one of my local shops a while back.
It definitely looks like a nice kit, but every pitot boom in every kit I looked in was broken in exactly the same spot because of how the sprues had been packed in their bag.
Unless they've changed their packing style to better protect that part, I'd be budgeting for an aftermarket brass pitot when buying one of these kits.
I had a similar experience with pretty much half of the Roden Pilatus PC-6 Porter kits I purchased. One landing gear leg was broken in each of the kits and it was the same one each time. Close inspection gave no indication of a stress issue so it may have been something attributed to how the items were stacked prior to being placed in the box.