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General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Gingie on January 09, 2014, 10:54:27 PM

Title: Merit Productions/Merit International
Post by: Gingie on January 09, 2014, 10:54:27 PM

Some oddball scales here... 1/18 Harrier, 1/16 MRAP, 1/48 PT boats...

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2804573205
 (http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2804573205)

Title: Re: Merit Productions/Merit International
Post by: jcf on January 10, 2014, 02:37:38 AM

Hopefully it's just angle of the CAD render, but the hull of the PT kits looks all
wrong for an 80' ELCO boat.

Title: Re: Merit Productions/Merit International
Post by: Rickshaw on January 10, 2014, 08:53:56 AM

The OSA and the PLA Type 21 missile boats in 1/72 are interesting choices.  The display cases look nice.  The big scale stuff is, I suspect for use with "action figures"...

Title: Re: Merit Productions/Merit International
Post by: jcf on January 11, 2014, 01:26:53 AM

Quote from: Rickshaw on January 10, 2014, 08:53:56 AM

The big scale stuff is, I suspect for use with "action figures"...

Ummm, no. 1/18th is a very popular 'die-cast collector' scale that has nothing to do with 'action
figures'.

Aircraft subject prebuilts and kits have been marketed before in 1/18th, 21st Century Toys had
a fairly extensive range before they imploded, Pegasus sell a V-1 and a Bell X-1 in 1/18th.

IIRC some of these 'new' Merit 1/18th listings have been announced before under different
Chinese branding but remained vapourware.

Title: Re: Merit Productions/Merit International
Post by: jcf on July 10, 2014, 11:00:36 PM

Note that on the linked page in the original post , the only MRC items are the Gallery H-34s, the other kits are Merit Productions/Merit International. Merit is not handled by MRC.