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  1. The comparison is perfectly valid IMHO : AMK wants to compete with Tamiya or Hasegawa or even exceed them in terms of molding quality, ease of assembly, part detailing, etc. Why should modelers feel free to compare AMK and Tamiya's Tomcat but refrain from comparing development time or methods or PR stuff, because "AMK is a much smaller company with much less development resources" ? It is like saying "my Lamborghini Countach is so much more powerful, so much louder, so much faster, so much more colourful than your Porsche. It is however built like a s**t and took forever to be deli
  2. As far as I remember, all we got from Trumpeter was a leaflet with stuff like "Intruder coming soon" enclosed in other kits, for years, that is all. No raving about how incredible their kit would be, no other advert with difficult to respect timelines, no pre-ordering or "fund-raising" rubbish, no social media "we listen to modelers and we love you" bs stuff. From AMK, we had all this. Now again it is going to be weeks since they provided photos about new sprues...
  3. Sooo, to get back to the topic, when is the kit supposed to be released ? Is it still August 2018 ?
  4. Talking about Shadrik's art ? A member posts his beautiful art and that's what comes to your mind first ? 👍
  5. Very nice art, well done !
  6. A P-47N would require a new wing sprue, and possibly new cockpit IP.
  7. Hello Chris, It is a nice but not well designed kit : difficult to build. In certain areas, it is more accurate than the Revell kit (belly A/C ram air intake, wing lower skin ram air exhaust, wing lower skin reinforcement strips, wheel rims, so mostly detail stuff) but in others, it is really lacking (simplified and undefined-molded landing gears, horrible rubber tires, ugly engine intake fans, rubbish decal sheet, etc). The rear fuselage parts 1 and 20 present a molding defect, something like a sink mark 1mm deep on a 40mm x 20mm area, all my 7 kits feature it. It is visible
  8. Outch, double outch, yes I didn't mean GWH... AMK of course, my apologies. I'll edit my post.
  9. I cannot believe such a let down in communication from AMK. We went from too much trumpeting talk to almost nothing. Isn't there something possible in between ? Like 1 honest monthly follow up ? Or are their hands so full that they cannot spare 5 minutes for 1 simple follow up ? I read the story about the factory priority business part, then the model kit moulding if it becomes a priority (massive order ? In advance payments ? Relax, these are only guesses) but... can you build customer confidence by telling them "you're coming after, or buy tons and you may
  10. Now watch for the "I can have a Revell 1/72 A400M kit for USD 50, no way I pay USD 70 for the C-17 kit" usual comment. As far as I'm concerned, good move from Raymond and Kinetic : get it right no matter how long it takes. No need to BS us with single part missiles pics again and again and again while nothing else seem to be progressing, like another company I will not name. Being such a large kit, I guess the fuselage plastic shell needs to be thicker than usual, therefore the weight issues. Tricky balance as you say. I have to say i am delight
  11. From the photos currently available, it looks like an improvement over the Testor kit, but those trench-like panel lines ???
  12. Great post ! What about that moronistic pirate way of talking ? How could it so suddently disappear ? Did he get some sort of "branlée" from the mods ?
  13. Impatient to see the definitive part photos. All the ones we have seen until now were considered "test-shots-the-final-parts-will-be-refined-blah-blah-blah"... I feel the recessed details were heavy for a beast like the B-2, not to mention the simplified main landing gears... no, will wait for a detailed review.
  14. You seem to be frustrated about the C-5 price to the point you mention about it in many large 1/72 kit threads...
  15. I guess this thread is 63 pages long because AMK teased, and teased, and teased, and teased about the features that would be included in their Tomcat, not forgetting those bombastic comments about the "satisfied customer to AMK relationship", over and over. I adore their kits but AMK and AMK only created this situation. Of course we all have other kits in our stock but how is this related to AMK announcing and teasing about their 1/48 Tomcat kit ?
  16. What I understood is that the guy whom used to post those numerous and mouth-watering follow-ups got ill. I then thought that someone else from their team would have taken over the comm but it did not happen. So we went from almost too much comm to almost no comm at all. I am not saying this as an AMK hater (I actually enjoy their kits tremendously) but more as the way I see things. Add the pre-order debacle while still progressing on other 1/72 kits, perhaps has it become too awkward to post updates ? Again, only honest observations on my side. I really wish them succe
  17. Man, never saw more exciting projects than these. Can we order by tens ?
  18. And instead of buying a 1/32 Tamiya F4U-1A, you can buy food. Or medicines... but what the heck ? Obviously, if I'm a Galaxy fan, I will not switch to a 1/32 Corsair because it is identically priced.
  19. KursadA, tanks a lot for the photos, they give a much better view of the details, unlike the YouTube too shaky video. I am still getting the kit but it looks like they rushed it : recessed details on the engines look clogged at a few places, lots of sink marks, some rough edges, and an average decal sheet. I will still order my 2 copies for a start and hope for the usual better aftermarket decal sheets in a near future. Overall, I expected better from Roden (VC-10 quality) but I still think it is better than the Japanese kit, lacking in so many areas for the
  20. Thanks a lot ! I have not placed my order yet so looking forward to your first thoughts. Cheers !
  21. I know it is all about personal thoughts but I still do not get it. If Revell were to re-release the Otaki kit, even if the moulds were already amortized, they would not give them away for free. The following are only assumptions : if they were to re-release it as is, let us assume they price it at An-124 price, say $35 (which I could not see happening). Now tool a decent cockpit and decent interior, bang, you can add at least $15 for that sprue (I assume that is the extra they would add to the $35, not what it costs them to design/produce the sprue, you get the idea). Then partner with
  22. Released : It shows a rather simple kit. Too bad for the split wheels (could it be an issue with sink marks on 1 part wheels ? I admit the split wheels on their VC-10 kits are the nicest I have ever seen in 1/144, featuring nice tire thread and beautiful rim details) but the landing gears and their bays look like a serious improvement over Otaki's, the engines look nothing special, but still better than Otaki's. I will be honest, I was expecting a little more details, not necessarily a cargo bay but perhaps a bit more elaborate engines. Which, in turn,
  23. It may sound excessive (anyway I will probably order them from Ukraine or Russia, with the correspondingly lower price tag than Hannants's or the likes) but the price question is very subjective and I also need to mention that, and this is NOT directed to anyone... I am single, no family to look after, do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, do not go out partying, do not have a mortage, do not have a leased car, do not even own a simple credit card : I have a simple life and all my money goes into vacation and airplane/modelling stuff. Some will see no problem spending 40k$ on a big f
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