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Eduard 1/48 F-18E price...gotta scratch my head.


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Anyone gonna pay 100.00 street price for this kit? Me well I think it's WAY overpriced . Then I see Sprue Brothers has the overtrees for 53,00 Whoa... 10.00 more you get a Hasegawa kit with decals and Instructions. Gotta think Eduard overpaid for the plastic. Then to really put a kick in your gut the upper fuselage is for the early block Rhino's. And I think all the decals are for late block Bug's....more head scratching ....If it bombs l hope they don't get discouraged and maybe learn from it then Do an F with the late block tooling and then drop the MSRP price by 25% ...That in my mind would be a winner.

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20 hours ago, viper730 said:

<...> the upper fuselage is for the early block Rhino's. And I think all the decals are for late block Bug's....<...>

 

That had me puzzled as well. 

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it's a total missed opportunity.

 

I'm a superbug enthusiast.

The first thing who prevents me for buying it, is like you said, the inadequation between decal options and the early block a/c provided.

Then, decal options are boring and all already done.

Third and worst, eduard did the minimum (in particular brassin resin adds-on) and the boxing is way overpriced.

 

And i'ts pretty surprising because the Tornado ADV special edition right before was a pretty neat boxing.

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Its a waist of money. I could buy a ton of proper aftermarket along with the Hasegawa kit for that amount. And the Aires cockpits and seats are much better that Eduard's. I would go for the Aires cockpit that fits very well and is superbly detailed. Wheel wells and exhausts and that's it. 

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I know I priced one out.

 

Lucky Model $40 US when they have the kit

Hannants (all Canadian $$)

Quickboost Seat $5

Quickboost ECS stacks $5

Eduard Color Zoom P/E $8

 

Decals from $15 to $25 depending on the sheet and what else is on it.

 

So what maybe $53 US total plus shipping, good thing I have a few.

 

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I looked at the Eduard kit as well. Crazy over priced. instead I got the Hasegawa kit off amazon for $61 and signed up for their Amazon card which lopped $60 off. I have prime so shipping was free and I got it in 2 days.

 

Then I shopped the 49ers for the AIres/Quickboost/Amur Reaver/Eduard big Ed sets and saved a ton there as well.

 

The Big Ed set for the Hase 1/48 E is on sale for under $20. My favorite USA vendor has it for $49, and the Eduard latest exterior etch for their kit was over $20 alone and is identical to the earlier released version for the Hasegawa kit.

 

I also had $16 in points at the 49ers which knocked the bill down some and shipping was registered and under $8.

 

Lastly, I bought some decals for the Echo that shot down the Syrian Su-22. Found a small set on EBay made by Galaxy Models, however, I found a couple of misspelled words (probably will not be noticeable) for $15 including shipping. I'm still looking for a set of the Carrier Air Wing 8 made by Furball with that particular aircraft which seems to be impossible to find in 1/48 or 1/32 (I still want to build a big Trumpy Super Hornet).

 

Ya gotta shop around.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Mr Matt Foley said:

I looked at the Eduard kit as well. Crazy over priced. instead I got the Hasegawa kit off amazon for $61 and signed up for their Amazon card which lopped $60 off. I have prime so shipping was free and I got it in 2 days.

 

Then I shopped the 49ers for the AIres/Quickboost/Amur Reaver/Eduard big Ed sets and saved a ton there as well.

 

The Big Ed set for the Hase 1/48 E is on sale for under $20. My favorite USA vendor has it for $49, and the Eduard latest exterior etch for their kit was over $20 alone and is identical to the earlier released version for the Hasegawa kit.

 

I also had $16 in points at the 49ers which knocked the bill down some and shipping was registered and under $8.

 

Lastly, I bought some decals for the Echo that shot down the Syrian Su-22. Found a small set on EBay made by Galaxy Models, however, I found a couple of misspelled words (probably will not be noticeable) for $15 including shipping. I'm still looking for a set of the Carrier Air Wing 8 made by Furball with that particular aircraft which seems to be impossible to find in 1/48 or 1/32 (I still want to build a big Trumpy Super Hornet).

 

Ya gotta shop around.

 

 

 

Totally agree! The 48ers offer great prices and fast shipping. I am going to order some stuff for my Echo.  

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12 hours ago, EagleAviation said:

Totally agree! The 48ers offer great prices and fast shipping. I am going to order some stuff for my Echo.

 

Totally agree too! The 48ers are my first go to for aftermarket. If they don't have it in stock I usually try Hannants. Their prices are often close to The 48ers and they have a very large stock of parts too.

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On 7/22/2019 at 5:44 PM, shion said:

Seriously, what are they doing?

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Release a pretty expensive kit where most decorations provided need these parts, without them.

Sell the needed parts separately.

 

They better have a VERY good explanation for this. Otherwise it's going to blow up in their face.

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The kit price would not be as bad if they had used the new tool upper fuselage. It still is too much for what you get. Now here is a crazy Idea. I would have made it an E/F special edition. All they needed to add is the 2 seater canopy and then the "S" and "V"  Sprues, they include the rear pit large screen etc. Then have whoever it was that did the decals (Furball or Fightertown) add 2 more options for "F" Birds In my mind that would be about a 110.00 MSRP kit and a street price around 85.00 That would have been a Winner Winner Chicken dinner!

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