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Old 24-03-2005   #7 (permalink)
wonwinglo
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Originally Posted by Kiwi
How many people on this forum are building this model?
*** Probably none to my knowledge,however it has created a lot of interest outside of Scale-models from other builders around the world via this forum,being such a unique and detailed model I think that it deserves the coverage that it is getting,the pedigree of this model stems back to the Hasegawa company who manufactured only 500 kits of the very original model,Hachette realised the potential as a part works and re-engineered it,despite the shortcomings in casting quality and a few other issues it presents a challenge to scale model builders,it is very labour intensive as a subject but the intention is to see the project through to the end and along the way assist others with the build process.
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