Well that escalated quickly.
What could have been an OK thread on the pro's and cons of the plethora of plastic kits, what to watch out for and your opinion of them, the kit not the manufacturer, is different from person to person, even box to box.
I have built pretty much every genre, aircraft, armour, boats (or is it ships). Have experienced great kits from a manufacturer that have prompted me to buy that brand again. Result; a really bad kit.
Airfix make some good kits, they make some not so good kits. Never had one that could not be built due to plastic issues. I have built absolut dogs from
Tamiya and have built some great kits from them. I had one of their über spitfires, To say the fit was perfect would have been a lie. It took just about all my claps and a lot more glue than I would like to admit, but it went together.
Dragon kits are good. If you like paying for one and a half kits. The amount of 'left overs' after a sherman build, I could almost have built half a tank!
A thing I have wondered about the plastic quality... A lot moan about the soft quality from some of the European makers and praise the Eastern plastic. Could it be that the 'people' in Brussels have had a say on what may or may not be allowed in said plastics?
Barry started this thread with the best of intention to point out the pros and cons of the things HE has built and experienced. He has not said it was a comprehensive list.
Can we try to get this thread back on track? If you have some thing that contributes to the subject, post it, the more peoples views and opinions we get the better picture can be formed of what is what. If you have nothing to add that contributes to the subject, then dont.
Failing that the thread will be closed and removed.