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Luka Novak (aktarian)
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21 October 2018, 08:37
Achim Ribbe
Interesting ...I will watch it.
21 October 2018, 09:53
Olivier
Thanks for sharing your feelings with us.
30 October 2018, 09:19

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My thoughts on gun kit.

Not a good kit. For starters it uses retarded Miniart's system where parts are not numbered on sprues but you get layout on instructions only. So you end up flipping instructions this and that way. Lucky for this kit you can fold instructions so you can see both layout and building step. Then there are misidentified parts. On first step two pairs have components switched, e.g. instructions show glue 15 on top of 40 but it's actually 40 on top of 15. Spend couple of minutes trying to work that one out…. Then you have parts improperly drawn.

There is flash but it's limited to few parts and thin enough to be easily removed. Parts fit together nicely, for most part. The area around barrel required some putty but so far that has been true for any such large calibre gun, no matter what producer. Replaced barrel with RB metal one mainly to avoid seam issues because frankly I can't tell the difference between metal and plastic once I'm done. Few other issues that required a bit of work, bo

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1:35 57mm & 76mm Shells (MiniArt 35064)1:35 Krupp L3H163 (ICM 35461)1:35 7,62 cm GUN FK288(r) (MiniArt 35033)2+

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