Italeri reissue of the ESCI Ford Transit MKII

[Junkman]

It follows the current trend of European kit manufacturers to needlessly increase your postage costs by using boxes twice as big as necessary:

Body parts are moulded in white plastic this time around:

The rest is moulded in black, except of the clear parts, of course:

It does still include LHD and RHD dashboards:

There are 5 vinyl tyres included:

They do have sidewall detail:

They are the wrong size and load rating for a Transit van.

The decal sheet includes signwriting for British Gas and a lot of numberplates from various countries, most of them in wrong formats and with wrong fonts:

Edited November 8, 2016 by Junkman

[Atmobil]

Straight reissue of the old Esci kit except for the decalsheet. I have ordered one and I will build it but not straight out of the box. You are correct on the wrong fonts for the reg plates. The Norwegian ones (YA18913) was actually on a 1979 Opel Kadett

[Junkman]

Those numberplate decals are simply mongtarded. They prefectly reflect my outlook on the people running the model kit industry.

I have no idea who those clowns are trying to kid. I despair.

Edited November 9, 2016 by Junkman

[Luc Janssens]

They are the wrong size and load rating for a Transit van.

The decal sheet includes signwriting for British Gas and a lot of numberplates from various countries, most of them in wrong formats and with wrong fonts:

 

They're the same tires as in the original Esci kit, IIRC they also used them in the Mercedes 500 SLC kit

Edited November 11, 2016 by Luc Janssens

[martinfan5]

You beat me,  no point in posting my Whats In The Box video now

 

I wish I would of known about the numbers plates not being close to accurate when I did the video.

[Junkman]

Does the British numberplate C469 BF8 look plausible to you?
And just google numberplates from the other countries. They don't look even remotely correct.

Mind you, I still bought the kit. I can make my own numberplates.

[martinfan5]

To be honest, I did not sit there and study the plates,  they did seem bit odd to me, but I quickly moved on from that

I too can make my own number plates, so its not an issue for either.

[Chuck Most]

I'd rather pay more to get a larger box shipped, than have a bunch of warped and broken parts sardine-packed into a smaller, standard sized box. I'm looking at you, Revell....

[Luc Janssens]

here's mine, built when the Esci kit came out...

Edited November 13, 2016 by Luc Janssens