Junkman Posted November 8, 2016 Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) 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 Posted November 8, 2016 Posted November 8, 2016 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 Posted November 9, 2016 Author Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) 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 Posted November 10, 2016 Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) 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 Posted November 11, 2016 Posted November 11, 2016 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 Posted November 13, 2016 Author Posted November 13, 2016 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 Posted November 13, 2016 Posted November 13, 2016 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 thatI too can make my own number plates, so its not an issue for either.
Chuck Most Posted November 13, 2016 Posted November 13, 2016 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 Posted November 13, 2016 Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) here's mine, built when the Esci kit came out... Edited November 13, 2016 by Luc Janssens
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