Heller Humbrol kits

[64SS350]

Has anyone ever built or know anything about Heller Humbrol kits?

[The Creative Explorer]

That is a very wide question, you might be a bit more specific.
What do you want to know and about what kits?

[64SS350]

Overall quality of the kits. Looking at a Ferrari 512s kit.

[The Creative Explorer]

Beautiful car, not the greatest kit. But being that said; it isn't that bad. It has good detail from the factory, fit can be a issue, but overal it does build to nice models.

But the overall quality of Heller is quite diverse, sometimes they make very nice kits, other times they are just a bit better than the Palmers. Well, not that bad, but you catch my drift.

 

[ZTony8]

Some of the earlier Heller kits are fine-the Ferrari 512 S, 330P & the Porsche 917 along with the line of vintage cars have decent detail with full chassis and driveline. The later models in the rally car series are just curbsides with a flat pan for a chassis and no suspension detail, soft molding of the kit parts, and sometimes decals that too transparent. But they're often the only examples of a particular car so you have to decide what's important.

[64SS350]

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it.

Karl

[Tom Geiger]

If you go back to the Heller classic trucks, the entire range of Citroens of the 1920s and 1930s are quite nice.  They are a bit fiddley like early 1960s Revell kits.