Some time ago I was able to buy from ebay a big lot of 1/200 AIR200 planes. I wasn't sure about it, having read what Zoe said about these models, but the planes were many, I needed many of them and so i took the plunge. They came from Down Under so they took their time arriving.
They arrived today.
Although some are acceptable, many are very poorly done. Mind you. I took a close look at them and I see skill in the sculpting, but lack of perfection in size and form. Whom sculpted these is a good sculptor but didn't want to take the effort to make them perfect. Truly a pity.
I only got angry with the me-109's. Doing a bad sculpture is sad, but selling a me-109E, F and G as different planes with the same sculpture is cheating. But we'll get there later.
This is intended to be a on-going review of the planes I got. As I clean them and paint the I'll add them here.
With a few exceptions I think that these models aren't worth your money.
Here's the list with first impressions:
Messerschmitt 109E (Terrible - the F with round wings and minor changes)
Messerschmitt 109F (Smaller than it should be. The nose and engine are poorly cast)
Messerschmitt 109G (Smaller than it should be. The nose and engine are poorly cast)
Hurricane MK2 (Fat. Engine and nose short)
Typhoon (To be observed in detail)
Mig-3 (To be observed in detail)
La-5 (To be observed in detail)
Yak-9 (Acceptable)
Sturmovik (To be observed in detail)
Macchi MC-202 (Acceptable)
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