Landships II

JamesH · Major

Vintage U.S. 75mm Kit

Tim R · Hero

Hello James

This is just my two cents worth, But I dislike this kit, the scale is off, and you have to scratch build a lot to make it a reasonable model, especially if you are into all of the nuts and bolts type of modeling. And in this scale you most definitely will be critiqued. If this sort of thing does not matter much to you and you are not a nut and bolt counter, than you can make this kit into a decent piece. I guess my biggest grip is that my particular model had some major warping. Now this could be due to age, or it was just a bad model. I don�t know.

All in all you decide.

All the Best

Tim R

-- Edited by Tim R at 00:36, 2006-06-15

Rhomboid · Field Marshal

Thanks for posting that pic, James - it provoked an instant flashback to the early 1960's, and a childhood happily misspent in a haze of model airplane glue! Never built the "soixante-quinze", but I remember the Gatling Gun kit well. It was a good example of the scrupulous attention to detail, standardized scale and fine molding which characterized this era of plastic models...just kidding! Still, these artillery kits were quite unique for their time.

Centurion · Legend

There was also a naval 18pdr that was even worse

znwoody · Corporal

as I recall there was an article on corrcting this lit in an issue of fine scale modeler in 95 or 96 surprisingly it eventually turned out pretty well after a lot of work