Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

Hi all, trying to up the number of non-noise posts in newsgroups <g>

I bought the Italeri 1/72 scale Do-217 J1/J2 Nachtjäger (Kit No. 1266)
a few days ago here in Tokyo, for 1680 JPY, which is pretty good.

However, when I opened up the kit, I was very surprised and somewhat
disappointed to see that the kit has mostly raised panel detail, with
only the bomb bay area engraved. Wow! So it is not a new Italeri kit
(as I had thought, naively), and as I found out by searching the web
and discovering an in-box Hyperscale review. The history is also
entirely non-existent unlike what I have come to expect even from
European releases in recent times. I too wish that Italeri would
update these kits, as the aircraft itself is attractive and the
history is interesting.

For comparison the Hasegawa 1/72 scale Ju 88C-6 cost me 2850 JPY and
is a fantastic kit in all respects.

Now to find time to build all the plastic "stuff" :-)