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Copperhead · 8 December 2004, 08:36 AM

I've done several ARII kits. The P-40; F6F; and Zero, to name a few. I've never done the 'Wllow'. The decals (IMHO) are great. They snuggle down (as Niel_E said TOO quickly, almost TTOOOO quickly to work with), and aside from the heavy handed reverse rivets and panel lines; are basically good kits. What I mean about reverse rivets & panel lines, is they seem to have taken the old Monogram kits, and reversed the direction of the rivets & panel lines! On the old Monogram kits, they were raised. On the ARII kits they're recessed. But there's MORE than needed. Other than that, they're VERY good kits. I only had problems with the large run decals ( like the bomb data on the F4U,) wanting to tear in half. JW

8 December 2004, 08:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
Copperhead Scout Pilot Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 490	I've done several ARII kits. The P-40; F6F; and Zero, to name a few. I've never done the 'Wllow'. The decals (IMHO) are great. They snuggle down (as Niel_E said TOO quickly, almost TTOOOO quickly to work with), and aside from the heavy handed reverse rivets and panel lines; are basically good kits. What I mean about reverse rivets & panel lines, is they seem to have taken the old Monogram kits, and reversed the direction of the rivets & panel lines! On the old Monogram kits, they were raised. On the ARII kits they're recessed. But there's MORE than needed. Other than that, they're VERY good kits. I only had problems with the large run decals ( like the bomb data on the F4U,) wanting to tear in half. JW __________________ The nation that forgets its defenders, will itself be forgotten. Calvin Coolidge