Does anyone have any experience with Glencoe biplane kits? Are they any good, or are they on a par with old Aurora stuff?

Thanks-

I only touched one many years ago...and it was definately the latter, especially now since the emergence of Roden and Eduard's newer kits.

Very simple kits that had some potential in the right modeler's hands. I may have a couple of shots concerning and one of these builds. I will have to look.

I have the Alb DIII which I never built. The problem that kept me from building was that the wings are totally flat on the bottom with no detail. I thought that if I ever got another kit really, really cheap, I would glue the wings from the two kits together to thicken them up and sand them to a more realistic profile. Hasn't happened yet.........

:-H Except for the two Albatros Kits, they are the old Aurora stuff, with the embossed emblems removed. They even have the ground crew and ground piece. The decals are the highlight, with many options.

Best

Mark

Use sheet stock plastic (its cheaper)

Stephen is right , would be easier to scratch the wings out of card and save alot of time on the sanding .

I built the D.III years ago and endup redoing the wings by sanding off the detail and replacing the ribbing with stretched spuce . blended in with lacquar ( testors bottle stuff . The fuselage sides need to be sanded done to get the D.III , The kit ones are to arounded suited more for a D.V . In the right hands these kit's can be built up into a nice looking model .

Glencoe's biplanes are the very old Aurora kits with really nice decals.

Hmmmm...not necessarily. I bought the Glencoe Pfalz D.III and the Nieuport 28 for the decals, and both were so far out of register they were unusable. If at all possible, examine the decals before you buy.

Howdy,

A lot of the decals in both of my Pfalz kits (I bought two) shattered upon touching water. I did manage to get what I needed to decorate an Eduard Phalz D-III though. If you do the Spad as an out of the box build with aftermarket decals, you should have no problems. Mine is actually good enough to sit in the display case at Military Hobbies in Long Beach.

Both of the Albatros kits were new tools by a fledgling company and they show it. I used fine striping tape to give my Albatros wings some surface detail. That was an easy fix compared to what is needed to get the fuselage halves even in profile. One side has a different taper from the other at the rear. Parts are clunky and not very well defined. I do give Glencoe props for trying. At a time when Eduard was still a daydream and vacform kits the only other option, they dared to give Great War aircraft a try


Brian James Riedel.

Put them in a dark place away from the light,and in 100 years they will be gold dust.