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cfbush2000
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Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 01:41 PM UTC
Has anyone built the 1:48 Pro Modeler kit?
Any comments, warnings or tips?
Thanks
Chuck
HunterCottage
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Friday, January 18, 2002 - 05:42 PM UTC
I've looked at it, but other things caught my eye more.

Pro Modeller models in whole are very good, I've never been disappointed. It's the price I don't like.
GrummanAvenger
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Posted: Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 05:40 AM UTC
Alas...I see the Pro Modeller !/48 Republic F-84G and Focke Wulf 190 D-9 (D-11?) in a local store but they are too expensive ($20 for an American made 1/48 kit) I did consider the FockeWulf but I would choose the Revell Germany 1/32 SBD-5E...much bigger (easier to handle and less likely to lose the small parts) and to my experience,I never failed to put up a Revell Germany kit nicely...
And I have seen what they call "Pro-modeller" decal in my Revell Monogram 1/32 Hawker Hunter...that decal sheet is a torture for amateurs...
Sabot
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Posted: Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:55 AM UTC

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Alas...I see the Pro Modeller !/48 Republic F-84G and Focke Wulf 190 D-9 (D-11?) in a local store but they are too expensive ($20 for an American made 1/48 kit) I did consider the FockeWulf but I would choose the Revell Germany 1/32 SBD-5E...much bigger (easier to handle and less likely to lose the small parts) and to my experience,I never failed to put up a Revell Germany kit nicely...
And I have seen what they call "Pro-modeller" decal in my Revell Monogram 1/32 Hawker Hunter...that decal sheet is a torture for amateurs...


GrummanAvenger (my favorite WW2 bird BTW), open that RoG 1/32 scale SBD kit and you will find the 30+ year old Matchbox kit (kit #PK-503, look for that kit number somewhere on the sprue). A lot of the ProModeler kits are actually top-notch Hasegawa kits reboxed for sale in the US by Revell-Monogram with upgraded decal sheets.

And if you're looking for the ProModeler Fw 190D-11, I have one that will most likely never get built.
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