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Old 04-27-2007, 05:04 AM   #5
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Re: Opel Kadett C Coupe GT/E 1977

The quality of the kit isn't very good, the body is most likely a resin copy of the Bburago diecast model and there is not much detail in the model. Even some parts of the body are not very good. The tail lights for example were not very good. With more work it would have been possible to make a better model out of this...

I have earlier built only plastic kits in 1:24/1:25 (tens of those since the 1970's) and some resin kits in 1:43 and this one has about the same level of detail than the 1:43 resin kits, even it's a bigger scale. I wanted to build this just because of the car model which is rare as a model kit. Some of the other kits from the same company are even worse, sometimes they don't even resemble the car they are supposed to be...

I don't know if it's available anywhere else than in Germany, I orderer mine from www.werst.de and the manufacturer also sells the kit in www.bs-design-automodelle.de and the price is somewhere between 60 and 70 euros for the 1:25 kits.

As a model kit this is horrible if you compare it to almost any plastic kit, not much parts and the detail is not very good. But then again it is of a car not available as a proper plastic kit... And because I want to build Opels this is something different compared to the Tamiya Astras and Calibras (which I have plenty of as can be seen from the pictures...) Somebody more skilled or with more time this could have been built to be a better model but it would require lots of modifications to the body and fabrication of new parts or taking them from other kits. I built it mostly "out of the box, even the box wasn't very well equipped with parts"...
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