Tamiya Porsche GT2 Street Version VS. Revell Ferrari GTO

[KaverL]

Which one of these will be best for a beginner? i have only build 2 kits, and wont waste my money on something that is really bad

[blubaja]

The tamiya kit will go together without a hitch. The revell kit has an engine if you want more detail. I would go with the tamiya kit though.

[KaverL]

Okay, thanks I think im going for the Tamiya, but i just want hear some more comments

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Build the Tamiya kit. They're perfect for beginners, good detail, excellent part design that minimizes any assembly problems. Your finished model will look better w/o as much effort. This kit comes from Tamiya's golden era of "shake the box and it comes out built".

The GTO is a decent kit but it's a harder kit to get right, you need more tricks up your sleeve than a beginner usually has. Save this one for after you've built more kits and gotten more experience. Not that it's difficult, but w/similar effort on your part it will look inferior to the Tamiya Porsche.

[KaverL]

Sounds like itll be the Tamiya then, thanks for the info =)

[Vric]

Tamiya will be more expensive but easier to built for a newbie.

Revell and AMT kit always have problem which are easy to work around once you have some experience. If you want to have fun and good result on your first kit, get a tamiya kit and TAKE YOUR TIME

[drunken monkey]

not related but that ferrari kit is orignally an italeri kit.
if there's a problem, technically it's an italeri problem.

[bigfrit]

Originally Posted by drunken monkey

if there's a problem, technically it's an italeri problem.

The problem is in it being technically an italeri.

[drunken monkey]

well.... y'know.
i just get tired of hearing too many saying that revell doesn't make good kits and in this case, the revell kit gets the bad tag even though it's an italeri mould.

for the record, i have never had serious problem with any revell kit and that includes some 30 odd year old kits. Sure some of the detail might be a little off or a little heavy but heck, we all have sand-paper.

[LAPO]

Originally Posted by drunken monkey

well.... y'know.
i just get tired of hearing too many saying that revell doesn't make good kits and in this case, the revell kit gets the bad tag even though it's an italeri mould.

for the record, i have never had serious problem with any revell kit and that includes some 30 odd year old kits. Sure some of the detail might be a little off or a little heavy but heck, we all have sand-paper.

Also Italeri makes decent kits. Yes the GTO has some fitting problems and you have to work hard with sandpaper to lower the body properly. Maybe the tires are bad and the engine is not so detailed, but we are modelers, and with some skill this must not be a big problem.
Anyway for a novice the GT2 is the choice.

[wouter1981]

I would vote for the gt2. I've made one and it's just so easy to put together. And you even have some "options" on the rear spoiler.

[drunken monkey]

going back to the GTO kit, the only problem I had was that the whole exhaust/turbo/induction part was a bit tricky to get aligned onto both the partial frame in which it sits and the chassis onto which the part frame sits (my english is so poor today...)
but
that was probably down to it being my third kit and as of yet, due to those fitment problems, still unfinished...
from the perspective of a novice it all depends on what you want.
at the time, i was simply hunting out for cars that I wanted no matter the difficulty or who made the kit. I figured that if i came across a problem, it would a learning experience.
for reference my first kits in the order that i built/attempted building:
tamiya Mazda RX-7
tamiya Porsche 959
italeri Ferrari GTO
tamiya Honda RA 272
tamiya Porsche GT3
Revell 308 GTS
Airfix Maserati Marek
Revell 365 Boxer

then real world work too over and now I have a pile of half finished things.

[KaverL]

When i got to my hobbystore, he had sold almost all hes tamiyas, including the porsche, and the ferrari GTO, so i got a Tamiya Mitsubishi GTO Twin Turbo =) Thanks for the help anyway, everyone is so nice here =)