Deacon Bill

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I think it may be the difference between what you want to build vs. what you want to build, if you see what I mean.

There are some previews here: On The Way -- Wee Friends kit list

How noticeable is the discrepancy if the doors are open, though? I've tried some resin-cloning in the past and the results were ... poor. Still, it's a good excuse to try again, I suppose ....

OK, thanks Giorgio, that's pretty much what I had thought. I've got a lot of "G" kits in my stash (I like to contrast and compare across various brands) and I came to the realisation a while back that unless I stock up on a lot of the Hasegawa and/or Revell kits then I was going to be building a lot of Japanese and Canadian examples. I wish some third-party company would offer a proper "G" accuracy set to convert, say, the ESCI/Italeri kits ... CMK came so close with the various detail sets that they offer but apparently lost interest by the time they came to the undercarriage. Those bulged doors are not an easy thing to scratch! -- at least not with my skills. Until very recently you couldn't even get replacement wheel sets, but Armory and Reskit offer sets now for pretty much all sub-types.

I was under the impression that the only 1/72 kits of the "G" (or "S") that feature the larger undercarriage and bulged main-wheel doors were the Hasegawa and Revell kits If I am correct then no other kit claiming to be a "G" can be accurate, right? -- regardless of whatever other merits the individual kits might have. However the various other kits that claim to be "G"s should generally be OK to represent "J"s and CF-104s ... yes? I'm blanking ... the TF-104G should have the same bulged doors etc. as the F-104G? Or not? As an aside, the FROG F-104 was not just the (old) Hasegawa kit in a new box. They actually reworked the plastic -- the undercarriage parts are slightly different. (Still not correct for a "G" though.)

That would explain why there are small differences between the (old) Hasegawa F-104 Starfighter and the FROG kit of same. The undercarriage parts are slightly different (not different enough for the FROG kit to accurately represent an F-104G, alas).

Why would I want 1/48 parts in a 1/72 kit? Why would I want to pay for 1/48 parts in a 1/72 kit? Just provide the 1/72 kit, please.

Bit of a mystery why in 2010 Revell re-issued their ancient 1/72 Bf109E kit, which is not only quite inaccurate but not much fun to build (especially with the dreadful 3-part canopy), when they (in theory) have the MB Bf109E kit still up their sleeves. Although very simple by today's standards it's pretty good in outline. Doesn't really stand up to modern kits of the 109 of course (heck, it struggles against the 1977 Airfix kit) but outshines the old Revell clunker like a torch in the darkness.