brewerjerry Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Hi Unicraft Fw-187V-1 due appx end of spring 2016 cheers Jerry I am looking forward to this release of the single seat version Edited January 4, 2016 by brewerjerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) I have to say, a look at their website rather turned me off! Rather strange, though, scrolling through all these far-fetched flights of fancy and then seeing a Sikorsky R-5... bob Edited January 4, 2016 by gingerbob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Hi Yeah a few what ifs there, but the Fw 187 will hopefully be nice cheers jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The wooksta V2.0 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Trust me, it won't be. Badly cast lumps of a vile resin, which whilst it may look like polyurethane is more likely a paint tainted fibreglass resin, a surface texture that looks like the master has been painted with a toilet brush and then dropped in sand whilst the other side looks more like cinder toffee. The vast majority of the smaller parts are unusable and the whole package will cost CMR prices for effectively garbage. I've thrown away better castings than Unicrap are charging top whack for. I have been burned too often by this outfit and the more people I can convince to avoid them, the better. You're better off trying to convert either the old Karo-As Fw 187 A-0 (moulded by MPM in the late 80s and now hard to find) or the more recent Special Hobby kit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi Well its back to plan B then I have an old vacuform kit I was going to try to convert Thanks for the info cheers jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Probably the same vac I was delighted to buy about... 35-40 years ago! Now I also have the Special Hobby, but I'd still rather have one in 1/48. It IS an attractive little kit, though. bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Trust me, it won't be. Badly cast lumps of a vile resin, which whilst it may look like polyurethane is more likely a paint tainted fibreglass resin, a surface texture that looks like the master has been painted with a toilet brush and then dropped in sand whilst the other side looks more like cinder toffee. The vast majority of the smaller parts are unusable and the whole package will cost CMR prices for effectively garbage. I've thrown away better castings than Unicrap are charging top whack for. I have been burned too often by this outfit and the more people I can convince to avoid them, the better. You're better off trying to convert either the old Karo-As Fw 187 A-0 (moulded by MPM in the late 80s and now hard to find) or the more recent Special Hobby kit. Sadly, I couldn't agree more. I leapt at their Flugelrad when I saw it but on getting it home and opening the box I was met with the same experience as you. I would probably be better off scratch building an example. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Probably the same vac I was delighted to buy about... 35-40 years ago! Now I also have the Special Hobby, but I'd still rather have one in 1/48. It IS an attractive little kit, though. bob Hi most likely, I have the SH, to do as the two seater but fancy a single seater as well, so i will eventually try to convert the vacuform one cheers jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madoc Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Why is he doing this? The Special Hobby Falke kit isn't in production but it still can be found once in a while on eBay and it is inevitably still vastly superior to anything Igor would come out with. The only excuse for buying his kits is when they're of some truly unique subject that you just have to have and thus are willing to put up with the atrocious moulding quality. Back in the 90s he was the only game in town for many of these Luft 46 kits and his resin casting was about par for the "garage kit maker" level available then. Now? Not a chance. Contrast his works with what Musa of Prop & Jet is routinely putting out. Night and day difference there. So, it's not like it's a dark art of impossibility for rendering a better quality kit in resin. Given his subject matter, I'd happily still be buying as many of them as he put out - if his quality had improved to acceptable levels. Damn shame that it hasn't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Yep. Lee's right they are best avoided, the boxes are the best part of the kit...was tempted by their 1/144th Haunebu II last September until common sense prevailed and I ended up getting the superb Anigrand offering at almost half the price and which included three other 'Haunebu and Flugelrad' kits.......(also glad I didn't go for the La-200B !).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Sadly true: I have the MiG 7. I have tried fighting it into shape but it is still awful. But where else is there a MiG 7? Come on, AModel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The wooksta V2.0 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 To be fair to him, his masters aren't bad and he is prodigious. If he used a better quality resin, that would improve the product 1million percent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertlundin Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Sorry to say but the casts are very crude and extremely overpriced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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