SPEEDY Model Kit Reviews Episode 2

Transcript*

Intro

Welcome to episode two of Bulk Reviews. Today we will be reviewing three kits pulled directly from our shelves. We have one Tamiya kit and two Revells. Uh place your bets down below. Comment uh to see which one uh preemptively of course which one will be the best out of the three. Uh you know, no cheating. And a lot of you will probably say no need to cheat. It’s probably the Tamiya that’s the best. Uh hey, you’ll never know, man.

Maybe the Revells are actually quite nice, though. You would be um you know, forgiven to think that Tamiya is the best. Uh that’s just their reputation. In the comments down below, leave your suggestions for the name of this series. Uh Bulk Reviews is still the working title. Uh we don’t have an actual title for the series. So, yeah. Let’s open up this bad boy, shall we? Uh this the Mazda Infiniti RX7.

Tamiya Tamiya Mazda Infini RX7

If you’re not aware, this is a beloved beloved classic. One of the most recommended beginner car kits. Look at this immaculate to me sculpting. Uh you will still have to uh paint this if you’re a beginner, even though there’s colour uh mixed within the plastic, right?

And you know, the the rims are checked out, but I you would still have to paint it. I think um the colours are more on the dull side if you don’t. Uh here is the nice little decal sheet. Clean, very clean. And this is the older Tamiya decal sheets where they haven’t gone thicker. Uh so you will find this to be easy. You may not even need to use adhesives with this. um and just use water uh and separate uh windshields. Uh pretty good. There are some cases for modern to me is where they’ve preemptively attached the windshield to the car mould, which is really annoying. Thankfully, this is not that case.

Um, and one of the best things about this kit is that it retains the quote unquote shake and bake Tamiya features, which is, you know, uh, funnily enough, one of the things people disparage Tamia for is how easy it is. Um, and there’s no shame. There’s no shame in that. Just because you don’t use putty doesn’t mean you’re not a hobbyist, right? So, that being said, this is going to be an extremely simple review. probably the best car beginner car kit out there right now. I wouldn’t say all time that’s a bit of a harder sell, but in terms of beginner friendly kits with providing extremely nice detail still, this is up there with the Tamiya Unos.

Revell DHC-6 Twin Otter Canadian Markings

This is the DH6 Twin Otter plane used by Canada for uh more intensive search and rescue missions in cuz Canada is very mountainous especially in the West Coast. Um also uh lots of terrain have a lot of forestry and trees. So if anyone gets lost or stranded, this is typically the plane they use. Now I’m not too caught up on the news. I don’t know if they still use it for search and rescue, but they definitely did use it. This is a Canadian classic. Thank you, Revell, for honouring Canada. Now, that’s nice.

Uh, actually, they honour Canada quite a bit. Um, quite a few model kits. That’s just straight up Canadian. Uh, but yeah, let’s open up this bad boy, shall we? And this is a kit that is extremely popular. Um, one of Revell better outings. Uh, and it doesn’t have a lot of damages, per se. Not saying that it, you know, it is completely devoid of uh putty use. Uh that’s not what I’m saying.

Of course, ultimately this is a somewhat oldish Revel kit. Um and as such, uh you need to be wary of that. Um and as you can tell though, detail-wise, this is basically a 10 out of 10 kit, especially for a plane. Uh and look at the part spread. The sprue spread is only three sprues, not a lot of parts at all, very beginner friendly. Um, though I would suggest, you know, keep the putty on hand, but from reviews, basing this purely off of customer reviews and feedback, this is one of Revells best.

And the DCH Twin Otter, Honouring Canada. Now, I’m trying not to be biased because I’m Canadian, but you know, with the detail and how complex planes can get, I would say that this is also a 9 out of 10 kit, but maybe skewing towards more of an 8.5, if that makes sense. Just purely due to um a spike in difficulty compared to your usual 172nd kit. And not because of the parts.

Again, I already said this is actually one of the lesser parts or one of the kits that have lesser parts, but purely because there might be putty involved. Um, it’s just the situation with Brevel. Uh, but as far as I can tell, um, yeah, no, it looks quite nice. No, no damages. Um, and no war pages, no flash marks really of any kind. Yeah, if you’re lucky like me with this one, then it’s a nine. But if yours needs putty, it’s an eight. And I almost didn’t include this an extensive decal sheet. If you actually bring it close to the camera, you can hear Oh, Canada playing. At least I can hear it in my heart. So, this is honestly an 8.5. I’m a little biased. The model set from Revell.

Revell BMW i8 Model and Paint Set

This one has the BMW i8 comes with one brush, a cement, the good old Revell classic cement, and four paints. These, I believe, are the acrylic ones. Yes, they are the acrylic ones. Um, and you know how kind of them. That’s a decent amount of paints to get started. No primer, though. Uh, I don’t know about that. Uh, it doesn’t have any primer. This is, by the way, is the Excel uh blade here. So, it’s nice.

So, right out the gate, I’m going to I want to say deduct a mark, but I will be pedantic here and kind of bring it up. Anyway, this one just came like this, like out the box, like or in the box, it was just like this. No plastic bag protection, quote unquote. Um, and yeah, it was just like that bare, completely naked. And why am I bringing this up? Well, I’m bringing this up because plastic for, you know, it’s it’s flimsy, right? But it protects quite a bit of the parts from getting scratched. And you know what? You don’t want to get scratched a car. You don’t want to get your car scratch. If this was a tank body, I have no problems because you can easily dismiss a scratch as battle damage. You can’t really do that uh on a car.

What did you get? Your car keyed or something? That’s not battle damage. That’s a salty X. Um, but I will say that the sculpt itself is quite magnificent. Um, this is on par with Tamiya’s sculpts. Basically, this particular one, it is a slightly newer kit. This i8, I will say that. Uh, not their newest, but one of their newer newer kits. So with three in each bag, three sprues that is. So that’s six, seven, eight, nine, and then the car body technically a 10 because it has this stuff here. We may have to trim. That is 10 sprues. Uh implying that this has the most parts out of the three kits we have reviewed or we will be reviewing today. Um and there are some strange decisions here.

Um, some are petty. Uh, and petty on my end for bringing it up anyway. But this one is just strange. What? I guess my age is telling because I’ve never seen this. Why would you have something like this for rubber tires? Just leave them be, man. This is so unnecessary. What’s the point of this? What? You’re going to sand rubber? What? Anyway, no, I can’t do the squeeze. Um, and then the the petty things is that they just jammed the three sprues in a bag. This one’s a little bit more forgivable because they do kind of line up with each other, so they won’t really have a chance to rub against each other, if that makes sense, in transit. But this one is just haphazardly placed. In fact, look at that.

Look at this sprue in the middle sandwich. It’s like the burger patty slipping between the buns and falling out. Uh actually there’s a fourth sprue in here. So really there’s 11 sprues. And yeah, this is not good. And why is it not good? For damage, uh scratches in particular, little dings here and there, that is more work, more putty work at that. Uh if there are indeed scratches or dings, so keep it on hand. It is getting to a point where I do have to deduct the point. Um, and not that, you know, it is uh necessarily a bad thing.

In fact, uh, but I will say this is a kit that’s initially kind of designed to be beginner friendly. Uh, but with the amount of parts, this is definitely skewing it uh towards the beginner friendliness, I don’t it’s like on the line. It’s on the cusp. Uh, it’s nothing inherently terrible here in terms of difficulty. This kit also has a really nice spread of decals on the decal sheet. This has the second largest decal sheet for, you know, for this review. Um, and it’s actually quite nice. You have your choice of plate numbers here. Uh, you have a smorgasbord of registration plates, um, and license plates.

So, yeah, it’s nice. Here’s another negative. Um, you include four aqua paints. This is water-based. Where’s the primer? Where where’s the primer? None of these are primers. Yeah. No, none of them are primers. You know what’s going to happen when you apply your kid applies this onto the body? It will slide off. Major, most of it will just slide off the body. On an unprimed model kit, this will just slide off. And even if it does doesn’t slide off, you can just rub it off cuz it doesn’t have primer support. What were they thinking? At least have a fifth thing here that’s like liquid primer. Yeah, but uh come on guys. So that’s a negative. Also have uh the small version of the classic Revell cement.

Um it has now been supplanted by Tamiya Extra Thin, but I will not hold it against it because this is still the classic. you. People love this to this very day. And of course, a brush is always nice. Revell brushes can be suspect, but Revel brushes in general are cheaper than the rest. So, it’s nice that I actually included them. Uh, you know, brush is always nice. Uh, good or not.

So, overall, what do I think of this kit? I think that it’s a deceivingly difficultish kit. Um because it is marketed towards people who have no experience. Um or little experience. I would say no experience cuz that would be the snap kits, but this is not a snap kit. Uh but you know, with it the way it’s packed, the potential damage it could cause. Also, the fact that they didn’t include a primer. They don’t even have to include a fifth paint, just three paints and one primer, you know. Um, which is not the best. Uh, yeah, this I think will have to be a 6.5 out of 10. I think the car itself is nice.

Ranking

Uh, if this was the single kit, I believe I would have given it probably 8 and 1/2. Uh, an eight, right? But just because of the way it is structured, uh, it’s going to have to be a 6 and 1/2.

So, very obviously in last place will be the BMW I8 starter pack. Deceivingly not a starter pack. You will have a decently hard time. Uh, if this was the kit by itself, again, I already mentioned I would give it an eight. Um, and then the two and then there were two. Which one do I think is the best? I think well for if we’re talking about purely ease of uh build then it’s the infinity but we’re talking about overall uh this is very close actually guys I’m being so serious.

So I ran through the sculpts once more off camera and I think I have a winner just barely cuz these are both excellent kits. They’re both really popular for a very good reason. But I think I’m gonna have to go with the Infinity RX7 as the clear number one today. Not clear actually, barely, just barely. Uh, and that is because of the amount of uh parts. And by that I mean there’s very little of it, but the amount of details they crammed. They didn’t compromise on uh the detail. You know, some people think that they may be trying to cheap out. That’s not necessarily true. They may be trying to do that, but they kept the quality nice. Um, and zero quality issues. um no flash marks or anything of the sort.

It’s Tamiya. Um there is that slight worry with the Twin Otter because purely just by reputation, not by a fault of its own. As I said though, if your model kit doesn’t have a ding or scratch or the need for any putty whatsoever, this is also a nine. Maybe I’m just a little biased. I also had to suppress my Canadian bias here. I would have I was so close to giving it to him. But ultimately the the you cannot beat to me is reliability. I think it’s hard. Also for the price you pay. Yeah. So that’s it for me today guys.

Paul’s Conclusion

Thank you so much for watching episode two of bulk reviews. Again working title. Drop a comment and suggestion in the comment section below. Uh yeah I had a lot of fun there. That was a lot more difficult than I expected. Didn’t expect the Twin Otter to be that good of a kit, but I should have expected it because it’s always sold out. I actually got lucky.

There’s two more on the shelves today. Uh but yeah, um that’s it for me. Thank you guys so much for watching. Like and subscribe. Follow us on our social media pages, links down below, especially for the links for our websites, which contains every other link as well. We’re very active on every other social media platform, uh, like Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook. We’re very active. Uh, so follow us and thank you guys so much for watching. See you next time.

Bye-bye.

About the Author:

Paul Catindig As someone who’s been building model kits since he was 8 years old, Paul is very knowledgeable and adept at model kit building! When he’s not building or painting kits, he spends his free time cooking, playing video games with friends, or at a restaurant patio somewhere. Hopes to make his very own movie one day.

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