Paul Reviews Four Sets of Models

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Intro

Money. Now that I have your attention. Oh, I don’t have your attention. Well, what about now? Model kits. You had me at money. Now that I have your attention, we’re going to be taking a look at the three model kits right in front of us. Starting with the odd man out, the BV222 by Revell. Then we have the Benz 500 SEC by Tamiya.

And finally, the Audi Quattro. We’re going to be taking a look doing a rapid fire review ala reviews on a run if you remember that network. Good for you. Love Victor Lucas, man. He’s a legend. Canadian legend. Anyways, we’re going to be taking a look at the three model kits right here. Rapid fire reviews to see if they’re any good.

Revell Blohm & Voss BV222

Starting with the odd man out, the B triple 2 BV2. Is this kit any good? Yeah, this kit’s excellent. Asking if this kit is good is like asking if water is refreshing in a hot summer’s day. Yes, this kit is incredible, belonging into the upper echelons of model kits released and made by Revell within the past 15 or to 20 years. Uh often hailed by the community as Revel’s best sometimes depending on who you are, of course. uh with a wingspan or overall measurements of 50 by 63 cm.

This thing will require a separate display case or an entirely new display cabinet. It’s a little ridiculous uh but often considered worth it. I’ve been working here for more than five or almost 5 years now. Uh the praise this kit gets is honestly ridiculous but warranted and I’ll show you why. All kits will be open today using the Excel snap blade. For reference, my Yeti, not sponsored, mug right here that I bring to work every single day is a foot long. And this is the fuselage of the BV Triple 2. Look at that. Oh yeah. And despite the large size, frankly ridiculous size, the detail is out of this world.

Typically, once you scale up a model kit, um, to save cost, a lot of companies, what we’ll do, what they’ll do is skimp out on details to save printing costs, right? But not Revell. I guess times are changing, guys. You can’t really hate on Revell anymore, unless it’s an old kit, I guess. But even then, little to no flash marks anywhere. little to no trimming required. Maybe like stuff like that, the odd mark right there.

But even then, that’s kind of expected for a large kit, you know, a kit of this size. And there’s like nothing. Uh it would be more obvious on the wing. And no, it’s genuinely like perfect. Uh I’ve never heard of a customer in my five years here complain about fitting issues regarding this kit. It also comes with a pretty sizable uh decal sheet right here. Soak in the details. Oh yeah, very nice. Water is your best friend, but if you want, you can use Microsol Micro Set.

We’ve already hammered in how detailed each individual piece is, but typically massive kits like this have free floating parts, and as far as I can tell, there are none. uh which prevents any sort of uh shaking inside the plastic container which will then lead into scratches that you have to fill with thicker and thicker primer or god forbid putty. Get that out of here. And speaking of putty, uh yeah, there’s a near 0% chance that you’re going to need putty for this model kit.

Overall, this is a near immaculate experience. Not uh, you know, including any sort of accidents uh in shipping, god forbid, right? Like getting squished or something. But other than that, this kit is a 9 out of 10. The only drawback I can potentially see from this kit, uh, preventing it from a perfect 10 out of 10, this is like a 9.9, is um, this is basically an airbrush only kit. Uh, even some of its smaller details like the propellers are quite big, as big as your typical Warhammer model kit, like you know, a Space Marine. Uh, so you have your work cut out for you. But other than that, this kit’s basically perfect. Next up is the Mercedes Benz SEC. The SEC, after all that, if you get the reference, you know ball.

Tamiya Mercedes-Benz 500SEC

So, this kit is good. I mean, that’s but that’s about it. Uh, I would say that it is standard fair to me cars. Now, the standard fair to me car is a borderline 7.5 out of 10 at least. Uh, so that’s not at all a negative by the way. Um, and you can see that of course even the bottom chassis is highly detailed as per the Tamiya usual. Uh, no, it’s like again, no flash marks, no numbs, like well, it wouldn’t have numb marks cuz you haven’t started building it, but you know what I mean.

No damages, right? Nothing you need to trim. It’s to me again, it’s standard fair. Uh, the only this is now becoming more common. Uh, at least from what I can tell, is um windshields that are one piece. uh typically or you know even back then back in the day with the older kits um a lot of the windshields are in two or or you know two plus segments right or sometimes if you’re lucky you have to there’s like four um and yeah I don’t know if I like it I don’t know if I like it just coming into one piece like that one thing that I will say uh is because this is a colored uh mold injected plastic that is kind of stark gray to match the color of the bends in the box art. When you snip snip parts off, you will have some sort of it looks like damaged, but it’s really not.

But it’s really just um parts of the plastic where uh now it’s going to be like more white, but that’s because it wasn’t injected with that particular color, if that makes sense. Uh at least where you snipped it off. So, there’s going to be a lot more sanding um for kits like these. I mean, there’s a lot of sanding in car kits in general. So, uh it’s you’re going to expect it, but just uh you know, a little heads up. And of course, plenty of detail with the tiny uh parts right there. Got the engine engine block right that you will always cover.

So, I know some people, regulars, who don’t even bother with the engine. They just put on the hood. So fair enough, man. More power to you. Rubber tires, decal sheets. Standard fair. Standard fair. So yeah, overall this kit is a very 7 out of 10. Uh not bad. Um and it’s good. That’s not a negative. Again, that’s good. Um if you were to go to the dictionary and look for the definition of good, you find an image of this. Uh yeah, standard fair.

Um though the one advantage it has over older like Revell or AMT kits is sometimes those older kits have molded in hoods, this one does not. It comes separated as its own piece. So meaning if you want to show off the hood, sorry, the engine block that you rigorously painted, uh you have that option. So props to that though. I would have had like I would have wanted like an opening sort of hinge gimmick, but that’s it’s just a standard kit. That’s not going to happen.

Tamiya Audi Quattro

So, here’s another kit that is just good, the Audi Quattro. Um, and as you can see here, it is a smaller overall package compared to the last one, but same injection mold plastic color as the last one, though. This one has a black uh underside here, which is no big deal. Whatever, who cares? Um, and yeah, it’s Tamiya, so medium to high detail in a lot of the kits. Though, I will say this one does have chrome on its rims. I believe the other one did not.

I could rewind the footage. I believe it didn’t. Uh, but yes, and it comes with a driver. So, that’s a pretty big plus. Uh, on the field there, rubber tires, of course, and we got the decal sheet, which is a little bit bigger than the other one as well. So, you know what? With all that being said, this is a 7.5. It’s slightly more good, good, better. Before we get started with the final segment of the video, what do I call this entire kind of series?

Um, I can’t call it reviews in the run that already exists or existed. Now, I don’t want to slight Canadian legend Victor Lucas. Uh, shout outs to him. Um, and I can’t keep calling it uh just rapid fire reviews. A little too generic. If you guys have any ideas on what to call it, comment it down below. No guarantee we’ll use it, but hey, we’re open to ideas.

Warhammer 40K (Space Wolves & Blood Angels)

So, the final segment of this rapid fire review pending uh is a Warhammer kind of review, but we’re not going to be reviewing each individual kit, just an overall segment because this range refresh for the Space Wolves, which is well deserved, by the way, and they’ve waited a long time throughout ETH, 9th, and basically most of 10th. Uh yeah, they they’ve waited for this refresh, and they deserve it. Uh and I’m just going to say this outright. This is the best range refresh the Space Marines overall has ever seen.

Each model kit is uh brought to life with plenty of character. Uh and that’s the biggest thing Primaris has always been criticized of is that they’re all generic, kind of streamlined and not in character. Uh kind of like the difference between the Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper from the new trilogy and the OG original Stormtroopers. There’s a a big difference from firstborn to Primaris, but it, you know, the transition from firstborn to true scale Primaris didn’t seem to affect space wolves all that much. They seem to benefit actually. They look incredible.

No detail has been compromised here. Overall, this entire range refresh gets a 10 out of 10 for me. They nailed the range refresh out of the park. When these guys come back in stock, the majority of them are out of stock. These are the ones that are in stock still with uh more than two. Uh yeah, please, if you’re even remotely like a fan of Space Wolves or Space Marines and you’ve been thinking of uh you know getting into Space Marines, the Space Wolves are the perfect chapter. In fact, I’m going to compare them to a much maligned um kind of transfer from Firstborn to Primaris. Yeah, I’m talking about the Blood Angels from last year’s release. Oh my goodness. This is their captain. Compare that to their captain.

You can just fall asleep. You’ll fall asleep. Seriously, the only difference is that he has a wing on his shoulder and he’s painted red. That’s the only time you’ll be be able to confidently tell that he’s a blood angel. But this guy, he has pelt, the unique shield. Oh man. Oh my. It’s not even fair. You know what’s the worst part? Blood angels, hence their name, if you’re not familiar with, have very Catholic angel vampire inspired imagery. You know what they did with the Sanguinary Guard? They just gave them generic jetpacks and they removed the firstborn wings that was on the firstborn jetpacks. Yes, they had winged jetpacks as firstborn marines when they upgraded to Primaris through scale. They removed the wings.

What is wrong with games workshop? Why? Why? Why would you remove the wings? It’s like the one thing you had to do is to maintain the wings and make them better. What the Yeah. No, the Blood Angels uh overall range refresh last year gets like a two out of 10. And that’s me being generous. You remove the wings. What are you doing? And there even the ones with the tiny little wing on the shoulder. It’s just boring. Uh you know, if you looked at this box when you’re trying to sleep at night and you can’t sleep, look at this box and you’ll fall right back to sleep.

Well, that was a lot of fun. Uh, and hopefully it was informative for you guys. Uh, and yeah, two to five shots. Uh, I think maybe stretching it per kit, but I think I concisely summarized why a kit is either good uh, or even incredible, perfect, and maybe in the future terrible, god forbid. Uh but yeah, if you guys like what you saw, subscribe uh and follow us on all the links in our social media down below, especially our real time website. We ship within Canada.

And till the next episode of Rapid Fire Reviews, I’ll see you guys next time. Name pending.

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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