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| Online website review; Rodenkits.com | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 28 2018, 12:37 AM (368 Views) | |
| plasticdownunder | Mar 28 2018, 12:37 AM Post #1 |
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Hi all, recently found a website " www.rodenkits.com" do any any members know of these guys or dealt with them? |
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| Graham Boak | Mar 28 2018, 08:52 AM Post #2 |
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I don't use this site, partly because it is new, but another http://www.roden.eu/HTML/framemodels.htm as a guide to what's new from Roden. I've only bought a few Roden kits, specifically the Opel Blitz Maultier and the 1/144 C-47, but found them pretty good and they do have a healthy reputation for the other stuff I don't touch like WW1 fighters and 1950s airliners. if you are really asking about the online store aspect, this is very new and I doubt that many have had any experience, but as a manufacturer they now have a fairly long history. |
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| dknights | Mar 29 2018, 03:09 AM Post #3 |
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I am not a huge Roden fan. |
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David M. Knights Fortes fortuna adiuvat 14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51 15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine 16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane. 17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, 18 Finished: NONE The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40 Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11 | |
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| kingofmen | Mar 29 2018, 04:50 AM Post #4 |
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Roden kits are all right (if we ignore the drastic misfire He-111C). They tend to be fiddly and have many small parts that are sometimes difficult to separate from the sprues. I just wish they hadn't seemingly turned away from their 1:72 aircraft line. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Chuck1945 | Mar 29 2018, 05:04 AM Post #5 |
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Roden certainly has (had?) the widest selection of WWI types in our scale |
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Chuck Eastern WA, USA Finished 2018: Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2 On the active bench: Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E | |
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| Graham Boak | Mar 29 2018, 08:54 AM Post #6 |
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Oh yes, the early Roden kit of the early Heinkel. I have that too. It suffered, in extreme form, from the common Eastern European flaw of designing interior parts from the original sizes without allowing for the thickness of the plastic of the outside shell. So the wheel wells and the fuselage bulkheads took a disproportionate amount of work reducing in size in order to get the parts to go together. Then there was the fit of the lower wing to the fuselage... So if you like carving plastic then this could be the kit for you, but many just lost patience with it. However that was a long time ago now, and is not typical of their current products. |
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| plasticdownunder | Mar 30 2018, 11:24 PM Post #7 |
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Thanks for your responses, yes I gathered the website was new, wasn't asking what ppl, thought of Roden kits as such, more if they had experiece in purchasing the kits through the online shop and how that went? |
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| kingofmen | Mar 31 2018, 03:52 AM Post #8 |
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Understand now. But no, I have no experience buying directly from Roden through this website. |
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Kevin Callahan Auburn WA USA Visit the re-energized 72 Land blog at http://72land.blogspot.com/ All hail 1:72! | |
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| Boucheron | Apr 8 2018, 05:43 PM Post #9 |
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If you want a good and reliable source for Roden and other Easter European kits, try HobbyTerra.com They're in the Ukraine. Very good prices, and the dozen or so orders I've placed rarely yook longer than two weeks to arrive across the Atlantic. Another great supplier is Jadar Hobby, from Poland. (pS if you're ever in Warsaw, check out their shop, it's inside a huge bookstore and it is A MA ZING!. They too have great prices and speedy delivery. In either case, shop with confidence. |
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| dixieflyer | Apr 10 2018, 11:17 PM Post #10 |
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I've had excellent service from Jadar in the past. Warren |
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