And so it begins

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Cannot help you there F10 so many early model companies have folded in that time frame.I recently built an early zvezda kit a T 34/76 about the worst fitting model I have built very poorly fitting, apparently they have lifted their game and are a bit better!

[browningautorifle]

I did lots of models back then too and can't remember a Russian company.

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Zvezda are a Russian company that I believe have been around for a while not sure as far back as the 70's though.
Also from my books on the Tigers I learnt the Tiger II (Konigs Tiger) has 46 grouser treads and 46 spacer plates in each track so that's 92 links which works out to 38cm per track as I measured the rubber ones in the kit.

Sadly the quality has slipped with the metal links and I'm having to hand fit them filing and nipping over press tabs which stops the pin holes lining up correctly, frustrating you betchya!
I'm working under a magnifying light but small parts and gumby hands make for a not so restrained peaceful build I find and hour is my limit doing this bit then its time for reading up on the Tigers I'm onto the Tiger I & II combat tactics and crew training.

[Flying10uk]

Russian kits. Yes the video starts off with wooden kits, before someone points it out, and then progresses to plastic kits made in the USSR.

At least some kits made it to the UK in the 1970's for retail sale which I remember by the cheap price and poor quality transfers. The boxes were marked with made in USSR not Russia.

[browningautorifle]

How was the fit and finish, I wouldn't think too good?

[Flying10uk]

They weren't as good as Airfix but the main issue, as I say, was the useless transfers which is probably why I remember them. The shop where I went had several brands of plastic model kits but the bottom of their range were these kits from the USSR. As I remember it, bearing in mind that it was over 40 years ago, the kits were all from one manufacturer in the USSR and the scale was a little smaller than the average Airfix kit. As I recall the boxes were light blue and I remember being mystified as to why the Russians only produced models of WW2 American aircraft.

[browningautorifle]

I built lots of airfix, I remember the small kits with fine details and trees full of minute parts. My thing was WW2 aircraft.

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My airfix kits from what I can remember was a Spitfire 1/48 scale destroyed by .22 rimfire incoming after crash landing on my future b/inlaws farm at Pithara.
Also a Bronco, Fairy Gannet plus a Hercules C-130.
I also built a Jagdpanther, Sherman, that's about all I can remember wait Oh yeah! I built the Seaview sub that sank in the bath tub, built a Peter built AMT cab over Kenworth, also a T-Bucket called "The Bath Tub" all around circa about 1969-1972'ish.

[Low & Slow]

My Airfix kits were primarily aircraft as well. Most succumbed to BB's and pellets when their build quality became overshadowed by (some) skill improvement on my part. Others met their fate by getting subjected to "air strikes" involving various flammable liquids now known to cause cancer in California.

[browningautorifle]

I built the Seaview sub

built a Peter built AMT cab over Kenworth

I did the Seaview too, forgot about that. I did a "Mack" dump truck...