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Originally Posted by pmbirner
Ron,
Thanks for the explanation concerning the laser parts. I had wondered about what one did when you needed to put that color facing on a former. I now see there is a bit of a downside to the laser formers.
The fit on my Orlik dump truck has been very good. The color registration, however, has been a disappointment with parts such as the body panels being slightly off color from one another if they were found on different pages. You have remarked that the printing on your Marchetti has been very good. How has the fit been?
Phil
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The laser cut parts have some drawbacks compared to doing it yourself as noted by Ron. Figuring out whether the relief or spacing has been altered is one of them. Overall I have found them to be pretty handy to have although I've only used them on WWI planes. For them they are SUPER handy for building the wing framing. They are softer than laminated card stock though.
Also, I've built two Orlik kits, the P47 (Razorback) and the Kingfisher. The color match between sheets was simply awful on the P47 and poor on the Kingfisher. The fit on both was also horrible and took a lot of fudging to get anything to work. I am hoping that the Sm. 79 will be an improvement... certainly the printing for it is beautiful. Somewhere down the road I will want to build it myself.
Carl