Ship Model Building Kits - HMS Belfast Miniature Craft Kit, 1/600 Scale Model Boat Kits for Adults to Build, Incl. Belfast Model Ship, Paints, Brushes & Poly Cement - Nautical Gifts for Men

Perfect Christmas gift to my 14 year old son who loves modelling given our fond memory of visiting the real HMS Belfast in 2019. Unfortunately one of the paint pots had dried snd hardened, but mixing some acrylics soon solved the issue, given the lockdown preventing a visit to shops for Humbrol paints.

Very nice kit but oh so fiddly as you would expect from this scale. If you have fat fingers like me you will need to have a lot of patience. The sliding torpedo tube panels nearly drove me insane, trying to leave them moveable as in the instructions. The acrylic paints need several applications to even out the colour but perseverance brings out the fine detail better than a heavy plastic enamel does. Must get myself an airbrush!

Highly detailed model and value for money.

built looks great

Present for my son who has got back into model making again. Well made and has everything in the kit required to complete. Will purchase again from the supplier.

Unfortunately full of flash, some of the paints were caked and the model itself is warped in places But, that's the challenge for me Perhaps not modellers new to the hobby though

Good model some pieces fliddley but end result good enjoyed doing it

HMS Belfast and the county class cruisers are some of my fave warships, and was pretty excited about this set. On all acounts, this set is poor - especially as it is marketed to beginners. The model itself is very poorly moulded. I want to make clear, that this kit is based on a 1973 model airfix kit, but that isnt the issue - the issue is that this set is cheap and there is lots of flash (bits of plastic left over from the moulding process) that needs to be cleaned off, but worst of all, a lot of the parts do not fit at all, leaving gaps or needing to be cut - this is problematic for new modellers. This kit has many small parts that are of really poor quality and this makes the aesthetics pretty nasty. The instructions are really poor as well, meaning that its really hard to follow, but the paint scheme is really poorly laid out and unclear. Lastly, the paints provided with this set are actually great, but there is far too little paint in the main colours - and for beginners having too much paint is better than not enough. All in all I cannot recommend this kit at all

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