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MENG's Shilka arrived today
Hisham
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Al Qahirah, Egypt / لعربية
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 03:19 PM UTC
Looks like a very nice kit! I'll try to post the rest of the instructions later.













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Jedge3
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 04:13 PM UTC
Looks good. Mine is on the way. Can't wait to check it out.
Kilo_Uniform
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 08:25 PM UTC
Looks good Hisham - can't wait to get one of my own.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 08:32 PM UTC
I enjoyed their T-90,I think this will go on my list to get,looks great.
Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 08:39 PM UTC
Here's the rest of the instructions























Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 08:46 PM UTC
Any early indications if it appears better, worse, or about the same as the Hong model one that came out recently?
Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 08:57 PM UTC
No more comments or comparisons for fear of being branded a "negative kit trasher who is only hurting the hobby and new company sales"... I wish the people who don't like "negative" comments and are so worried about new companies succeeding would put their money where their mouths are, like I did, and buy both kits and find out which is better for themselves

I'm just going to enjoy building them

Hisham
seanmcandrews
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 09:07 PM UTC
Looks to be well researched based on all the options they offer.

Sean
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 09:29 PM UTC
This looks very cool and very tempting - ouch, methinks ye old wallet is already pre-hurting

Thanks a lot for going to the trouble to scan all this in and post it, Hisham!

Jerry
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Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 09:43 PM UTC

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No more comments or comparisons for fear of being branded a "negative kit trasher who is only hurting the hobby and new company sales"... I wish the people who don't like "negative" comments and are so worried about new companies succeeding would put their money where their mouths are, like I did, and buy both kits and find out which is better for themselves

I'm just going to enjoy building them

Hisham


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Rforand
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:48 AM UTC
Hey Hisham we're did you guys get the Shika mine is still on preorder at lucky models
Rforand
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:51 AM UTC
Hey Hisham we're did you guys get the Shilka mine is still on preorder with lucky models
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Hisham
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Al Qahirah, Egypt / لعربية
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 01:55 AM UTC
I got it from Hobbyeasy.. and I've noticed that, for some reason, they get their MENG kits a lot earlier than Lucky... Also, Lucky is the distributor of Takom, and again for some reason, Hobbyeasy doesn't get new Takom kits anymore... Don't know exactly what's going on there

Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 03:28 AM UTC

Quoted Text

No more comments or comparisons for fear of being branded a "negative kit trasher who is only hurting the hobby and new company sales"... I wish the people who don't like "negative" comments and are so worried about new companies succeeding would put their money where their mouths are, like I did, and buy both kits and find out which is better for themselves

I'm just going to enjoy building them

Hisham


As we all should. Well said Hisham
Alystyr
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 03:48 AM UTC

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This looks very cool and very tempting - ouch, methinks ye old wallet is already pre-hurting

Thanks a lot for going to the trouble to scan all this in and post it, Hisham!

Jerry

Agreed.
Meng's definitely on a roll these days. I can't think of more than a couple of their kits that aren't somewhere on my want list.
Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 04:32 AM UTC
Looking at the instructions, do the tracks look wrong? Someone on FB said that they were wrong or something.

Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 05:27 AM UTC
Thanks Hisham I guess I'll have to pay more attention were I order since I ordered this on Dec.31 along with Takoms ace and there waiting to ship together.
Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 08:22 PM UTC
Link tracks have always been one of my weak points, so I thought I'd see how these click together.. they take a little while to clean up because the sprue connection points are in a somewhat tight spot.. but clicking them together wasn't too bad once I figured out how to do it.. I started out holding them up in my hands trying to click them together.. but that was a bad idea.. so I put them on the desk and I would press down on the one on the end of the run and then press the new one into it, and that worked out pretty well.





Hisham
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