
Grizzly
I don't have that particular conversion, but I agree with CaptainJack about MR stuff in general. I have a bunch of their conversion kits aimed at the Zvezda BT-5 as well as some other things and all of them are very nice, but the instructions are quite crappy. Luckily, none of the conversions I have are that extensive.
DJ--I wouldn't go so far as to say that AM instructions are no good unilateraly. Most PE comes with great instructions though I suspect you mean resin conversions and update sets. In that case you should see the instructions provided by Sovereign 2000, Tiger Werke, and Tiger Model Designs. They are all very well written and very well illustrated.
About prices of resin, there is a very good reason for those prices being so high. They are produced in very small numbers (i.e. - not many units to sell to recoup the costs of producing said units), they are for the most part made by hand, resin isn't cheap, making the molds isn't cheap, making the molds & prodcuing the kits is time & labor intensive, etc. I'm not saying that resin isn't overpriced, but I don't think that it is overpriced by the manufacturers, but instead by dealers. Too many dealers try to mark the price up too much.
e.g. - At AMPS, Chesapeake Model Designs (CMD) who imports Friulmodel track into the US was selling sets for $27. Meanwhile across the room another vendor (I think it was Red Lancers, but I'm not sure) who had purchased their track from CMD was selling it for $40. This was a huge rip-off as CMD sells the track sets to vendors for about $18/unit so the markup was 122%! This is outrageous!I have a suspiscion that this is also a contributor to the sky-high price of resin kits. I guess the moral is to shop carefully and comare prices and when possible look at the manufacturers direct price. A lot of manufacturers will sell direct such as Accurate Armor, Chesapeake Model Designs, MR, Commanders Series Models, Tiger Model Designs, Tiger Werke, etc. So go to them direct, if that is an option.
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