California, United States
Joined: August 07, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 12:55 PM UTC

Not that I'm planning to do one in the near future, but I was wondering if anyone had any insight into Hobby Boss offerings of their 1/35th scale Leopard 2's in both the Danish version and Swedish version. It looks to be a copy of Tamiya's but I was wondering how good a quality copy is it if indeed it is one. Help???
Thank you in advance!!!
RobinNilsson
TOS ModeratorStockholm, Sweden
Joined: November 29, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 01:02 PM UTC
From what I have read somewhere on the internet they are not good kits
at all. I think someone wrote that the best way to get a decent kit was to use the Tamiya Leo 2 as a base and use the HobbyBoss kits as a source for conversion parts.
This is what I have read somewhere, I haven't built the HobbyBoss Leopards myself so I don't have any personal experience.
/ Robin
In memory of Al Superczynski:
"Build what YOU want, the way YOU want to....
and the critics will flame you every time"
Texas, United States
Joined: March 05, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 07:32 PM UTC
The worst thing I've seen on the review pictures is really thick anti-skid sections that would have to be sanded down. Other than that there are some thick details and a few misplaced details.
Paul
Quebec, Canada
Joined: August 13, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 07:46 PM UTC
They're not very good it seems.
This was already talked about here at Armora. Here's a link to one of those thread
HERE You'll find pics of the sprues and instruction sheets and 2 more links (look at the third post)
HERE