[Serviceguyuk]

Originally Posted by kenlms

Just came across these, which appear to be very Tamiya-ish items.

http://www.r2hobbies.com/1-14-scale-...truck-kit.html

http://www.r2hobbies.com/1-14-scale-...truck-kit.html

http://www.r2hobbies.com/catalogsear...vance&dir=desc

Has anyone bought from them? The 20ft trailer looks like a cut down tamiya one. The Mercedes looks very much like a Tamiya kit from the downloaded instructions, though the axle housing is different. No indication of the quality of the product though.

So if anyone has bought any of their items, could you please comment. Thanks.

Ken

I bought the second one on your list and Merc Actros 6x4 and nearly completed it.

As far as I am concerned it's as good as if not better than the Tamiya equivalent. Most of the cab parts are a little dirty and the whole thing comes in a brown cardboard box without the usual high quality Tamiya three colour printing and cut away illustrations.

Comes will full sealed bearings, foam tyre inserts, full instructions, surplus screws and nuts and it all fits very well.

We have an agent here in UK with very reasonable shipping costs so it's definitely cheaper than Tamiya and as far as I and others here on poverty rock are concerned well worth the money.

They either make the stuff for Tamiya as a sub-contractor or have somehow come by all of the tooling as most if not all of the parts are identical.

Just my two cents


Mike