Very good unboxing and kit discussion, the Prowler is a fascinating aircraft, its F/A 18 replacement the Growler doesn't have the same character. Looks like a pretty decent kit despite its age.
Allow me to say a few words; besides the fact that I love your YT channel; and the fact, that more and more you are bringing out reviews of these Revell kits. Well these kits are CRAP..!!, and the same goes to the actual EA-6B Prowler, and following with the F-16 Fighting Falcon and moving on to the Plymouth Barracuda 1970! ... all that is pure CRAP...!! just CRAP...!!! And if we shift gears a little and move to the subjects of music and talk about Led Zeppelin and The Who or Creedence Clear Water Revival; we have to consider that all that must be pure RUBBISH, AS WELL..!! I'm from the ELP, Tx area, close to the Fort Bliss Air Force airbase, where the Saturday mornings were filled with thundering noises made by F-105 Thunderchiefs, the F-4 Phantoms and the whizzing almost 'whistling' musical noise of tiny little A-4 Skyhwaks taking off and exercising their maneuvers on the skies above ! In the same way;..the afternoons were immediately filled with lots of cold brew, and the streets filled with lots of Barracudas, Plymouths, Chevys and Fords; all flashing their chromed engines and pounding the asphalt ever so slightly, just to give you a taste of what they could do at the old "El Paso Dragway" just a few miles to the East... And for a "lunatic" like myself, there was nothing greater that seeing my favorite black '70 Barracuda with drag slicks as wide as the sky!, slowly rolling down the little Drive-Inn diner street, but barely moving; like on a slow crawl, almost like intimidating the rest of the cars in that parking lot and while hearing that HEMI engine singing and combining itself with the background music being played by AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd...thump! thump!. thump!...... The following mornings were filled with friends with heads filled with half hangovers, drinking cola, coffee and such, ready to pounce on each of their's Revell project models being build at our own modeling club..... But just like the new F-16 Fighting Falcon making a 'cameo' appearances on the sky or the Barracudas on the streets or the new songs played on the radio by the 'Stones', or the new Revell kit of the A6-Intruder at the shelves of the pharmacy next door; those were it..!!! They were the newest of everything, 'the late stuff', and everybody wanted them..!!! And now, thinking in "Styrene" terms, the plastic modeling scene back then was RULED by REVELL alone !!!! (Monogram merged in a time later..) So, there was not much of plastic models around, and few other companies such as Airfix; with it's limited catalog of mostly WWII fighters...but not much to choose from. Panel lines; were not a 'measuring tool' to which to measure a plastic model with back then ..(recessed panel lines on the newer kits are the "new kid in town" ) Panel lines in an airplane model were made to be painted darker (like the 'blackbassing' process of today....) then after completing your painting and weathering your model; you had to 'scratch' every panel line with the blunt side of your exacto knife, to bring out the black color and make them stand out...!! And they would look just perfect..!! To judge a kit of these proportions in a negative way and call it "CRAP" is placing everything that was happening in those times in the 'same basket' and label everything as "SHIT"; just based on the existence or lacking of a panel line is hurtful and immature; considering the origin where they came from and the intentions behind the conception of these great kits..!! Recessed panel lines are okay...but when we build any plastic model, and the minute you open up that box; you know what you are getting into...!!!?? Right!!?? It's an ADVENTURE..! in a box, and you don't know how you are going to fare; until you stand next to your finished model..!! Panel line or not..! you are the BUILDER and you are going to get in there and make 'that thing' look like what is 'supposed to be' and nothing else..!! You might have to scratch-build a little or modify a little, or bend something else a little and very possibly bleed a little as well and even inhale a little CA along the way..!! but who cares..!!! Are we MEN, or are we MICE!!? and Revell offered that challenge for you; and that is how a great plastic modeler comes to age, by facing a challenging kit; not by having a kit 'build itself' in front of you, such is Zvezda models....( I love Zvezda, but I DON'T BUILD THEM..they build themselves...) Revell RULES !! and there's a kit for each one of you's out there; just reach out and touch one, you'll know right away what I'm talking about...!!! =) I'll take my Revell /Monogram EA-6B Prowler any time baby...!!!! --Thanks for allowing me the space to ramble--- =)
Very good unboxing and kit discussion, the Prowler is a fascinating aircraft, its F/A 18 replacement the Growler doesn't have the same character. Looks like a pretty decent kit despite its age.
I had this 1992.. big.. nice .. old kit ..but good with update kit. It was a bomber too
Nice review mate, looks like a pretty decent kit for the price you paid....can't grumble at a steal! : )
Cool : )
Allow me to say a few words; besides the fact that I love your YT channel; and the fact,
that more and more you are bringing out reviews of these Revell kits.
Well these kits are CRAP..!!, and the same goes to the actual EA-6B Prowler, and
following with the F-16 Fighting Falcon and moving on to the Plymouth Barracuda 1970! ...
all that is pure CRAP...!! just CRAP...!!!
And if we shift gears a little and move to the subjects of music and talk about Led Zeppelin
and The Who or Creedence Clear Water Revival; we have to consider that all that must be
pure RUBBISH, AS WELL..!!
I'm from the ELP, Tx area, close to the Fort Bliss Air Force airbase, where
the Saturday mornings were filled with thundering noises made by F-105 Thunderchiefs,
the F-4 Phantoms and the whizzing almost 'whistling' musical noise of tiny little A-4 Skyhwaks
taking off and exercising their maneuvers on the skies above ! In the same way;..the afternoons
were immediately filled with lots of cold brew, and the streets filled with lots of Barracudas, Plymouths,
Chevys and Fords; all flashing their chromed engines and pounding the asphalt ever so slightly,
just to give you a taste of what they could do at the old "El Paso Dragway" just a few miles to the East...
And for a "lunatic" like myself, there was nothing greater that seeing my favorite black '70 Barracuda
with drag slicks as wide as the sky!, slowly rolling down the little Drive-Inn diner street, but barely moving;
like on a slow crawl, almost like intimidating the rest of the cars in that parking lot and while hearing that
HEMI engine singing and combining itself with the background music being played by AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Pink Floyd...thump! thump!. thump!......
The following mornings were filled with friends with heads filled with half hangovers, drinking cola, coffee and such, ready to pounce on each of their's Revell project models being build at our own modeling club.....
But just like the new F-16 Fighting Falcon making a 'cameo' appearances on the sky or the Barracudas on the
streets or the new songs played on the radio by the 'Stones', or the new Revell kit of the A6-Intruder at the shelves
of the pharmacy next door; those were it..!!! They were the newest of everything, 'the late stuff', and everybody
wanted them..!!!
And now, thinking in "Styrene" terms, the plastic modeling scene back then was RULED by REVELL alone !!!!
(Monogram merged in a time later..) So, there was not much of plastic models around, and few other companies
such as Airfix; with it's limited catalog of mostly WWII fighters...but not much to choose from.
Panel lines; were not a 'measuring tool' to which to measure a plastic model with back then ..(recessed panel lines on the newer kits are the "new kid in town" ) Panel lines in an airplane model were made to be painted darker (like the 'blackbassing' process of today....) then after completing your painting and weathering your model; you had to
'scratch' every panel line with the blunt side of your exacto knife, to bring out the black color and make them stand out...!! And they would look just perfect..!!
To judge a kit of these proportions in a negative way and call it "CRAP" is placing everything that was happening in those times in the 'same basket' and label everything as "SHIT"; just based on the existence or lacking of a panel line
is hurtful and immature; considering the origin where they came from and the intentions behind the conception of
these great kits..!!
Recessed panel lines are okay...but when we build any plastic model, and the minute you open up that box; you know what you are getting into...!!!?? Right!!?? It's an ADVENTURE..! in a box, and you don't know how you are going to fare; until you stand next to your finished model..!! Panel line or not..! you are the BUILDER and you are going to get in there and make 'that thing' look like what is 'supposed to be' and nothing else..!! You might have to scratch-build a little or modify a little, or bend something else a little and very possibly bleed a little as well and even inhale a little CA along the way..!! but who cares..!!!
Are we MEN, or are we MICE!!?
and Revell offered that challenge for you; and that is how a great plastic modeler comes to age, by facing a
challenging kit; not by having a kit 'build itself' in front of you, such is Zvezda models....( I love Zvezda, but I DON'T BUILD THEM..they build themselves...)
Revell RULES !! and there's a kit for each one of you's out there; just reach out and touch one, you'll know right away what I'm talking about...!!! =)
I'll take my Revell /Monogram EA-6B Prowler any time baby...!!!!
--Thanks for allowing me the space to ramble--- =)
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