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Old 09-17-2007, 10:57 PM   # 10 Quick Link (permalink)
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Re: New collector with basic questions for starting this hobby

If you check out the thread that Cardinal referred you to you will get lot's of useful advice. My post on that thread emphasizes doing a decent amount of homework and eventually coming up with an initial plan---which can always be modified at a later date. I think it's a mistake to start, arbitrarily, with a single manufacturer like Corgi. If you follow this path it will lead you to sub par P-51s, F4Us,and Zeros, plus otherwise OK planes like the P-40 and JU-87 ( both missing pitot heads ) and superior entries such as the B-17, B-24, Mosquito, Lancaster, Hurricane, Swordfish, HE-111 and others. Following your homework, which should include a careful reading of many threads on this website concerning the planes you really care most about and a careful study of available pictures, I would buy the best planes in the scale you prefer, regardless of who makes them.
 

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