Originally Posted by
tankme
Every model company including Tamiya has made mistakes in kits and never fixed them. There isn't a single 1/16 kit that is perfect on the market that isn't lacking either on detail or has some mistake on it. We either accept it's faults and buy it or don't accept it's faults and not buy it.
Trust me when I say that my interest in this hobby would be much less than it is were it not for Heng Longs failings,
I belong to another Tank Forum and its start up is lost in the mists of time (RCTW) but it and I would suggest this hobby is based on Heng Longs original Tiger 1 which because of its failing induced the fiddlers and rivet counters amongst us to get together to help other like minded fools to fix the problems,
Tamiyas Tanks at that time were top quality and expensive and no one wanted to cut and drill one but a cheapo Chinese toy was a different proposition so here we are.