ORIGINAL: Pete737
I guess I had forgotten that the research involved while searching for your next project is going to facilitate new questions.
In this case, I don't think there is any real answer other than the infamous RCU consensus! Which has not let me down yet.
In the world of ARF's, Excluding BVM, Airworld or other working stiff unfriendly model:
- How can one determine a good level of detail?
- Does a Skymaster F-18 (just to pick one arbitrarily) have a better scale appearance that an FEJ, JL, Fei Bao or Yellow (or others in the same price category) ?
- Most of the newer models all seem to have panel lines and rivets... Am I correct in this observation? Does any certain company have better rivets? Or more true panel lines?
- What about the overall correctness of the model? The preservation of it's full scale appearance, Fuse details, Devices, etc... Anyone doing a notably better job in achieving this?
I'm just saying, If you have X amount of $$ for an ARF and 6 companies produce the model you are considering, How the heck would you know which one you would like the most?
Thanks! Pete
Ive owned and built jets from most of the Asian manufacturers and the Yellow Aircraft (twin) F-18 has the best scale outline of the available Asian produced bugs. The rest are much closer to "sport scale" in overall outline. FEJ, JL, Fei Bao, Skymaster all would be very similar in this respect. Level of accuracy paint finish and decal wise is more debatable than their overall differences in actual scale outline at least as far as the F-18 Hornets and Super Hornets that these manufacturers all produce....
With Yellow Aircraft ARF's you are limited to their (twin) F-18, F-15 and F-22. I would say these three are definitely up there if not the best of the Asian produced ARF's. Der Jet Model would be very close and the next best in my opinion with their Cougar and new Vampire. Then it's a toss up between all the rest depending on which specific model, your expectations and point of view...
Cheers- Marty