Ejector pin marks

[Rob]

I'm working on a Trumpeter F4U Corsair 132nd. The amount of pin marks is astounding. Granted I haven't built a lot of models but this company seems to have a lot of ejector marks in places that just glare. I mean look at this picture of the landing gear and the landing gear Bays. I think it's ridiculous

 

[BarleyBop]

... as my daughters would say back in the day, (just to be silly):
"Ewww!"

 

[Rob]

So I guess what I'm asking is is this normal for Trumpeter? I just don't remember seeing this many in Revell kits or m e n g or even tacom kits

 

[BarleyBop]

I haven't built a lot either, but that is a lot! ...especially as they are in very noticeable spots, like they didn't bother or care to hide them. And they aren't even 'clean' marks, innies, outties and lumpy surfaces.

It must be very disappointing.

The upside is that after this build, you'll sure know how to fill, sand and hide those blemishes.

 

[Rob]

I haven't built a lot either, but that is a lot! ...especially as they are in very noticeable spots, like they didn't bother or care to hide them. And they aren't even 'clean' marks, innies, outties and lumpy surfaces.

It must be very disappointing.

The upside is that after this build, you'll sure know how to fill, sand and hide those blemishes.

I hear you. It's just that it turns what could be an enjoyable build into tedious nitpicking poop. I mean scroll back to when I built the cockpit. There were two sink marks in the seat. You would think they'd make the sprue so that the ejector marks are on the bottom of the seat. It's just they don't care. This is why you have a cheap model. But I should stop complaining? Hell no. It's just shoddy workmanship and not caring. And look at all the marks in the one wheel well. WTF. And I can't believe this is 2023 tooling

 

[BarryW]

So I guess what I'm asking is is this normal for Trumpeter? I just don't remember seeing this many in Revell kits or m e n g or even tacom kits

I have built a lot of 1/32 scale kits, many of them Trumpeter. Like all companies they have good and bad kits and I am afraid that this Corsair is not one of their good ones.

The definitive 1/32 Corsair is the Tamiya which must be among the best aircraft kits in any scale produced by any company. I have built two (one with clipped wings converted to a Fleet Air Arm Corsair) with another in the stash to build.

 

[BOATMAN]

HI Rob well ive built my big trumpy 1/32 super tomcat an my trumypy super hornet in 1/32 scale an i hardly see any ejetor pin marks an what there was was inside the fusealarge where they would not be seen but i dont worry about them anyway as filling them an sandin them down would make them more noticable than leavein them but thats just my opinion but i must aggree with Barry above
chrisb

 

[Edbert]

... as my daughters would say back in the day, (just to be silly):
"Ewww!"

I think today they just call it the ick.

But back to ejector pin marks, I have to agree Rob, that is excessive. I'm only built one Trumpeter kit, ever, and it was a battleship so not applicable to this.

I noticed there were some barely visible on the exterior side of my F-104 wings from Hasegawa. I know they have to exist, but why on the outside instead of the inside?

They are small and faint, only visible due to extreme zoom and silver paint, but unmistakably a mistake on my part to not notice until too late.

 

[stevethefish]

I use Tamiya's light curing putty to fill in injector pin holes.

Edbert, is that the 1:48 or 1:72 F-104 by Hasegawa? I have both. I'll have to take a look at them when I get home this evening. That is a pretty lousy way to go, with those on the outside. Not typical of Hasegawa, from my experience. (I probably build Hasegawa more than anything else.)

 

[Edbert]

It is the 1/48 from Kinetic, but the wings are both Hasegawa wings.

These are the two kits i used to finish it, I bought each of them off ebay as incomplete and started kits, seller would not break them up.

 

[Pantherman]

I'm working on a Trumpeter F4U Corsair 132nd. The amount of pin marks is astounding. Granted I haven't built a lot of models but this company seems to have a lot of ejector marks in places that just glare. I mean look at this picture of the landing gear and the landing gear Bays. I think it's ridiculous

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That's definitely not good. Pantherman

 

[stevethefish]

It is the 1/48 from Kinetic, but the wings are both Hasegawa wings.

These are the two kits i used to finish it, I bought each of them off ebay as incomplete and started kits, seller would not break them up.

Well, I dunno what to say. I have the F-104G kit by Hasegawa and I do not see any injector pin marks on the wings. Unless the F-104C has different toolings for the wings, I don't know what to say. So you have a Kinetic 104, but you attached Hasegawa 104 wings to it?

 

[blakeh1]

Yeah that is really bad. At first I chalked it up to being an old tooling maybe, but then you mentioned it being from 2023!

 

[Edbert]

Well, I dunno what to say. I have the F-104G kit by Hasegawa and I do not see any injector pin marks on the wings. Unless the F-104C has different toolings for the wings, I don't know what to say. So you have a Kinetic 104, but you attached Hasegawa 104 wings to it?

I do not know how I did it but I lost a wing from the Kinetic kit. I assuage my guilt by saying it is the smallest 1/48 wing ever made, but yeah, losing an entire wing? How? Well, if I knew the answer it would not be lost

I contacted the president of Kinetic through a contact on a different forum, he said there are no spare sprues to sell me, not until they put that model back into production, so I spent months searching ebay for incomplete F-104 kits.

 

[stevethefish]

I do not know how I did it but I lost a wing from the Kinetic kit. I assuage my guilt by saying it is the smallest 1/48 wing ever made, but yeah, losing an entire wing? How? Well, if I knew the answer it would not be lost

Yeah, F-104s have super tiny wings. They're nearly just flying tubes and it's a mystery how they can stay in the air. I saw one in-person at the JASDF AIr Museum in Hamamatsu about 9 years ago and got to sit in the cockpit. They don't even stand very high off the ground either, really.

I have three Hasegawa F-104s: two 72nds and one 48th. Makes me wanna build one.