WHATS IN THE BOX. VINTAGE EAST GERMAN, 1975; PLASTICART 1/72; BERIEV BE-6. KIT REVIEW NO. 136. 

Hi Brian. Probably best if i just get my fake Dremel out then. Have actually relised that i have a spare set of props from Enola Gay, checked them and size wise they are very close, so problem solved i reckon. Yeah your right even has the gull wing shaped wings, tail is a bit different but pretty close, who spied on who? LOL i almost asked for someone to identify them. well done Brian.

@@TheNoviceModeller Hi Andy. The Nerd has landed 😃.

@@BrianSanders-tn7pi I'm a super nerd 🤓🤓🤓 I can tell you anything about aircraft mind you I did fly for 12 years But since the age of 5 my grandad gave me a reflector gun sight of an Italian stuka piccolo He helped its demise over Tobruk He got shot down over Syria Long story after that

@@martryan2060 Hi martryan. Well I,ve never flown but I have been building models for about 45 years so I have built or seen most of these old kits. I also have a pretty extensive knowledge of WWII aircraft. So I,ll settle with nerd , that will do me. Good luck.

Hello there @tomaszkowszynski9653 and thanks for watching, i think its an interesting kit and i wont be attacking it with the Black & Decker, just bit of silly-ness to lighten my mood. Actually kind of glad i have it a 70's East German kit is a bit of a conversation piece. You're the second person to suggest a Wellington for the mystery bag, unfortunately i currently dont have one to compare them with.

I also have quite a few of the VEB kits as well. They did produce some pretty unusual subjects at the time. That 1/100 Mil Mi-10 is huge! I wonder if the glue in the aluminum containers is usuable? Not sure I want to pop one open just to find out, though.

hello there @gerhard6105 and thanks for watching. I have a bit of an interest in kit manufacturers that are alternative to the regular Airfix, Tamiya etc and occasionally buy what i call a WTF is this kit?. so thanks for the comment i may just go and have a look at a few of the others you have mentioned.

Hi Jeremy as per the vid i wasn't expecting much from this, i was pretty chuffed to win some of the other kits like the Lancaster and some of the modern stuff which was below retail but when i won this i kinda shrugged and went "meh OK we shall see what we shall see". Still painted up its a big kit to add to a possible collection of flying boats, i'll just have to put it at the back of the shelf LOL.

hello there @IamNasman and thanks for watching. No idea what green stuff, blue stuff is LOL so just had a quick ebay search and oh i see, i think. Actually remembered that i have a spare set of props from my Enola Gay build and having checked they are pretty damn close, so will probs just use two of them as TBH this kit does not deserve any money throwing at it LOL. i kind of find it interesting though, East German 1975 and i think i paid fair money for it so one day i will build it, though i will probably use my fake Dremel and leave the Black & Decker for something a little more deserving LOL. Thanks for subscribing, i try to put 5 ish vids up per week, tomorrow i'll be painting up my Horsa glider and a Dakota hoping to get them finished for Market Garden Sept 17th. good luck with your next build be seeing you andy.

Hello again @martinoconnor4314 ah yes i have seen this technique and it does look pretty good, though since uploading this i have reaslised that i have 4 alternate props from my B-29, checked them and they are pretty damn close for size, so thats one prob solved. your cockpit suggestion though does sound like a winner, sure i can find a couple of seats somewhere. TBH a lot of this was horse play, i am looking for a subject to attack with my Black & Decker at some point, but this is not quite BAD enough. I think for this generally i will be quite happy to keep it relatively simple, i think that with these vintage kits the simplicity of them is at times quite attractive.

@@TheNoviceModeller Lol, I know you were having a laugh about this kit but according to Scalemates Revell re-boxed this kit in 1991. I'd be curious to know if they re-boxed it in the same form as your kit of altered it in some way to bring it up to date for 1991, I couldn't imagine Revell knocking out a kit with that kind of non cockpit detail.

@@TheNoviceModeller Update, yes Revell did release this exact same kit with no cockpit details, even the decal sheet is identical. Those cheap b'stard's, imagine paying Revell prices for something this ancient even in 1991.

So we are agreed it's crapola then LOL.

@@TheNoviceModeller Ancient doesn't have to mean crap, but also it can mean that its not very high up on the "Brilliant" scale. I reckon I'd still be stupid enough to have a go at building one 🤣

Hello there @tankwright5489 and thanks for watching. TBH i think it'll paint up and go together OK, i wasn't expecting anything much and TBH i was most dissapointed about the prop, though have since remembered i have a spare set of B-29 props and TBH they are pretty much the same size so prob solved. Incidentally Revell put a new box on this kit in 1991, the going price for mine on Ebay is less than £20 you will pay a fair few more quids for the benefit of Revell's shiny box LOL

@@TheNoviceModeller Thank you for putting up a video of such a unique model from such a unique company! I honestly didn't know East Germany even had a plastic model company. Go DDR! LOL I wonder what other models they made?

Hello again @tankwright5489 i quite often buy what i think i am going to call a "WTF is that kit" often by manufacturers that i have never heard of, which being a novice is no big deal. Another viewer from Germany has pointed me in the direction of these GDR / Warsaw pact? manufacturers "KVZ, DIWI and Plasticart. Also from KP, Dubena, Yunyi Technik, Krugozor and others." i have heard of KP but the others are WTF's? he reckons there were 119 kits produced by Platicart and this was 116. i think i will be sitting down at some point over the next few days and investigating EBAY for a few of these others. I actually have a bit of a thing for Ventura kits produced in New Zealand by a guy called Malcolm Reynolds, they are commonly referred to as "garage kits" they strangely manage to be beautiful and goddam awful at the same time, i trash talked and trash built a Spitfire mk22 from this company, got a bit of a bollocking on here for doing so LOL, i have since found them rather fascinating and have a range of 10-15 Ventura, Tasman and Jays Model Kits from NZ, mostly Spitfires and Seafires as that was Ventura's specialty, a few of them to be featured on an upcoming "haul vid". no idea whether you have heard of Ventura but i have attached a few links below so as you can view them, my treatment of the one i built is pretty absurd, but i have obviously changed my appreciation of them since these vids were produced in March best regards andy be seeing you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mNBE08dT3iQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p_jyuOuz67Y.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--uty-UV6iOw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b0WOB4Y61m4.html Incidentally the Testors mk 22 i threw together in 1 minute and 35 seconds, for an experiment / laugh, i don't always conform to normalcy or logic LOL. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mUM83rinGd4.html

@@TheNoviceModeller Wow, I didn't realize there were so many. Maybe you could somehow track down a list or partial list of what models they made. I'm sure they were very unique Warsaw Pact planes and AFVs. Very cool.

hello again @trikkke11 the B&D is just a prop LOL though i did use it on a STARFIX Mustang 5ish months ago, i rather enjoyed it, was quite stress relieving.

hello there @milgeekmedia and thanks for watching. Another viewer has remarked on the similarities between the two. TBH no idea though possible, i do have a few other Russian "bombers" and the Gull wing style of the wings was a regular feature and some have twin tails also. The Russians did like a bit of espionage or reverse engineering so possible i suppose.

hi Steve, it'll be fine just needs a bit of light sanding.

@@TheNoviceModeller 👀👀🍸🍸

Hello there @PiperStart and thanks for watching, some cold winters night i'll be glad of the painting simplicity on this, two colour, no camo, only a couple of trips to the painting booth in the cold, cold garage.

Hello there @vhjmvn and thanks for watching. A couple of viewers have suggested that the green parts are from a Vickers Wellington, i have to say i think they might be right. Bit of a conundrum as to how they ended up in here though LOL.

I'll have to check those out, though a couple more flying boats are required me thinks.

Hello again @gerhard6105 i randomly acquired a New Zealand produced Ventura Spitfire mk22, TBH i didn't understand it at the time, it is generally referred to as a "garage" kit, nicely detailed parts but very rough and ready, since making a right pigs ear of it i have gone and bought 10 - 15 of these type of NZ kits as i find them rather interesting. you certainly seem to have an interesting collection of GDR kits.

@@TheNoviceModeller the rarer kits are always interesting. The Soviet kits are even "uglier" then the GDR kits. A German kit collected has everything made from KVZ and also wrote a book about it. He is a friend of mine and he came to my house to make pictures from my (certain items) collection for his book. VEB Kunststoffverrarbeitung Zschopau. VEB means Volkseigener Betrieb = People Owned Company. Kunststoff means Artificial material (plastic), verarbeitung means processed, and Zschopau is the town. Most box art from KVZ are very nice pieces of art. In 2019 I went from the Netherlands all the way with my car to Charkiv in Ukraine to buy some rare Soviet kits. Ofcourse I stayed there several days.

i had a quick nose on Ebay last night found a few of the manufacturers you mentioned though in the UK i guess they are rarer still. i will probs try again with the un-abbreviated detail you have given. I may have to take a peek at Ebay DE.

@@TheNoviceModeller yes, do that. Some of these are okay in price and some are very expensive but they are worth it. Plasticart is the successor name of KVZ. And between these two, the names were MPKAB and MPKZ. Always with VEB in front of it. If you have questions about these kits, you can ask me. All my boxes have their content ofcourse.

Hello there @christianfairhurst3877 and thanks for watching. A fair point, though i actually have a C-47 Skytrain/Dakota and a Horsa Glider ready to prime and paint, there will be build and paint updates for them over the next 2-3 days, they should be finished in time for 80th anniversary of Market Garden 17-25th September. At the end of the month i will be off for 12 and will be starting my BIG PLAN, which will be an ongoing series of thematic reviews and builds, hopefully weekly for the next ermmmm 8 years. The intention will be to get through perhaps 40ish kits per year which i can add to the 40 odd i have built in the last 7 months, hopefully this explains why i have such a large stash of kits. Vids like this one take 15 -30 minutes to do, they basically keep the channel ticking over whilst i attend to the other things that life requires i do. best regards andy be seeing you.

Hello there @glhx2112 and thanks for watching, Have just looked at a few pics and yes does appear that may have been the reason for the extra plastic, shame they couldn't find anything to replace the prop LOL.

hello there @peterespada6226 and thanks for watching. Oh yes, i have found some spare/replacement props off a B29 that are about right. The trouble is with 400 kits in my stash the question is when. i have a plan to deal with this "problem" which will centre around multi themed series's of reviews and builds every week or so, which seek viewer participation in build selection, will be starting this erm project in a few weeks, i think this will be filed under "flying boats" so one week i will put 4 flying boats on the bench and you guys via voting in the comment bar will hopefully tell me which one to build. i dont really like making decisions, far better to let someone else do it in my Humbrol opinion.

hello there @michaelvalenzuela2528 and thanks for watching. i am pretty sure you are right, i magine some young kig in Esat Berlin would have been right chuffed to get this for christmas 1977. I think it will turn out OK, LOL the Black & Decker is a bit of a joke.

Hi @ewmhop nah this'll be fine though i think a few more flying boats are required to add to this and the DO18 that i have. Hows the storm?

WIND AND RAIN,BEEN THROUGH WORST TAKE CARE@@TheNoviceModeller

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Hello there @andrewcomerford9411 and thanks for watching, thanks for the info, used in to the 70's? those Russians did know how to build their military stuff.

@martinoconnor4314 just seen that on ebay also someone in Germany is asking £56 +P&P for one of the Plasticart's i wonder if anyone will buy it?

@@TheNoviceModeller Didn't a German guy advise you not to build it when you unboxed it as it was a historical collectors item? I'd bloody flog it mate!

Romanian, the general impression i got was that he was suggesting it was crapola LOL, their normal sold price in the UK is less than £20, one is currently at auction for £2.99 if you fancy a punt.

Hello again @marcblank3036 they normally go for about £20 on ebay, i would've checked that before bidding as a rough guide, though there is some fool trying to sell one in Germany for over £50 quids. I'm actually rather happy with it, pretty sure it'll go together OK, i remembered i have some spare B29 props that are pretty much the same size, easy paint job, couple of cold winter days, easy big kit. i'll save the Black & Decker for something else LOL.

@@TheNoviceModeller cool. But Reifa in Germany sells some of the VEB kits at around 21 euros and all in new boxes. There is a kit of the Russian spaceshuttle, Tu154, and some others. Unfortunately not the old Mi10 helicopter. Have one of those. All challenging kits

Can you send me a link to Reifa? had a quick search and i am getting all sorts of apparently unrelated stuff.

@@TheNoviceModeller ok. It is hard to do on ytube. But, try "reifra" and a "dot" after which "de" for germany

gotcha www.reifra.de/detail/index/sArticle/7986/sCategory/99