120mm mounted Samurai

[Tommy Brown]

I noticed RDG Miniatures is re-releasing the old Mitches Military 120mm mounted Samurai kit sculpted by Carl Reid. Please ensure to read the old review by Yellowcat regarding this particular kit.
https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/minamoto-no-yoshitsune-vs-minamoto-no-yoshitsune.185746/

 

[Nap]

That will please the samurai modellers

Excellent review from Yellowcat as always which is good to see referred to

Thanks for the update

Nap

 

[polyphemus]

I had the original Mitches version of this kit which I sold as a large scale clearout last year. Regrettiing the sale, as you do,I bought the rerelease rom RDG and can report that the kit has been reworked and that many of the awkward casting blocks are no longer present making cleanup and assembly very much easier.

Geoff

 

[Tommy Brown]

I had the original Mitches version of this kit which I sold as a large scale clearout last year. Regrettiing the sale, as you do,I bought the rerelease rom RDG and can report that the kit has been reworked and that many of the awkward casting blocks are no longer present making cleanup and assembly very much easier.

Geoff

It is good to know the resin blocks had been fixed. But according to Yellowcat's review the major problem was lack of details on the kit’s parts. "Many of the parts are lack of details namely the tachi sword, the arrow case, the bow string case, armour plates, horse reins and aori (saddle flaps). There is no tanto knife and the horse abumi (stirrup) is a major disappointment." Just wondering if these parts have been resculpted or details have been added.

 

[Tommi]

Please note that the recent re release of this Kit through RDG miniatures has been reworked with the detail, fit of parts etc and new moulds have been made.

Tommi

 

[Tommy Brown]

Any photos of the reworked parts?

 

[Tommi]

Any photos of the reworked parts?

No as they went straight into mould on receiving back from the sculptor
Tommi

 

[Tommy Brown]

I had the original Mitches version of this kit which I sold as a large scale clearout last year. Regrettiing the sale, as you do,I bought the rerelease rom RDG and can report that the kit has been reworked and that many of the awkward casting blocks are no longer present making cleanup and assembly very much easier.

Geoff

If you do not mine, please take photos for the reworked parts. I would like to see the details for those castings. Thanks!

 

[polyphemus]

Sorry I don't have access to a camera at the moment. We're just getting over a house move and we're still pretty disorganised. Much of my stash of kits are boxed & stored in the loft at our last house.

Geoff

 

[Tommy Brown]

Sorry I don't have access to a camera at the moment. We're just getting over a house move and we're still pretty disorganised. Much of my stash of kits are boxed & stored in the loft at our last house.

Geoff

Since you have the both releases old and new. Could your remember for the re-release the following parts where Yellowcat indicated in his old review had been re-sculpted or details had been added ("the tachi sword, the arrow case, the bow string case, armour plates, horse reins and aori (saddle flaps). There is no tanto knife and the horse abumi (stirrup) is a major disappointment ".) Thanks!

 

[polyphemus]

Sorry I no longer have the original release. As I indicated earlier I sold that last year.

Geoff

 

[Tommy Brown]

Sorry I no longer have the original release. As I indicated earlier I sold that last year.

Geoff

Just like to know for the new release that you have, could you remember the following parts where Yellowcat indicated in his old review had been re-sculpted or details had been added ("the tachi sword, the arrow case, the bow string case, armour plates, horse reins and aori (saddle flaps). There is no tanto knife and the horse abumi (stirrup) is a major disappointment ".) Thanks!

 

[polyphemus]

Sorry, when I saw the casting blocks on the original kit I just quietly put the kit away "to be worked on later". The most apparent improvement in the rerelease was the removal of the casting blocks. I never had the old & new versions side by side for comparison & I don't have access at the moment to the new version to make comparisons with the original review. The Pegaso kit somehow passed me by & I know that after the review I would have bought that instead.

Geoff