60790 1/72 Messerschmitt BF109 G-6 Plastic Model Airplane Kit

Great!

This is the best-fitting kit I have ever built - and I've built a lot of kits since 1957! The parts all fit well, were accurately formed and tooled, and the kit went together very smoothly. So . . . from now on, barring a major reorganization of Tamiya, Tamiya is my "kit maker of choice" in any scale! However, due to the small parts, it is my opinion that this kit is not for young beginners or those with a sparse tool kit.

Like most Tamiya kits, it’s got good fit and acceptable detail, and the solution to getting the landing gear on at the right rake and angle is faultless, but you don’t get an option for dropped flaps and slats as commonly seen on the ground. The Eduard kits are almost as easy to build, perhaps more detailed, certainly the Profipac boxings are, and contain a whole lot of extra parts. I swapped the canopy and other details left over from a Finnish G-2 to make this a late Finnish G-6.

Fit my need.

Like everything Tamiya produces, this kit is top quality and the engineering choices the designers made are ingenious. Only complaint is that I wish they'd have provided more than two markings options. The markings shown in the box cover art are so common that IMHO they've become cliche.

Tamiya has established such amazing detail for production yet easy to assemble even for the beginners

Tamiya is the best 1/72 aircraft model mfg..

Beautifully detailed and such a joy to put together. This is the best Bf-109 in this scale, hands down.