MiniArt is known for it's accessories and dioramas. I still don't understand why people/"model builders", especially the older guys & gals, complain so much about a little bit of flash, ejector pin marks and vacumold through hole nipples or having to glue round pieces that were cast in halves. Are you a model builder or just a plastic kit assembler? Dealing with flash, ejector pin marks and vacumold nipples is just part of building models. Perhaps you should think about educating yourself on the high volume plastic molding/casting/vacuum molding works. The tooling costs are well into the tens of thousands of dollars. Since they know they will likely continue using molds well past their designed life span they can keep the cost of the kits to the customers much more affordable. Also because they know...... real model builders won't bitch and moan about a little flash, because real model builders know that so long after the initial run of a particular model kit the molds will start to wear out and you will start seeing more flash. And with how easy it is to clean up, since you should be cleaning the seams anyway, it's not like you don't have to run your blade over that place anyhow.

Also, to separate the walls and roofs, all you have to do is run a scribe along the edge, following the contours a few times & it will "break loose" and leave you with a nice edge that, if done properly, will take minimal "clean up", if any.

Bottom line is, stop complaining about flash. If you want the manufacturers to stop using a mold the instant it starts showing flash and make a new mold so you don't have to clean an edge/seam that needs to be cleaned up anyway? You should be prepared to start bitching about the price of the model kit when it triples or quadruples because you don't want to have to deal with flash.

Suck it up buttercup or find yourself another hobby because I don't want to have to pay triple or quadruple the price because of people like you that aren't real model builders, because we don't complain about things like that. We just cut it off & sand it smooth or fill it with putty or sprue goo & sand it smooth and get on with the build because that's just part of build a scale plastic/styrene model.

Opps. Spoke to soon. Mega hobby is the US dist.

Very nice kits, just wish there was a US distributer here.

Looks very nice!

your review is so fantastic!  and so fun! hahaha

Great video, but with regards to the 'flash' I do think you're overlooking the fact that MiniArt were a small, newly emerging company when they had the tools made for their injection molded parts. Over the decades since, the tooling has worn and so the flash has gotten worse. Okay, they could and maybe SHOULD get new tooling, but I know that they had to move their 'factory' in recent years, due to the political turmoil in Ukraine, and maybe they are not as 'rich' as we might think. I don't know, but a bit, or even a lot of flash isn't a big problem. And consider the fact is most of those injection molded parts aren't used in every kit, but they are still provided, and so you can build up a library of such parts for use in further dioramas. They are great for scratch-building. Aside from all that, thanks for the kit reviews.

Good review.

The second dio kit has the new telegraph poles set including that just came out a couple of month ago I have the set the sprues are exactly from that set that's interesting! I love these! Being older mini art you will expect flash but maybe of they re issued them again now.as harder to come by now they would be alot better after they changed there suppliers and using new high grade plastic

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Je m'abonne donc. 😃

My son like these toys

Nirst shop to Liverpool

Miniart = Flash