>>10946463Unironically most of it is good. You (and most people here) are simply not its target audience. Revell isn't interested in the handful of autismos who get worked up over the rivet count on the underside of the model being wrong. Revell isn't competing with Hasegawa, Tamiya, Trumpeter, Eduard etc..
Revell is pretty much THE entry point for anyone getting into modelling. (Grand)Mothers across the globe buy Revell for their (grand)kids, Revell is what finds its way into stockings and under the trees on xmas day, Revell is what what the kid who has outgrown green toy soldiers buys with his pocket money. This target audience has never even heard of Tamiya, let alone the even more niche specialist brands with photoetchings, metal custom parts or requiring specialist tools that are more than a brush and hobby knife.
So for that target audience Revell is fucking fantastic. And even in its own right it is not bad per se.
I can get pretty much any one of their boxes for under 20 yurobucks, many for as little as 10. I still buy their stuff, especially for doing WW2 dioramas. It's excellent, I can get a 1:72(6) sherman, and turn it into a wreck for a diorama without having to feel bad about destroying 100 yurobills worth of plastic of a more expensive model.
Also, at the scale of 1:72(6) (which a lot of revell is) the lack of detail on the models can be heavily compensated for by the skill of the paint/modeljob (and diorama). The models can serve as extremely cheap skeletons to create more elobarate designs on (picrel).
