The eduard kit is very good and the detail on it is amazing, fit was excelent except for the top and bottom engine cover which produced quite an ugly seam line but pretty easy to solve with some putty or superglue. And yeah tamiya paint works a lot better through an airbrush, I often thin it with isopropyl alcohol since it’s an alcohol based paint. But trying to get it right with a brush is a pain. Personally gave up on trying that after a while and started using either aqueous mr hobby, vallejo or ammo mig for brush painting, depending on what I can get my hands on. The first one of those 3 also thinned with isopropyl and the latter 2 with vallejo’s thinner or airbrush flow improver (even for brush painting).

Came out looking nice! Recently built an eduard one but will probably pick up this kit in the near future to compare it to.

Which paint did you use, since you had some issues with the texture?

Funny, you made me realize that’s a language thing. In my native language (Dutch) it is very common to refer to both crows and jackdaws as crows.

Yeah fair, the English name slipped my mind while writing the post and I was too lazy to look it up. Also true, they’re super chill. This one hangs around the entrance of the grocery store with a buddy quite often, sitting on the bikes and just generally vibing.

“Openness is good if one happens to be a cake shop or a pair of legs, just not so much if you’re a tiger cage or Margaret Thatcher’s legs.” - Ben Yahtzee Croshaw

Let it be known that I do not want to attack you personally. But the notion of electric bikes being death traps is something I can’t take seriously. I could go outside right now and film the street for an hour and watch 50% of bikes going by being electric, not to mention that you’d be hard pressed to find anyone wearing a helmet or protective gear.

Electric bikes here are generally limited to 25kmh (15mph) and the electric motor will stop the moment you go over that speed. Besides, most people generally don’t reach that speed because the largest users of electric bikes here are the over 50.

In my personal experience the problem isn’t so much the vehicle as the infrastructure being made for it. For context I live in the Netherlands in a smaller city (far from Amsterdam).

Actually it’s not! It’s an Icelandic Sheepdog. But I do get why people would think that from this picture.