Kit question

[Robert Porter]

I occasionally run into kits like the one at this link, Kit Index F part 2
But I never seem to find a review under that manufacturer name. Are these someone else's kits just relabeled? And is that what the phrase "repop" I see in these forums indicates? I see that a lot in reference to Dragon kits. And of course lastly are these kits any good since I have yet to find a review on Modelling Madness?

 

[fubar57]

This is a pretty good site for tracing kit "genealogy". It's not the be all, end all, takes a bit to get used to but it does help.

Scalemates, scale modeling database | stash manager

Click on kit database and then further narrow your search on the right

 

[Airframes]

Yes 'repop' is a term used to indicate a re-boxing of a kit from one manufacturer, under the label of another. It's a fairly common practice between a few manufacturers these days, with companies forming a partnership of sorts, in order to share the huge costs of research, development and tooling for new kits.
Not all companies do this, but Revell, for example, share some kits with Dragon and Hasegawa, and the Revell release normally costs substantially less than the original boxing, but tend to be released some time after the original, perhaps two or three years.

 

[Robert Porter]

Interesting! I will enjoy exploring the Kit Database. Will help me understand when comparing two or more kits that some might actually be the exact same kit!

 

[Lucky13]

Scalemates is excellent, I use it often....