As part of a side project I ended up working on a Revell brand scale model car kit, and as a result of the experience I find myself saying "GW doesn't look as bad anymore"- for $22, the kit was very crude, with nasty thick plastic and poor detail, and I had to grind nearly 1mm thickness of plastic down to get the halves of the engine block flush with one another. If this level of price to quality is typical of mainstream models, then I find myself somewhat more willing to pay the GW premium. I know there's Tamiya as an alternative, but I've had bad flash problems with kits purchased from them in the last year.
So my question is, did I get an unusually bad experience, or is this about the norm?