TheVoidDragon

I wonder what the reason manufacturers aren't making many Star Wars kits recently is. Revell stuff has been primarily reboxes of their old kits and had a few "build and play" toys but nothing that's just a normal kit recently. Bandai has theirs, but they're intended for a specific market. It just seems like very little is being done overall.

A few things I'd like but it just doesn't seem worth it due to postage costs and customs fees. Put a few things in the basket to see what postage and such would be like...£16 worth of items, but £16 shipping so the price is already doubled, and then I'd have to pay even more because customs fees. It's just so offputting with how much extra would get stuck on any order, already becomes over double that with the postage, and then i'd have to pay more because over the £15. Even just buying 1 of the Tomica Star Wars: Slave I at £1.77 jumps up to over £7 with the shipping cost for just that single item.

Yes, the Bandai Star Wars kits that have been released here are mostly 1/72 scale. While Bandai does have kits of lots of different star wars models, many of them like the A-Wing and Y-wing aren't officially sold here unfortunately, Revell have the distribution license for the Bandai kits here and so far there's only a few of the ships available, which are the 1/72 X-Wing, 1/72 TIE Fighter, 1/72 B-Wing, 1/48 Snowspeeder, 1/48 AT-ST, 1/144 AT-AT and 1/144 KSE Firespray (Slave One).

There are several different scales and manufacturers when it comes to Star Wars kits. In the UK, the main one that's fairly easily available is Revell. They do easykits, which are pre-painted snap-together stuff, or they have a few of those kits in proper model kit form that needs glue and paint instead. They come in different scales to each other and aren't all one scale, they're box-scale so just sized to fit in the box they come in. These are pretty cheap kits go for under £10 usually, but they are quite small and have a limited number of parts (like 10 - 20) but they aren't too bad. Quite a while back Revell also did some slightly larger easyKits for the Clone Wars animated series too, but those aren't really available in shops anymore so you'd have to get those second-hand. The other option that has more variety is Bandai. They have 2 different things - 1/72 scale, or their vehicle collection, or they do figure kits. Their 1/72 ships are things like the X-wing, TIE Fighter, AT-ST (1/48), Snowspeeder etc but there's only a few of their 1/72 kits that are officially sold here, re-packaged and distributed by Revell and tend to sell for around £20 - 30 (unfortunately things like the 1/72 A-Wing aren't available here at all). Unfortunately their figure kits and vehicle collection would have to be imported, hopefully they eventually make more available here properly. There are some far, far older kits (80s or 90s) made by ERTL too but don't know too much about those myself and you'd have to get them second-hand. So really it's down to Revell's box-scale stuff that's a random assortment of scales, or Revell's re-packaging of a few of those 1/72 Bandai kits. The Bandai kits are definitely far better but also more expensive.

I've got quite a few of the Foundation Novels but i've yet to read them, I get the impression this will be a typical high-stakes action sci-fi thing though. I expected a bit more depth than that really. Other than the direction they're taking the story, what do people think of the overall look of things? I know there's novel covers (which vary) but was there ever any artwork showing the sort of thing Asiimov imagined the setting looking like? Its all very modern futuristic sci-fi stuff and I was hoping for something a little more retro inspired.

Quite like the conversion set! I'm assuming it will be in Space Wolf themed colours? If that's the case, I'm not sure how well wood would fit with that if that's the only wooden part, I've not actually seen anyone do that before! Perhaps some sort of dark obsidian or granite-like stone (maybe with glowing runes) or bone (a big feature of Space Wolf Iconography), or even gold/brass (something like the figurehead on on Logan Grimnar's Stormrider) could work.

Tried searching for Robert Taylor and Rodny Diggens together but couldn't find a collection featuring both their work together.

These actually do include the art name + artist on each page (the 2nd style doesn't though which suggests a different origin) and there's quite a lot of different artists for these pieces of art. So based on the assumption that these are page numbers from a book, it must be at least a 200 page artbook consisting of aviation art spanning the past a century, with a large amount of different artists included....and it's seemingly landscape format, too. I suppose looking up the artists and trying to find a list of what they've been included in might be a way to find out!

Short version: Page numbers and format of these suggest they're taken out of something, so looking for the specific collection (Possibly a book?) containing all this art together (seems to be 2 different things as the Short Stirling has a different format to the others), each piece already has the art name and artist on them! Long version: Last year while at a Museum Air Show event (UK) I bought a few pieces of art. They're just various flight-related artwork from a variety of different artists, on paper (better quality than standard a4?), nothing fancy but they were £1 each and I thought they would look good framed. I realized afterwards that every piece has a number at the bottom on both sides (45/46, 197/198, 91/92 etc) with the other side being the next number like page numbers. There were 2 different styles of page, one with a line border around the art with the art's name at the bottom of the page and the back of it having text talking about what's on the front artwork. The other format, like the top right one in the first photo, has art on both sides (a different piece). Tried searching for some of the art using the names, and I've been able to find quite a few of them, but what really seems odd to me is that I found a lot of these 'prints' or whatever they actually are, being sold at absurd prices on Ebay and such - they have the exact same page style as ones I bought or saw there, just with a frame added. They seem to be the same and not higher quality or something like that. Here's photos of some of what i havet: I really can't figure out specifically why they seem to have page numbers on them and considering others selling them have the same things including name, border etc as mine, that makes me think they must come from something specific (E.g. taken out of a book to sell) or be available somewhere as a collection. There isn't really a noticeable theming either - Most of it was military themed art but there were some others like classic passenger planes too, consisting of aviation from WW1 all the way up to modern day. Some of the others I got were things like the F-117 Nighthawk and A-10 Warthog. There was helicoper art too and even things like an Ekranoplane, so all sorts of different things with no obvious consistent theming beyond aviation - but they all had the same page style. One of the prints actually isn't proper a4-size, it's slightly bigger and off-cut, which also suggests it was taken out of something. Does anyone have any idea where specifically these might have came from - is there an artbook or something with these?

Hope no one minds me asking in this thread, but where is the best UK place to get kits? I've thought about getting one of the cheaper models, preferably a Hobby Grade kit at as close to £10 as I can get, but pretty much every UK-based site I've seen is out of stock of nearly everything except for some that I think just look ugly (The basic mass-produced mobile suits). I've checked every UK-based site that I can find and I just can't figure out how to get an alright kit without having to resort to importing and paying shipping + potential customs and handling fees which would end up doubling the price at least.

You've mentioned being unsure about whether to go for 2 legs or 4 legs, but have you already decided on other important aspects about it? I think there are quite a few other considerations that would influence how to progress - the most obvious one is just the basic theme. You've said Sci-fi but that could cover all sorts of things here! For example: A Steampunk Mech that's more of a 1800s design like a combination of a walking ship and automaton with large boiler engines, brass, pipes and anachronistic weapons A Dieselpunk design could be something something that's more like a bulky walking tank with a casemate/chasis as the body and a tank turret as a head. Could use WW2 tank or plane kits as a basis. Zee-rust (the idea of making something 'futuristic' looking in a way that makes it now looks outdated) or retro-scifi e.g. that sort of bulky, unsophisticated, industrial design yet still somewhat sleek design of classic sci-fi ships like Alien or 2001, or maybe a more sleek yet odd style something like the sci-fi art of Chris Foss for a slightly otherwordly Atompunk, maybe something soviet cosmonaut inspired Etc. Quite a few different themes that could contrast nicely with using modern soldiers/equipment for the other side of the diorama. I've thought about doing something similar to that Diorama idea a few times before, although my idea was with a 3D-Printed Combine Strider from Half Life 2! Edit: Did miss what you said a few posts above, woops!

Nice work! That kit looks pretty good for such a low price, I didn't expect there to be anything based on Avatar either! Where did you get it from?

Sounds like a good idea. I've not seen much of classic Doctor Who, I quite like how no-one in that video has any sense of urgency about there being a living gargoyle! It's just handled so casually!

Any particular reason for that one? Having a look at Amazon it shows it as £26 + £5 postage, there are quite a few cheaper options for a first kit!

It's been a while since i've built any (probably about 15 years ago), but it's something I'm hoping to get back into at some point. What specific kit did you go for? There's quite a few different types and quality levels and such, whatever you went for though it'll be a colored plastic snap-fit thing (they're more like action figures, they're pose-able), although obviously you can paint it yourself. I'm also curious as to where from, some stuff can be a bit difficulty or overly expensive to get here unless you import it from Japan!

Very nice work! I managed to get the Zaku one of these, hadn't considered doing something like this with it! My brother went to Japan a few weeks back so that's where I got mine, but before he went I had a look at Rakuten to see what sort of thing was available in the Gacha section, there were some there for reasonable prices although I have no idea about shipping.

Didn't realize the AT-AT was inaccurate too, what sort of problem though? I've had a quick look and I can't see anything glaringly wrong with it.

Was anything actually said about that, or did they just disappear? I remember seeing the AT-AT and a AT-ST (that had some issues) but nothing after that.

Closest thing I can think of is the "Complete Vehicles" book, which is art of ships/vehicles but more of a cutaway thing showing the internals of them.

Well, that's definitely not what I was expecting! I thought it would be some sort of walking-tank that just had similarities to a crab...not an actual crab with tank parts!

My brother is going to Japan next month, so I'm hoping he'll be able to get me some sort of Bandai Star Wars kit while there, preferably the smaller scale vehicle or starship ones. I know that Revell have released the Bandai 1/72 TIE/X-Wing/AT-AT/AT-ST/Snowspeeder here, and will soon be releasing the B-Wing and the double pack with the Death Star + Imperial Star Destroyer, so there isn't much reason to see if he can get those. The expensive Millennium Falcon I don't have an interest in. I'd really like the Blockade Runner and the Super Star destroyer, but I have no idea of those would be the best choice...I'm interested in pretty much all of the 1/72 ships and the smaller scale stuff (except Sequel trilogy stuff), really! What kits would be the more worthwhile/economical to pickup there if possible?

£50? Wow...why is it almost double the price of the other kits?

I'm very surprised to see that the Star Wars kits are so limited. Nothing new from Revell specifically, and the Bandai kits, while awesome, seem very lacking considering what's available. Out of the ones that aren't available - Speeder Bike, A-wing, TIE Interceptor, TIE Advanced x1, TIE Striker, Y-wing, Combat Assault Tank, U-wing, Rebel Blockade Runner, Super Star Destroyer etc - so many kits in the smaller and larger scales, they only release the B-wing, Death Star 2 & Star Destroyer? That's so disappointing.

Only the Death Star and Imperial Star Destroyer? They haven't released the other small scale kits have they? The Tantive IV, Super Star Destroyer, Jedi Star Fighter etc... seems a bit odd if that's the case.

I suppose it depends on what sort of size you want. 1/144 or 1/220 scale buildings could work, but it would be fairly big if you wanted it to be somewhat of an actual city. It could work better if you could find some form of model cityscape instead. Something like these 1/2500 cityscapes, which seem fairly modular: https://www.hlj.com/1-2500-scale-geocraper-extension-unit-006-city-tunnel-ntk06004 https://www.hlj.com/1-2500-scale-geocraper-basic-unit-low-rise-building-ntk06049 There's a variety of different ones - Skyscrapers, landmarks and even a Castle. The actual movement part shouldn't be too difficult, you could just use 1/72 or 1/100 scale tanks or vehicles.