TheVoidDragon

It's a nice design overall, but i don't think it looks quite Star-Wars enough in its current state. The weapons in Star Wars tend to have a more simplistic, somewhat inefficient and outdated look to them - the extra detail on the handle and the barrel gives it a bit more of a futuristic sci-fi feel, i think.

That's the problem, really. It's fine that they'd make these more toy-like kits, something to get people started in the hobby at a more basic level, but there's not really anything for anyone other than those beginners/younger people. Halo and Star Wars are two unique properties that as far as i know they're the only ones with rights to make model kits for (or at least the only other real option is to Import Bandai kits), so to have them focus on making toys in franchises that are very popular with adults as well seems a bit silly. These Toy-like kits can help get someone started but then there's nowhere for them to really go after that, there needs to be proper full model kits for Halo and the new Star Wars movies as well as those.

Considering all the photobucket links no longer work i wasn't sure how bad these would be...having found the pics it's astonishing how something so iconic and well-recognized as the AT-ST could end up with such a high quality yet entirely innaccurate model. Not quite sure what the problem with the AT-AT is other than the dimensions, though.

Only just found out about these, has there been any more news about them? Been nearly a year since the last reply here but i've not been able to find anything about them that's recent.

With the alternate-history interpretations of Star Wars Characters that bandai have done (E.g. The samurai Stormtrooper and Ronin Boba Fett), there seems to be huge price differences between them. On Ebay they seem to be around £20 + postage, but at at least 2 retailer sites they've been a lot more - one for £60 with £80 RRP, other £80. I'm assuming the £80 is the more correct price and the cheaper ones will probably be fakes?

That really is a shame then, the Bandai kits aren't even available officially here so Revell are the only real choice unless that doesn't involve going out of your way to get the Bandai kits. If they were just the easy-kits that wouldn't be so bad as they'd at least still be a type of model kit, but the addition of lights and sounds changes them from just that into something designed as a toy primarily. I was hoping it would only be a temporary thing and they'd release some more typical kits later, but considering The Force Awakens, Rogue One and now the Last Jedi haven't really had any new non-toy kits, i doubt that'll happen anytime soon.

Have they actually shifted their focus? I know a lot of their recent kits for things like Star Wars and Halo are Snap-tite/build and play stuff (Rogue One didn't even get a model kit release outside of a Y-wing, something that isn't really part of Rogue One), but haven't they released a few of the smaller box kits recently? The Jedi Starfighters, Republic Gunship, Sith Infiltrator Etc. I'm not sure if they're an exception to the norm or something...The Last Jedi doesn't even seem to have any actual model kits from them, just the toy-like stuff.

Yeah, customs is a bit of a concern. Would rather order from the UK if possible but most places seem to either be in Japan or have extremely high postage costs slapped ontop of what would otherwise be a reasonable price. Looking at some of the threads about these from a while back, it seems the Y-wing used to be quite a bit cheaper than that!

This is something i've seen with quite a lot of their recent kits, especially the Star Wars stuff. Several 'models' that i've seen and thought would be interesting before realizing it's Snap-tite/Build & play.. If these were just something available as well as a more conventional model kit, that wouldn't be a problem, but they aren't...it's so disappointing to have a model company getting these unique sci-fi properties and then making what seems more like toys.

Thanks, didn't think of checking Scalemates! Wow, there's a lot more than i thought there were. Is around £25 - 30 the average sort of price for the 1/72 scale ships (or like the 1/48 AT-ST)? I've seen prices vary quite a bit but they seem to usually be around that price at the cheapest from what i've found.

Is there a list of all the kits that are or were available? Bandai's site doesn't seem to include them all, unless i've just missed them.

I've not really been about to find much about it, but does anyone know what the most accurate colours for painting the Revell TIE fighters would be? The primary colours they recommend for the chasis are 76 (light grey) and 79 (blueish grey), but I'm not entirely sure if those are accurate colours or just a case of them just going for something that seems sort of right.

A few years ago i bought some Citadel Imperial Primer but never really got around to trying to properly use it until recently, and i'm having problems with it. It's really thin, watery and full of bubbles, can even hear them crackling when the brush is put in. The first time i tried undercoating the model i'm working on, one side of it ended up all just pooling together, while the other side of the model at least had the paint stick but ended up full of brush marks and general lack of good coverage and comes off easily. Tried washing the model in warm soapy water beforehand (twice now) to see if that helps but there's still basically no consistency to it with it seeming to do pretty much nothing noticeable when i try to paint it on as an undercoat. It's a Lindberg ME-163 Komet i'm trying it on, so i don't know if the Imperial Primer is the problem, if I'm just doing something wrong, or it's something to do with the kit itself (which is pretty poor quality i think). Looking around I've not really found anything that helps with the problem, is anyone able to help at all?

What do you mean by Dragon won't reissue kits? Some of the things i was interested in are by Dragon.

The part could have very easily been packed into an envelope, it didn't need a box or anything like that. If the cost had been say 50p i could understand somewhat and wouldn't have had much of an issue with that, but £3/£2 for a very, very small part of a £6 kit just seemed a bit absurd to me. It was more the principle of it than anything else, i suppose.

I have a 1/76 Churchill that is missing the suspension spring. I part built it and because of that, i'm unable to finish it - I know i should check kits before starting but i'd had this for a while (around 10 years but never opened it until recently), so not sure what happened to that part, really. A while back i sent an email to Airfix after finding out they had a way to request replacement parts, and had read numerous posts from others about these parts being free. They replied quickly, and then asked me to tell them which kit it was...which i had already done. Then they said they wanted £3 for the part, and when i told them that it was ridiculous to ask for £3 for a very small piece of a £6 kit, they said they really meant £2. I decided it wasn't worth that. On the other hand, a while back I'd made a mistake with a Revell Jadgpanther and glued the wheels on backwards (no idea how) - i asked Revell for a replacement for the entire lower half of the chasis, obviously not really expecting it but figured it was worth a try...a short while later half the kit showed up, for free, from Germany, with no postage costs from me needed. I was a bit surprised that Revell would do that, even though i'd told them it was my fault it was like that, while Airfix wouldn't help without money. Did i just get unlucky or is that how their customer service usually is? It seems they don't even have the Churchill on their site anymore so i'm not sure if i could try again, so i'm just curious if other people have had similar experiences. I'd read a lot of posts about people being sent replacement parts for free so was a bit disappointed, really. I still have a 1/76 Airfix Churchill that i can't complete and i have no idea what to do about it. Has anyone got any suggestions?

It's not so much that i don't want to get something £20+ it's just that i don't have the money at the moment to be able to afford a high-quality cutter, and all the other stuff i need like specific paints, as well as get some the kits i want.

That's what i don't want to be doing, really. Would rather buy a relatively good pair the first time rather than having to keep replacing them. I know for that budget i'm not going to get something of amazing quality, but looking at some of the posts here though it seems like at this sort of price there might not really be enough of a difference between them to go for any in particular. I'd prefer not to order from abroad if possible but the Xuron Micro-shears are something i've looked at, but i wasn't able to find any reviews for the specific one i was considering, just for the higher-priced stuff.

I don't have any cutters at all currently, at the moment i'm just using a generic hobby knife to remove parts from the sprue, so the cutter would just be to speed things up and make it a bit easier but would like something that isn't just the cheapest thing possible.

I've only recently starting thinking about actually getting some specific kits, and browsing the henkofholland site there is quite a large amount of things from various manufactures that I'd like, but it seems none of them are available and i've been unable to find any of them pre-owned either. I'm hoping some of the things i'm after come back at some point, but i have no idea how long things are usually out of production for. Is there any way to see when something was last available?

I've been after a sprue or flush cutter for a while, with a budget of around £10, but so far i've not really been able to find anything that's really been recommended. I've seen Xuron stuff mentioned quite a bit but most of the time that's their higher-end tools, and i've not really been able to find any specific reviews for the ones in my price range. Quite a few of the reviews i've came across have been a bit outdated as well. Has anyone got any recommendations for a sprue or flush cutter for that sort of price? Or does it not really matter what i get?

I've been thinking about getting the complete set of the Revell Star Wars ships - the ones that are actual full kits, not the snap/easykit or the pocket versions, the boxed kit that need both painting and gluing. I have a few of them which i haven't built yet, but i've realized that all the kits are entirely different scales. From the ones i have, there's a Tie fighter that's 1:110, Vader's Tie fighter that's 1:121 and the Snowspeeder that's 1:52. The other kits i don't have yet - the Naboo Starfighter, ARC-170, Tie Interceptor, Millennium Falcon, X-wing and Boba Fett's Slave one, are all all completely different scales from each other as well. So because of the wildly varying scales, I'm wondering just how they'd all look together when built and painted. I've been unable to find any photos of them next to each other so far though. Does anyone know of any photos with those varying kits together so they can be compared?