Madmonk

Cracking build Gromet!

With the exception of 7 kits that Revell have brought in you can only get these kits from Japan. Production has been hit by Covid-19 as has distribution so some are becoming difficult to get hold of at a reasonable price. Buying from Japan is safe enough, though you may have to factor in any import duties if your parcel is valued above the threshold by the sender.

There is a WIP thread on here that might help you decide. Cheers,

Having just recently finished watching Tales from the Loop on Prime, that wouldn't look out of place in that show. Lovely build.

These are on Fleabay but come from the US so is almost £12! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-1400-Acreation-aztec-decals-for-AMT-enterprise-E-model-kit-star-trek/184343740994?hash=item2aebbe4242:g:1wUAAOSwQWxbFqLR

Lovely build, it's great to see cars from the era when aerodynamics were as simple as 'lets just bolt a huge wing on the back'!

Unfortunately not Ben, though it does come with all the bits for the chrome version, including the not so convincing wire wheels! Thanks for all the comments guys. Wish someone did a 1/24 Spitfire 1500 so I could have a model of the one sat in the garage!😩

Another car finished this year! This is the Aoshima 1/24 scale kit picked up from LMS near work. Nice kit, simple to build as it's kerbside, used Vallejo Model Air paints and Alclad Aquagloss with a bit of bare metal foil for the screen and side detail. Thanks for looking

I've got an Anycubic Photon.

Thanks Alpha, must be my browser.

Thanks M. Yes, it had a couple of coats of Vallejo Model Air white, then a coat of Alclad AquaGloss then decals and then 3 coats of AquaGloss and a polish with AutoGlym resin polish.

I saw this kit at a model show last year, think I got it from Tiger Models. It was a manufacturer I had not seen before, Hobby NuNu, liked the scheme so bought it. As a kit its very good, lacks some of the finesse that you get from the likes of Tamiya, no PE, no window masks but it is nicely moulded and the decals were a dream to work with, particularly using MG AMMO decal fix and decal set for the first time, all the yellow and grey are decals. Anyway on to the finished build, couple of glaring mistakes, I didn't account for the thickness of the side windows when adding the yellow and grey strip along the top of the doors and now they are hidden under the clear part, also forgot to add the rear view mirror, but then again it is a BMW! 😝 As is my want, I did add a couple of LEDs to the headlights just to give a bit of life to it. Comments always welcome. Cheers, Edit, anyone know why I get such a large blank section at the end of my posts or is it just my browser?

File is here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4088803 Also mando on a Blurrg https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4347533

The adhesion promoter is a must on the plastic. I used a hot glue gun when I started mine, I have the Randy Cooper resin upgrade set so a lot of cutting and carving to start with. If I remember correctly CA (superglue) works okay too.

I have a 3D Resin Printer and the resolution will go down to .02mm layers (50/mm) the main issue with the home printers at the moment is build size, 155 x 65 x 115mm with my Photon. Clean up on them is minimal once the supports are removed and in most cases there is little prep after that. I tend to print at 0.5mm layers and in some cases you can just make out the layers depending on the angle of the surface but a layer of primer usually sorts it out. Some of the bits I've printed. Files can be found in numerous places, some are free others you pay for.

Been playing with my 3D printer again!! This time I found a 3D file on Thingiverse of the Scutter from Red Dwarf. I chopped it up to make printing a 1/12 scale version easier to print. The 5 parts took a total of 7 hours to print with a resolution of 0.05mm per layer. The rear of the base plate has warped slightly as it cured but not enough to warrant another 3 hour print! Cheers,

Only resin kits of the TIE Bomber as far as I know. The defender has been done by a couple of table top games companies but small scale. There are a few 3d file sets out there if you have access to a 3d printer.

Maybe he really wanted to be a X-Wing pilot! 😂

-The latest version has the dish solid but the rest is a clear part. Opening the windows is a real pain in the butt and the impulse engines need opening up as well if you want to light those. Its not the most challenging of kits if you don't light it up, though the paint scheme looks like it will take a fair bit of masking!

Thanks. The lighting is done with LEDs, no fibre optics. The kit comes with all the holes pre drilled (or moulded) there are white plastic parts inside to help diffuse the light. Cheers,

For those that missed the Feb 2016, yes 4 years ago, Dragon venture into SW kits this is what was posted on their FB page. 1/144 Falcon 1/35 AT-AT 1/35 AT-ST and yes the legs are extended, though not wrong for the ESB version Also 1/35 Snowspeeder with all sorts of issues. The falcon was expected to be priced at about $85 which made it about twice the price of Bandai's offering. As for other plastic kits, the licencing has a lot to do with it, very costly no doubt. Bandai produce for the Japanese market so large kits like a 1/350 scale N-B Frigate at 900mm long aren't on their radar as the size would be too big for a normal Japanese household. As they can't officially ship to Europe (except for the 7 kits Revell sell) why would they cater for it. 3D printing may be the way forward, this is an E-wing taken from Thingiverse and printed at 1/1144 scale. Cheers,

Just gotta love this resin printer! Salacious Crumb from a free file off Thingiverse, print is about 10 cm tall and took 7 hours to print, still needs a little bit of cleaning up. Cheers,

It makes you wonder if there is anything new in the offing! No new models from the new movie, just reworked existing kits of the X-wing and MF, even the figures are existing with new bits added. The only totally new one is merchandising bot D-0 and that's so small they had to box it with BB-8! Just a thought.

Nice idea Pete, but as LEDs are my thing......

As a bit of fun I thought I would put a bit of a dio together using one of Bandai's excellent ESB 1/350 scale kits and a few 3D printed TIE Fighters Started by making some asteroids using foil and Super Sculpty (pinched from my daughter's stash!) Then baked for 15 mins! Also worked on the Falcon and TIE Fighters. Now to paint up the asteroids. I've bought a 50mm deep box frame to mount it all, just need to decide if I want to put some fibre guides and LEDs in the background as a star scape! Cheers for now.