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OOooooo! It's tempting, but I'm already building the Routemaster and I may get scalped by Commander in Chief House if I start another partwork! As usual, I'm having trouble finding the weekly cost and amount of issues! 

 

Steve

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Steve, @fightersweep the X-wing is:-

£0.99 issue 1, £4.99 issue 2. Kit will be complete in a hundred issues. By my workings the model will cost £1004.98. Click the link in the original post and scroll to the bottom to the FAQ's, you'll find the price there. If you go for the hanger extras you can tag on another £100. BUT you do get a 'free' 200mm / 8" Boba fett figure!

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Thanks Phoenix! Ah! So it will be £4.99 for each consecutive issue then. The Routemaster was £1.99 for issue one, £4.99 for issue two then every other issue was £8.99. Mind you, it is one impressive lump so far. Very tempted by the X-Wing, and maybe a subscription this time as some of the extras look good. Even the poster looks nice and would be great framed. Tempted, tempted...yet certain death for me if I do! 🙂

 

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Hi Steve, nearly right, similar to my maths! cost of the kit only will be £985.00.

Issue 1 £0.99, Issue 2 £4.99 Issues 3-100 £9.99 each. Hanger scene will cost a further £1.00 per issue.

Hope the kit is clip together, it's ABS plastic, so 'normal glue' won't touch it and super glue is iffy, epoxy would seem the way to go.

One suggestion, wait a few months and see who makes it, think you'll find the complete kit will be cheaper than the part work.

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Wow! That's going to be more expensive than the Routemaster per week, and that has a lot of very chunky metal parts. It weighs a ton! I am inclined to agree with you. Wait until it's available complete from Model Space or someone like that. Far cheaper that way. 

 

Steve

 

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10 hours ago, PhoenixII said:

 

Hope the kit is clip together, it's ABS plastic, so 'normal glue' won't touch it and super glue is iffy, epoxy would seem the way to go.

 

These part work kits are more in the tradition of model engineering and to very fine tolerances too, therefore very little glue is required. They are no more snap together than a 'normal' styrene kit is, it is just a different construction method and mind set is required to build them, and they do require building.

 

The DeAg MF required the builder to construct (bolt together) a complex 850 x 850 x 100mm sized metal sub-frame to build the rest of the model from. The 100s of detailing 'greeblies'  that were required to be located the outer hull were adhered by CA with no problem.

 

Tommo.

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See what your saying @The Tomohawk Kid but according to the DeAGOSTINI web site the MF is 'metal and resin' which we know are simple to bond with superglue. Their advert, your link, states the X-wing is ABS, same stuff many automotive body panels are made from, same stuff your home phone is made from, and it don't stick! It can be 'welded', a very specialised technique, but I can see any joints/seams failing in fairly short order, unless DeAGOSTINI know something we mere mortals don't, and will they share?!!

Paul

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46 minutes ago, PhoenixII said:

See what your saying @The Tomohawk Kid but according to the DeAGOSTINI web site the MF is 'metal and resin' which we know are simple to bond with superglue. Their advert, your link, states the X-wing is ABS, same stuff many automotive body panels are made from, same stuff your home phone is made from, and it don't stick! It can be 'welded', a very specialised technique, but I can see any joints/seams failing in fairly short order, unless DeAGOSTINI know something we mere mortals don't, and will they share?!!

Paul

 

The De Ag MF is a truly engineered kit/model and the way it goes together there are no visible seams where there shouldn't be. As I said in my OP to you, it is a 90% mechanically/coach fitted replica (hence the metal sub frame) and  the "greeblies" are the only parts fixed with CA - given these have zero stress points and they are a snug fit in the first place, I can't see why they won't last a life time.

 

Tommo.

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, PhoenixII said:

it don't stick! It can be 'welded', a very specialised technique

Hi Paul,

This is the stuff you need

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLASTIC-WELD-PPC-Plastic-Weld-50ml/113114714203?hash=item1a5629905b:g:9oQAAOSwA3dYlhdf

Or it should be available in your local model shop.

As to it being a specialised technique it's just like using any liquid adhesive which is applied by brush. I use Plastic Weld all the time.

Cheers,

Ian

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