Urashiman

I will make more possible guesses for 2024: 1/72 YF-21 with super pack and fold booster 1/72 Max Q-Rau 1/72 Ghost X-9

I looked up the kanjis. So, it has the stand, and the parts for the landing gear included. Nothing to worry about. machine translation is still bad when it comes to Japanese as much is read through context.

oh ... well, that doesn't make much sense. @TMBounty_Hunteroh nice! Might want to get one.

Ah okay - then I misread that. My Japanese is a bit rusty. In the description it says something weird. Reading in context it says a stand is in the kit because the gear is "parked", meaning in the gear bay. Maybe ... I am not sure. Do we have someone around that can try translate that properly?

Oh nice - with a stand! If I get this right, this YF-19 can only be build with gears up? I hope this will be a regular release and not a limited edition release or something.

So many great builds everyone! I cannot comment on them all. here is what I had on the workbench yesterday. My brother wanted a 3D printed Zelda from the newest instalment for his fiancée. I printed it in two sizes. He takes the bigger one. My wife wants to paint the small one and gift it to a friend of us. Lots of sanding and puttying.

Yeah! the other threads never went this far 😮 MKI - 36 pages MKII - 31 pages MKIII - 44 pages

yeah, it looks a bit more detailed compared to the hasegawa one at first. And no - no double build planned. I have to finish some other kits first haha.

Ah yeah, forgot I wanted to do this:

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The hobby boss one? That looks like an awesome kit!

Hey! good job! Panel lines are a PITA. How do you carve them? I manually cut them by hand in 3DS Max.

haha - yeah. That is an issue as well. Atm I have no display space at all. So my finished kits are in the boxes right next to the stash of unbuild kits. There will be some space in the future though. Need to get that wall fixed first.

oh man ... I knew the box will be huge, but ... it is frikken huge :S Here - a comparision to a "normal box". A VF-1A/J/S kit. It will rest now in my stash for all eternity - until I have some time to touch it, together with all the other kits I have. I feel like a small sized hobby shop already. The only bigger box I have is the 1/48 VF-1 Strike/Super Valk. I am running out of space, so I hope there will be no awesome new kits until I can finish some.

Do you post in the starship modeller group on FB as well? I remember seeing a similar build there.

oh wow! this is awesome!

thanks alot @Thom & @MechTech! it is a journey to get this thing done. Next I will focus a bit on the RC innards to make it actually RC. I was waiting for another battery box. The 2x2AA box was to big and bad for balance, so I got two 2AA boxes which I can place in the hull left and right next to the electric engine. This was I get a good balance and the ship won't be able to tip over due to the lower center of gravity. Or at least, in case it tips over, it will turn around itself again. So is the theory...

I already saw pictures of the box online. It is super huge. Anyone got John Moscatos Quedluun Rau to compare? I have the Imai one in my basement and will take some pictures as soon as the huge Hasegawa thing is in my hands.

#$%&!? I kid you not ... almost every second piece on the cruiser I build looks like this. I truly believe the REVELL skill level is based on the mark the mold maker got during their mold making exam or something. This cruiser is set as "Skill level 5". Meaning they got a 5 for delivering something but being really bad at it. In the US that would be like an F on your exam. Anyway... ... you can get something decent from it, I think. I am constantly reminded why I am not doing REVELL kits anymore.

Well, it is a really old kit. So maybe that is the reason. The plasto stuff ist sticking though.

Oh man ... I love milliput and I have used it on many kits, but not on Revell ones yet. I puttied like crazy and got this. Then when sanding, the effing stuff just came off! It didn't stick! This never happened before. I am confused. The interesting part? It was sticking to the hull without issue. So ... I had to use Revell Plasto again. Needs to dry now for a bit before I am going to sand this again...

got my notice as well. Send for shipping now, will be in my hands in 4-6 days

And now for something completely different. Build a RC boat out of a 1:72 revell kit? Possible - but it is still a revell kit. The stockholm syndrom of any model kit builder. So, what am I building? A rescue cruiser with the name "Berlin". This kit first popped up in 1988 and it shows. https://www.scalemates.com/de/kits/revell-5226-seenotkreuzer-berlin--120489 One thing I really recommend to anyone touching revell kits: if the mold was made prior to the year 2000, don't touch it. Unless you like putty and sanding like crazy. And well - there is a reason Revell doesn't distribute this kit anymore. Gaps ... Gaps everywhere! I mean, looking at it from far away is okay. It looks nice and so on. Ah yeah, and here a floating test, just to check if all the RC components are not too heavy.

Nice build! And welcome to the forums!

I'll add some panel lines later with Tamiya Panel line stuff haha.