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    Yeah, but I'd settle for the 1/3000 Matchbox TV version.
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    There is that! And you're welcome, of course! Speaking of which:
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    (*sniff*)pengbuzzwantsdf-1(*sniff*)
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    Thanks, but the wing joint completely shattered this morning: However, I have no intention of tossing it all in the garbage; my comment about "smashing it" was in relation top the fact that I do not want to simply glue the wings into place. My plan now is to completely rebuild the pivot, and then re-mount the S-foils to it. It will require drilling into the wing-engine mount and removing a slight bit of detail to fasten it securely in, but I'll use the opportunity to correct some inaccuracies on the inner engine detail that I missed prior. WARNING TO FELLOW MODELLERS: On the MPC/Ertl SW kits (1979 originals -2008 reissues), the plastic can be quite soft. If you have any kits that have major weight-bearing components made of this, do not use those kit parts. Instead, use them as a guide to build your own parts from heavier plastics (such as ABS, which I plan on using). Save yourselves some considerable grief.
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    Thanks folks, but I'm not that blasted clever: I had a MAJOR setback tonight on the X-Wing: The area right next to the pivot for the wings is very flimsy; one thin layer of plastic attaching at two points is all that holds the wings to the pivot roundels. Even reinforcing with Plastic Welder leaves them too flexible for my tastes. And I had gone through great pains to try to ensure any sort of weaknesses would be addressed before I sealed the main body up. So instead, I had to cut along panel lines and break open the work I did sealing the main pin into the extra walls I had built. I truly hope that the wings firm up with addition of more plastic welder; at 10 bucks a tube, that's my modelling budget for the month right there! Redesigning/ rebuilding the pivot and wing attachments would be a howling nightmare, and "just gluing them into place"... ...I would just as soon smash the thing to bits with a hammer. Anyways, more to come...
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    UPDATE: how to make a Sith Lord- Primary body-shaping: Making Darth Vader's mask: Addition of face, arms and front view so far: TIE Advanced X-1 Cockpit test fit: Final refinements, chair building and paint: Front view without and with camera flash: As of right now, Vader has been installed int eh cockpit of his TIE Advanced. Pics to come very soon... Stay tuned...
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    ROFL!!!!
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    Well, their overall handling of it is pretty much the same: 2 inches from the ground.
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    With what we know of the series from just the last season, flying it into the ground would have been a matter of a couple of inches...
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    Same goes for your cockpit, Thom! Coming along very nicely!
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    Thanks; I just need to keep working on the outer hull until it meets my expectations. Last night, I went and re-scribed the panel lines on the fighter, and ended up adding about 20% more that were missing (per the blueprints and screenshots): At the front end of the canopy (where it meets the main body), I found they messed up and moved detail a little further down, throwing off the look of the entire thing. So, I re-scribed the canopy-parting line: Before After The blue magic marker is temporary (so I can see what I'm doing on the clear plastic); a new panel line is inscribed, I just have to hit it with paint. The new replacement laser tips on the S-foils: Small, wire-nails that I clipped the heads off of, drilled a hole into the remaining laser tip/ flashback suppressor head and glued into place with plastic welder. As a testament to their durability, I accidentally dropped a roll of masking tape and it hit the entire laser cannon dead-on, only to find they were perfectly fine. The old ones would have left me with a shattered barrel and dust for the tips. On another note, I got some detailing one with rust on the fighter: At this point, I'm also working on R2-D2, but I'll go into that in more detail in a future post very soon. Stay tuned... and pick up your visual scanning folks!
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    Thanks for unpacking that for me; sometimes I can end up seeing malice where there isn't any.
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    ROFL!!! Nice to be loved!
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    I have a gut feeling that this was in some way "put on", so that their Kickstarter would look like a "success." Low backer numbers but a high pledge price? That comes across to me as their possibly having friends of theirs "shill" this as to accomplish the stated goal. Anyways... probably wrong about this, but it looks fishy.
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    Thanks: I really couldn't get over how that pilot looked. As it stands, I forgot to post my progress lately, so we'll take it in a few chunks:- 1) I redid the barrels on the laser cannons, as I recall a sneeze could snap the plastic on them! Wooden dowels, which are then covered with masking tape. serve as the new barrel, with the old tip glued into place: 2) Now, the X-wing before painting: 3) Also have Darth Vader's TIE Advanced (it just needs a Darth Vader figure, as it was missing it when I rescued it from the thrift store)...thinking of a possible diorama when the X-Wing is finished: 4) Painted up (missing R2 at the moment): I know: the paint job sucks; I'll be working to refine and fix it. I still need to do post-shading,m panel lines, panel lightening and a whole bunch of other stuff. Stay tuned...
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    So then, maybe we should start calling it Tarbrush Coffee instead of Starbucks? Either way, only 1/3 of Robotech is any good (the first 3rd ); they can throw the rest in with the charred mud for all I care.
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    There goes their Starbucks money for the month...
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    TBH: more stuff that I could either care less about, or priced so high that I could sell all my vital organs and still need 12 other bodies' worth just to make the down payment.
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    The only thing you're giving me is a migraine. Brofessor, you are impossible to underestimate... Educated well beyond your intellect, sir? Please, do receive my most sincere indifference.
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    Thanks guys! I worked very hard to get it that way! lol Seriously though, it's good to know that Luke passes muster with the gang here! Just need to dirty his helmet up a bit, then get the canopy on. I decided against putting in the horrifically thick glass in the rear windows of the cockpit and instead used acetate for that task. Meantime, I photocopied decals for the cockpit panels and glued them onto the control panel areas in there. So now the cockpit is glued into place along with the pilot. Hopefully, this looks more convincing than Ertl's "suggestion" (*cringe*) : Stay tuned...we're moving on to wings 'n things...
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    VERY nice super-detailing with the copper wire, silver wire and some bits and sprue! This is one reason I come to the workshop: every time I think of just "doing it OOB", I get my rear-end kicked by folks doing this stuff and I have to up my game! Speaking of which: The difference some bits of plastic, tape and paint can make...
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    Really looking the part of a Federation Starship there! I love the pre-shading/ post-shading you did on her; it gives your Excelsior that slightly worn "military" look. 👍 I'm looking forward to seeing this lady with decals applied! UPDATE: I got a good look at the wing insets on my X-Wing, and found they were wrong: (Had to borrow a pic from online, as I forgot to take one before I worked on them!) Here's how they're supposed to look (from MR Replica's photos of the actual screen-used Red-3 filming model): So... I fixed that: The openings were the wrong size, shape and position, so I simply used parts that I removed to fill in the opposite side, and then added styrene to fill in the rest. A little rescribing of panel lines later and we have progress. Still some remedial sanding to do, but it shouldn't be too bad. Stay tuned...
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