As for anigrand... the falcon is a scaled scan. the errors in the original were exactly duplicated.
the SD wherever they scaned that from - if they did is 1 hell of a model that I've never seen before. It doesn't have the same "tells" as a RC SD... which is where I "expected" their master to be based from...
The Mon Cal cruiser - DAMN close the Scott Spicer kit, but a little different - very little...
the rest of their kits I have not touched so I can't definitively comment on.
However the problem of digital recasting is serious for this hobby. The tech exists and is getting cheaper daily. My "hope" is that it does not kill the kit producers, rather the tech becoems cheap enough that it can be leveraged by kit producers so that the "first generations" that they make are cheaper, and faster to create - making the return a bit easier to manage... My fear is that the day where it can be leveraged by kit producers may be too far off, and/or that it may not be a significant advantage over hunting original kits down and hacking them up. But there may be a day when all of those old rare kits are scanned and the files are stored by "us" (or several of "us") and shared to create XYZ. Growing our own parts as needed for various studio scale projects. I understand that this may be a pipe dream, but hey - I'm a positive type guy If anyone is willing to start scanning I'll purchase the hard drive space to archive it all :thumbsup I'd do it gladly! I'm a decent modeler - but I'm an awesome computer geek :lol
Jedi Dade
the SD wherever they scaned that from - if they did is 1 hell of a model that I've never seen before. It doesn't have the same "tells" as a RC SD... which is where I "expected" their master to be based from...
The Mon Cal cruiser - DAMN close the Scott Spicer kit, but a little different - very little...
the rest of their kits I have not touched so I can't definitively comment on.
However the problem of digital recasting is serious for this hobby. The tech exists and is getting cheaper daily. My "hope" is that it does not kill the kit producers, rather the tech becoems cheap enough that it can be leveraged by kit producers so that the "first generations" that they make are cheaper, and faster to create - making the return a bit easier to manage... My fear is that the day where it can be leveraged by kit producers may be too far off, and/or that it may not be a significant advantage over hunting original kits down and hacking them up. But there may be a day when all of those old rare kits are scanned and the files are stored by "us" (or several of "us") and shared to create XYZ. Growing our own parts as needed for various studio scale projects. I understand that this may be a pipe dream, but hey - I'm a positive type guy If anyone is willing to start scanning I'll purchase the hard drive space to archive it all :thumbsup I'd do it gladly! I'm a decent modeler - but I'm an awesome computer geek :lol
Jedi Dade