I am beginning to feel like Charlie Brown and Bandai is Lucy holding the football.
Bandai's Mellenium Falcon is analogous to the Great Pumkin than?I think it's more accurate to say that we're both Charlie Brown AND Lucy and the football is only an invention of our collective imagination. Bandai is just off somewhere else planning kits on their own timeline.
Any products Bandai works on based on the survey will be a while down the road. I don't know how long it takes to make a model kit from the planning stage to delivery, but I assume it is a year or more.I'm not upset with Bandai, I'm fed up of the ever present "Big Announcements" and rampant speculation...
The Survey didn't help either, only makes matters worse as far as speculation goes...
And the best news is that he's 1/48th scale -- just like the Bandai A-Wing!
You'll
just get them started again!:facepalm
And the best news is that he's 1/48th scale -- just like the Bandai A-Wing!
Your museum plan sounds cool, but your making more work for your self then need be. The only person that will even know those details you plan to add to the interior and what not will be you, NO ONE else will notice them nor care who sees them. I started to detail the interior on my first Bandai TIE and I got it done for a test fit I realized you can't even see what was done anyway, so why bother? Not to knock your efforts, but it will be wasted effort and the only who will notice it or care will be you who see's it. 99.5% of the people who see the display won't care.Great plan -- we'll build a dormer onto the canopy bubble so that hyperthyroid dustmop can pilot the ship with his kneecaps!
My only gripes with their offerings thus far (apart from wanting more ships in 1:72 and more vehicles in 1:48, and none of the other junk ) is something I don't expect them to address, as it would require significant retooling... I'm iffy on the separate colored panels for the Rebel fighters. I know why they do it, but I'm planning on painting to suit -- I don't need them to make that a short cut for me. But my main one is with the Imperial Fighters. The top "hatch" is a blowaway panel for the ejection seat. The interior set shows no hinge or handle. The main entry-exit port is the rear hatch -- which on the Bandai kits is molded as part of the rear hull! Even the old MPC TIE Interceptor snap kit got that one right! *sigh* To avoid massive gaps that one would have to address, it basically means getting two kits for each one that someone wants to do with an opening rear hatch. Plus scratch-building a hinge. The other matter is with the interior -- there are supposed to be those two weird clusters of tubes that stick down from the ceiling. I can do math and scratch-build them, but I'd rather I didn't have to for every TIE ship I'm gonna build. And since I plan to have a Sienar Fleet Systems museum display, that's going to be "many". I'm hoping we get the Bomber (and thus also Shuttle and Boarding Craft), the Inquisitor's TIE from Rebels, and the TIE Defender, but the prospect of having to correct all those interiors makes me tired. :facepalm
--Jonah
The Survey didn't help either, only makes matters worse as far as speculation goes...
I want 1:1 models. Yes, I am demanding.... *sips, a bit of tea*
ok,.........1;1eh?
How about a training remote? and/or thermal detonator?
I'd buy them!