Re: Dragon making a 1/35 AT-AT
Oooh... Very interested in the 1/144s to go with my Bandai Falcon. I hope they're good! I recently got a Dragon Lunar Landing kit and, although I accept the molds are a bit older, the sprues aren't nearly as clean or sharp as the Bandais. But that's more a statement on the general superiority of the Bandais... The Lunar Landing kit still looks really good compared to other manufacturers. But with both companies doing a 1/144 Falcon, we really can compare apples with apples. I would speculate that if these are glue kits, some of the fine details like the radar dish might be molded in more pieces and more delicately than the Bandai. Surface detailing is excellent but some bits are perhaps compromised very slightly to allow them to snap together rather than glue. And if we're really lucky, Dragon sometimes put photo etch in the box
Oooh... Very interested in the 1/144s to go with my Bandai Falcon. I hope they're good! I recently got a Dragon Lunar Landing kit and, although I accept the molds are a bit older, the sprues aren't nearly as clean or sharp as the Bandais. But that's more a statement on the general superiority of the Bandais... The Lunar Landing kit still looks really good compared to other manufacturers. But with both companies doing a 1/144 Falcon, we really can compare apples with apples. I would speculate that if these are glue kits, some of the fine details like the radar dish might be molded in more pieces and more delicately than the Bandai. Surface detailing is excellent but some bits are perhaps compromised very slightly to allow them to snap together rather than glue. And if we're really lucky, Dragon sometimes put photo etch in the box