Recent content by DoktorDismal

Perhaps I'm the odd one out here, but I use lacquer primers on my Bandai models all the time without problems. As long as you don’t let lacquer or enamel products pool in the cracks between parts, you should be OK. A light coat of lacquer thinner does no harm at all. I use mostly lacquer paints...

And it looks like the kit includes an in-scale Blockade Runner and a Millennium Falcon. Very nice.

I can vouch for the RG range. The engineering is miles ahead of other companies. Some of the finished models are extremely fragile, and will fall apart if you look at them wrong, but that’s easy to fix with a drop of glue. They’re a real education to build, though. The later ones, like the...

Isn’t that the lighting set from the PG Millennium Falcon? I forget how many LEDs it has, but that one looks kind of familiar.

The sprue shot looks interesting. Obviously it’s designed to break into two smaller sprues, A1 and A2, but they look like they would be the wrong shape to fit in a standard Vehicle Collection box. Bandai have started putting some of their Mecha Colle kits from Yamato 2202 in larger boxes...

FWIW, I live in the UK and I was able to order one. Free shipping, too. I have had a confirmation email from Bluefin, but I guess that the real test will be whether they actually ship it. Of course, by the time it's spent four weeks crossing the Atlantic and another two in UK customs, the...