Recent content by thorst

Thanks for the comparisons! What about accuracy? I read that the Revell one got some details on the outer shell of the engines wrong (iirc, some rather large boxes on the cylindrical part)? How do both kits compare here? Has someone made or seen a detailed comparison of one of the kits to...

Agreed. The B-Wing was at about 60€ here but it was hardly available at all. Well we will see. I am looking forward for new kits, but these will not find their way into my stash. Hopefully it is not a miscalculation on their part.

If that is what "targeting the younger market" means we shouldn't be surprised that young people rather do something else with their money... And I don't understand why people keep complaining about the price for the Bandai kits. In Germany we didn't have an official way to get them for a very...

Can't believe a company thinks that customers will be happy with those kits in 2021... almost feels like an offense tbh.

Wow that's a big difference to Germany then. Even the crappy Revell kits are available in less and less places (which were essentially the only kits you could get for the past 15 years, apart from ordering from the internet or hobby shops, with the exception of a handful of Italeri items). Most...

Wait, are Round2-kits sold in places like Walmart in the US?

... and I doubt that there is a market for completely out-dated small-ish X-wings, AT-ATs and B-Wings given that we now got far superior kits of those subjects in true collector scales. They would need to be really cheap to make someone choose the old AMT X-Wing over the Bandai one (which is...

I'm still in team Bandai... even if their kits were small, at least they were new and of wonderful quality. I doubt that any other manufacturer will do better than that. If Round2 makes something good I will of course buy it, but until then I hope Bandai just continues. I would like to have...

We just need to wait and see what that Razor Crest will be like. I have mild hopes for something usable, but I won't buy a kit again knowing that I have to do more modifications on the kit parts than what I had to clean up 3D prints. I haven't finished a plastic model since I bought my first...

Well having Revell wasn't exactly a win in the past. They make toys, not models. Bandai and Fine Molds, to a degree, made what I call model kits. Giving Revell the exclusive license here in Germany is a waste, IMO. I hope the Razor Crest will not be such a disappointment as the other...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Round2, even if some of their kits are really nice, they haven't really produced lots of new kits quickly, have they? So maybe at a pace of 2 kits/year per theme at max? I still think we are really spoiled from Bandai's initial releases which came out in just...

I hope Bandai continues. I have zero interest in repops of old and inaccurate kits. Let's see what new stuff they produce. In the best case, there might be a competition between R2 and Bandai in terms of accuracy and subjects. Let's hope for the best.

Does this mean that Bandai is out? :oops:

I've had failing prints after pausing due to air bubbles forming between the support struts, which were then caught between the build plate and the VAT in between the supports. I feel with the more modern printers with reliable leveling mechanisms, the risk of a failed print is higher after...

I could imagine that while you opened the printer for refilling, the layer of liquid resin on the part was cured partially by ambient light and destroyed some of the detail. Was (indirect) sunlight falling on the model while you had the printer open? After one of my first prints with the Mono X...