Ex-Aurora Sealab kit

[RealDaveWinter]

For those wondering, I've spoken to Steve at Doll & Hobby; their "re-issue" (from new all tooling) of the Sealab kit has been pushed out until sometime in 2024. Still no word on how exact of a match it will be to the original, but I'm not sure they're including 'people using it for Millennium Falcon parts' as their primary market.

Anyway, hope that news is useful for someone.

 

[jcoffman99]

Ugh. This one kit is keeping me from finishing like four different sections.

 

[bwayne64]

Dang, I was hoping to get this for Christmas.

 

[moffeaton]

I am consulting on it. They are achingly aware of us, and I hope we will be happy with the end results.

 

[Bjorn]

Thank you Jason very much for lobbying for this. Fingers crossed!

I'd be happy if they took another year or more, so long as the size, thickness, draft, ejector pin marks and sink/shrink were as close as possible to the original.

The fact that it's styrene is nice. However, to have it match geometrically as close as possible is everything to our segment of the hobby.
Otherwise, castings of the originals will obviously continue to be the preferred go to for all of our builds.

Cheers!

 

[moffeaton]

yeah just dial in expectations.... ejector pin marks are a bit much to realistically expect, IMHO. If it helps, ILMers think that level of devotion is silly.

 

[Bjorn]

Yeah, realistically figured as much. Keen like the rest of us to see what the outcome is.

Cheers!

 

[moffeaton]

I am optimistic!

 

[darthjord]

Sealab update - Doll & Hobby GA

We get a lot of requests for updates on the Sealab. Doll & Hobby GA (my company) announced this in mid 2022. Of course, nothing ever goes as smoothly a

culttvman.com

looks like we have an update. fingers crossed for this fall.

 

[kermet]

This is great news, I was at the storage complex and noticed I have a whole box with all the kit parts or models to build a studio scale bsg been thinking on this I have so many kits in there really to much stuff and I was happy to see 3 old sea lab kits unopened I did loose about 200 or more models back in a roof collapse years ago and lost the salzo bsg smashed and they wouldn't let me get anything for a while because of insurance perp I am at a whole new storage place now. can't wait to see these kits come out I don't know how many kits are in the big box marked bsg build but a bunch its quite a big box Thanks be watching for this

 

[bwayne64]

This is great news, I was at the storage complex and noticed I have a whole box with all the kit parts or models to build a studio scale bsg been thinking on this I have so many kits in there really to much stuff and I was happy to see 3 old sea lab kits unopened I did loose about 200 or more models back in a roof collapse years ago and lost the salzo bsg smashed and they wouldn't let me get anything for a while because of insurance perp I am at a whole new storage place now. can't wait to see these kits come out I don't know how many kits are in the big box marked bsg build but a bunch its quite a big box Thanks be watching for this

Would love to see what's in there myself,
; ) I'm only about 14 to 16 kits shy on the BSG kit list.

 

[StevenBills]

 

[RealDaveWinter]

I wonder if that explains the multiple sealab kits I've seen popup on eBay the past month.

 

[swgeek]

White? White?! I want my ugly yellow!

 

[joberg]

White? White?! I want my ugly yellow!

I'll paint it for you

 

[chazzychaz]

Damn it I want yellow............bwhahahaha

 

[eagle1]

I'm thinking seeing as it's a test shot, they used grey for now & will possibly revert to the yellow for the production kits.

 

[bwayne64]

I don't care what color it is, as long as I get one, ; )

 

[RealDaveWinter]

As the first test shot, I'd be surprised if the clear parts were even clear. You don't go through the work of polishing the tooling until you know it's going to be correct.

 

[moffeaton]

The test shot has a clear half-hull.