Naboo Fighter
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tobiasrichter
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Looks cool - where did you get that kit? Never heard of it before.
Tobias
Tobias
Mycroft Holmes
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*****. I grew that and had it ready for molding 2+ years ago. Terry finally gets around to kitting it. It's grown from an accurate CG file 
Hope you enjoy it. I never got my kits of it that were aprt of the pattern sale.
Mark
Hope you enjoy it. I never got my kits of it that were aprt of the pattern sale.Mark
Kuhn Global
Sr Member
Mark,.. what scale is this model?
Mycroft Holmes
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It was made to be 1/24 scale.
Less than Super Ostrich
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Found it at MiM:
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/catalog/pr...roducts_id/6273
If I hadn't pledged never to buy anything from MiM again, I'd be all over that one.
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/catalog/pr...roducts_id/6273
If I hadn't pledged never to buy anything from MiM again, I'd be all over that one.
Ive seen it on www.frontiermodels.co.uk for a while now, the price may not be cool for guys in the US due to the exchange rate, but they do carry this kit so this may be of use for anyone in Europe?
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Harry Harris
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So if ordered from the US it's 150 UK Pounds, as opposed to 250-UKP if ordered from inside the UK?.
That's quite a difference, even with possible import tax and shipping it may be cheaper for us Brits to order from the US.
Harry
That's quite a difference, even with possible import tax and shipping it may be cheaper for us Brits to order from the US.
Harry
Jestefarean
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Ive got this one...nice looking kit, but it will need some work (IMO) Looks as if they planned on adding some details and then didn't. (I say this because the pictures on the site when I bought it depicted a pilot that looked like the Naboo pilots, and more details on the nacelles, and body. WHen I got it and found those areas to be lacking. I called MIM to complain and they basically told me tough darts. Don't mean to sound that unhappy though...as I said it's a nice kit, but I had to simply decide to be willing to do the extra work to get the detail up where I felt it should be.
Mark, I didn't know you were involved in this project..maybe you can shed some light on this. The test shots used to (and I don't know if they still do) depict more panel lines, more cockpit details, a diffferent pilot, and more nacelle details. It almost seems as if MIM decided to not cast all the pieces....
Mark, I didn't know you were involved in this project..maybe you can shed some light on this. The test shots used to (and I don't know if they still do) depict more panel lines, more cockpit details, a diffferent pilot, and more nacelle details. It almost seems as if MIM decided to not cast all the pieces....
Less than Super Ostrich
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Now this is just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth... MiM has arguably the worst customer service of any online retailer I've ever dealt with. Wait, SMT was worse, but that was just one guy. With as poor customer service as MiM has, I don't trust them with credit card info. I know I'm not the only one with bad MiM stories. Maybe it's gotten better... I don't know. I just know I won't be ordering anything from them anytime soon.
Mycroft Holmes
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Hi Jesse, the SLA grow had no panel lines. I had scribed the major panel lines. If they showed an extra detailed one it was probably the build up done for Terry's personal collection. Sad thing is, I took a small amount of cash and a certain amout of kits as the sale. Well, true to MinM's history I never got the kits. I'm glad he finally got off his duff and started to sell the damn things. I looked at my notes, almost three years ago he got this pattern. The pilot and R2 unit are the action figures. That's what they used. There was not R2 or pilot with the patterns.
You will need to lay in some kind of supports for the engines. I told him those should be hollow. Go figure.
Mark
You will need to lay in some kind of supports for the engines. I told him those should be hollow. Go figure.
Mark
Mycroft Holmes
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Glad they made the engines hollow. The ones I saw were solid. Yeah, the cockpit was a basic interior. Gives a person room to make an add on kit for this replica.
Mark
Mark
I got that kit last summer when swpropmaker had his garage sale. I was impressed with its size and how clean the casting was. (I'm not sure if Steve got it from MIM or someone else). Mine is also rotocast, though I reinforced the wing/engine pod attachment points with steel wire. The only difference I can see is that foj3000's casting has a pour plug where the R2 head goes. Mine needed very little cleanup, though there were some very fine pinhole bubbles near the seam.
Mine came sans pilot, so I got the action figure and trimmed it down to fit. The only modifications I did to the ship was in the cockpit, where I added a whole bunch of greeblies. Some are from the 1/12th scale F-16 or F-104 cockpit kits. There are some landing gear struts in there, as well as some little misc. details from some old Skywaves 1/700 ship detail set.
I primed and sanded mine, with the last few coats of primer being the Tamiya white stuff. The Yellow is Tamiya Yellow applied with a spraycan. I cannot reccomend their spraypaints enough. The stuff goes on smooth, dries quick, and is a synthetic lacquer, so it is resistant to other paints once cured. I did do a slight rubdown of the yellow after it was all cured - but relatively little compared to some other models I've done.
The chrome is another story. I tried the Model Master Metallizer on the Engine pods and got poor results. That paint does not like being applied over any paint - no matter how polished it is. I tried some SNJ (the kind with the polishing powder you apply separately). It was better, but still left me kinda 'bleh'. I'm going to try the Alclad stuff next. For the top and belly, I used Bare Metal Foil Ultra-Bright Chrome. I thought that Ultra-Bright would be better than regular. I was wrong. I saw no discernable difference to the finish. The Ultra-Bright does appear to be thicker than the regular stuff, which led to all sorts of issues with wrinkling. That really sucked the wind out of my sails. This thing was for a display I did for Lorne Peterson's "Scuulpting a Galaxy" booksigning and STAR WARS screening we did in December - so I wanted it nice. It wound up looking OK, but I want to go in and re-do a lot of the finish - one day. (Ironically, Lucasfilm provided a bunch of photos of the study model the art department made that served as the basis for the texture maps onf the CG model. They also used Bare Metal Foil. And they also had a bunch of wrinkling. In that sense, I guess mine is accurate...........)
I had heard a rumor that the model was based on a CG file that was smuggled out of ILM during the making of Ep.1, made watertight and then grown or carved. I asked Lorne about it and he knew nothing about it, though he did say that the CG files were passed around to the various departments in an effort to keep the ships looking consistent and it could have been leaked. It's easier these days with CG files (though it did happen on the original STAR WARS - an X-wing disappeared.) Don't know if that is just a rumor - and I don't care. I like the lines of the ship and I think the model is very well done. Good job Mark.
Enjoy the photos. I really need to figure out the wacky chimp thing. Is there a tutorial around here?
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Mine came sans pilot, so I got the action figure and trimmed it down to fit. The only modifications I did to the ship was in the cockpit, where I added a whole bunch of greeblies. Some are from the 1/12th scale F-16 or F-104 cockpit kits. There are some landing gear struts in there, as well as some little misc. details from some old Skywaves 1/700 ship detail set.
I primed and sanded mine, with the last few coats of primer being the Tamiya white stuff. The Yellow is Tamiya Yellow applied with a spraycan. I cannot reccomend their spraypaints enough. The stuff goes on smooth, dries quick, and is a synthetic lacquer, so it is resistant to other paints once cured. I did do a slight rubdown of the yellow after it was all cured - but relatively little compared to some other models I've done.
The chrome is another story. I tried the Model Master Metallizer on the Engine pods and got poor results. That paint does not like being applied over any paint - no matter how polished it is. I tried some SNJ (the kind with the polishing powder you apply separately). It was better, but still left me kinda 'bleh'. I'm going to try the Alclad stuff next. For the top and belly, I used Bare Metal Foil Ultra-Bright Chrome. I thought that Ultra-Bright would be better than regular. I was wrong. I saw no discernable difference to the finish. The Ultra-Bright does appear to be thicker than the regular stuff, which led to all sorts of issues with wrinkling. That really sucked the wind out of my sails. This thing was for a display I did for Lorne Peterson's "Scuulpting a Galaxy" booksigning and STAR WARS screening we did in December - so I wanted it nice. It wound up looking OK, but I want to go in and re-do a lot of the finish - one day. (Ironically, Lucasfilm provided a bunch of photos of the study model the art department made that served as the basis for the texture maps onf the CG model. They also used Bare Metal Foil. And they also had a bunch of wrinkling. In that sense, I guess mine is accurate...........)
I had heard a rumor that the model was based on a CG file that was smuggled out of ILM during the making of Ep.1, made watertight and then grown or carved. I asked Lorne about it and he knew nothing about it, though he did say that the CG files were passed around to the various departments in an effort to keep the ships looking consistent and it could have been leaked. It's easier these days with CG files (though it did happen on the original STAR WARS - an X-wing disappeared.) Don't know if that is just a rumor - and I don't care. I like the lines of the ship and I think the model is very well done. Good job Mark.
Enjoy the photos. I really need to figure out the wacky chimp thing. Is there a tutorial around here?
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