New Finemolds

[Raffles]

Just heard this on Hobby link Japan's frontpage-

"Almost There...
...and almost here. Fine Molds has just announced that this summer, a 1/72 Y-Wing will join their fleet of superb "Star Wars" starcraft kits. Stay tuned for photos of the prototype, coming later today."

 

[Boba Flint]

They finally did it.
The pics are up now by the way.

http://www.hlj.com/misc/ywing/index.html

 

[Apophis]

Ooooo, its about time. cant wait.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

That's cool... now I just have to get the X-Wing as well... oh... and the expensive Falcon that I will never get assembled anyway... hmm...

 

[streetjudge79]

It's just too bad they make these so damn small. 1/72 scale is just not impressive no matter how much detail they pack in.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(streetjudge79 @ Apr 12 2007, 02:10 PM) [snapback]1460797[/snapback]</div>

It's just too bad they make these so damn small. 1/72 scale is just not impressive no matter how much detail they pack in.
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But they match the military vehicles and planes, which are also in 1:72 scale... so you get them to scale with human based tech... and that's a plus, imo. They are very pricey for their scale, imo... but not all have room for 1:35 scale or larger, so that's why the 1:72 scale is preferable, imo.

 

[stonky]

1:48 would've been nice.

 

[Fetchou]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(stonky @ Apr 12 2007, 12:34 PM) [snapback]1460806[/snapback]</div>

1:48 would've been nice.
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+1.
The 1/72 it's too small for fighters.

 

[Raffles]

1/72 does mean that they can do larger ships in the future and they can all be the same size. Imperial shuttle or sith infiltrator anyone?

 

[Too Much Garlic]

I for one am happy they chose 1:72 scale and kept them all in that scale instead of doing larger not-to-scale ships as AMT & ERTL did.

Also... if you want larger... there are always the MR line.

 

[streetjudge79]

I hope somebody does the imperial shuttle someday. I think that is the coolest imperial ship and nobody has tackled it except for mpc. We need a nice replica in a larger size. Man, wouldn't it be nice if we had one with light up engines?

 

[Raffles]

There are a lot of lighting kits available for the finemolds already so if they get around to making the shuttle then there will probably be one available.

 

[sapper36]

So how big would a 1:72 Imperial Shuttle come out?

 

[streetjudge79]

Isn't the MPC one 1/72 scale? I remember it was a little larger than a foot tall.

 

[moztech]

1:72 Gives so much more options. The Tantive IV is even possible, although it would be about 2.1m (7ft).

 

[Dobber]

This is too cool.... I'm getting 2

Chris

 

[Raffles]

I think the AMT/ERTL shuttle was about 1/72. Anyone care to chip in with measurements? It was pretty accurate from what I remember.

Can't wait till there's enough kits available to make a Hoth hanger display. Roll on snowspeeders...

 

[Raffles]

Okay I did some research and the Shuttle is 1/89th

 

[EvanW]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(streetjudge79 @ Apr 12 2007, 12:18 PM) [snapback]1460943[/snapback]</div>

Isn't the MPC one 1/72 scale? I remember it was a little larger than a foot tall.
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Hope this helps,

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/starwars/swars_scales.cfm

Evan

 

[nightrider]

Looks really detailed, hope it comes with it's own magnifying glass . Just way to small for me.