Vader TIE

moffeaton

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This one is going to be a walk in the park, with the engineering that went into this model ahead of time. Truly impressive pattern, armature, and castings.

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Great!!!!

Very interested in this thread!!

Could you tell us what kit is this please?

Regards.

Luis
 
Looks good!!

What is the resin used on these SS kits? Mike seems to use the same for his kits too!
 
Nice kit. I wonder where all the 3-d printing came from. And who did all the clean up on the parts. I know Steve cant do it all himself
 
"There's Great genius behind all this" - Jules Verne

What is the resin used on these SS kits? Mike seems to use the same for his kits too!

Generally Steve and Mike both like to use Smooth-On Products.
At the moment, I forget which formula # number but its is great stuff; worth the extra cost.
Good qualities, -It machines and mills nicely, if cast correctly there is no warping and very little shrinkage
Smooth-On is consistent and reliable in it's quaility.

[ no, I did not get any reimbursement from Smooth-on for this post]

It's the Smooth-Cast series 305 and 310 with one or two drops of the Urethane Black dye (also from Smooth-on) to get that nice grey color. ( makes the "finishing" work go a little easier than the stark white)
Of course Mike uses a Pressure pot which does make for better results
Great stuff -with a shore hardness of 70D

Hope this wasn't too off topic ..but that is what the X_1 TIE Kit is cast in
 
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Thanks greeble-
I also alyways use SmoothOn .. mostly because they're the only resin available around here .. but yeah, I would have loved to know more specifically which one of their line it was.
 
Dang! Someone needs to pubish a code book... ; ^P

The kit looks very nice. Does it come with decals? (You know how I like decals...)

R/ Robert
 
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