It was my first studio scale built to be,...the Tie-bomber.
After being robbed of my money by mike tait who was selling a tie bomber resin kit over at the old studio scale modeler site i decided to not be put down by this piece of scum.
He robbed me of my hard earned cash,..but not the desire to own a piece of star wars history.
I was going to build the most screen accurate tie-bomber ever:lol
This was around the same time i just found out the existence of this site.
Man was i intimidated,but at the same time it fueled the passion and determination i really could do this.
The hunting for kit parts started and turned out to be at some times frustrating,but as i think of it now a fun part of it all.
Getting my hands on a morser karl kit and compairing the kit parts with the prop parts was a thrilling experience.
Wow,..i still get this feeling when i hold a kit parts and compair it with an image of the real deal.
Now was the time to make a decission,...will i buy more morser karls or will i cast the parts to get the project done way cheaper?
Oh how wrong was i,i decided to cast my own.
No casting experience what so ever i ordered some silicone and resin,...sh@t this stuff was expensive.
Anyway as it turned out,casting your own duplicates is a whole other ballgame(respect to all the master casters out there,fantastic job guys)
I managed to cast a few parts pretty acceptable but some parts could just not be casted in a 1 piece block mold.
Damn,..this was a major set back financialy and ego wise.
Now i had to buy the karl kits and wasted the silicone.
Hey wait a minute,i also need a Leopold kit or maybe more than one.
I scavenged the internet for answers.
I always ended up here at therpf for the aswers to my questions.
Reading all the build threads looking for clues of which kit to buy.
Yeah i hate to say it but i only came here to take and not to contribute.
Please forgive me guys but i had and still have the feeling i can't really contribute.
All i do here is encourage or compliment peoples builds or give some advise in making decissions.
Most of the tme i still only take without returning anything.
All i can say is thank you all for helping me out when i needed the information.
So,.finaly i've got it of my chest.
To continue,...
Making a list of kits and being intimidated by the amount of money that had to be invested to build the model properly.
A love hate relation ship started to rise to the surface.
I was to far with the Tie-bomber to quit the build and so much more cash had to be invested.
It is an addiction you know.
How on earth do i find a old tooling Yamato?
Oh wait i also need a nelson kit for for ****** sake just 1 part.
A Rodney aswell and the hardest decission was a 1/24 stuka and a Harrier.
The harrier was really tough since i really wasn't shure which version i had to get,..and i certainly was not going to get 2 versions.
After making the lucky guess the harrier was ordered and delivered.
F#$@k man,..the part was nowhere to be found.
I kept on going through the sprues and finaly i found it,..it is molded side ways,almost not to be recognised.
Although this kit was a financial ball breaker at that time the thrill of finding these 2 parts felt like heaven(adiction started to kick in big time )
Wow the harrier also had parts for the AT-AT,the Sandcrawler,now i also could build these,...right!!??
I had to step back an overthink this new hobby/obsession.
I still do you know,..this is bliss and madness at the same time.
O.k. to round up,..the Bomber got finished and still needs a old tooling yamato part(i settled for the new tooling to wrap it all up and started on another build, the esb at-st)
I am really proud that i kept on with the Tie-bomber build,...the result is amazing in my eyes.
The research and new learned skills were all worth the time and money,and the experience of seeing all the amazing stuff being created over here really all increddible ...and oh man does it look cool.
