Started out on this last week, the NiceN/Salzo studio Snowspeeder.
First off, i had the first gen of this kit, and although, Nick really did do great job on the pattern (lets face it, its a very tough one to nail) the kit quality just wasnt up to my par, but then, iam VERY critical of resin kits in this day and age.
Now onto this kit, nothing you guys havent seen before from Richard, but i have to second, and sing its praises.
Mike has done a FANTASTIC job in the casting of this kit the hull being resin does have a tendency to warp, and there are a few minor misallignments, but its all easily over looked (and easily fixed in the case of the hull) when the overall quality is this good.
Im yet to find any major areas that need putty, though, i will find them as im over anal on bubbles lol, this is, the first dust of primer here, and i was very pleasantly surprised, on how little clean up/putty work i have to do.
Still much to do, and im just waiting on the hardware to get her mounted to a Panavise, but if you were on the fence about this, get one, seriously, i gave up for the sake of my own anal sanity on scratchbuilding this prop, this kit, is a very close second.
More to come soon, after a long break from ANY studio modeling, im just having a bit of fun for now, it all got a bit too serious for my liking lol.
bests......lee
First off, i had the first gen of this kit, and although, Nick really did do great job on the pattern (lets face it, its a very tough one to nail) the kit quality just wasnt up to my par, but then, iam VERY critical of resin kits in this day and age.
Now onto this kit, nothing you guys havent seen before from Richard, but i have to second, and sing its praises.
Mike has done a FANTASTIC job in the casting of this kit the hull being resin does have a tendency to warp, and there are a few minor misallignments, but its all easily over looked (and easily fixed in the case of the hull) when the overall quality is this good.
Im yet to find any major areas that need putty, though, i will find them as im over anal on bubbles lol, this is, the first dust of primer here, and i was very pleasantly surprised, on how little clean up/putty work i have to do.
Still much to do, and im just waiting on the hardware to get her mounted to a Panavise, but if you were on the fence about this, get one, seriously, i gave up for the sake of my own anal sanity on scratchbuilding this prop, this kit, is a very close second.
More to come soon, after a long break from ANY studio modeling, im just having a bit of fun for now, it all got a bit too serious for my liking lol.
bests......lee
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