Scale Modellers, lets talk :)

[Victork2]

You should do a build series via photograph on here @B12 I’d be very interested to see the finished product either way

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@Victork2

do a build series

Do it!

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Got this little baby in the mail, the other day…

[Kinger]

Don’t let @Hangar200 near it or it will turn into a flaming Viggen

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He’ll turn this into a heap of molten plastic in no time…

[Hangar200]

You might want to keep the model away fro ice cubes…just say’n

[Troll]

Awesome kit!
I am intrigued by the Titanic story as well.
Now you can even see the sinking and dive the wreck, in VR.

Please post pics of the build!

[Hangar200]

Why do I have vision of after many months of meticulous labor, @B12 finally launches his Titanic at the village duck pond, only to have it hit a piece of ice and sink.

@B12, “Oh well. Had best start on that MV Keldysh and Mir submersible models…”

[Navynuke99]

@Hangar200

MV Keldysh and Mir submersible models

Or Knorr, ARGO, and Alvin.

[Troll]

It’s always fun to wait and see the add-on companies go to town on kits like this one. I’m always blown away by their products.

[Hangar200]

@B12

Mine is going to be indoor static though with multimedia lighting with all the lower port holes drilled out and lit, perhaps replace the stock kit LED lighting

Forget posting photos. We want video of this when it is done! This sounds fantastic.

[Clutch]

Oh hi! I’m late to the party

Since December I’ve made a Viper MkII and an LHD-2, my first ever ship. I need to get a stash picture later because I’m accumulating stuff faster than I can build it.

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@Clutch

late to the party

Well, you made up for it.
Beautiful models!

@Clutch

I’m accumulating stuff faster than I can build it

Not…entirely unheard of, within the modelling community…!

[Roo]

@Troll

@Clutch

I’m accumulating stuff faster than I can build it

Not…entirely unheard of, within the modelling community…!

It’s the norm, not the exception.

[wheelsup_cavu]

@Roo

It’s the norm, not the exception

So true.

Wheels

[schurem]

So what 1:72 flanker is best? Italeri, Revell? Trumpeter? Hasegawa?

[Clutch]

Flanker or Flanker-D? I’ve got a Hasegawa Su-33 in my stash and it looks pretty nice. Hasegawa typically have their fit issues, but I’ve always avoided Italeri like the plague because of their fit issues. Trumpeter has a reputation for being hit-or-miss. When I was a kid, Revell was awful, but I think those were the Revell-US kits. Revell-Germany kits might be better.

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@schurem

1:72 flanker

The Zvezda Flanker got good reviews.

And the Revell one is the Zvezda kit…

[schurem]

I have an old italeri flanker on a stick, just the regular -27c model. I can work around slight fit issues, but the shape would need to be correct, and I heard flankers are all over the board on that issue.

Now that I think of it, a Felon would be nice to have too, the new Su-57.

[Clutch]

Zvezda kits look interesting. I’ve always been wary of anything not Hasegawa/Tamiya/Eduard, but I might have to try one.

Obligatory stash pic (1:700 CV-5 and WIP LHD-7 not pictured)