I’ve seen that Alvin before, but yikes the prices they want for it. I’d also like it in 1/72 scale to match my Chinese DSVs I’ve got and the Shinkai 6500 I’m looking at from Hasegawa.
Though, that second Alvin is really neat. That’s her just prior to her thruster refit, so that places it as a vintage just before her dive on RMS Titanic. I do know some folks with 3D printers, I might have to see if they can do me a solid.
As for Nautile, that’s just heartbreaking to see her being so under represented. It’s a bummer since I wanted to commemorate PH Nargeolet in some small manner.
Honestly, when it had the thruster covers on, it looked pretty cool. The Cyclops is a real nice boat. It’s too bad their owner was an absolute twit and got one of the most experienced deep sea explorers killed in the process.
I’m struggling, still, with the Lynx HMa8. I’m building it with rotors and tail boom folded, which I haven’t done before but due to space constraints decided to do this time.
It isn’t fitting well together and I’ve been stumped and messing around on the periphery for some weeks. There isn’t much else left on it and I just want to get it finished and move on.
I’m (eight years later) unpacking a bunch of mine, and having a tough time deciding. Despite the (what I thought at the time) ludicrously excessive use of packing peanuts, most of them are pretty dinged up.
I’ve got a few more boxes to go, and I’m having the hardest time making up my mind.
I’m thinking between three options
1 - pick 4 or 5 I really like (and I might have a decent chance of repairing) and toss the rest
2 - toss them all (which hurts my heart to even think about, but if they’ve been sitting in the garage for 8 years is a logical thing to at least entertain)
3 - toss them all in much smaller boxes without any peanuts and kick the can down the road.
Anyone have any luck repairing old models? I think @Johnny mentioned trying that a while ago.
Have a feeling that even after repairing they still won’t look ‘right’ to me.
Curious what other people do, tossing them out seems so harsh after all the work put in to them, but it’s not so crazy, right? I mean, you can’t keep everything?
Option 4: A variation of Option 1. Pick ones you really like (and might have a decent chance of repairing). Quick repairs on the others (e.g. the IAF Viper - reattach the nozzle and horizontal stab) or donate ‘as is’ to charity. Some kid might get a kick out of them and if they break them it doesn’t matter, but at least they didn’t go straight to landfill?
Thanks I like this new option - I actually can think of a couple of my kids friends that might want a few, don’t know why that didn’t occur to me.
Even if they lasted 5 minutes before getting smashed/firecrackered to death it’d feel better than dumping 'em in the trash. Although I’m sure some will be destined for there after all the boxes are open.
Tanks held up better at least, not as much to knock off I guess!
Quick repairs so they can be used as toys is a great option! I loved playing with little model airplanes as a kid (and still do, although instead of using the floor for airbases, FOBs and carriers, I now use a virtual space mainly)
For the more in-depth restoration of your favorites, I don’t have much model building experience myself but I do see some serious restoration projects passing my feed at scalemates.com now and then. This is the latest one I remember (I mainly watch 1:72 builds though so am missing all that happens in larger scales):
So do packing peanuts do anything? Is it all just a lie, sold to us by big styrofoam?
I get some gear, antenna coming off, but the wings? I don’t know… maybe heating up/cooling down of the garage over the years pushed things over the edge.
But once again, another tank comes out pretty much unscathed!
Thanks! That was one of those where I saw a build someone did online that was so great and inspiring (can’t remember where now) I just had to try it. Like I remember immediately buying the exact kit and paints and decals and just tearing into everything as soon as the box arrived.
I’m not sure if I can put it here but something from me. Building and bridge from paper (1:72 / 20 mm), figures present German Panzer Grenadier battalion (based on British WW2 rules Rapid Fire)
We started playing WW2 historical wargaming somewhere in 2005 or 2006. Don’t ask me who brings a 2-page starter sheet of Rapid Fire rules (it was free to download) with those rules first but until this, we stay with those rules. A little bit later we bought almost all possible books directly from the Rapid Fire e-shop and long time we played the second edition of those rules. Yes, those rules weren’t perfect but we loved it, especially the game scale when on the table is a brigade/ regiment with 1-3 battalions, and some attached divisional support on each side of the table which gives you feeling that on the table is big battle typical for WW2 and there are all weapons of WW2. The scale is 1:15 for figures and 1:5 for heavy weapons like machine guns, guns, vehicles, etc.
So I still like those rules, despite that the 2nd edition is not a perfect rule set covering all possible situations in the game but we love this simplicity.
But when they released relatively recently new Rapid Fire Reload rules I was happy to hell because everything is now clear, super easy to use, and from my point of view more realistic than 2nd edition with many lees pages of rules. So definitely we will stay with Rapid Fire rules.
