Anyone still build models?

[publiusr]

I went to Ollie's today--no model kits.

I hate being in Alabama

Meanwhile

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https://modelermagic.com/kit-alert-...00-romulan-warbird-motion-picture-miniatures/

DUNE model kits from MENG
https://stevenshobby.com/productlisting.aspx?supplierid=5984&categoryid=1

ATLANTIS
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/10/202324-atlantis-kit-catalogue.html?m=1

MAN IN SPACE
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/10/mexicos-man-in-space.html?m=1

subs
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-fish-please-in-box.html?m=1

minis
https://www.squidmar.com/

Galactica

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[Redfern]

Just FYI, Ollie’s stores are selling overstock of the 1:1000 scale Reliant and the 1:2500 scale Discoprise at $12.99.

Read this post and the ones following early this morning, So I opted to check my local Ollie's. "Goose eggs" as they say. Only space themed kit was a NASA space shuttle, along with a vintage biplane and a few autos.

 

[valkyrie013]

Grew up where the nearest "Hobby Shop" was 90 minute drive away, had Wal Mart ( when they actually caried models) and a local store that had 1 asile carrying some paint and a few kits. Talk about a food desert..
But i was in a super small town, so.. plus and minuses..

 

[Dukhat]

Reliant ends up being a bigger model than Enterprise which I thought was interesting. The battle damage is a nice touch.

The Reliant is 1:1000 scale, which matches the 1:1000 Excelsior (the only scale in which the Excelsior has even been produced.) The Discoprise is 1:2500 scale, which, even with upscaling the ship in the show, still makes the model smaller than the Reliant kit. The original $25 price tag Walmart sold the Discoprise for was way too much money for a 1:2500 scale kit.

Oh, to be in the States, where models are plentiful and sold in seemingly every store.

I gotta drive almost 2 hours before I approach anything resembling a sci-fi model kit.

Sorry about that. And you’re a good modeler too. Way better than me.

I used to live near a Hobby Lobby and a Michael's but they never stocked the Trek model kits. You'd occasionally see Star Wars or film based cars but it was mostly trains, trucks, cars and WW II military gear.

Hobby Lobby did once carry Trek kits, specifically the 1:1000 Reliant and TOS Enterprise, the Romulan Bird of Prey, and recently the reissue of the original 1:650 TOS Enterprise (although that kit has really degraded over time.)

Read this post and the ones following early this morning, So I opted to check my local Ollie's. "Goose eggs" as they say. Only space themed kit was a NASA space shuttle, along with a vintage biplane and a few autos.

Sorry

 

[valkyrie013]

Hobby Lobby did once carry Trek kits, specifically the 1:1000 Reliant and TOS Enterprise, the Romulan Bird of Prey, and recently the reissue of the original 1:650 TOS Enterprise (although that kit has really degraded over time.)

Maybe 15 years ago Hobby Lobby carried Trek kits, Got 2 1/350 NX kits from HL Long ago ( with a %40 off coupon.. Sweetness) at that time the local HL was the place I got model kits, they carried Tamiya, lots of Trek, 32nd Jets all lots of stuff, then one day.. It all went to pot, and it just became like michaels the same same at all places.
BUT! being a Gundam modeler, HL as of late, has been getting a good number of stuff in for Bandai Gundam, Star Wars etc. even some of there bigger kits, but it depends on the store. Though they still carry Testors Enamels ( Meh... Enamels suck now, were the poo decades ago, but meh now) lots of tools, if you don't have anything else local, HL will get you through.

 

[Redfern]

Sorry

Aww, no need to apologize. I need to get my a$$ outa' the house at least once a week, anyway. Ollie's is maybe a 7 minute drive and afterwards I whipped yo Walmart to buy an LED lighting element for holiday pumpkins. Glad I did. Using 4 "bulbs", it creates a quasi "chasing" effect I can use in a variety of craft projects, say, an "engine core" for a flying saucer model kit, a teleportation disc for an action figure or the central column element for a 3D printed TARDIS console scaled to the 5.5 inch Doctor Who action figures. If I were still doing convention cosplay, the thing could be used in a prop like the emitter of some sort of scanner.

So, it worked out in the end.

 

[Jbob86]

As another person with a two hour drive for anything remotely resembling a hobby store, I have a question for you all. Does anyone here make their own decal solvents? Google-fu gives me a lot on setting solutions but nothing useful on solvents. Thanks in advance!

 

[Forbin]

I just built a really big 3D-printed Star Fury Details in the link.

http://www.inpayne.com/models/scifi/starfury48.html

 

[publiusr]

Cool!

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New ship available for download
https://bethesda.net/en/article/6NJNV9ae1Q2tgEU9C7uhgL/tested-starfield-frontier-model

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shells

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LE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lv3ZsU7D1mpvY91x410xsqp4-sUseylJ/view

pulse rifle stock
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threa...s-seen-on-tested-in-adams-3d-pen-demo.354153/

FOUNDATION
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threa...ght-ship-civil-version-finished.342981/page-3

Bird of Prey
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/1-350-klingon-bird-of-prey-improving-the-amt-kit.346241/

pyro
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/10/well-at-least-they-tried-pyros-lockheed.html?m=1


Scratch

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Other scratch builds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rvo3AngtDNA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7VaToWBtHE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGR1PXWh3nE

 

[Forbin]

Have a little Halloween model kit, Scarecrow!
Polar Lights' 1/8 WWW, just finished her
And her little monkey too!

 

[publiusr]

What might have been

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Artemis
https://culttvman.com/main/round-2-box-art-sept-2023/

Enterprise
https://culttvman.com/main/doing-a-double-take-the-amt-enterprise-at-55/

Viewmaster (and 3 footer)

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[HotRod]

I've been sick the last little while, so work has been pretty slow on the Enterprise-C. That said, progress has certainly been made.

Almost ready to finally move onto the saucer. Never realized just how much blue was on this damn thing.

 

[ashleytinger]

Loving that Ambassador model!

***
Quick Review - Discovery Enterprise Snap Kit

Well I picked up one of those 1:2500 scale Enterprise Discovery model kits from Ollie's at the $13 price point and BOY am I glad I didn't buy one at the $35 price. It does have some decent molded in detailing but 90% of the detailing is done through the decals. And if you didn't want to have aztecing with your decals... well you are SOL.

I'm not unhappy with it, but I haven't applied the decals at all and it's just going to sit in my work office across the room anyway, but... eh? It's a snap-kit and feels like a snap kit. You'll have to break out the paints too if you want the deflector to not be solid grey. The decals just add the paneling. The bussard domes are clear too, along with the other ends of the nacelles, presumably for a light kit but this model is not really big enough to warrant a light kit.

If I'd paid full price it's rate a 1.5 out of 5 but at $13 it's an easy 3. I got more out of the 3 ship TOS model kit with the Enterprise, Romulan BoP and Klingon D-7 back in the day and I think they were the same scale. YMMV but I'd opt for a bigger Discoprise kit if this was something going up at home.

 

[Forbin]

I keep starting Trek models and then getting distracted by an airplane or figure kit. Got a nice 3D printed Ahsoka right now.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I've had a Salzo half-studio-scale TOS Battlestar Galactica in a box for nearly 10 years now. The thing is gorgeous. I keep meaning to get back to it, but "IRL" events have always stood in my way. I hope I manage to keep my vision generally intact for when I eventually get to it, likely in retirement, which is still about another 10 years away.

Here's a photo from back in 2014. Comparison with the accursed Revellogram BSG for scale.

 

[Santaman]

I have made some models waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the past, a few tanks, a few WW2 cruisers, one 1701 no bloody A B C etc, one 1701 D, did have one decent shop in town, but it disappeared like 20 years ago, I have one kit left which is a 1701 no bloo.. you get the point which is the cutaway version, maybe someday..
At the moment the "model" I am (re)building is a 50cc Kinroad Windbell II scooter, scale 1:1 bought most of the needed parts, now the frame needs to be stripped, repaired, de-rusted, media blasted and then powdercoated, after that the engine needs some TLC..

 

[publiusr]

The model that does not exist…
https://liftoffworks.com/?p=1147
“The most intriguing part of the (long box) photo is that it didn’t actually depict the correctly assembled kit…the photo is pieced together from a bunch of photos…”

scratch

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ALIEN

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[Forbin]

I'll get to a Trek kit eventually, but I saw this Ahsoka 3D printed kit on ebay and just had to:
http://www.inpayne.com/models/figures/ahsoka.html

 

[publiusr]

Your own 11 footer
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/uss-enterprise-11-foot-3d-printed-model.355215/

1/650 Enterprise D

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Now if only AMTs fit like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis.../minimal_tolerance_cnc_milled_part/?rdt=64405

 

[Forbin]

Here's what I built this year:

15 for the year, satisfying my "at least one a month" rule I try to accomplish.
More details and more pix can be seen here:
http://www.inpayne.com/models/models_history.html

Gotta try to build some Trek next year, but I keep getting distracted.