discussion Fine molds models.

[eddiesolo]

I have been looking at fine models 1/144 Falcon and their 1/72 version...although nice I cannot see how they are worth the over £120 for the 1/144 and well over £300 for the 1/72.


Is it just me?

 

[Guest]

I have been looking at fine models 1/144 Falcon and their 1/72 version...although nice I cannot see how they are worth the over £120 for the 1/144 and well over £300 for the 1/72.
Is it just me?

Probably

 

[Alan 45]

No mate it's not just you , I expect them to go higher since they lost the Star Wars license to bandi


Ridiculous prices

 

[Bigfoot57]

Talking about high prices that 1/1 studio replica falcon will top out about £700 ouch

 

[Alan 45]

Talking about high prices that 1/1 studio replica falcon will top out about £700 ouch

That's true and the only reason I'm collecting it is due to this being one model you cannot get, all the others they've released over the years there's been an equivalent model out there that's cheeper but not in this case

 

[Guest]

No mate it's not just you , I expect them to go higher since they lost the Star Wars license to bandi
Ridiculous prices

Bandai are doing absolutely stellar star wars models now, the folk who paid for fine molds stuff and were sitting on it stand to lose a good bit of money depending on what gets released so they are all trying to flog the models asap for as much as possible.

Talking about high prices that 1/1 studio replica falcon will top out about £700 ouch

I'm with Alan, I'm collecting this too, I will be raging if Bandai release a big ass falcon as this is meant to be our only option for a falcon that is as near as Damnit a studio model.


I've already spent £200 ish on cockpit 3d printed parts and a photo etch kit for the cargo hold and I'm not going crazy like some people are! Thing is though it's £30 ish a month, I don't smoke, I don't really drink and my mountain bike is bought and paid for so I don't see why I can't have one. It's less than people spend on a phone contract a month!

 

[Alan 45]

Bandai are doing absolutely stellar star wars models now, the folk who paid for fine molds stuff and were sitting on it stand to lose a good bit of money depending on what gets released so they are all trying to flog the models asap for as much as possible.



I'm with Alan, I'm collecting this too, I will be raging if Bandai release a big ass falcon as this is meant to be our only option for a falcon that is as near as Damnit a studio model.


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Yes they are mate it's a shame they are snap together but for me that's not an issue as the detail I've seen on the ones they've released so far is very good , I think I read somewhere that their falcon is 1/48 scale , I think this one we are collecting is around the 1/32 scale from the side of the seats , people have said I'm mad as they could cancel it and you don't get a refund so your left with half a ship so it's a waste of time, but what they are forgetting is this is the millennium falcon , it's Star Wars and there are enough fourty pluss year old virgins out there who wear Star Wars tee shirts that will spend their money on it

 

[Bigfoot57]

I'm one of those 40 plus year olds as regards to the magazines quitting half way through all I can say in the UK that all the models I collected ran their entire length and you can still get back issues from the distributors I recently found I was 3 issues missing from the sovereign of the seas so I found the publishers website and ordered them 2 weeks later they arrived can't say better than that so I have no reason to believe that the falcon won't run its entire production length

 

[Guest]

Yes they are mate it's a shame they are snap together but for me that's not an issue as the detail I've seen on the ones they've released so far is very good , I think I read somewhere that their falcon is 1/48 scale , I think this one we are collecting is around the 1/32 scale from the side of the seats , people have said I'm mad as they could cancel it and you don't get a refund so your left with half a ship so it's a waste of time, but what they are forgetting is this is the millennium falcon , it's Star Wars and there are enough fourty pluss year old virgins out there who wear Star Wars tee shirts that will spend their money on it

I'm one of those 40 plus year olds as regards to the magazines quitting half way through all I can say in the UK that all the models I collected ran their entire length and you can still get back issues from the distributors I recently found I was 3 issues missing from the sovereign of the seas so I found the publishers website and ordered them 2 weeks later they arrived can't say better than that so I have no reason to believe that the falcon won't run its entire production length

I think DeAgo have been around for tens of years and there won't be any issues. They have loads of subscribers in a fair few countries and... There are more countries to go yet for the falcon. They have also completed quite a few subscriptions of models and similar to date so I am not personally paranoid about it.


It's going to be awesome. Me and the misses are having it in a coffee table diorama hopefully with simple lighting etc... I'm going to get on to designing and building that after my BMW CSL is done so that I can start the build and store it in the table as there will be nowhere to put it when I do start it!


As for the snap together, I have not yet started mine but lots of modellers have said it makes no difference, you just glue the kits if you like but it makes them easier to sell and build for novices and children. Hats off to them I say!

 

[Alan 45]

I think DeAgo have been around for tens of years and there won't be any issues. They have loads of subscribers in a fair few countries and... There are more countries to go yet for the falcon. They have also completed quite a few subscriptions of models and similar to date so I am not personally paranoid about it.
It's going to be awesome. Me and the misses are having it in a coffee table diorama hopefully with simple lighting etc... I'm going to get on to designing and building that after my BMW CSL is done so that I can start the build and store it in the table as there will be nowhere to put it when I do start it!


As for the snap together, I have not yet started mine but lots of modellers have said it makes no difference, you just glue the kits if you like but it makes them easier to sell and build for novices and children. Hats off to them I say!

I agree , I don't know where this assumption that they stop doing these models halfway through, I've never heard of it happening , I bet it's a cynical comment made by someone about if they did stop halfway through then you've wasted your money and Chinese whispers have turned it into it actually happened,


On the bandi doing snap kits I don't mind that as I can easily glue the parts and paint and weather it , I did that with the revell falcon and that turned out very well


I'm just building mine and sticking it in the corner it's the only place I have for it

 

[eddiesolo]

The Bandia snap kits look very similar to the old Revell snap kits.

 

[Alan 45]

The Bandia snap kits look very similar to the old Revell snap kits.

I don't know if revell released better Star Wars snap kits than they do now but the bandai ones are far better than the ones you get today , the detail is very good and more defined than the revell releases

 

[eddiesolo]

Agree, but Revell have stopped making them, especially the Y-wing and Falcon in large scale.

 

[Alan 45]

Funnily enough I've just had an email from revell showing off the latest star wars releases , they're the same as the old ones but smaller and it looks like they have some stuff from the new film , tbh they look naff and they need re painting to make them look decent


The bandai stuff is much better