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Looks great. Where did you get the circular piece to cover where you removed the original bubble hatch on the top?

Can you share a picture of what the interior looks like after removing the tan seat part?

It’s the lid off of a talenti icecream container. Also here is a turret that I found on Etsy that I plan on mounting up top.

Thank you! Looks like I'll have to pick up some ice cream

 Gallahad wrote:
Thank you! Looks like I'll have to pick up some ice cream

Haven't gotten them in a while but the jars make great bits jars too. And they used to have them on sales for 2 for $5 a lot.

My Etsy guns arrived. So these are the choices.

 Smokestack wrote:
My Etsy guns arrived. So these are the choices.

They're all nice. I think the obvious choice is magnetization, but YMMV.

Also, I think the round cap top could use either some more detailing or replace with a flat top.

 Eilif wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:
My Etsy guns arrived. So these are the choices.

They're all nice. I think the obvious choice is magnetization, but YMMV.

Also, I think the round cap top could use either some more detailing or replace with a flat top.

Magnets are a good idea. Especially since I have 2 ships. So I can change between them. I am gonna put an access hatch on top. And some other gubbins. I think I am gonna wait to get my Damned gamefound stuff and see what I can use there. Hopefully that will be delivering soonish.

Tuk-tuks painted!

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805388388219.html





I could have done more than just add cargo but I think they work. A low cost way to move cargo through crowded cities.

The first and most glorious 3-wheeled personal transport for the loyal subjects of the emperor!

Well.

I finally found the basis for my Capital Imperialis project.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404858630938



At just $1799.99 I can even throw in a baneblade to ride in its belly.

I was this close to getting it... but that $260 shipping is a deal breaker. Just kidding but yikes.

I wonder what the divorce papers would say if I did buy that. And the like $600 worth of Etsy Jawa miniatures I would need.

Oh I doubt the divorce papers would even mention the Jawas after you bought that.

I think it's time to ask, these days with all these online learning options, do kids really need college?

I think that falls into the category of "where would I keep it?".

ccs wrote:
I think that falls into the category of "where would I keep it?".

you could live in it?

For that price it would be my living room table...

ccs wrote:
I think that falls into the category of "where would I keep it?".

Put a sheet and a flowerpot on it and you've got a coffee table!

I came across this Micro Galaxy Ahsoka Tano T-6 Jedi Shuttle. I think it is usable as a small shuttle craft.
This figure is a 32mm (eye level) scale Legion mini next to it. The ship uses 1 inch tall minis which I think at their eye level would be about 23mm?
You might want to paint the underside of the cockpit glass to hide its scale. It's big enough for a one person cockpit with room for a dozen seats in the rear area.

I also put this together. It is a 4D Cityscape Star Wars Mandalorian Razor Crest and Sandcrawler Paper Model Kit.
I believe it is no longer made, but you can find this double kit on eBay for as little as $15 US. There is a single Razor Crest kit still being sold, but it does not have landing gear and open ramp doors. It can only be built as a flying ship on a flight stand. The company states these are both 1/61 scale and I think they are believable enough in size. They are pretty sturdy kits and are fine for war gaming at home. They are a three layer paper composite with a corrugated plastic middle and thick paper on either side of that. If you can't afford the $500 plus Razer Crest resin kits out there then this might be an option for you.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
I also put this together. It is a 4D Cityscape Star Wars Mandalorian Razor Crest and Sandcrawler Paper Model Kit.
I believe it is no longer made, but you can find this double kit on eBay for as little as $15 US. There is a single Razor Crest kit still being sold, but it does not have landing gear and open ramp doors. It can only be built as a flying ship on a flight stand. The company states these are both 1/61 scale and I think they are believable enough in size. They are pretty sturdy kits and are fine for war gaming at home. They are a three layer paper composite with a corrugated plastic middle and thick paper on either side of that. If you can't afford the $500 plus Razer Crest resin kits out there then this might be an option for you.

Thanks so much for posting those! The size looks great.

I have that dual kit on my shelf but haven't assembled it yet.

How long did it take you to build them?

 Eilif wrote:

Thanks so much for posting those! The size looks great.

I have that dual kit on my shelf but haven't assembled it yet.

How long did it take you to build them?

I think it took me about a week working on it off and on. Maybe 2 or 3 hours a day while watching TV which I'm sure slowed me down.
Be very careful when assembling the Razer Crest's engine nacelles, as the instructions have terrible pictures and it is very important to get it right.

I found a Tonka 95 Millenium falcon over the weekend for $25. It was mostly complete but lacked the cockpit window glass and the satellite dish was unhinged. The interior is rough and the landing gear does not lock in place. Since I will be using it at space ports as background and terrain in some starwars rpgs... I fixed the landing gear, locking them in place... and managed to reattach the dish... and I make cockpit glass using a canada dry zero green plastic bottle. I sealed the cockpit and will likely seal the back as well. But like the scale next to my Mission fleet ships. So another ship in. I am pretty happy at the $25 price too. I had the 84 Kenner one back in the day, But sold it in a garage sale when i moved back to the US after getting married... :(

A labor of love!

 Smokestack wrote:
I found a Tonka 95 Millenium falcon over the weekend for $25. It was mostly complete but lacked the cockpit window glass and the satellite dish was unhinged. The interior is rough and the landing gear does not lock in place. Since I will be using it at space ports as background and terrain in some starwars rpgs... I fixed the landing gear, locking them in place... and managed to reattach the dish... and I make cockpit glass using a canada dry zero green plastic bottle. I sealed the cockpit and will likely seal the back as well. But like the scale next to my Mission fleet ships. So another ship in. I am pretty happy at the $25 price too. I had the 84 Kenner one back in the day, But sold it in a garage sale when i moved back to the US after getting married... :(

The green glazing looks great in the cockpit. That sizes better than I thought it would have, for 28mm but still seems a bit big even though it might be close to correct in scale. I think I have that one from my childhood. It's the redo of the '84 (with chunky underside section) but in better colors, right?

Large ships are a bit of quandry in that when done to scale they can really dominate the tabletop, but some shrink better than others. I wonder if this one would look better for 28mm just by shortening the landing gear.

The MIcroGalaxy T-6 looks pretty good also. My son has it and I had assumed it was too small to be useful but your pictures suggest otherwise.

I do think though that the Mission Fleet series t-6 is a better choice for 28mm and is also less than half the price.

For wargaming, I think that the compressed dimensions of Action fleet and similar lines often work better on the tabletop because they are chunky enough to accomodate 28mm figures, but have a smaller footprint.


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 Tommygun1918 wrote:

 Eilif wrote:

Thanks so much for posting those! The size looks great.

I have that dual kit on my shelf but haven't assembled it yet.

How long did it take you to build them?

I think it took me about a week working on it off and on. Maybe 2 or 3 hours a day while watching TV which I'm sure slowed me down.
Be very careful when assembling the Razer Crest's engine nacelles, as the instructions have terrible pictures and it is very important to get it right.

Thanks!
I've been doing more work from the TV couch recently. Maybe I'll be able to get around to these sometime soon.

 Eilif wrote:

The green glazing looks great in the cockpit. That sizes better than I thought it would have, for 28mm but still seems a bit big even though it might be close to correct in scale. I think I have that one from my childhood. It's the redo of the '84 (with chunky underside section) but in better colors, right?

Large ships are a bit of quandry in that when done to scale they can really dominate the tabletop, but some shrink better than others. I wonder if this one would look better for 28mm just by shortening the landing gear.

The MIcroGalaxy T-6 looks pretty good also. My son has it and I had assumed it was too small to be useful but your pictures suggest otherwise.

I do think though that the Mission Fleet series t-6 is a better choice for 28mm and is also less than half the price.

For wargaming, I think that the compressed dimensions of Action fleet and similar lines often work better on the tabletop because they are chunky enough to accomodate 28mm figures, but have a smaller footprint.

Yeah... So... There is the original which I think was available from 1979 -1985. That is the one I had as a kid. Then there is the 95 reprint version, which is the one I got. And I think they used the same molds so are the same size. But did change some things, like the force tether ball in the original not in the 95 version. Then there is the Legacy version which is like the rolls royce ones that goes for like $250 for crappy copies and $800 for the good almost mint ones. There is also one Called the POTF (power of the force) one that is slightly smaller and only fits one person in the cockpit. Mission Fleet also has a Millenium Falcoln but I think its about the same size as Ashoka's Shuttle so looks really tiny.

I like the large ships even though it will take up space on my table but agree that the landing gear is too tall. I have been looking for other ship type playsets so I can have other traders in ports and not have my players see the same ships in every port. The green plastic glass was a desperation idea as replacement glass for the cockpit is like $45 on ebay.

Part of the problem with that Falcon is that it looks bigger than it is because it's quite chibi. They were reluctant in the '80s to make the ships large enough to properly scale with the figures - (Star Wars always should have been the done in a similar scale to the M.A.S.K. toys... would have let them have more of the vehicles the right size) - so they all wind up looking tall and chubby.

But yeah, shortening the landing gear would go a long way towards fixing that.

I never had any of the M.A.S.K toys as a kid. I remember they came out around the same time as Visionaries.. and those were knights with swords... so those captured my attention more. For reference, I was born in 76... and I think this was around 6th grade when I lived in Texas.

How do the Mask toys scale with 28mm stuff? I saw a gas station for it that looks pretty cool. But goes for a fortune on ebay.

They are too big. The action figures are about 5” tall I think. Maybe one or two could be made a bit size agnostic, but it would be hard to disguise. The mountain base play set may be one of those out because its scale is so compressed even for the action figures that it could be made into something viable for 40K.

 Flinty wrote:
They are too big. The action figures are about 5” tall I think. Maybe one or two could be made a bit size agnostic, but it would be hard to disguise. The mountain base play set may be one of those out because its scale is so compressed even for the action figures that it could be made into something viable for 40K.

M.A.S.K. figures aren't even REMOTELY 5" tall. They're closer to 2". Still a larger scale than 28mm, but not anywhere near the same scale as Toybiz Marvel Toylines and Ultraverse figures, which were 5" toylines.

MASK figures are about 2-2.5 inches tall. Interestingly that makes them pretty close to 1/24, a very popular scale model scale.

80s GI Joe and Star Wars figures are 3.75" which is 1/18th.

Neither is a good match for 28mm (1/56) but as this thread shows, there may be exceptions.

Apologies. I should know by now that I’m terrible at estimating length, especially from memory. I measured some of my old ones and they are indeed a touch under 3” tall. Still wildly out of scale with 40K though.