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Dang that is awesome.

And pretty good for a 300 yen machine.

Will have to look for anyone selling them online, as these would be great for D&D too.

Old-Four-Arms wrote:

That's no Dropship.. THIS is a Dropship :

https://hardwarestudios.co/product/monitor-dropship/

Admittedly, pricing is in the same bracket as the moon lander, but at least it can be used as is..

That certainly is, but I prefer to do my own prints.

Revell Y-Wing coming this year.

1/72 but lots of kit bashing potential.

Geez that box looks like it's straight from the 70s, does Revell not have a marketing or graphic design person?

 ScarletRose wrote:
Geez that box looks like it's straight from the 70s, does Revell not have a marketing or graphic design person?

They do. He also is in his 70's apparently and has been working on the license since the first film came out!

 ScarletRose wrote:
Geez that box looks like it's straight from the 70s

I assume that's the intention, given Star Wars is from the 70s.

No, I have a combat helicopter from Revell. Also easy kit. Box design was similar vintage.

If you own the art from the 1970s why pay to update . Probably had a hard time finding a computer that still took the 14 floppy disks that the image was stored on.

It's coming! Revell Razor Crest preview.

1/72

The Aries Moon Shuttle from 2001 is out. ~$250.

The thing is HUGE, I saw someone making an IG drop ship with it that carries several tanks.



Edit troop ship pics from Pete Boyle. So tempting...

My God!

I need that for Btech.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
My God!

I need that for Btech.

M.

That was my immediate thought as well, and I don't even play Battletech that much!

MPC Star Wars kits are appearing. Apparently new toolings, not just a reissue.

All of them are very recognizable if you want to use them in 40k or other games, but also well priced and useful for kit bashing.

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=mpc+star+wars&crid=1GUXV9KNRHHAF&sprefix=mpc+star%2Caps%2C489&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

1/64 scale. 7” tall. 23 parts. Injected in light gray plastic with clear parts. Glue and paint not required. Skill level 2, Ages 10+

QUICK SPECS: 1/100 scale. 8” tall. 77 parts. Injected in gray plastic. Glue and paint required. Skill level 2, Ages 10+

QUICK SPECS: 7.5” wide. 54 parts. Injected in gray plastic. Dome display base and metal support rod. Glue and paint required. Skill level 2, Ages 10+

QUICK SPECS: 1/72 scale. 10” tall. 44 parts. Injected in gray plastic. Glue and paint required. Skill level 2, Ages 10+

"Boba Fett's Starfighter" sigh, I'm going to call it by it's proper name, the one I grew up with, "Simple man making my way across the galaxy and certainly not taking part in any slavery-type activities that might impact reaction to my Disney Plus series-One"

Very interesting. I'll be curious to see reviews of the quality of those. I'm kind of in love with the Gunpla-esque quality and ease of construction of the Bandai SW kits (the Bandai 1:48 ATST is an absolute joy to build) . Old SW kits were not always great but an affordable B-wing is hard to say no to. 1:64 would probably look fine alongside 1:56 minis, especially if built without a figure in the cockpit.

Note that Amazon has the B-Wing called 1:144 in the title, but the listing has what I assume is the correct 1:64 scale listed.

It does seem like the price for the Snap-together X-wing (1:63) has gone up a bit at $32. I'm pretty sure my son and I bought and built that same kit not long back for $20 bucks or less and it's a pretty basic kit. The Bandai kits are only 1:72, but cost less than $30, both Rebellion and Resistance models are available and they are probably flawless in construction and execution.

There's a nice poetic justice in using SW kits to kitbash things, since the original studio models were a product of much kitbashing themselves.

Man, I fondly remember that AT-AT model set.

The ships would probably look good as terrain on a Legion board - with Fett's ship, you could even do a Bespin mission trying to stop him from getting away with Han in carbonite.

I missed the X-Wing

https://www.amazon.com/MPC-Star-Wars-X-Wing-Fighter/dp/B091Z7BBP5/



But it has terrible reviews, some of the worst I have seen.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I missed the X-Wing

https://www.amazon.com/MPC-Star-Wars-X-Wing-Fighter/dp/B091Z7BBP5/



But it has terrible reviews, some of the worst I have seen.

Yeah, it'd take some real work to make it right. For the price, I wouldn't recommend it.

Spotted in Hobby Lobby, some new Bandai mini kits. I have some of their Imperial Star Destroyers, small (~3") but so, so well made. A real joy to build.

They have the gorilla At-At from the sequels and a set of Vader's TIE and a vanilla one. Also saw the double set of the Death Star II and ISD.

Much rejoicing at Casa Kyoto, the 'Havoc Marauder' shuttle from Bad Batch is getting a model in late 2022. The Lambda Imperial Shuttle is one of my favorites and the Marauder is basically a more aggressive version of it.

https://www.culttvmanshop.com/Star-Wars_c_7.html

https://www.culttvmanshop.com/PREORODER-Star-Wars-Bad-Batch--Havoc-Marauder--1144-scale-from-Round-2AMT--3399--PREORDER-RESERVATION-_p_7268.html



Alternate vendor
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/218627

It's 1/144 but at 8.5" long, 10" wingspan it can work for 28mm gaming.

$34

Does anyone make like 32mm-40mm sized Gundam miniatures/models? I have searched but can not seem to find anything.

Sounds like a great kit, but it's going to have a pretty tiny cockpit in 28mm. The 1/89 ish (aprox. HO scale )classic kit of the Lambda might be better on a 28mm table if you can find one at a good price

 Nicorex wrote:
Does anyone make like 32mm-40mm sized Gundam miniatures/models? I have searched but can not seem to find anything.

Only Bandai makes Gundam kits. For that, you're looking at either 1/60 scale Perfect Grades (on the small side - more like 25-28mm, stupidly expensive), or 1/48 Mega Size Models (sizing is going to be a bit closer to 30mm, much more affordable when they were first released, I believe these are now out of production and there were only a handful of suits produced, so its probably slim pickings and not any cheaper than Perfect Grade)

FWIW here's how my Lambda shuttle came out.

I added a cargo box on the bottom to give it some carrying capability.

It's about the same dimensions as the Marauder kit.

Thanks for that. Looks great. Mine is still in the box as I haven't decided whether to do it up SW or give it some other treatment.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Nicorex wrote:
Does anyone make like 32mm-40mm sized Gundam miniatures/models? I have searched but can not seem to find anything.

Only Bandai makes Gundam kits. For that, you're looking at either 1/60 scale Perfect Grades (on the small side - more like 25-28mm, stupidly expensive), or 1/48 Mega Size Models (sizing is going to be a bit closer to 30mm, much more affordable when they were first released, I believe these are now out of production and there were only a handful of suits produced, so its probably slim pickings and not any cheaper than Perfect Grade)

Pretty sure they're asking for models that are 32-40mm in size, not at scale.

There's 1/300 scale Gundam models.There's also the bottle cap figures and Gashapon toys.



That's one of the 1/300 kits next to an assembled one, the box, and some of the bottle cap figures. You can see the wall plugs near them for scale.

It's risky to depend on a toy's stated scale, but here's a few numbers. A 1/144 model is around 4.75 inches tall.

A 1/300 scale Gundam then will be around 2.3 inches or 60mm.

1/400 exists also and that would get you closer. Looks like you can still find them on eBay..

It's a bit outdated, but Necromundicon has a look at some of the different scales of small Gundam.

http://www.ironhands.com/gundam.htm

Anyone heard if Andor, Boba Fett or Kenobi will get models or toys?

Or is Bad Batch the toyettic show?

Boba Fett and Kenobi have action figures and a few other things, but nothing suitable for Wargaming yet.

Hoping for a decent sized Rogue 1 cargo shuttle (the 4 wing one) or the landing barge style First Order shuttles in Force Awakens.