Iain Posted May 18 Posted May 18 This is, of course, the forthcoming kit from Airscale: a place holder just now while I finish the 'in box' review I'm working on - but work *will* commence as soon as the review is 'live'. This will be built in the overall night scheme, as Tolga has already done such a fine job with building the earlier scheme from test print components. My thanks to Peter for sending us a copy for review! Will post separately when my initial review is live - hopefully later today... Tally Ho! Iain chukw, KUROK, Trak-Tor and 18 others 21
monthebiff Posted May 18 Posted May 18 What a beautifully packaged model, looking forward to both your build and review Iain. Regards. Andy Iain and Martinnfb 2
Bonkin Posted May 18 Posted May 18 Looking forward to starting on mine. Exciting times for model makers . Iain, Kagemusha and Martinnfb 3
Iain Posted May 18 Author Posted May 18 Review now live. Iain Bonkin, LSP_Ray, denders and 4 others 6 1
geedubelyer Posted May 18 Posted May 18 Great review Iain. It looks to be a real stunner and I can't wait to see what you do with it. Peter's attention to detail is staggering. The whole product appears to be unbelievably well thought out from the packaging to the layout and beyond. Exemplary. Tolga blazed the way with the pre-production test shot and now you can show us just how well the actual kit follows that class act. Bring it on! Tolga ULGUR, Martinnfb and Iain 2 1
Bonkin Posted May 19 Posted May 19 13 hours ago, Iain said: Review now live. Iain Great review. I'll be following along your build . Martinnfb 1
Iain Posted May 20 Author Posted May 20 Well, I've started 'tripping out' on LSD... That's Large Scale Defiant by the way - not something hallucinogenic - this Defiant is most definitely real! 🤣 First step - remove some delicate components from 'BOX B'. The 'safety curtain removed using a set of sharp, fine nosed, Tamiya side cutters - snip at the base of each pillar and it should snap right across. Be very careful to avoid damaging any of the contents! And we can now get to individual components... Back in a mo... Iain Martinnfb, Paul in Napier, Tolga ULGUR and 17 others 18 2
Iain Posted May 20 Author Posted May 20 As I suspect many purchasers of this kit, and other subjects now that the technology is spreading, will be new to dealing wiith 3D Printed parts, I'll try and walk you through some of the things to bear in mind, compared to normal injection-moulded kits. I think the Airscale Defient will encourage more modellers to dip a toe into the world of 3D Printed parts. Hopefully I'm not teaching you all to suck eggs - that's really not my intention - but if you're new to working with 3D Printed parts there may be some of the techniques that I use that might be helpful. Firstly - standard printed resin parts a brittle - can be fragile - and sometimes it's easy to mistake some of the detail for print supports and, consequently, remove something from the printed part accidentally! Secondly - standard printed resin parts a brittle - can be fragile - if you drop them on a hard surface they might shatter. Thirdly - standard printed resin parts a brittle - can be fragile - but don't get overly concerned by this - forewarned is forearmed. Just take your time and work methodically. If anything breaks you can, hopefully, prevent it pinging off into the ether, and just re-bond with a suitable cyanoacrylate glue. So, with the above in mind - here's something I do: I use the side cutters mentioned above and have a small plastic container underneath the print 'block' and try to capture any supports removed (some *will* ping off to nowhere - you won't stop that) - those support pieces just might include bits of model components that have either snapped off, or been cut off, accidentally... I then have a second tub to put all the separated kit parts in, ready for final prep: Iain Paul in Napier, Victor K2, Shoggz and 16 others 16 3
geedubelyer Posted May 20 Posted May 20 Ooh goody! It's beginning I imagine this may be similar to the build thread that Tolga created in some ways but ought to show exactly what folk can expect from the actual production version. Things like almost imperceptible layer lines for example? Thanks for the tips Iain. Eager to see more. Martinnfb and Iain 2
Iain Posted May 20 Author Posted May 20 Indeed - Tolga has led the field and the build will be a very similar process - just using production quality parts. This will also be a Night-Fighter, rather than the Day-Fighter version Tolga built. Very few kits have inspired me to just open the box and 'crack on' as this one has - so the decks were already cleared in preparation... Iain LSP_Kevin, Bonkin, Tolga ULGUR and 4 others 6 1
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