Bandai

[Mossie]

I'm hoping I'm getting the R2-D2 and R2-D4 set for my 40th birthday, I put it on the list as on outside chance (I've got enough models, apparently)!

One my twin girls let something slip the other day though so fingers crossed.  I'll be made up if it's artoo and red, although it may be the set with BB-8.  I've really warmed to the little guy since seeing the latest film, so I'll be happy either way.

I'm not a great lover of C-3PO as a character (the older I get, the more he irritates me) but the model looks lovely, want one.

[Weaver]

1/72nd scale Millenium Falcon coming in the Autumn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGoJv3vmLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doIZ8hMXfqs

[PR19_Kit]

1/72nd scale Millenium Falcon coming in the Autumn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGoJv3vmLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doIZ8hMXfqs

That's pretty darned awesome! 

[Dizzyfugu]

A new mould, or is it just a rebox of the Fine Molds kit (which used to go for insane prices after it had been discontinued)? 

[Thorvic]

A new mould, or is it just a rebox of the Fine Molds kit (which used to go for insane prices after it had been discontinued)? 

New tooling but still at an insane rice 

[jcf]

Hardcore Sci-fi modellers won't blink at a $400USD price, especially as it comes with just about everything
including a purpose designed lighting kit. If you know any 'studio scale' modellers they pay absolutely
gobsmacking prices for resin kits that are sometimes surprisingly crude. Bandai Perfect Grade are the
exact opposite. I know sci-fi modellers who easily end up spending a couple hundred bucks at least on
'improving' an Enterprise kit, and I'm not talking about the 1/350 kit, a package deal for that kit,
kit, lighting kit and paragrafix PE set will easily get you up to @$320USD and it's nowhere near a Bandai
PG kit in terms accuracy, detail and sheer build-ability. Bandai's kit engineering and moulding is unequaled
by any other current model kit producer.

Anyhow I wouldn't buy one for the half the price as the Falcon has never done anything for me, the
Snowspeeder is the only SW machine I like. 

[Weaver]

Hardcore Sci-fi modellers won't blink at a $400USD price, especially as it comes with just about everything
including a purpose designed lighting kit. If you know any 'studio scale' modellers they pay absolutely
gobsmacking prices for resin kits that are sometimes surprisingly crude. Bandai Perfect Grade are the
exact opposite. I know sci-fi modellers who easily end up spending a couple hundred bucks at least on
'improving' an Enterprise kit, and I'm not talking about the 1/350 kit, a package deal for that kit,
kit, lighting kit and paragrafix PE set will easily get you up to @$320USD and it's nowhere near a Bandai
PG kit in terms accuracy, detail and sheer build-ability. Bandai's kit engineering and moulding is unequaled
by any other current model kit producer.

Anyhow I wouldn't buy one for the half the price as the Falcon has never done anything for me, the
Snowspeeder is the only SW machine I like. 

and you can get the 1/52nd one from Revell with only slightly bent barrels for only £6.00....

[jcf]

Anyhow I wouldn't buy one for the half the price as the Falcon has never done anything for me, the
Snowspeeder is the only SW machine I like. 

and you can get the 1/52nd one from Revell with only slightly bent barrels for only £6.00....

I picked up the 1/48 Bandai kit for $20.00. 
Gorgeous kit, definitely worth it. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Just came across this neat (and cheap!) accessory kit - mecha stuff, but I can see many other (whiffy) uses for it... a tiltrotor kit for an 1:144 Gundam robot, to be released in May 2018:



..and this is its intended use:




More here: https://hlj.com/product/bann25747

[zenrat]

I need a few of them.  Hope they are cheap.

[Weaver]

Just a heads up:

Some retailers, notably Jadlam Racing, are selling Bandai's "1/144th scale" Razor Crest model (from The Mandalorian) at heavily discounted prices. However, all is not as it seems, and you should read some reviews before buying. The problem is that Bandai make no claim as to the scale or size of the model, but Revell do, claiming it to be 1/144th scale and 185mm long. However reviewers have measured it, and it's nowhere near that length, being more like 120mm at the most. This leads them to estimate it's scale at about 1/200th. It also has no painting instructions and no decals.

Don't get me wrong: it looks like it builds up into a nice enough display model, but it's not a big as you might think it is.

[jcf]

The Revell website states 1/220.

Razorcrest

[Weaver]

The Revell website states 1/220.

Razorcrest

They must have fixed it fairly recently then. This is what it said in 2023:


(From here: https://www.kitreviewsonline.de/star-wars-razor-crest-in-1144-von-bandai-revell-01213/)

This is what it says now:

Discover the highly detailed Bandai Razor Crest model kit On a scale of 1: 220, which enables you to recreate the mandalorian's legendary spaceship with his own hands. This model, recommended for fans from 10 years, consists of 23 precisely manufactured parts, which together result in an impressive model with the dimensions 110 mm length, 74 mm width and 73 mm height.

[zenrat]

Razorcrest always looks unfinished to me.  Like it needs wings and a tail like a "proper" sci fi movie spaceship.  You know, one which needs wings and control surfaces to "fly" in space where its engines inhale vacuum through their gaping intakes while the 'pew pew pew' sound of their guns ring out as they swoop...

I have the urge to kitbash one with a B25.  Is there a 1/72 Razorcrest?

[Mossie]

Yup. Not cheap, but it's a large model.

Not my favourite either, needs S-foils.

https://finescale.com/product-info/kit-reviews/2023/04/workbench-review-amt-172-scale-star-wars-the-mandalorian-razor-crest-plastic-model-kit