THE CLUBHOUSE

Has anyone purchased one yet? I'm looking for good acrylic metallic colors to use on her from dark to the silver/copper/bronze that the original was painted. Any suggestions?

Hi there,

This is a superb build review of the kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-iZc4wFII

It has lots of advice on assembly, metallic colours as well as lighting the base. Very cool, I am certainly tempted to get one!

Cheers,
Paul

I bought it, great old school kit, great likeness as well.

Thanks Paul. Heading over there now. Michael

Tiger2 wrote:Hi there,

This is a superb build review of the kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-iZc4wFII

It has lots of advice on assembly, metallic colours as well as lighting the base. Very cool, I am certainly tempted to get one!

Cheers,
Paul

Tiger2 wrote:Hi there,

This is a superb build review of the kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-iZc4wFII

It has lots of advice on assembly, metallic colours as well as lighting the base. Very cool, I am certainly tempted to get one!

Cheers,
Paul

Wow. Having skimmed that video I'm very glad I didn't buy the kit. At that scale, for that price, I would have expected at least slightly better fit of parts, but more importantly I would have expected the parts to be in gold or silver plastic.

I am liking the kit. One of the irritating parts is the way the larger parts are connected to the sprue. I forgot to take a picture of it because I wanted to email X-Plus and complain and ask why they did that. Did anyone take a pic of the attachment and can I get a copy? A friend told me Tamiya kits are attached like this but I don't have any Tamiya kits to check it out. Thanks.

mjbare wrote:I am liking the kit. One of the irritating parts is the way the larger parts are connected to the sprue. I forgot to take a picture of it because I wanted to email X-Plus and complain and ask why they did that. Did anyone take a pic of the attachment and can I get a copy? A friend told me Tamiya kits are attached like this but I don't have any Tamiya kits to check it out. Thanks.

Undergating is very popular in Japanese kits, and is especially useful in kits that have parts that are to be plated. I usually use a sanding stick to sand parts that are gated on the side, so I don't have any issue sanding the underside of a part - same thing. I imagine that in the future X-plus will release plated versions of the kit as well, and undergating will certainly be appropriate for that...

Rebwares, thanks for the information. There are a couple of pieces of the robot where the seam is between two "fins" so to speak. Puttying and sanding that small area seam is a bit of a challenge. Guess you can say it helps you problem solve and grow as a modeler.

A one hour kit to paint one can of silver spray your choice and you done.
It's just that easy.

Nope. Going to for another metallic look.

Testors Metalizers have discontinued ...

Going to try Vallejo metallics for Maria.