11-18-2012, 10:34 PM
It is large, but unfortunately the real cost on it is based mostly in the amount of greeblies. I had to make 16 full approx 4inchx 7 inch injection type molds for just the greeblies. That does not include the body, other big parts, and engine bells. It took a lot of mold material, and it takes hours and hours to pour, demold and reset 16 full molds of tiny kit parts, more than i care to remember. The issue is that all of those had to be cast off the body because the body is rotocast and foam filled, rotocasting does not capture fine details like kit parts consistently enough like pressure casting, rotocasting is best for "naked" big parts. I did my best to keep the casting fee for Dave low but it's an extraordinary amount of labor, i could cast 2 "normal" kits in the time it takes me to cast 1 Epod, maybe 3, and if Epod parts are in the pressure pot, I am not getting anything else done.
I totally understand the sticker shock on it, I think part of it is that it's a secondary ship so it's "value" is not as easy to calculate as something like a viper. I hope that Dave can move an few more in the spring, but i totally understand if it does not move as well as the PDroid, which is another kit that has tons of parts......I need to get back to some simple kits, these kits with like 200 parts are killing me.....
mike
I totally understand the sticker shock on it, I think part of it is that it's a secondary ship so it's "value" is not as easy to calculate as something like a viper. I hope that Dave can move an few more in the spring, but i totally understand if it does not move as well as the PDroid, which is another kit that has tons of parts......I need to get back to some simple kits, these kits with like 200 parts are killing me.....
mike