04-24-2020, 12:03 PM
(04-24-2020, 07:49 AM)JAWS Wrote: Welcome. You've chosen a difficult model for your first replica.
Yes I search on the Web and on the forum and I realize that some kits will be very hard to find like Aurora Sealab, Bandai 1/48 kits, and Tamiya Sherman and the tracks links will be a challenge. I am thinking at two options for now, a long time one making the real one studio scale but it will take me years to find all the kits, or perhaps down scale by divide by two using 1/32 scale Sherman parts and 1/48 scale parts for the 1/24 kits like harrier and scratch-built the other parts. I saw somewhere that the original movie model was around 1/35 1/36 scale so divide by two it will be around 1/72 scale could be a cool project too.
The two first steps for me are
1) I have to find good measuring to make a corell draw drawing of the main structure panels to laser cut them in MDf
2) Find a exhaustive list of the kits and parts with their quantity needed for the project. I saw there is some very interesting topic on the forum that will help me a lot.
I saw also that you have this project too, and that you have bought the mdf kit, I see their website but it is very expensive for MDf panels $950.00 !
Have you identified all the parts, will you make a RC model of the Sandcrawler or a static one?
Kind regards,
Rodolphe