snap tight models

some people call Gundams snaptites and want to place them in Snaptite catagory in shows. My gundams--even out of the box--are far more complex than the typical 8 or 10 part snaptite kit.

Its your model, its made of the same plastic, just have fun bulding it

smeagol the vile wrote:

a model is a model, you can do whatever you want with them.  If its one of the revell starwars kits, then it just means that there pre colored and prepainted, sort of, that you can snap them together and display (for kids). but honestly, you can do with them exactly what you would any other kit.  I have the At-Rt, it would have been gorgous, a nice intermediate blue detailing over a white kit, alot of damage, wearing of the blue paint, worn off numberings.  Looked amazing, that is, untill I left it to close ot my spraying area and it got a nice dusting of red. REPAINT!!! I have one, havent started it yet....

Snaptight kits are definitely "workable" this is one 1/48 "snaptite stealth fighter", and two 1/72 "snaptite stealth fighters", with "details", and scratchbuilt weapons.

Thanks for the sound advice to all. Like I said before. "Good advice is priceless."

Regards,

D.

OMG this is why mecha people need to post in this forum.

People dont know the crap we go through to get our kits like yours.

There are a few ways of fixing the anus like tightness of the snap kits. 

1) You take a file to the peg, and sand it down.  You dont sand it enough that it is gone, just make it smaller.

2) You take an exacto blade, stick it in the female hole (brutal imagry...) and twist.  It carves the hole larger, a few twists and its perfect.  The only issue is some female holes are either to large for the exacto to twist properly, because of the shape, OR the sides of the hole are to thin, and it would destoy it.  If either is the case, just sand down the peg.

Doing either of these will allow it to slide into place, creating those almost perfect evennesses we have come to love in scifi kits between pieces.  Itl also allow for easy construction and deconstruction, to learn what order you will paint.

If I was better at my craft then I am, I would do a step by step from the very beinning (like, this early of a stage) untill finishing, using AM parts, and metal upgrades, of how to build a gunpla, and send it to fsm

Yup. I'll echo stv. Snap tites are the same as any other model; you can glue, paint and modify them to your hearts content w/ no special skills or tools.

The detail on them tends to be a little soft, but they're usually pretty cheap, so you can experiment w/ all sorts of scratch building techniques w/ little consequence for failure.

Just don't go assembling them before you're ready to leave them that way. Sometimes those snapped together parts can be real hard to separate.

a model is a model, you can do whatever you want with them.  If its one of the revell starwars kits, then it just means that there pre colored and prepainted, sort of, that you can snap them together and display (for kids).

but honestly, you can do with them exactly what you would any other kit.  I have the At-Rt, it would have been gorgous, a nice intermediate blue detailing over a white kit, alot of damage, wearing of the blue paint, worn off numberings.  Looked amazing, that is, untill I left it to close ot my spraying area and it got a nice dusting of red.