So, for all you BSG fans, check out the SIZE of the new Moebius Cylon Raider!!! Pictured below is the original Revell kit, the MONSTER in the middle and the Moebius Colonial Viper beside. This ship is 1/32 scale!! Finally a model company realized the sheer size of these ships. Heck, the pilots sit side by side, so, it stands to reason, this ship would have been huge:

Added this pic for fun. Here's the original Mattel toy Raider with the Revell version then the monster Moebius:

Yes, Gents, that IS an 18" ruler under the ship!!!

Wow Rob, I'd just assumed the new Raider was the same scale as the old Monogram kit. It did carry a crew of three Centurions so yeah I guess it would be somewhat bigger than the Viper.  

This beast takes up my whole workspace!!

I just got that beast added to the stash and you know it will have to be lighted! It will be easy with the size of it

Phil

P mitch

I just got that beast added to the stash and you know it will have to be lighted! It will be easy with the size of it

Phil

that thing is big enough to not only light but have some cylon figures with their lit visors, or am in talking about the wrong cylons.

waynec

P mitch

I just got that beast added to the stash and you know it will have to be lighted! It will be easy with the size of it

Phil

that thing is big enough to not only light but have some cylon figures with their lit visors, or am in talking about the wrong cylons.

Yes, they should be lit up. As far as I know all Cylons had glowing red eyes except the humanform ones in Galactica 1980 and Galactica 2004.  

So, I am very much unfamiliar with the Revell snaptite pre-painted kits (Slave 1). It looks really good OOB and normally I would be fine building it as is.

However, I want to paint it, even if it will pretty much look the same when I'm done. So I decided to try and strip the paint off last night. My normal method is Purple Power and a tooth brush. The paint is not coming off. Luckily I just tried it on the engines.

Is there something better that will remove the paint?

Do I even need to remove the paint? Can it just be painted over?

Thanks!

Hmmm, I'd think just painting over would work.

I've used soaking in Simple Green or oven cleaner before if you have to take the paint off.  

i have used simple green too. i stumbled across and interesting effect i may try on next camo pattern using simple green. i also use testors paint and decal remover. DON'T LET THINKS SOAK LONG IN IT. it will start to melt details. i let it sit for a few minutes, scrub and wipe than drop the pirce in a tub of water to make sure all is off. sometimes it takes multiple applications.

Hog, are you sure it's paint and not the plastic molded in color?  Either way, you could just shoot a coat of primer and paint as desired.

Hi Wayne,

I like your thinking here. If you'll have me, I'd like to join up with the FineMolds 1/48 scale Star Wars Snow Speeder. If that's all right with you, I'll get the sucker ordered ASAP.

Thanks!

Tim

Wayne,

Since Tim's signing on, I have to get on board with Moebius' 1/4105 scale (what scale is that, Tim?) Battlestar Pegasus with ParaGrafix photoetched metal details and the Madman Lighting system.

Cheers, Aaron

Looking forward to the BSP build, Aaron.  My wife and I just finished watching the entire series via Netflix and we thought it was pretty good.

Here's an update on my MPC X-Wing:

I've assembled the engines and sanded then as seamlessly as I could.  The fit of the parts is not very great but they are manageable.  Getting all the plumbing to line up and then making it seamless was a real chore.  After I lined them up as best I could I used a razor saw to sort of dig out the spaces in between the piping.  Then I went over them with liquid cement to sort of soften up any scratches or marks that I couldn't sand out (without sanding off the piping):

The wires are obviously the LED wires.

In order to get the wires as hidden as possible I'll have to cut and re solder them after I assemble the s-foils.  Oh well.

Fly-n-hi

Looking forward to the BSP build, Aaron.  My wife and I just finished watching the entire series via Netflix and we thought it was pretty good.

Aaron Skinner

Fly-n-hi

Looking forward to the BSP build, Aaron.  My wife and I just finished watching the entire series via Netflix and we thought it was pretty good.

It's a wee bit dark, especially to watch in one long session, but it is a great series. And the ships are wicked cool!

I like what you are doing on the MPC X-wing. I have one of these 3/4 done in my stash and I need to ust knuckle under and finish it.

Thanks, Aaron!

Yeah, the ships are cool!  I bought a Moebius Viper Mk II with the Paragrafix PE set after we watched it.  My wife was like "You should build one of those!"  When I build it I'm gonna try to weather the heck out of it!

I'd love it if they came out with a Raptor.

BSG season 3 almost killed me. I had to opt out half way through and take some time off. When Syfy geared up for season 4, it played a marathon of season 3, and that's when I stepped back in. I was a serious fan up until the end--which left me, shall we say, flaccid? 

And yes, cool ships! I've loved the Viper since I was a wee bairn. In fact, I have a Moebius BSG OS model on my desk right now--mostly built. Care to guess which one?

By the way, I thought you guys might like this link. This photographer likes to take realistic photos of Star Wars toys and models. Some of the ship shots are incredible. He uses a super-high shutter speed and tosses sand or snow or whatever at the subjects to get the effects he wants. Here you go!

Thanks for the site, the artistry is phenomenal.

Tim, those photos of the LEGO figures and ships reminds me of when I was a kid and LEGOs were still fairly new.  I remember they had this kind of paperback book that told a story using only pictures of the LEGO kits.  It started out with the city kits and then moved into the space kits.  It was a sort of catalogue/advertisement for the kits, of course.

The pictures in that link you provided seem just like the pictures in that old book (actually it resembled a magazine more than a book).

In any event its really cool!

Wow cool find there Tim! I love the backyard Falcon and the Y-wings in the parking lot!

welcome to all the latest folks to join.

season 4 of FALLING SKIES starts up soon. just got 1st season of CONTINUUM to try out. if i ever get halfway caught up in my building i may need a 3 day BABYLON 5 marathon. i do have a space station in the stash. probably has leas parts than the left side half track suspension on a DRAGON M-3.

and i have the T-2 tank on preorder.

I'm finishing up my run of an episode a day of 'Thriller' this week and am debating to start 'FarScape' again or 'The Twilight Zone'....

I have the same B5 kit Wayne, I wasn't that impressed either, the Star Fury is pretty nice but the station is tiny and had decals for almost all the detail. Not sure it was ever reissued, wonder if I should built it or hang on to it as a collector's item.

On the subject of B5 I read a humour website years back about a 'mobile brothel' ship in the core of every Centari fleet for... um... ah... 'morale purposes' and thought it would be an.... interesting thing to model. Not sure it would go by Tim and Aaron though!  

FARSCAPE. maybe i'll do that instead of B5.  so does a centauri brothel ship have red lights?

FRELL YEAH Wayne!!!

I forgot  that 'FarScape' did have probably the most um... 'easy on the eye' female cast of any TV series I've seen.

Gee, do all Australian women look that??? 

Not sure about the Centauri- I was going to paint it the typical violet and gold with lots of bling- red lights would fit right in! 

Australia doesn't have a space program and there are more Ausies in space than Russians. just an observation.  just pulled out the FARSCAPE DVDs.

As host, i am ending this line of discussion because

1. i know any discussion of space babes will take us off topic and

2. the following graphic says all that needs to be said. stay shiny.

Ok this goes against all that is sane, but put me down for a ARII 1/20000 Zentradi warship from the series Robotech,  I ran across it in my stash a couple of months ago.

John

falconmod

Ok this goes against all that is sane, but put me down for a ARII 1/20000 Zentradi warship from the series Robotech,  I ran across it in my stash a couple of months ago.

John

DUDE! My inner 10-year-old is going insane! That is pure awesome!

I'll get some pictures of the models itself over the weekend.  And just to drive that ten year old nuts I'll let you know I have a large bucket of robotech models in my stash, from the vf-1a Valkyries, to the large mech robots, way cool stuff, I wish I would have had more money when they were on the shelves then I'd have even more of them, bruuuu haa haa haa!!!!   resistance IS futile!!

On the other hand weathering this thing to look like it's really 3000 meters long will be a fun challenge.

John

falconmod

Ok this goes against all that is sane, but put me down for a ARII 1/20000 Zentradi warship from the series Robotech,  I ran across it in my stash a couple of months ago.

John

I have to agree with you Tim!  First thing I did when I got back from Iraq was buy the remastered series on DVD...would love to get my hands on some Robotech kits.