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finemolds stuff is great but its sooooooooo small

ANYone who's looking for out of date Star Trek kits should check out ebay. Yes some of the older hard to find kits will go for big cash but you can still get alot of them for origanal cost or just over. I just got a relient new mint in box for $20. A Kazon ship for $8. A Enterprise D for $30. However I did watch a Exclecior go for $55 and a few others go for a whole lot more. It just depends on what your willing to pay and when you come into a auction.

QUOTE: Originally posted by SNOOPY I went to CULTTVMAN.COM a couple of times and for and Enterprise-A model by AMT/ERTL the asking price was about $100.00. I do not know about you people but for a kit that originally sold for about $30.00 that is just way too much. Since then I have found a bunch of Star Trek models from AMT at swap meet and other types of shows for $10.00 to $15.00 dollars. In my opinion, look around before order through the CULTTVMAN.COM website. That's just my opinion.

Well, back in 1999, I wrote an article for the now defunct Sci Fi & Fantasy Models on building a Mk IX Hawk from Space:1999. If the legal questions over copyright could be sorted out, I'm sure that, if the interest was there, I could submit that

I am looking for translations of instruction manuals for Gundam Master grade kits or a source of same. I am a new poster and would like to hear from other's with same intrest.

I too have been disappointed by the lack of Sci-Fi and figures in the pages of FSM in recent years. As more and more coverage is devoted to armor. Yes, I know that our genre is a small segment of the hobby and is to some point looked down on. However, it is part of the overall hobby and therefore deserves some coverage. Besides, increased coverage and information can promote interest and enthusiasm. That is how other segments of the hobby can become larger, but maybe that's the point. Having read post in other boards, this field is generally looked at with disdain. What better way to keep us from growing is to not promote. I could be all wrong on that last assumption, just thinking outloud. I do know for a fact though that when I attend local shows sci-fi and figures have lots of people looking them over. People seem to enjoy them. Maybe it's because these kits are like a pop culture sampling. Something the average Joe or Jane can relate to. For the guy or gal who doesn't know his B-52 from a P-51. Who knows?

Rogue

Well, I hate to say it, but the general (well, relative) lack of posting in this sci-fi forum is a pretty good (or bad) indicator of how popular (or unpopular) this genre is. I check it out everytime I log on, but am usually disappointed by the lack of response to topics in this forum. Too bad, because I enjoy modeling in this genre just as much as armor or aircraft modeling.

Oh Contrare,

Actually, as in politics, the majority is a silent majority, these days.

I think the direction that Polar LIghts is taking is a great direction.
They are offering 2 different scale ship lines. One large scale for those who have the room to display them or to really build up a single favorite ship. The smaller scale will allow those of us to have a complete line.

Bandai is offering a line that is out of scale but offers pre-colored ships where we can have some great models (not replicas), of all of our favorite ships with fully functional lighting systems.

The interest is there, just give us a chance to see the models and express our experiences from building them. I, for one, am looking forward to these models which will be eons better than what Ertl ever offered..

for those of you who complain about the models not being 100 percent accurate. Hell, even the studio models were different during the shoot of any given movie.

That's true, there's tons and tons of cool stuff out there.
Not many of us seem to want to talk about it, though!
Let's post, folks!

Yeah... we need more activity in the Sci - Fi forum, the last model I finished was a Romulan Warbird and before that an Enterprise D that took a first place at a local show, I'm slooowwwwwly working on a Runabout and a space shuttle.

I'm done, Who's Next?

Madd Dawg