I built mine a couple weeks ago. I used some of the excess flat pieces of plastic to make alignment plates to join the halves of the walls together and glue them, this makes the seams join very straight and gives them a large surface to glue to.
It looks pretty good. Those little "nipples" on the detailed faces are inherent to the vacuum formed process. Each one of them are the point where the holes are to pull or suck the styrene into the mold. They will unfortunately always be there unless they switch to a hydraulic form process.
I was just starting to build the same kit and it looks like there is a lot of excess plastic to slice off around the walls and inside the windows. I might have to break out my mini dremel tool with a micro tooth circular saw blade.
The kit is actually very bad. The window frames don't fit into the opening and the roof didn't fit into the grooves at all. I then built everything myself. I definitely wouldn't buy it again. In general, Miniart kits are not the best.
same, and agree. the roof doesn't align with the grooves provided, and the windows are larger than the actual holes (never accounted this with Tamiya so far). And they don't have a color pallet too...
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When I was building scale kits ,1/48th,,1/32,1/35. this never existed , 1973 to 2002. I scratched built what I needed. So simpler now. Thank you
I think it is more fun to do the buildings yourself from scratch. I think i might pick up my old hobby from the 80's.
I built mine a couple weeks ago. I used some of the excess flat pieces of plastic to make alignment plates to join the halves of the walls together and glue them, this makes the seams join very straight and gives them a large surface to glue to.
Great review...
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It looks pretty good. Those little "nipples" on the detailed faces are inherent to the vacuum formed process. Each one of them are the point where the holes are to pull or suck the styrene into the mold. They will unfortunately always be there unless they switch to a hydraulic form process.
I used a heated flat front Xacto blade and just flattened them, if you try to slice them off some of them leave holes.
I was just starting to build the same kit and it looks like there is a lot of excess plastic to slice off around the walls and inside the windows. I might have to break out my mini dremel tool with a micro tooth circular saw blade.
How large (in mm) are the rectangular holes for the windows and doors?
That is kool
Like to buy it. I'm from mlaysia
The kit is actually very bad. The window frames don't fit into the opening and the roof didn't fit into the grooves at all. I then built everything myself. I definitely wouldn't buy it again. In general, Miniart kits are not the best.
same, and agree. the roof doesn't align with the grooves provided, and the windows are larger than the actual holes (never accounted this with Tamiya so far). And they don't have a color pallet too...