Category MarioMaker

Here is my Probe Droid. I saw this kit from Dreams Scale Model here on Modeler Magic (Click HERE to View The KIT ALERT!) and I knew I had to have it.

When the model arrived, I inspected the castings and they were all clean, which is rare these days. Most of the resin kits I buy from the states are usually pretty bad with castings from RTVs dating 10+ years, but this kit from Spain’s Sergio Gutierrez looked professional and in fact, had a link to a professional casting service instead of someone casting garbage parts in their back year during a heat wave.

The top “head” and body are rotocasted so they are essentially hollow...

I normally build resin kits but every so often, get an injection molded kit and build that.

This is a Thunderbird 2 kit from De Agostini Model Space. I bought it as a full kit instead of subscription and quickly built the model.

Since this is injection molded and I’m sure designed in CAD and tooled, parts fit, so it was pretty easy to slap it together.

I have no interest in the electronics and lighting because it looks too Toys R Us like so I never bother putting batteries in. Instead, build it as a display model.

The body is molded in the red and greens but I went ahead and added a few custom made decals to enhance the realism and was too lazy to pull out the airbrush, so I used pastels to weather the body. This was built so quickly, I didn’t even bother using solveset on the decals...

I bought and built this model in the early 90s and it was a fun built. Very simple and straightforward. Easy paint job. Really easy in fact. So easy I had to buy it.

It’s the BIG GUYs from Dark Horse comics and Rusty the Boy Robot. Check out the comic if it’s still available.

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The BBQ was battery operated. It had a spinning cylinder with tiny mirror reflectors on it, so as it lit up, the reflectors simulated a roasting fire from below.

The house had an opening door and inside, you can see the interior with a sofa, rug and TV that lit up. There was a slide of the Jetsons displayed on the screen.

I sculpted the figures out of super sculpty while my coworkers helped with sculpting trees, poured resin into the hot tub, etc. House was sculpted and carved out of foam. Without their help, it would have been impossible to complete the task in time for the wedding.

The vacuum formed floor had to be removed before the cake underneath can be cut...

This model was built almost 30 years ago and has been stored in a box.

I’ve always loved the “football player with shoulder pads” design and found this kit someone was selling in the south west. Since nobody was making a plastic injection molded kit of this ship at the time and I found this resin kit, it was a no brainer. The kit itself wasn’t heavily detailed which is fine by me. It gave me a chance to ad more detail plating which is a lot of fun. It’s not a big model so the details added were very tiny, but then, my eyes were a lot better back then so it wasn’t a problem. Now as my eyes fade, my models seem to be much larger to compensate for my blurry vision.

The kit includes a Klingon logo as a base but I had no confidence that it was enough to hold the ship steady so I decided...

This (Golden Voyage of Sinbad) Kali model was purchased from Monsters in Motion almost 30 years ago. It’s been sitting there collecting dust and I finally got around to work on it. The body parts and base are resin while the hands are die-cast. I felt the base was outdated and decided to have black acrylic instead. In the movie it was never clear to me if the statue was bronze or stone. In the end, I made it a little bit of each so it’s stony bronze. Overall, it’s a fun kit to build, and even more fun to paint, since it’s so forgiving if you mess it up.
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Here is my Flintstone car I built in the late 80’s. The car is mostly made from foam and super sculpey. The wheels, seats and dashboard were foam, while the hard body was super sculpey.

After expressing my disappointment with a different Kit Maker’s Blockade Runner kit I had just purchased, my friend suggested I look into the ~39″ Korbanth Kit instead. They made a BR but at a scale that was very large. Looking at their website, the castings look decent enough so I took the plunge. The kit is too large for me, but since the castings were decent, I was OK with the scale.

The kit has clean castings and I was happy with them. One thing that the model needed help on was how it was engineered in its construction, specifically in the engine block which has to connect the tube fuselage in the front of the block and 11 engines in the back. This meant the engine block was going to be heavily stressed having holding on to the front and rear details...

This is a Tony Celliers Dynamic Digital Creations 1/17 T-70 X-Wing kit. My initial reaction reviewing the build doc was that it was going to be a tough build, but once I started the build, it turned out to be the opposite. Fact is, there aren’t really that many parts to the kit and the build is quite fun and not complicated. Kit has resin castings as well as 3D printed parts. The wings and interior wing mechanism is 3D printed. The fuselage section was made from two parts top and two bottoms, and I wanted everything to blend in so filler was used. I didn’t like the nose “cone” detail because it seem too large so I used the disc sander to shave it down closer to the fuselage profile...