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North Star Models
« on: November 20, 2012, 05:35:02 AM »
Found this while perusing Sprue Brothers site:

http://store.spruebrothers.com/product_p/nsmns35002.htm

It's a resin kit in 1/35 of the ARV-AL XM-1219 Mule.  the turret could go on so many other vehicles, and the chassis has all sorts of Whiffability.


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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2012, 06:01:12 PM »
Great find!!!  I must have!

Edit:  order placed. 8)
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2012, 06:09:36 PM »
Here is the website for North Star Models:  http://northstarmodels.com/index.html
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2012, 07:55:57 PM »
Great find!!!  I must have!

Edit:  order placed. 8)

Am I jealous?  Why yes, why do you ask?   I'll be waiting for the review of this one.

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2015, 07:41:04 AM »
North Star has a series of 3D printed naval figures in 1/350 and 1/700 scale. I bought three sets of the 1/700 figures from Freetime Hobbies: http://www.freetimehobbies.com/north-star-models-68/

US Navy set 1, US Navy set 2 and IJN Pilots. Set 2 had one figure loose in the bag.

IJN Pilots (38 on the wafer):





US Navy Set 1 (about 71 figures)






US Navy set 2 (about 75 figures)






Here is Set 2 against a steel ruler (scale in mm):


The figures are in the same poses as their 1/350 counterparts.

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2015, 10:40:52 PM »
Wow great resolution on that printer.

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2015, 11:06:11 PM »
That process could be used for making war games figures from the ancients and horse and musket periods as well. Ready made squares and phalanxes. That's if it hasn't been done already


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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2015, 02:31:46 AM »
I thought that too…except painting the middle ones would be a bugger.
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2015, 04:39:33 AM »
I have the 1/350 scale version of some of these sets and removing those figures is not easy. I may try to remove a couple of figures from the edge and compare them to Eduard 1/700 PE figures.

When I printed some 1/700 and 1/1000 figures, I had the "sprue" connections on their backs, which made them easy to remove but were not efficient use of space.

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2015, 05:03:49 AM »
Found this while perusing Sprue Brothers site:

http://store.spruebrothers.com/product_p/nsmns35002.htm

It's a resin kit in 1/35 of the ARV-AL XM-1219 Mule.  the turret could go on so many other vehicles, and the chassis has all sorts of Whiffability.


That would be freaky looking coming down the street!

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2015, 07:42:22 AM »
That process could be used for making war games figures from the ancients and horse and musket periods as well. Ready made squares and phalanxes. That's if it hasn't been done already

Have a look at 6mm (1/300) and 2mm (1/700) scale wargames figures.

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2016, 05:27:41 AM »
New one:  54 mm PostNuclear Sniper resin figure

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2016, 05:36:59 AM »
Something else that might be of interest:  1/72 and 1/48 Soviet Civil aviations decals and figures
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2016, 04:03:50 AM »
A new pair:

1/48 Kamov Ka-8:



54mm Soviet Pioneer Girl on the Hoverbike:

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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2016, 04:10:44 AM »
Most interesting!  :) Pretty sure I've seen the girl on the scooter as a drawing on deviantArt.

EDIT: Found it! LINK!
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2021, 02:54:39 AM »
1/32 M35 MAKO from MassEffect - their email said 1/35 but I think that was a typo.  Mind you, it could be 1/35 if you wanted it to be:



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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2021, 06:45:29 AM »
@GTX/Greg: The cutting mat is configured with 1cm spacing on the grid and is 27cm across on the long axis.  So based on that, the size of the vehicle in taking up most of the space across the grid would suggest that it is 1:32nd/1:35th scale in size.  :smiley:






***edit to fix measurement increments.--- jjf
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Re: North Star Models
« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2021, 12:02:12 AM »
Interesting kit engineering in that you could snarf the undercarriage for another project and re-purpose the body with tracks or other wheels.
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