Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Daryl J. on March 19, 2013, 01:17:35 PM
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1:32 T-Rex
1:32 Triceratops
Jules Verne Nautilus
The sculpting on the dinosaurs looks fantastic and the sub is highly detailed and may include photoetch.
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Picked up the Terminator 2 HK drone after seeing it at the local model club meeting. Detail is not too bad, I would say around Italeri level. Soft in some areas, pretty refined in others.
http://culttvman.com/main/?p=28224 (http://culttvman.com/main/?p=28224)
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Picked up the Terminator 2 HK drone after seeing it at the local model club meeting. Detail is not too bad, I would say around Italeri level. Soft in some areas, pretty refined in others.
[url]http://culttvman.com/main/?p=28224[/url] ([url]http://culttvman.com/main/?p=28224[/url])
Is this still made from vinyl like the original kit? Or did they wise up and switch to injection molding?
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The Horizon kit is 1/35th, the new Pegasus kit is 1/32, and from the photos its
clear that the new version has nothing to do with the original.
The Horizon T2 kits were vinyl because they didn't have the financial resources to create
injection moulded kits.
Tellingly the instruction sheets credit a sculptor rather than a pattern maker. ;D
My copies of the Aerial H-K kit and the vinyl Nostromo are both asymmetrical and the H-K has
a horrible warp on the tail.
The new Pegasus Aerial H-K is very tempting and I may get one to realize an old concept:
a captured machine with a cockpit installed for human control, instrument panel, controls
and ejection seat, but windscreen only so it's open cockpit. It would be placed on it's landing
gear, which looks like it will be much easier to realize with the Pegasus version.
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This should make the fans of the Terminator franchise very happy:
(http://www.culttvmanshop.com/assets/images/pegasus/t2/peghuntkilltank02_thumbnail.jpg) (http://www.culttvmanshop.com/T2-Hunter-Killer-Tank-from-Pegasus-Hobbies-PREORDER-RESERVATION_p_2715.html)
T2 Hunter Killer Tank from Pegasus Hobbies (http://www.culttvmanshop.com/T2-Hunter-Killer-Tank-from-Pegasus-Hobbies-PREORDER-RESERVATION_p_2715.html) This kit is expected in late 2013 or early 2014.
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Oh yeah!!
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I heard the tank is part of the reason they 'downscaled' the HK, so that both could be put in a dio together and look correct.
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Umm, going from 1/35 to 1/32 is upscaling.
:icon_fsm:
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That's not what I meant. I mean the new styrene HK is smaller than the old vinyl one.
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saw this a few weeks ago & considered getting it as 1/32nd is close enough to 35th to back-date it into an interesting "real world" whif-tank - reasonable price too. Unfortunately I'm not buying kits anymore.
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That's not what I meant. I mean the new styrene HK is smaller than the old vinyl one.
Too funny, they do a major downsize, from 16" to 9.25" overall, and then state it's in a larger scale.
;D :-\
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Pegasus often has a problem with scaling their models properly; The most annoying example (to me) is their "When Worlds Collide" Space Ark. It's listed as being in 1/350 scale, but it's actually closer to 1/530. While you can fudge on the dimensions for most SF vehicles, you can't for the Space Ark; the dimensions are stated in the movie and clearly marked on a detailed blackboard drawing on the ship! How can they screw that up ? The shape and other dimensions are off, too.
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Two new releases:
1/144 Luna Rocketship (http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/p4479/%239111-Luna-Rocketship-1/144th-Scale/product_info.html)
(http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/images/luna%20box%20cover%201b%20med.jpg)
1/350 Cosmostrator (http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/Peg.-Plastic-Model-Kits-Science-Fiction-Rocket%27s-&-Ufo%27s/c7_28_26/p4480/%239114-Cosmostrator-1/350th-Scale/product_info.html)
(http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/images/cosmo%20box%20cover%201b%20med.jpg)