Mooncat
Super Freak
Cheers there was a post on here a few weeks ago about the best c3po to use within a 1:6th collection
I have the "funky looking hasbro one" and have never been happy with it (have the funky r2d2 also)
So when I saw a recommendation for resin kits and a link to an ebay vendor I bought one
That said I expected a model kit not a bag of plastic parts, cast solder and a photo of a film c3po as instructions on how it goes together
The parts for the c3po need to be trimmed down as they had excess plastic from the casts and also once trimmed down they didnt fit together right, (hence the real wires in the belly) that was due as much to improvement as it was to badly fitting default pieces. I had to use some milliput to hide some of the ill fitting joints and use screws to hold and piece it together. Hence the articulation in the arms and head (basically screws)
Bought the c3po kit and the r2d2 kit but unfortuately the r2d2 kit has a major flaw
The barrel or body of the r2 is deformed and looks like its dented (badly) - think due to the thinness of the plastic used to cast it
I think they are casts of either a kotobukiyaka (bad spelling i know) or something similar
bought from Thailand :
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Star-Wars-C3...photoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
The "instructions" for piecing it together was the photograph used in the ebay listing
The arm and knee "fiddly bits" are basically metal solder poured into a cast
I had to re-solder a few pieces that had snapped during postage.
For the price and what can be done with them they are worth the money well c3po is
I may contact them and ask them to send me a replacement barrel for r2d2, but I doubt that it would help tbh
I may try filling it with expanding foam to see if it cant fill out the dents and the deformed areas
Or I may ask Glenn if he can sort it for me - maybe ask him to re-make this part for me
I have the "funky looking hasbro one" and have never been happy with it (have the funky r2d2 also)
So when I saw a recommendation for resin kits and a link to an ebay vendor I bought one
That said I expected a model kit not a bag of plastic parts, cast solder and a photo of a film c3po as instructions on how it goes together
The parts for the c3po need to be trimmed down as they had excess plastic from the casts and also once trimmed down they didnt fit together right, (hence the real wires in the belly) that was due as much to improvement as it was to badly fitting default pieces. I had to use some milliput to hide some of the ill fitting joints and use screws to hold and piece it together. Hence the articulation in the arms and head (basically screws)
Bought the c3po kit and the r2d2 kit but unfortuately the r2d2 kit has a major flaw
The barrel or body of the r2 is deformed and looks like its dented (badly) - think due to the thinness of the plastic used to cast it
I think they are casts of either a kotobukiyaka (bad spelling i know) or something similar
bought from Thailand :
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Star-Wars-C3...photoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
The "instructions" for piecing it together was the photograph used in the ebay listing
The arm and knee "fiddly bits" are basically metal solder poured into a cast
I had to re-solder a few pieces that had snapped during postage.
For the price and what can be done with them they are worth the money well c3po is
I may contact them and ask them to send me a replacement barrel for r2d2, but I doubt that it would help tbh
I may try filling it with expanding foam to see if it cant fill out the dents and the deformed areas
Or I may ask Glenn if he can sort it for me - maybe ask him to re-make this part for me
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