primalxconvoy wrote:God Sunstreaker wrote:Good Morning,
I've been collecting miniatures starships for years:
It's my thing, above TF collecting. When I see something like this that's going to become rare and sell out installantly I'm excited, but also a bit concerned and a little annoyed. While I know that some people, most people here are going to display the ships with their Unicron, I'll be putting them with my dedicated starship cabinet.
I'd really like to get this, and if anyone has any advice or a line on where I could acquire specifically the ships (with or without the galvatron) I would like to hear about it, and it would be very appreciated. You'd be making a fast friend.
My ship collection has a whole deciated subsection ships dedicated to the allies of Earth: Star Trek's Federation, Human Ships of Halo, Terran Ships of Starcraft (a bit of a stretch for 'allies'), Macross, Space Above and Beyond, Battlestar Galactica, and Autobots to name a few. I even have a dedicated cabinet for Star Wars.
Examples for weird or rare things I have:
CC9800 Frigate from the Star Wars Rebellion video game, Saratoga from Space Above and Beyond, Enterprise-E Micro Machine from Star Trek, Protector from Galaxy Quest, Axalon from Beast Wars 10th anniversary Optimus Primal.
So I'm excited for this, but I'm also annoyed at the way Hasbro has been handling these special items.
So if there's anyone out there that has any ideas, advice or even wants to trade things up I would be up for going into a business agreement. Also, I have little desire for another Galvatron as the Kingdom one is good enough for my collection, but I would like the ships. So I'd be cool with sharing the cost of this Galvatron multi-pack with someone just to get the ships.
Please feel free send me a message.
Thanks for Reading
-W
Have you considered looking for any equivalent 3D prints of TF spaceships, etc?
That's a great idea and I've done that in the past on a few various ships.
I've found that if I can get a resin model it's superior to a 3d print. That being said, there's a few items in my shapeways cart I've been sitting on for a while.
So here's an example:
I found someone that makes (or made) Star Wars ships in several different scales. I ended up purchasing the Star Wars Imperial Gunboat (aka "star" fighter) and the Missileboat form the x-wing/tie fighter simulator game series and they are amazing and a perfect fit with my galoob micro machines. At the time I also found some shapeways 3d print E-wings. I ended up getting the E-wings, and I'm while glad I have them, but the plastic quality is weak enough sust such that I'm afraid that I'm going to break them. So if I can find a resin I will take that any day over 3d print. It's a plastic density thing and the good stuff is very expensive.
I could have purchased the e-wing from the more recent X-wing board game, but I haven't wanted to throw extra resources at it. Although I am glad that the game was successful. I purchased the K-wing and Moldy Crown off that game.
Something else needs watched for 3d print, the scale: I made a scale mistake and I once ordered a Delta Flyer from Star Trek voyager and I accidentally ordered the small version. I looks nice next to my larger Voyager ship, but it's so tiny it disappears next to the rest of the star ships. By contrast to that, I have a relatively large Arwing, it was the only size I could find at the time so I just went with it. Both of which stick out in different ways.
Sometimes I get really lucky though. Like I have these Hapes Battle Dragons that look amazing and they are such a vaguely referenced star ship that an official offering is a pipe dream so I'm glad I have them despite the 3d print quality. The size is just perfect and I can live with the plastic quality: I'm just super careful with them.
Anyway, I'll try for this Galvatron later this week. Thanks for the suggestion.
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