Crawler

[umtutsut]

Originally Posted by dhanners

The whole undertaking has kind of a Sisyphean aspect to it.

Who you callin' a Sisyphus, David????? :p

Actually, most of the builds I've started feel that way....

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

[d3canyon]

Looks like Cyana is well on the way on the MLP kit.

There were reasons for taking a long time on the crawler, Like Correct info, missing info drawings and available time work on it.

I too have one and the detail is awesome, of course it will take time to build it, I'm practicing with the knife before I slice this one up.

I've gone to print shops to see what it would cost to make a copy of one of the sheets If I mess up, and they said with the thick paper and double print would be around $25 a sheet - which would come up to above $200 to reproduce it, not including the transparencies - nor the yellow card for railings - nor trying make a copy of the manual in color, another 15 to 20

Many are use to high production plastic kits with a medium to low price.. this is not your average kit here.

I can see why the detail is so important, Look at the others paper Crawler kits out there!

Daniel

[NYC Irishman]

Originally Posted by dhanners

Maybe Cyana figured it'll take people years to build the Crawler, and during that time, she can design, perfect and offer a model of the MLP, again with thousands of parts. And then the modeler can start over again....

The whole undertaking has kind of a Sisyphean aspect to it.

My grand kids will be building the LUT

[gert]

Hello,

May be we will have to look at it from another viewpoint:
Cyana made a complete private attempt to get something special done.
It took a long time but I think he undoubtly succeeded in doing so.
The model is one of a kind, the quality is superb, the description how to build the whole together is worth the money alone.

Will it be built? I don't know. I have one at home since a couple of weeks and am looking at it regulary, thinking that it might be one step too far for me.

But how about people that built the Bismarck ( > 5.000 pieces) or some other models from HMV or alike?

Hope to hear from someone who started building.

Greetings,

Gert Vlaanderen
Lunteren, the Netherlands

[desney]

hmmmmmm maybe if i'm 60 and retired...i'll give it some thought...now? i'll stick to 3 digit number of parts, thank you!

definitely a tremendous build to make but an equally wonderful kit to have, this kit will define the men from the boys :D

[billy.leliveld]

Hallo Gert,
Is it possible for you to post a picture of the kit? I'm dead curious, and thinking of getting one myself :D
Btw, I joined the Dutch Ipms, so see you in October, just an idea, how about starting a SIG papermodeling in the IPMS,or is that cursing in the church?

[Wilfried]

Hello Billy,

the kit is uitstekend, unbelievable ... take a look here:

Kartonbau.de - Alles rund um's Kartonmodell... | Bauberichte | "Crawler Transporter" / MICRO Artwork / 1:96

and try this:

http://kartonbau.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=23215

With lovely greetings
the Wilfried

[gert]

Hello,

Even more info on:
www.microartwork.com

This is the original website from Cyana, the Austrian guy
who made the monster.

Hope to see some of you at ESM on October 30.
( See also Calendar)

Greetings,

Gert Vlaanderen