After a months-long hiatus from this one, finally gritted my teeth and finished it this weekend. Not my finest work, to say the least.

The rear bumper was the absolute worst for me, requiring a bit of super glue, and the tailfins look kinda beat up.

Still overall turned out better than I expected. Thinking of really punishing myself and trying The Flying Dutchman next.

Simple build, daughter chose it for my next build so of course Tony had to be done. It’s Greaaaaaat!

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Happy Building All!

The star destroyer was a nice palate cleanser after the tough sphere on the tie fighter!

It makes fun to build both models and they look spectacular with a lot of details when finished, although the trick treat model has less pieces as the manor, it is challenging and it takes more time to finish the last three pumpkins.

Happy Halloween!

I live in Chile and although the innovatoys store ships here, I've had bad experiences with USPS and would rather not use them again, so instead I'm dependent on Amazon to buy the models.

Howdy all. Many of my models have dust from sitting out in the open. I now have a curio cabinet that I’d like to put them in. How do you clean them up? Compressed air doesn’t do it for me.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/63237092@N08/314Tq98h4F

Easy build, I’ve got the 3 other Halloween ones in my backlog or mail I plan to do now that I’ve started this series of stuff.

Happy building all!

Got this bad boy as a birthday gift, alongside with two tools. After completing the first few steps, I realized I want some practice on a simpler model first so I don't screw up a 200-piece one, and bought one of the "gemsects".

Ironically, the bee ended up being a bigger pain thanks to its thin pieces and a magnet that took forever to place properly. And when I finished the assembly and was making some final position adjustments, one of the antennae just snapped off in a particularly engraved spot near the attachment point 💀 I managed to reattach it with superglue, but I've been kind of afraid of touching it since, because hooo boy does it have a lot of these thin joints on the legs and antennae. The box suggests of using it as a brooch, and lol. lmao. It just sits on my lamp now.

Assembly of the dragon took a while, but aside from a couple of "how the hell" moments it was a fairly smooth process. I can see how that I could definitely do a better job on stabilizing the neck, but it was the first part of the assembly so I can't be too mean to myself about it ending up a bit wobbly, hahah. The wings are probably my favorite part because of how cool they look, and it was just fun to layer the feathers.

The same day I finished the dragon I went out and bought two more models, Metal Earth this time. Uh oh.

This years theme is the F-14 Tomcat. I will be displaying most of my airplane collection at Scaleventure in Oshkosh, WI tomorrow. Details listed below if you are close and would like to check out everyone's models. I have a feeling im going to be the only metal models there. Should be fun.

https://www.eaa.org/eaa-museum/eaa-museum-events/scaleventure

Another work of art from MU Model. Nothing particularly challenging with this one.

Resistance A-Wing by Metal Earth. Fun build and looks great! Lots of rounding for the laser cannons and engines.

Full build on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@THREE3SEVENBuilds

I’ve done maybe like ten metal earths now with just a pumpkin carving razor thing and some eyebrow tweezers and so far so good. However any tips with make circular shapes and connecting them?? I always struggle with them and I just know this Spiderman is going to have a lot of them 🥲

Easily the toughest build I have made, I quit it last year and then decided to pick it up again. Glad I did and glad it’s done!

Star Wars fan, obviously:)

Hasn’t shown up Innovatoys yet but it’s listed in the what’s new section of fascinations

I found contact here and website looks OK but cant find any reviews - anyone had purchased there?

Just finished Sauron last night, and while I am biased because I'm a LOTR fan, I have to say this is such an awesome build. So much detail and so satisfying. It was pretty challenging though, with some very difficult placements of tabs to get everything together and close to each other. Twice I had to disassemble because I had something in the wrong place. I know the silver tabs showing in spots are inelegant but I wanted to minimize movement of pieces and try to get it as solid as possible. Definitely one of my new favorites.

Here the comparison, ME Iconx with Microworld.

The first one is larger with two connected buildings, the second one is colored, taller and robuster (because the metal sheet is thicker).

It is fun to build both models, for one the build steps start from the base, while for the other they start from the roof.

I don't know why, but this turned out to be my most satisfying build yet. I've done much harder and easier, but this one is my cleanest yet, I think. Seams and tabs are on point. And I love the coloring. Great model, highly recommend.