Thank you for the review, Justin, and it was wonderful to see you again! It's been a major learning process working with GF9 and their breakneck production pace, but I'm hanging over their heads like a sword of damocles making sure the inserts and logos are right for Wave 4.
I’ve been printing and painting these. The protip for the DIY route is to print them with black filament, then paint the windows, then using a tapered sponge brush, apply your main colors gently in 2-3 coats. This keeps the recesses dark and lets you paint the windows a little sloppy because the brush with catch the frames but not the windows. I like the unusual shapes off some of them, especially the big pieces like Trinity Plaza.
I picked these up. They are really nice right out of the box but I did a little extra weathering and detail painting on them and it really takes them to the next level. Worth the extra time.
I started making a city with the Hardware Studios buildings because I like that you can add plexiglass windows and put LEDs inside, but I'm considering some of these as well. I really like their futuristic look and that their prepainted. I think I'll pick up a few of the binary towers and one of the Megablocks. I thoroughly agree that adding the bridge linkage to all 3 flat sides would have been a huge improvement. Maybe that will be in a future product. The big bridge sold separately would be great to. It would be cool to link 6 towers into a hex perimeter shape connected by the bridges but that will require 6 bridges. This REALLY makes me want to get out the Dremel and make it happen but I'm already buried in a sea of gray minis on top of my boxes of shame.
I haven't bought any of these sets yet but I'm definitely thinking about it. one thing I would like to see is a building rubble set made to match the foot prints of all the current buildings.
Fine review, brother. I picked these up a little while ago. Magnet assembly wasn't a lot of fun, but everything looks nice. Pricing is very good for what it is.
The roads are cast in an extremely flexible resin which will "relax" from any warped position if you just lay them flat and leave them for a while. If you want to speed up the process, put a book on them. They won't stay warped!
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Thank you for the review, Justin, and it was wonderful to see you again!
It's been a major learning process working with GF9 and their breakneck production pace, but I'm hanging over their heads like a sword of damocles making sure the inserts and logos are right for Wave 4.
"A legend has entered the chat." Taking a break from designs to hang out with us on TH-cam I see! :P
I’ve been printing and painting these. The protip for the DIY route is to print them with black filament, then paint the windows, then using a tapered sponge brush, apply your main colors gently in 2-3 coats. This keeps the recesses dark and lets you paint the windows a little sloppy because the brush with catch the frames but not the windows.
I like the unusual shapes off some of them, especially the big pieces like Trinity Plaza.
I picked these up. They are really nice right out of the box but I did a little extra weathering and detail painting on them and it really takes them to the next level. Worth the extra time.
I started making a city with the Hardware Studios buildings because I like that you can add plexiglass
windows and put LEDs inside, but I'm considering some of these as well.
I really like their futuristic look and that their prepainted.
I think I'll pick up a few of the binary towers and one of the Megablocks.
I thoroughly agree that adding the bridge linkage to all 3 flat sides would have been a huge improvement.
Maybe that will be in a future product. The big bridge sold separately would be great to.
It would be cool to link 6 towers into a hex perimeter shape connected by the bridges
but that will require 6 bridges.
This REALLY makes me want to get out the Dremel and make it happen but
I'm already buried in a sea of gray minis on top of my boxes of shame.
Dale's work is magnificent. Mix and match!
Cool. Thank you for this review.
I haven't bought any of these sets yet but I'm definitely thinking about it. one thing I would like to see is a building rubble set made to match the foot prints of all the current buildings.
Fine review, brother. I picked these up a little while ago. Magnet assembly wasn't a lot of fun, but everything looks nice.
Pricing is very good for what it is.
The roads were decent. Half if them were warped, super pumped to have to put them in the oven or something to flatten them
The roads are cast in an extremely flexible resin which will "relax" from any warped position if you just lay them flat and leave them for a while. If you want to speed up the process, put a book on them. They won't stay warped!
@@thunderheadstudio7388 thanks for the tip. I was going to fire up the oven in a bit haha
@@thunderheadstudio7388 most had flattened, the real big offender is halfway flat. Cheers