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Denimo

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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 04:36 AM UTC

I bought one of these but have zero experience with resin kits. Should I begin with a more basic resin conversion before attempting this one?

jwest21

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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 04:43 AM UTC

I just looked through mine- My opinion is that it isn't all that complicated. most of the resin is for vehicle equipment and what is part of the vehicle looks like direct replacements for the kit parts. Doesn't seem to be much (if any) cutting of the kit plastic to get anything to fit.

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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 07:02 AM UTC

Dennis, there is a very popular blog by Maki where he starts to use the Black Dog set in a GMV build and he eventually scraps the Black Dog pieces. They have significant warpage and just don't seem to want to fit together. You may have a different experience, but I doubt it. I've heard this can be common with some of their sets.

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Eric

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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 08:35 AM UTC

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Dennis, there is a very popular blog by Maki where he starts to use the Black Dog set in a GMV build and he eventually scraps the Black Dog pieces. They have significant warpage and just don't seem to want to fit together. You may have a different experience, but I doubt it. I've heard this can be common with some of their sets.

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Eric

Interesting...my parts seem fine

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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 11:56 AM UTC

My build is here: link

It is not just warping, but I had serious problems fitting the pieces into Tamiya Humvee, which the conversion was designed for. I really liked the look of the large stowage piece and tried my best to make it fit, but then decided it is just not going to work.

Mario