AMP 1/144 Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider

[flateric]

https://amp-ukraine.com/product/amp-140015-b-21-raider/

 

[Scott Kenny]

Hrm. That parts-breakdown picture makes it look like the trick to that kit will be making the wings line up. I hope they have a plan for a wing spar.

 

[emiltigrat]

https://amp-ukraine.com/product/amp-140015-b-21-raider/

Honestly? It's a shitty model: they just took a 3D model from CGTrader and crudely converted it into a plastic model. I could do better with my 3D printer.

 

[flateric]

Can you give a link to this CGtrader model and your perfectly printed result I can buy for $37 with decals?

 

[bob225]

Can you give a link to this CGtrader model and your perfectly printed result I can buy for $37 with decals?

There's a couple on Thingverse for free, don't look great but could be worth a look.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=b-21+raider&page=1

 

[flateric]

There's a couple on Thingverse for free, don't look great but could be worth a look.

no, they not worth a look

 

[EmoBirb]

Honestly? It's a shitty model: they just took a 3D model from CGTrader and crudely converted it into a plastic model. I could do better with my 3D printer.

With a high end Resin printer, perhaps.

But the cost would be probably higher in resin alone, ignoring the time it takes to print the thing. However you'd be able to print the whole thing in one piece which may be a plus.

Still, for the price it's not a bad model. The degree of accuracy may have to hold up against some scrutiny in the future though, when we learn more about the B-21.

 

[emiltigrat]

Can you give a link to this CGtrader model and your perfectly printed result I can buy for $37 with decals?

no, they not worth a look

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-b21-raider-2131124

 

[emiltigrat]

Honestly? It's a shitty model: they just took a 3D model from CGTrader and crudely converted it into a plastic model. I could do better with my 3D printer.

Can you give a link to this CGtrader model and your perfectly printed result I can buy for $37 with decals?

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/b21-raider-scale-moel

 

[emiltigrat]

There's a couple on Thingverse for free, don't look great but could be worth a look.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=b-21+raider&page=1

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/b21-raider-scale-moel

 

[flateric]

Models on your links have nothing to do with AMP kit geometry. Both they truly fit into shitty category as were made prior maiden flight by people who even doesn't know about edge alignment rule that tells me something about your knowledge of the subject.
And seems you didn't understand my question. Can you deliver for the market an accurate boxed model of B-21 with decal priced for $37? Because you 'can do better'

 

[Foo Fighter]

The issue I have with any of this type of product is that are described as "Item X", whatever that might be.

If they were to say, "Fictional lookalike" or "Guestimate", I might give some leeway. Otherwise they are aimed at folk who really do not know/care but draw interest from folk who do give a rats petunia. Advertising, love it, huh?

Bullfrog, a company making games/software, used to work out of one room of a semi detached Wimbledon house. A certain product of the "graphic adventure game genre" was released with great acclaim. I found fifty bugs in about an hour and found it unusable but when I asked for a refund was told, "We found 200 bugs and stopped counting".

The industry claimed that that refunds would stop development and should not be made to do so and got away with it.

Seems like nothing has changed at all in more than thirty years hence.......

 

[raptor82]

FYI:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1970421208165614046

View: https://x.com/uyorino144/status/1970421208165614046?s=46&t=5THFve96Abhx7VANdlTzrg

 

[flateric]

Yeah, a hurry to be first on the market is never serves good. Planform is a way off, and this is two almost years after maiden flight and bunch of references available.
With MikroMir/AMP short run +3D print tech they easily can remake molds fast though.