Aztek Dummy Update 2/2/24 - RC Sandcrawler - Part 1

[@bry1299guy]

I also spent part of Monday in the Dentist chair and it was my birthday. I also was waiting for the Remote Control part, especially when you said there’s room for a car battery in there! Can’t wait for part 2!

[@daviddickinson6346]

Hi Lou That looks like a hell of a lot of work making things fit.😊

[@steve1315]

Love the Sandcrawler this is going to be epic👍👍🍸🍸.

[@franksmodels29]

Another great build by Lou 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@aztekdummy]

ah, c'mon. you couldn't even have watched it yet...:D

[@sjwilli1972]

I don't often comment on KZbin too often, but thank you my friend. I love watching you work and learning new skills. I am unable to do modelling now due to vaccine damage so you are my hands now 😂

[@norikotakaya14292]

Lovin' the build so far, Lou. Can't wait to see the finished product. All I can say is I'd never have the patience to do it. Resin kits like that intimidate me.

[@spacedock873]

Hi Lou. So much for your display space issues! This has to be one of the biggest kits available! 😮 After all of Phil's issues building this kit a few months ago I think that you are very brave to take it on.

[@davidparker2259]

I think you’ll need to keep that in your carport, Lou.

[@billhutton9549]

Fantastic work You have good ideas to put it together.

[@randalscott7224]

Utanii! Great build Lou, as always!

[@charleshoadley6882]

Great video Lou, love big models. Don't throw something at be but . . . imagine this kit as an RC with working tracks. Too bad about the resin defects, they can be maddening. Thanks again!

[@aztekdummy]

that's a layer of madness i've yet to experience. I'm sorry I caused so much confusion

[@ravenslament622]

Oh very nice lou, funny thing I was reading an article regarding the history of the sand crawler before bed the other night, fascinating stuff I had one thought which you brought up regarding scratch building an interior and landscape featuring a few droids and jawas.....I know there be madness lol.

[@bryonstump8115]

Your space problem reminded me of a story Forry Ackerman once told me. As his home was filling up with his collection, one day his wife came home from the grocery story and, when she opened the refrigerator, she found it full of rolls of 16mm film. She announced that they were leaving the house to the collection and moving into an apartment. Maybe that's your path.

[@sadheartcreaciones]

Good job!

[@anselford9565]

And I thought I had a bad week on the 21-26. COVID-19 took me down for a week, including my birthday.😢 The Sandcrawler looks like a big one.

[@richardstiers9010]

Curious if Randy addressed that side skirt issue. I can see 2 simple remedies. One, as you say take out a 1/4" slice in that blank section, or recontour the angled end to match the pan. My type of build, love this one. Thanks Lou!👍

[@wraith20072007]

Did you think about using a hot air gun?

[@Iskelderon]

Crazy project idea! I've always been itching to do something similar with an Aliens APC to learn how to make RC cars from scratch (using an Arduino or RP2040 to hook up more features to other RC channels).

[@TheRealGraylocke]

And, I was hoping 'RC' meant remote controlled. Frak. Looking good though. :)

[@goforitpainting]

Really cool 👍

[@GPGPapercraftTX]

What about loving application of a heat gun to the side walls? Use a couple metal plates of some kind to flatten the walls as the cool.

[@johndillon8051]

During "Meet the Parts," I said to myself, "Oh hell no." But what a wonderful canvas the completed model would make!

[@Ghostviking69]

I ordered from Randy years ago and I was so intimidated by the model that I got that I never built it. I think I can learn some techniques from you when it comes to resin.

[@aztekdummy]

do it! you'll have fun and learn in the process. plus you'll earn your resin kit merit badge

[@VincentGuastini]

@@aztekdummy 😃

[@benjaminlegros611]

Awesome work Lu as allways 😀 If I recall correctly the ramp is open in AOTC when Ani search for his mother and make a stop at a sandcrawler.

[@aztekdummy]

don't make me rewatch that. :D

[@garyjenson1326]

Can't some of the track smutz be painted as dirt?

[@aztekdummy]

that's the plan

[@Bellerophonmodeler]

For some reason, I was reading the "RC" in the title as Radio Control instead of Randy Cooper. That would add a whole new level of yikes!

[@aztekdummy]

i'm crazy, but not completely MAAAAD

[@georgerittenhouse4920]

I think a lot of us read it was going to be a radio controlled model kit.

[@allanrose3661]

Lou you already glued the side panels on but was going to say that you might be able to take some Home Depot 1 inch square alum tubing and clamp / epoxy it to the warped sections to straighten them out. If this doesn't have an enterior you would have room and would not see it. Also checkout guys that build WW2 tanks for weathering ideas since this thing is basically a tank. LOL

[@aztekdummy]

i clamped the sides down to a flat piece of marble and ran it under the verrry hot water hoping it would flatten out the side. it helped, but didn't completely solve the warp.

[@RonnyTheEngineer]

Awesome ❤❤❤❤❤

[@redgreen09]

WOW thoght the prime wha a big kit YESH thats nuts the other star wars kit will ben less work but yes ALLL lou does big kits will tune in to nest vid

[@markfergerson2145]

That might be easier to display if it actually was the radio control kit I thought it was when I read the description… With that mismatch between the sidewalls and the base, it might have been simpler to build it as designed and just extend the sides with some styrene stock or something (for values of “just” possibly = “what was I thinking”). The would mean extending the top and maybe adding some panel detail but you’d have the added strength of the internal frames fitting into the grooves. Did you even consider anything like that? Are you sure that layering on epoxy and Bondo putty will be strong enough?

[@aztekdummy]

to me, the important thing to align is the big nose part, so I made that work and then the "only" place i will need to adapt are the very rear edges of the side walls.

[@TheSonofruss]

I am surprised that you didn’t use a shop vacuum for the clean up process.

[@aztekdummy]

i've got a little vac for the studio here. it does the trick

[@portland-182]

"Look at the size of that thing" - "Cut the chatter Red Two"" Lou, you might look at investing in a powered hand held mini linear sander, just for this project!

[@dennisbisconti4583]

Lou + well it's almost like building a tank nice kit can't wait to see how this one turns out Lou could you use a heat gun to warm up those pieces just a thought

[@aztekdummy]

a heatgun is on standby

[@richardstiers9010]

Just curious.? Sonic sander?

[@Joepacker]

You should call Phil for some pointers since he built this monster a couple months ago

[@aztekdummy]

we've talked.

[@spaeron]

oh hell yeah!!

[@blue89irocz28]

Phil was working on this a while back.

[@GlitchSystem-xf7jb]

What's the address for Randy Cooper's website?

[@aztekdummy]

randycoopermodelsdesign.squarespace.com/new-page

[@TheShornak]

Lou is this studio scale?

[@aztekdummy]

since they built one of these kits to use in the sequel movies, then yes.

[@sciwolf359]

I feel like as expansive as these kits are, they should fit together better. I understand the boutique nature of some of them being manufactured in a small shop. But the gaps on this one are a lot.

[@VincentGuastini]

Yes!!!!

[@randallcooper3559]

For the tread cleanup.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6q7XoOkhdB5ZsU

[@MrChief101]

A lovely endeavor! The misalignment is a mystery alrighty. Resign doesn't stretch like, nor the molds. So what happened? My guess is that (ahem) you didn't hit the rear angle shape right. When comparing the supplied ref with reality, one can see you also left about a 1/16" on top of the window-y shapes. Mis-aligning angled shapes can have a cosign error, coupled with resinated wandering thicknesses... all of which sneaks up on you... (In the future, please do not use one side of the ref to compare it to the other-- the two sides may not be perfect mirrors, etc. plus exercizing the mental gymnastics of transposing the two images... please and thank you.) So you must'a not put the piece far enough forward-- lulled into a false sense of security by the neatness of that nice angle you achieved. Randy's image also had a mix of angles and lighting that made it hard to see what was going on to the rear there. But you are commited to the path you are one-- march quick step! the only choice is to remove some of the one side and build it back on the other. No slicing that 1/4" out anywhere. That surely would solve that problem. I only hope that you discover why everything doesn't line up-- either with the addition of new parts or the bending of the fronts and sides. Something's got to make sense at long last! Too bad about the sabre not working on resin... resin doesn't melt like styrene... maybe if there was a saw-tooth blade on it. Maybe. I say find some scrap brass from an aftermarket set and CA some 400 wet or dry to it-- you need rigid and really thin to get to the in-betweens.

[@dennisthompson7921]

When I saw "RC" in the title I thought it was radio control...

[@jjones552]

Are you going to build a sandbox to display in? 😂

[@aztekdummy]

maybe i'll take it to the beach

[@VincentGuastini]

@@aztekdummy 😀

[@Skyshark505]

TODAY IS FRIDAY lol...

[@charlesforbin6937]

YES I KNOW RANDY IS A FANTASTIC MODELER & MODEL MAKER (& resin can be quirky as hell) BUT, Should not have to re-engineer a several hundreds of dollars model kit......

[@aztekdummy]

this is my own choosing. you know how i hate to follow instructions. Don't hate on Randy

[@ajc4477]

Rather you than me. This reminds me of garage kits from 25 years ago and looks rather awful.

[@aztekdummy]

it's what's on the outside that counts

[@presidentxd]

Cant understand why ppl support resin kit producers when all they supply is overpriced badly molded kits.but in saying that id love a sandcrawler that size

[@aztekdummy]

can you do any better? this is pure model making. You have an idea, you sculpt your own master, you make your own molds, you pour your own resin.

[@MoonwalkerModels]

Amen!​@@aztekdummy