Bandai 1/5000 Imperial Star Destroyer model kit: amzn.to/3hFMwXp

@gamingunner128

3 жыл бұрын

ModelChili Scale Models damn.

Bandai a really good model maker. I’ve been building Gundam models since the early 2000’s and is always impressed with their model kits

I think it's brilliant! I love how at a distance it looks uniformly gray but as you get closer you can see all the various details.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Yeah, I built this kit two months ago and I was amazed at the molded detail. The light switches suck but the effect is awesome. Hung the model from my ceiling , looks great.

Wow man, you are the Bob Ross of plamo! Seriously, when I listen to you building some of the most iconic vehicles that I loved as a kid, combined with your calm and methodical delivery, you put me in a happy place I never knew existed. I am bipolar, so when I feel stressed out, I'll watch one of your videos to calm me down. What you do really helps the mental health community, for me anyway. Keep on building, please. Thank you for existing sir! 93

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that's so cool to hear! I'm so happy I can take away a bit of the stress of life. 🙂

32:31 The side lighting when your holding the model in hand is perfect. Forget imperfection. The magic is there and the engine LEDS are also spot on.

Amazing for such a small model!

I do love this brilliant model. It looks amazing.

Impressive kit Sam. Thanks for the info about the model tank parts on the various starwars ships.. You're very good at spotting those. The end result looks pretty good. Merry Christmas and thanks for all the interesting content in 2019.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vaughan!

Thankyou Sam, you have inspired me to return to making model kits after a 30+ year hiatus. I've got some catching up to do with new painting products and techniques. And , in time, I can teach my (now) 3yo stepson. Cheers :)

@modelchili

2 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear, thank you! 😀

The detail looks really nice on this kit.

Wow that detail is out of this world. Bandai does it again.

I remember the old MPC kits from back in the day and I can't get over the level of accuracy and detail in these.

@ToeCutter0

4 жыл бұрын

Owen Egan Is MPC still around? I’ve bought a few Revell models recently, but these Bandai Star Wars kits represent a whole new level of detail. I just received the Executor & ISD kit from Bandai and the amount of detail on those molds is INSANE. The ISD in my kit is less than 4” long assembled, but includes a ludicrous degree of detail! Waiting on a new air compressor, it can’t get here soon enough.

I remember building a Star Destroyer kit back in the late 1980s and remember reading how the studio model was covered in hundreds of tiny panels that were individually brush painted a lighter tint than the base color. I spent hours brush painting each and every panel but it looked awesome. No lighting in my kit though. I believe the kit I built was an Ertl.

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Nice! Yeah I think it was AMT Ertl, I had one too back in the 90s. 😁

Brilliant build. Excellent video.

@modelchili

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Fab job, love your panel work, you've done justice to one of the most iconic sci-fi crafts ever imagined! Jas.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@gamingunner128

3 жыл бұрын

Jason Gould why JAS?

Wow! The whole thing is extraordinarily interesting.

These Bandai kit are so amazing.

Magnificent build and paintwork. Lighting looks fantastic too. Enjoyed the project....thanks for sharing your talent with the community. Bill

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill!

The best model maker out there . Spot on

Sam, I love your videos so much. I am very thankful that you make these, as I want to start modelling again soon, as soon as I can acquire all of the necessary means. You have so many videos of models that I want to make (and have watched several times lol) and I've already learned so much from you. I can't wait to see what you do next. Keep on keeping on brother! :)

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's awesome to hear!

I love Bandai! Great work!

What I was going to say? Ah yeah. You're crazy dude!! Outstanding job

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Well, the model looks Awesome! You've inspired me to buy the kit and build it. The kit is being shipped to me now. I think I will follow your lead and go more subtle with the weathering and paint colors; they can be easily overdone. Great job! Thanks for the video. Eric

It’s so clean, it looks CG

I have this kit, totally dig how you did this one

Your vids are relaxing and fun to watch! Great job and Merry Christmas!🎅👍👍

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super cool kit.

Lovely step, by step. Thanks!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

What a build that was. I think the closeness of the Death Star in your video would look good in the photo's as it appears to be in the background. You get lots of detail from the Star Destroyer too. I have the 'no lighting' kit version but have bought enough lighting kit to light up a real Star Destroyer. I hope to use a metal tube to support it (the stand) and run cables inside to the lights connecting to the fibre optics. It's going to be difficult as I have never lit a model before. Think I will paint all the inside black first to block unwanted light. Looking forward to it. Very inspiring video.

Very nice model... after all... All the best!

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Nice looking build

Merry Christmas, Sam! I have one of these kits in my stash right now, can't wait to get started. I may do my own lighting system though.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

That is impressive work!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I remember it looking like that. Nice build.

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks for the video, I picked one up recently and I'm thinking of putting it together this weekend, was a really good walk through of some of the issues - I might be able to prevent some light leakage, and might even tweak the LED's somewhat.

I think you've done a nice job with this one, not too much weathering, I like the subtle different greys. Sucks that the top won't stay down like it should, but it's hard to tell. I didn't see it until you pointed it out. Nice work!

Great job. My the force be with you.

@modelchili

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Sweet! Nice work!

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing job!

@modelchili

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice!.. Star Wars is TIMELESS.. cheers mate👍🇳🇿

Lovely work sir! I’ve just order this model and am going to attempt to stand up the comms tower to make it like the Devastator. Since the ISDs in Rogue One were pretty much white I’m going to paint it flat white and use a light gray wash and see how it turns out. I wish they made the engine baffles for this model.

Just found your channel. And its brilliant been looking for a channel for tips and advice keep up the amazing work👍

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very instructive bro, beautiful kit

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ronnieholt3863

4 жыл бұрын

This is one of the more amazing examples I've ever seen

Another great video. Have a merry Christmas!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Bloody awesome mate!

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I enjoyed the build, great information. Agree, external power and switches or magnetic reed switches would be easier to use. Perhaps the next model release.

crazy to think about how detailed the injection molds they use and how expensive they must’ve been to make

Gorgeous

I love ur videos and I could watch it for hours

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Great work, great video.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

It's over 40 yrs old but the Star Destroyer is still the most fashinating spaceship ever seen!

Great job!

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Me: no I wont spend 100 dollars on a light up kit *watches this* Well.....

@xanderguldie

4 жыл бұрын

I do everything myself. It's way cheaper and looks much better

@deepyamandas1192

3 жыл бұрын

@@xanderguldie ah good 👍👍👍

@hungryowl1559

2 жыл бұрын

$170

This is amazing.

This kit deserves better Lights. Nice work, dude.

Might get one of these

When I was a kid I remember seeing Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back here in Phoenix at our biggest theater and they had a lot of the actual studio models on display and they were awesome. A lot of the studio models were huge.

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I saw a few of them at the Star Wars Exhibit in London, including the massive command tower of the Executor.

@JONNYCABANI

3 жыл бұрын

I wish they would have had those at the theaters near me.

Nicely done! I felt your paneling was just a bit conservative, but even so it looks GREAT finished. The lighting looks phenomenal on camera, but I’ve also heard quite a few other builders lament the different hues from the LEDs. They were also critical of how the hull fits over the battery compartment. That said, the 360* camera shots looked very accurate, reminiscent of the ISD I from Rogue One. Ironically, when I saw the tiny Falcon was included, I immediately wondered how it would look hanging off the back of the bridge from ESB!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The Falcon has a peg underneath for the stand, so this makes it difficult to stick to the tower nicely. You could cut off the peg if you wanted a permanent solution!

I've just been making scale accurate icon images for on online RPG campaign, based on great high quality renders other people made. And Star Destroyers really complicate finding a good scale. With a Star Destroyer as a massive 1600 pixel image, the Millennium Falcon is only 38 pixels long, and starfighters become completely invisible. Make the starfighters big enough to be usable, and it's impossible to see a whole Star Destroyer even when you zoom out completely. These things are just stupendously huge.

I'd be a little crushed to get that big box and then see the ship fits sideways across the short side. Lolz. I actually got to see the original 8 foot model with the big bulbs still in the engines. SOFA King sweet.

The Bandai kits blow my mind...

Star Wars X Asmr .. perfection ✅❤️

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Very, nice project!

looks really good

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love how it came out, only thing I'd do different on mine would be to use sligthly more panel wash spots like you did but in different lighter shades of grey

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

50 Shades of Grey: Star Wars edition :)

@legrandgougoulilumine6940

3 жыл бұрын

Xizor probably had a sex dungeon or something like that..

@schecterman5466

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same issue with my 1/700 Trumpeter Wisconsin lol I primed it and then tried painting it Haze grey and I’m like “am I even painting!?”

That's impressive detail painting on the Falcon. That scale must be very challenging.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bjørn!

ディズニー好きのアメリカ人にも日本ブランドのベストキットですねぇ！エピソード5に出てくるスターデストロイヤーなんか正に大型模型でした！！動画thx.👍

Absolutely amazing job, mate! Well done! (Tell me, was I the only one who had the Imperial March humming through my head as I watched this?) Lol.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

WOW. Awesome.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

2:58 I have a lot of spare sherman suspensions from other models lmao, bandai and the empire love that little guy he's even on the legs/chassis of the Bandai AT-ST. Since the AT-ST came with so many stickers I'm gonna paint a sherman firefly in imperial colors as little love letter to that

So cool!

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

U got a new sub thanks recommended section.

that is a beautiful triangle

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

It's more of a kite shape.

I tried to use just Tamiya gray panel liner and finish Tamiya flat color spray can, the result is already outstanding :), since the kit plastic surface finish is already high quality

Nice work mate, have a good Christmas :)

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

good job!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Well, that's certainly got more detail than the old MPC/MONOGRAM kit!!!!!

Looks perfect, don't beat yourself up :)

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Some imported kits had the 2 large hull pieces wrapped tightly with plastic wrap to cardboard to keep pieces from warping in weather changes. Looks like yours got warped. Still looks Great!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Ah that might be it. Thanks!

Almost reminds me of building the GN shield on the PG Exia

I've been looking for a reliable "tutorial" for the bandai at at, do you think you could do that some time?

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

No plans to do it currently.

@tteokbokki588

4 жыл бұрын

Do they not come with a manual like gunplas?

@seth1987

4 жыл бұрын

@@tteokbokki588 They do, but imho many pieces require "special" handling- not to mention the best paint effects - and only someone who already built/painted one can point out what to do, so the model is near-perfect at the end.

@whytho25

4 жыл бұрын

Seth I did it only with the instructions, it really isnt that hard, the only part thats annoying is making the legs 4 times

I think it is so perfect that you could use it as a model in the official Star Wars movie...

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

Wow looks really good, Nice job! Have you ever thought of building bandai's gundam kits at some point?

it's the curse of modelmaking, only somebody else will think it looks brilliant

Oh yes! Now you're spoiling us. Love the design of the ISD. This is going to be a good one.

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed!

@bjrnhalfhand2258

4 жыл бұрын

@@modelchili I did, it was great, thank you

I would love to see your work on a Separatist Lukrehulk warship, seen at the battle of Coruscant.

Awesome

I loved building this model I just didn't get around to paining it yet

Looks great, I am amazed at the level of detail, shame the 1/2700 Revell model does not have that level of detail. As a suggestion Games Workshop has great detailed models. Such as the warlord Adeptus Titanicus.

i'd love to see extreme detailing on those micro model of the falcon

Sweet!

素晴らしい！beautiful‼️😍

@modelchili

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

damn the ISD looks nice, but i think the falcon and corvette look fantastic for how tiny they are

Now we need a Mon Cal Cruiser in the same scale !

@legrandgougoulilumine6940

3 жыл бұрын

No. Homeone 1:1 scale !!!

I saw this kit while in Japan earlier this month and it proved cheaper to buy the light unit separate with the standarded kit. I passed on both as I have the huge zveda star destroyer to build and also while in Japan I brought a bb8 and the pg falcon

Hey man I was wondering could you ever make a custom cb-23?

I've just found your content and I was wondering if you were going to talk about the "tank" greebly. I have seen it often in the Bandai kits and I like Bandai's commitment to model authenticity.

Another fine build Sam. The "greebling" (fine detailing) is often omitted on one or more faces of studio filming miniatures because it is so time consuming. Thus, there was no detail on the rear of the Alien Derelict in "Alien" or on the port side of the "USS Sulaco" in "Aliens". We are currently scratchbuilding new models of these for an exhibition and since they will be viewed from all angles we are having to try to get into the mind of the original designers to "fill in the blanks". I've built that lit Bandai kit of the Star Destroyer in your video and had the same problems with the "banana effect" (solved with hot water and a long stiff metal rod inside the hull), the "miscoloured LEDs" (substituted with the right colour) and the cumbersome switching (I hid a micoswitch in an inconspicuous posiition on the hull undeside). I was going to seal the model up but realised that it has to remain openable to change the batteries. Bandai definitely need to rethink their lighting arrangements!

@modelchili

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John! That scratchbuilding sounds interesting! You got anything I can take a look at? ;)