Doug you have come a long way since the teens, and that you have jumped in full bore. I guess reading and watching gave you a lot of ammo because your work as a rookie (safe to say since you haven't made a model in maybe decades) your work is a slam dunk.dbhs wrote: Resin kits are a bit different but not too hard if you've built other types. Best thing to do is to just jump into it. The new series BSG Raider is the first resin kit i ever did. it was a good learning experience. I hadn't done any sci-fi modeling since my teens and just did a lot of reading and looking at other modelers work in progress threads for ideas on techniques to learn as much as I can. Practice makes perfect ( or at least improvement). And ask questions. You can pick up a simple resin kit and experiment with it to get a feel or, even better, get a kit that you see other people doing and copy what they are doing. That's what I did when I built the new raider. The main difference is in the gluing of the parts (epoxy and CA versus modeling cement). The painting is the same as plastic models.
Mike Salzo sells the studio raider as well as the shuttle.
I am very familiar with Mike, I almost went in as a partner 50/50 in ownership of the patterns of the Viper, and Raider. He does awesome scracth build work also.
