1/43 scale resin kit's

[FujimiLover]

Hello there. I have seen alot of 1/43 scale resin kit's listed on ebay lately. I'm curious about resin as I've never worked with it before. I have a big interest in small RC cars and recently Kyosho came out with the coolest little pocket rocket known as the Dnano.

The Dnano is a highly sophisticated high performance RC car with bodies of esquisit die-cast like quality detail. The Dnano's are 1/43 in scale, come with the new 2.4 GHZ technology, tiny Lipo battery, and are simply a blast to drive around. They are far, far from being a toy. Expensive, but very cool.

Anyway, the question is this.

Are the resin model kit's plastic, or die-cast? Die-cast would be way to heavy for the Dnano's. If their plastic, then they might be worth looking into as there are several resin model kit's of my all time favorite exotic car tuner Koenig Specials. I'm very interested in their highly modified Ferrari Testarossa and been tempted to get the resin kit for the body.

The other question is, are the resin's durable? If their die-cast, it'll be too heavy, if it's plastic, how's it's durability? And has anybody built any of these models and can they share me some pictures?

Anybody a fan of Koenig SPecials and has anyone done any other scale model kit's of these cars? They come in 1/43 scale resin, 1/24 scale, and 1/18 scale kit's.

[LDO]

Resin kits are made of a 2-part epoxy, so they're a type of plastic. They are not durable at all. They are meant to be built and displayed. Some resins are fairly soft, some are hard and brittle. They will typically be thicker than injection-molded plastic, so you may have trouble making one fit on your 1/43 r/c chassis. They are not at all suitable for what you have in mind.

[FujimiLover]

Thank you for that info. I wasn't sure about resin's. How are they for painting? What paint's work best on theme?

I am still interested in building a 1/43 Koenig Speicals Competition "Ferrari Testarossa" resin kit, but like I said, I've never worked with resin before. So how do they compare build/paint wise with regular plastic kit's?

It's a shame the bodies wont' work for the Dnano's, it would be so freaking awesome to have a 1/43 KS Competition RC car. Wonder how to make one into a lexan body perhaps?

[LDO]

Pretty much any paint used on styrene models will work on resin.

A resin model would not really be suitable for making a lexan body. It is meant to be displayed as-is (after paint and assembly) not used as a vacu-form master.

If you have your heart set on a r/c Koenig TR, try the Fujimi kit in 1/24, or look for a Lexan TR body that you can modify in 1/24 or larger.

[Ariel]

Pretty much any paint used on styrene models will work on resin.

A resin model would not really be suitable for making a lexan body. It is meant to be displayed as-is (after paint and assembly) not used as a vacu-form master.

If you have your heart set on a r/c Koenig TR, try the Fujimi kit in 1/24, or look for a Lexan TR body that you can modify in 1/24 or larger.

Hello Lee

Not to disagree with you but over in europe the race a scale slot car class that uses lexan bodies. the bodies are made from rersin kits that are used as a vacuum-form buck or master. They grind the inside out drill small hole in the area where they need for the vacuum to suck the materail down more than other places. But yes you can use a resin kit for a master of a lexan body.

[FujimiLover]

Pretty much any paint used on styrene models will work on resin.

A resin model would not really be suitable for making a lexan body. It is meant to be displayed as-is (after paint and assembly) not used as a vacu-form master.

If you have your heart set on a r/c Koenig TR, try the Fujimi kit in 1/24, or look for a Lexan TR body that you can modify in 1/24 or larger.

I have thought about the 1/24 scale. As I mentioned I sometimes race Kyosho's 1/28 scale Mini-Z's, but the KS Testarossa from Fujimi is too big for the 1/28 scale MR02 chassis. HOWEVER, a company called Tagu, http://www.geocities.jp/wild_zracing/ that makes a 1/24 scale conversion kit for the MR02 chassis. I have not yet tried that as I've pretty much gotten out of the Z-scene for a while. When I get back into the Mini-Z's, I will probably try this conversion kit if it's still available and even then it might not fit the KS model.

I was however more interested in the smaller 1/43 scale Dnano I mentioned and was hopeing the KS resin kit would be suitable and would fit. If one could be made into a lexan body, that would be suitable. However, I tend NOT to like lexan as their usually not as detailed. However, if it's a way to get my dream car, than so be it.