Video of HLJ President, Scott T Hards' visit to a japanese resin model kit factory. Gives you a behind the scenes look at how resin kits are manufactured.

Part 1
Part 2

molding, resins, balistic gels, etc are actually easily available in overseas. Difficult to get in Malaysia. Now nice if I can mold my own stuffs..... especially dioramas. Looking for silly putty oso difficult.

heheh i just got a fax from resin ware house ... but then its fibreglass resin ... for making BOATS ..... hmmmm at don't think that the best for emm modeling.... unlest i am making sonme thing for out door and BIG ....why choice so little ... i really need to visit multifilla

fantastic bit of video Alpha.
I have been admiring HIRO stuff for a while now but like the man said. major wallet hurting, so never did get any.
If they ever do WW2 planes, I will be in trouble!

thanks for the link Alpha

I bet most of us are dreaming of doing something like this. When Scott asked Hiro how he chooses the models to produce, his reply....

Scott : But you probably do some customer requests, right?
Hiro : Nope. Just things I like. :lol:

Interesting how the 3D printer and CAD software makes prototyping so much easier. I shudder to think how it was done back in the 80s.

dremel, bila nak buat bengkel macam ni?

hahaha....everybody in this industries will dream as same as me....jus my tot....

btw...i'm born here...Malaysia...semua laluan sempit...hahaha.....i've no idea how to make my dream come true thou...wish we can produce it in Malaysia...but what i can do now...just put my self on the track....bila nak sampai pon tak kisahlah...hahaha

Scott : But you probably do some customer requests, right?
Hiro : [b]Nope. Just things I like. :lol: [/B]

harap2 aku pon boleh bagi the same answer macam Hiro 1 hari nanti.... :lol: :lol:


Naza aka Dremel

Thanks for the links Alpha7. Very useful and highly motivating as well. :D

Flylice80: There are some materials that can be obtained here but locating the manufacturer and ordering it is a tricky one...

LooCK: Towards the end of the second part, he hints that he might be looking into producing WWII aircrafts. If that materializes, you will be in trouble Loo... :lol:

He did hints that he wants to try producing plastic model kits and from the looks of the company's model kits, I hope they try it soon. But hope the price is much, much, much lower than their multimedia kits... :lol:

hehe i try that be for ... look for company listing on line i really belive we have all the materials manufacturer some where in the conner of malaysia but but but there only infor i can dig out is a company name but can't find what do there really make

Well, the only member I could think of, who can help out, is multifilla.

I just purchased some high end Silicone Rubber & Resin materials from US.
I will let Kirin to experiment it and let u guys know later.

This is really eyes opening stuffs. I totally enjoyed the videos.

Thanks for sharing.

Man, to be able to cast your own kits .... that's really going into a higher level of professionalism there :D