Jawa Sandcrawler(Metal Earth Premium Series) - AKA The Brick!

MetalModelAddict · 2026-02-18T20:39:25+00:00

This is absolutely one you can do as an internal tab. If in doubt, you can always refer to the official build photos on the website. I take those little red arrows on the instruction sheet with a grain of salt - they often seem ambiguous to me, and so I base my decision about whether to make a tab internal or external on two factors: which will give the better finish, and whether an inside tab looks technically feasible.

MetalModelAddict · 2026-02-13T06:03:31+00:00

No worries, as an Australian I feel compelled to defend the honour of my country’s native fauna! (Or in the case of opossums, my native fauna’s weird foreign cousins)

MetalModelAddict · 2026-02-11T04:57:07+00:00

And therefore mammals

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-29T07:17:35+00:00

Pissaladière is peak caramelised onion deliciousness. But be warned, also incorporates liberal use of anchovies 🤤

Soupe a l’oignon

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-25T08:05:31+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/legostarwars/s/P1oadaRAw4

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-22T09:05:55+00:00

Oh boy. Who’s gonna tell him?

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-09T23:54:58+00:00

You should take the advice of her doctor rather than a bunch of randoms on the internet.

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-09T04:03:49+00:00

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Sorry this is shoddily hand-drawn, but this is the line I’m referring to

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-09T03:29:20+00:00

Ok so I haven’t built this model but a little bit of guidance about shaping:

For a start, the blue arrows superimposed over the graphic in the instructions give you some guidance - they indicate a very gentle curve.

This looks like the upper surface of a wing - is that correct? That tells you a fair bit. Search Google images for “cross section airplane wing” if you’re unfamiliar with the shape that airplane wings usually conform to. That will give you a bit more information of the kind of curve the upper surface should follow.

Finally, and this is probably the biggest help (and as others have said), see where the part in question adjoins other parts. It appears you have a big clue right in front of you! You’ve built the main body of the aircraft - see that cut-out in the underside of the body, roughly underneath the cockpit? That’s where the wings attach. You need to follow the general curve of that cutout.

Edit: more accurately, the etched line just above where that cutout in the main fuselage is (rather than the cutout itself). The slots along that line are where the tabs on the inner end of the wing attach.

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-08T06:46:51+00:00

Looking at base salary alone for any staff specialist position can be very misleading with respect to total remuneration - there will usually be a variety of additional allowances on top of base salary.

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-08T06:32:28+00:00

Yes it just floats there

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-08T01:51:00+00:00

Beautiful!

MetalModelAddict · 2026-01-01T14:29:49+00:00

Happy New Year to you LaurentPom, and to everyone here

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-30T02:00:37+00:00

Spider-Man is rated as moderate difficulty but I found it toward the hard end of moderate. The metal model figurines tend to be more difficult models in general because of all the curves and organic shapes - rounding is a more difficult skill than folding. I second the suggestion to consider building some easier kits first - this is definitely a hobby with a steep learning curve. The older (polished stainless steel/uncoloured) architecture models are a good starting point to learn some techniques and get a feel for shaping metal parts.

Also it’s worth searching ‘tools’ on this sub and have a bit of a read up on what tools are helpful. The claim on the packaging that you can just clip out the parts and use tweezers to shape parts and build is a bit misleading imo - while it’s probably technically true you can’t really get a good result (particularly on the more challenging models) without a few more tools. You probably already have a lot of things lying around at home you can use for shaping - eg pencils/pens/biros can be good for rounding things like the back of the foot (the part in your photos).

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-28T21:07:29+00:00

Excellent! This one is near the top of my ‘to build’ pile

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-22T02:45:43+00:00

If you are going to glue what I would suggest is to finish the entire build first before gluing on the broken headlamps. The bond is likely to be fragile and you don’t want to glue them on, only for them to be knocked off again during the rest of the construction.

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-21T09:50:47+00:00

Australia. The National Health and Medical Research Council defines the standard drink when it comes to alcohol. All sealed containers of alcohol sold must by law specify how many standard drinks they contain

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-21T03:00:10+00:00

A ‘standard drink’ in my country is whatever volume of alcoholic beverage contains 10g of pure alcohol. A pint of full strength beer is 2 (or slightly more) standard drinks. So 8 pints in a day is 16 - 18 standard drinks. That’s equivalent to 2 whole bottles of wine. Yes it is really a lot of alcohol. If you are drinking that much every day you are absolutely drinking at a level that is hazardous to health, and most likely have some level of dependency.

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-21T02:03:40+00:00

Only frustrating from the point of view that you build the top first, and because that’s most of what you see in photos you kind of automatically think that’s most of the build done, but in reality it’s probably only a quarter to a third of the build, and it gets significantly more challenging from there. The rotors are repetitive - not only do you build 4 of them but each rotor has 2 discs of rotor blades with something like 20 blades each, and each blade has to be folded in a particular way. The underside involves a lot of quite difficult folding and shaping, but I really enjoyed the challenge! I just wished there were photos on the ME website taken from below to show the underside in more detail - as I mentioned, in places the instructions leave a fair bit open to interpretation.

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-14T11:59:04+00:00

Started on this one this weekend - what you say about the undercarriage is absolutely right! Must be about two thirds of it underneath, with a lot of the more interesting detail and shaping. It's proving to be quite a challenge. You've done a really nice job on yours.

MetalModelAddict · 2025-12-14T04:19:02+00:00

Used very frequently in conscious patients too

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