Just received my Storm Strider

[scadugenga]

And...wow. What a cool looking model.

I'll post some pics/review of the casting, etc in a day or so, when I have anything resembling real free time.

[laestli]

Have you run it in any games yet, even just as an empty 110mm disc?

[wittdooley]

And...wow. What a cool looking model.

I'll post some pics/review of the casting, etc in a day or so, when I have anything resembling real free time.

You won't happen to be at Games Day Chicago, will you?

[scadugenga]

@laestli: Not yet. It just arrived Thurs night, and I was at a Sox game last night, and an anniversary party today.

Perhaps I'll get a game in with it next week sometime.

@witt: Wow...that's...today. So nope, not there. Was at a 50th anniversary party all day today. Which is not the best thing to do after being at a Sox night game the evening prior.

[wittdooley]

I dunno if you built yours yet Scad, but mine was a huge pain in the ***. There were tons of mold lines, but not the ones that bump up in one place; they were the ones that look like the mold was offset when they cast it.

The legs were also a mess to work with, attaching to the body at least.

The resin and the metal just don't want to stick together very well.....

[scadugenga]

Thanks for the heads up. I may just pin everything and go from there.

[wittdooley]

Some recommendations:

On the metal leg parts that go into the "body hub:" If I build another one, I'm going to sand off the square parts on those and just pin them. The position was much easier on the one I did this too than the 3 that I didn't.

On the guard rails for the standing platform: You'll need to shave off one of the nubs on the platform for the guard rails to sit on it properly. I think I did the ones closest to the middle, but I doubt it matters which; the holes on the bottom of the guard rail aren't the proper width to accept each nub.

On the "arc" piece with the generators on it: my connection point where it connects with the metal standing platform didn't fit. I shaved that part down too.