How do you feel about buying and using resin aftermarket parts for your scale models?

I voted for the second choice because resin casters often create the items that make you want to buy the kit in the first place! :iceslolan Because of S.A.S. I have a couple of kits that I might not have purchased. Jimmy Flintstone also has influenced my decisions on things as well. :smile:

Whnever I can I usually build my own, plus I don't have a credit card so I can't buy anything online. :grinno:

I have nothing but praise for aftermarket companies, particularly the makers of resin transkits and decal sets. I'm not just saying coz i'm involved in the industry but because they help keep the model car industry alive by increasing the amount of options available to a modeler on any one kit.

Consider someone who could go down to the local model shop and pick up a kit of their favourate rally car - Pug 206. Once they have built it, next they can buy another to use with a S27 decal set or several.

Then there may be the modeler who doesn't like the Works 206 scheme and therfore wouldn't have bothered buying it if it wasn't for the fact that Renaissance made the Rossi livery that he really liked.

That's all extra revenue for the likes of Tamiya etc to put back into their business and help to make new and exciting products for us guys :) Its all one big modelmaking circle :biggrin: In mt opinion you can not dislike aftermarket companies and what they do.

I have nothing but praise for aftermarket companies, particularly the makers of resin transkits and decal sets. I'm not just saying coz i'm involved in the industry but because they help keep the model car industry alive by increasing the amount of options available to a modeler on any one kit.

Consider someone who could go down to the local model shop and pick up a kit of their favourate rally car - Pug 206. Once they have built it, next they can buy another to use with a S27 decal set or several.

Then there may be the modeler who doesn't like the Works 206 scheme and therfore wouldn't have bothered buying it if it wasn't for the fact that Renaissance made the Rossi livery that he really liked.

That's all extra revenue for the likes of Tamiya etc to put back into their business and help to make new and exciting products for us guys :) Its all one big modelmaking circle :biggrin: In mt opinion you can not dislike aftermarket companies and what they do.

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and i add, i hate have same model as everybody have, so Aftermarket Model Parts are welcome ;-)

I love the aftermarket parts, but sometimes I feel they are a bit highly prices, by that I mean PE Parts and S27 Decals, Doesn't stop me buying them thou' :evillol:

I voted for the second choice because resin casters often create the items that make you want to buy the kit in the first place! :iceslolan Because of S.A.S. I have a couple of kits that I might not have purchased. Jimmy Flintstone also has influenced my decisions on things as well. :smile:

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same here, would be nice for the likes of tamiya to include more build options in the box tho, such as teh v spec2 skyline with its wheels and wing.

Resin aftermarket parts are awesome. Metal ones, too. As are styrene... I personally love aftermarket parts. I've used them on just about every model I've made in the last couple years. I buy upgrade parts for my real cars, why not for my miniatures? And there are so many parts out there; everything from rims, to spoilers, to body kits, to MSD ignition boosters.... to tachometers to seatbelts to seats to fuel cells.... everything you could ever want... I use them because I can modify a kit just as I would modify the actual car. And then look at it and pretend I'm racing it....

But just like the poll choice, aftermarket parts (resin or otherwise) are the only way I can make a car exactly how I want it from the beginning.

The more detail and realism the better, and they give more building options

I only use whats in the kits I buy. I bought a tuner kit for the 3 rims choices, engine mods, and wings. I buy a few 3n1 kits for the extra parts. i basically collect what I can from my model kits i built already.

I'll do whatever is necessary to get the model exactly the way I want it. wether I have to scratchbuild, order from SAS etc.. It doesn't really matter, so long as I physically have the esential parts, I can build the model I like. I chose option 3, because if I really think about it, sure I'd love to walk into the store and see the exact car in the exact trim level (or bodykit etc) and exact rims I like etc... but we all know its never going to happen. so I applaud the aftermarket and am thankful for the extra options I have, without them I would not be able to build the cars the way I want them to be. :grinyes:

Just wanted to shed a new light on resin pieces and get some of you thinking.
You don't always have to purchase parts aftermarket. Basic resin casting is fairly simple ( I won't go into any explanations here as there are a numbert of great resources already )
I for one love old kits, I buy them built, unbuilt, complete or not from ebay or swap meets. Often I come up with a part that I can use on several projects and I replicate it. For instance the wheels from an old AMT Double kit a friend gave me are really awesome so I have cast them for my own use.
If a part is not readily available you can always scratchbuild it and then cast multiple copies for different projects.
This is not for everyone but its a whole lot of fun and very satisfying.

I am an avid user of aftermarket parts (I think it's knid of funny that you can build an entire Revell '32 Ford Coupe with parts from Replicas and Miniatures Co. of Maryland) but I have one caveat with the aftermarket, or more accurately, the use of their parts.

Sometimes it seems builders rely on them. A good example is NASCAR builders. Basically, buy the Revell kit, the MCW paint, the Slixx decals, and about $70 worth of detail parts from MCG and Detail Master and you can trophy at a local contest. Sometimes it seems to me that, because of the ease of good results that the aftermarket provides, creativity is shelved.

Not to say that aftermarket parts are a bad thing. Companies like Modelhaus and Fisher Models and Pattern give us the chance to build cars that aren't available and companies like Slixx and Studio 27 have made hand lettering obosolete. It's just that I don't like the idea of someone ending up with the same model as me because they bought the same parts.

I like using them but by the time they are shipped here from the US they are too expensive to buy the amount I would like,especially bodies.

Love aftermarket parts! :iceslolan
Some of my best kits have some sort of aftermarket part on it.

Scot