New Freighter Models & Cargo GSE for Xin Long

I love seeing some of these GSE outside of the promo pics on ebay. I have a few from avgeek and love them all so far. I think I only have the ground crew, passengers, and cones so far but I love those trucks and containers. Lots of detail in those tiny things.

For scale, here are the avgeek cones I generally use in all my photos now (I have the 3D design deck ones too which are the same exact size but have a white band half way up the cone). I can’t tell you how many i’ve lost already setting up and taking down lol. Thank god you get way more than 40 in your baggie, seems not a ton more but just a loose amount and I have plenty more than I’ll ever need until I make a full 8ft diorama board.

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Something to note about some of these 3D printed GSE, ESPECIALLY the ground grew/passengers and even the cones to an extent, all come with little printing fibers all over them. I find that taking each one by tweezers and taking a lighter flame under it for just a fraction of a second singes them off and clean each one up nicely. Its very worth it for these things IMO. It can be hard to find the right touch with it as since theyre so small you can easily deform them and they get much harder to stand up. Ive lost about 5 or so crew/passengers so far just trying to get rid of fibers and getting them too hot too quick. Luckily they can be cut and used elsewhere or maybe glued to dioramas in the future.

Here’s a photo of what the passengers look like. I wish they had a touch more detail like the ground grew workers seem to have but there are some printing limitations there. I’m not super crazy about all the bright blue, green, yellow and orange, etc but I know there’s only a certain amount of colors possible as well. Hopefully a technology advancement to make a “color wheel” “choose your own custom color” type thing and is eventually in the works in that field. In the meantime, I would love to see some striped shirts, maybe some proper business suits if that’s possible, maybe some circle “logos” on the shirt areas, maybe attached backpacks or so to some as well. Adding proper pilots with their hats might be a fun idea too. That does complicate the printing process a bit more with all the variations but I hope someone tries those things in the future!

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Here are those same ground crew customized to look like they’re driving some gemini GSE vehicles. Just a sharp hobby knife and some super glue can achieve this look which helps the sometimes ghost vehicle look.

Tug Driver:
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Belt Loader:
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I’ve only done these two total but plan to add a few more as my GSE collection gets larger.
 
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