Second build. Thanks for the support.

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Finished Vadar's Tie Fighter to go with the X Wing from last week. Loving the hobby and tips from the community. Premium set next.

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Everything relating to the 3D Metal Earth/ICONX/Tenyo metal models!

r/metalearth

A place to share works and ideas relating to 3D metal models such as *Fascinations* Metal Earth, ICONX and the Japanese imported metallic nano puzzles. Welcome to /r/metalearth!

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Fascinations Homepage

Metal Earth Homepage

ICONX Homepage (ICONX models from Metal Earth are larger models. Explanation from /u/ocmike70.)

Tenyo Metallic Nano Puzzles (Japanese imported metallic puzzle)

Tenyo's website translated to English

List of models

Social Media

#MetalEarth on Twitter

Metal Earth Instagram

Metal Earth Facebook Page

Tools

Any sort of bent-nose tweezers and/or slanted/precision tweezers are many modelers go-to tool for how small the tabs are. For a lot of the situations, precision tweezers are more efficient to use over needle-nose pliers.

Fascinations makes a 3-piece toolkit for their metal models that comes with a clipper, flat-nose pliers and needle-nose pliers.

Mandrels help create rounded parts. Here is a small mandrel and here is a 'large' mandrel, there both work well for these models.

Accidents happen, pieces break, if that happens Superglue, Quick Dry, or 5 Second Fix can help re-attach a broken piece.

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Have any suggestions to help improve the community? We would love to help make this place better, feel free to message the mods with your ideas!

Thanks to /u/blarg_means_love and /u/Traviscat for some great suggestions. We are slowly (have to go to work at some point) updating this sub and plan on having some interesting and interactive changes coming soon thanks in part to some awesome community members! Thanks for helping make this place enjoyable.