/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!
Links
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
Social Media
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.
Places such as YourToyMart.com have created an all-in one toolkit with most of everything that may be needed to create Metal Earth 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.
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Queen annes revenge by piececool.
18:10 UTC
metal earth Hedwig model
I am looking for help with the first part of the model, specifically the fist step on how to make the face and eyes.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jerry
18:43 UTC
Hello, I have this model of the wizarding world or Harry Potter university handrids motorbike 3d metal model kit, but I lost the instructions, could someone help me, thank you very much!
02:34 UTC
Helme!!!
Hola soy de Argentina... Hello, I have this model of the wizarding world or Harry Potter university handrids motorbike 3d metal model kit, but I lost the instructions, could someone help me, thank you very much
02:33 UTC
Class S-2 Locomotive by Piececool.
08:06 UTC
Vintage cameras collection
I hope my collection is complete 😉
07:58 UTC
I received an appreciation gift from Fascinations for contributions to the hobby and am very honored. I like to encourage modelers to enjoy the hobby and learn from post. more...
06:37 UTC
EVA-01 Model
Decided to tackle the eva-01 model but I seem to have either lost or didn't get the 2nd page of instructions. Would anyone happen to have those? I did check the model list but didn't see it
05:02 UTC
Need help with the roof(s)
There are 4 piece (and one 5 piece) roof steps in this garden I'm doing. Got the first set down somehow, but after great amounts of time slowly bending and twisting and unbending and twisting to maximize trials... I broke the tabs off and am stuck with a roofless shack(thankfully the least important building). Can someone please explain how to do this?
00:23 UTC
Where to buy in the uk
I have been building the ME star wars models for a while now and I have just been buying different ones when I see them and not really following any order. I mostly buy off ebay and sometimes off other websites. I'm down to the last 10 models to complete the whole collection but alot of them seem to be from the US and the postage is expensive to get them shipped over or seller isn't willing to send them to the UK. Does anyone know the best place to buy the models?
19:48 UTC
Christmas gift from ME for purchases more than 50USD
I just saw this banner at ME site. Probably they are giving gifts of their Aeroplane models.
21:42 UTC
Gave the peacock a copper wire tree and feathers
21:12 UTC
2018 vs 2024
Metal Earth has come a long ways. I'm very impressed by this newest version of black panther.
05:22 UTC
What to do if small pieces break?
Hi, I’m super new and just attempted my first ME. I got the f-14 and while I was trying to bend one of the smaller pieces it broke off. What can I do now? Is the whole build just doomed?
02:39 UTC
Four MORE models coming soon....
16:49 UTC
Has anyone contacted Metal Earth for support before? How did it go?
Hi everyone - this is my first post here but certainly not my first model. However, it is my first model where I’ve run into machining issues. The slots on the left piece are too small to receive the tabs from the right piece.
Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, were you able to do anything to make it work? I don’t have a dremel kit but even if I did, I’m not sure if there are small enough bits to make that work.
I have reached out to Metal Earth via their website, but I’m still waiting to hear back. Just curious if anyone has had similar experiences or has any advice on how I might get unblocked from completing my model.
This is the Sauron kit, if you’re wondering.
15:49 UTC
can you still get replacement pieces for the halo 5 limited edition model??? i finally decided to put mine together after being terrified to try for idek how long and I BROKE A PIECE i've never done one of these and i feel so BAD 😭but the website is just loading endlessly 😭😭😭😭
12:26 UTC