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@pengbuzz Such a bummer. Take that energy and turn out something awesome. @Thom That looks great! Please keep us posted. I’m going to be starting my dry first aircraft kit this week…well that is if the shipping date is correct and it shows up on my steps. @Chas Oh yeah! I‘m excited to see this one take shape. What SDF1 kit is that?
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Nice work Thom! It looks really good to me ( I usually get super glue all over the place whe I use PE. So I take it you're not gonna have any pilots in there? I started a project I wasn't planning to work on till summer break, but because of some recent posts in the 'Look at This Really Cool Model Build' thread I got a little itchy to start. Pics speak for themselves. The proportions of the Hase. Kit are a little off for the TV SDF, but it's not that bad. The guns you see on the side are just placed there for figuring out placement. My initial detailing of the curved cut out was way out of scale so I scrapped it and tried again. 2'nd attempt is much better, but we'll see if it stays or If I try for a 3rd time. The paint guide on this has got to be wrong. The instructions say that the 'blue' is a mix of 55% light grey (fs36495) 40% Aircraft Grey ( Mr.Hobby 73) and Mr color CR3 ( primary yellow). I can't for the life of me figure out how a 95% light grey with 5% yellow is gonna blend out the the dark blue they show on the box. Granted I've never used( or heard of) the Mr.Hobby CR line, but apparently there are 3 primary colors: magenta, Cyan and yellow, meant for adding to other colors to tint/shade and blend your own. Regardless of that I gotta think there's a misprint somewhere 'cus grey and yellow ain't gonna turn into the dark blue they show. So I guess I'll just have to eyeball it and come up with my own mix.
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Except for the seats the cockpit is basically done. It is the Hasegawa tub and rear IP, the Tamiya seats (at the finish) and front IP, throttle and side-sticks, and Eduard PE meant for the Hasegawa model, though some parts did not fit. The instrument panel PE was too wide, both for the Has as well as the Tam parts and so needed to be trimmed up. The front PE IP also needed to be cut in two and the sides sidled up to the central shroud. The front IP was then glued under the coaming to help with alignment and fit rather than to the tub. And the tub was glued into the upper fuselage. The instructions say to glue it to the bottom piece, but that was cut and changed so much I very much doubt it would have fit right. Now to get a little nose weigh in there and finally close up the fuselage! Thom
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ThreeZero ROBOTECH (Macross) Toys
505thAirborne replied to kyekye's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Knowing the three-zero is virtually the same size as the Yamato/Arcadia Valk's, here's hoping that a Cannon Fodder VF-1A & 1J are in the works. -
May the Inferno of your anger reforge a new and fierce determination to overcome the dreaded plastic beast - and turn it into your docile plaything!
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you’re on the right track. 😜
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A Little Teaser of a Conversion Kit...
PsYcHoDyNaMiX replied to PsYcHoDyNaMiX's topic in The Workshop!
I've been dialing in the colors, making more adjustments, and calibrations. Not tiny pics but not high def (sorry)... I'll have hi res pics hopefully sometime by the end of the week when the first (this) phase of the project is almost done.
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I get the point they were trying to make, but they did it in the worst possible way
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Sorry folks, I guess I'd just stick with their ebay store. Its been a few months since I last talked to them
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Are there mold differences or just sticker/painting variations? Its super hard to tell inside the bags! My amateur eyeballs don't see anything other than sticker locations/designs, give me some clues!
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Got my Roy this past week, transformed it once to fighter to confirm the arm sliders weren't frozen, and then haven't really touched it since. Probably for the better, so the panel lining doesn't rub off like my Rick's. I don't know. These just feel like an oddball. They've got a couple of really questionable design choices that manage to goof up all modes roughly equally, I suppose? And sadly, the arm design is at the center of all of it. The forearms being so thick pretty well kills the profile in fighter mode (especially when the arms sag off the pegs, leaving the rear gear propped off of the ground by the gunpod ). Then the screwy elbow design just looks terrible if you look at it for more than five seconds. It just makes me sad at how easy it would be for them to fix it. Also yeah, same exact issue as above. The arms will not seat on those stubs. The backpack flap pushes them down, because it doesn't collapse far enough against the thrusters. So they just dangle even lower than their intended position. Also, unfortunately in my case, this is probably the worst fitting nosecone I've seen on any VF-1 since they started making them fold. Can't figure this one out, it's like the nosecone tip got shrunk in the wash or something, it's too small for the rest of the nose, and doesn't sit flush, so there's an angled gap all the way around. On the plus side, the paint is immaculate on this one, and I appreciate the extra pivot they added to tilt the head lasers in and out. I don't know if I exactly regret buying both of these, and I can appreciate someone finally making a release that's more battroid-focused, but the sad part is that some of those compromises weren't even necessary in the first place. They just made some poor choices in general. These are probably just going to remain in battroid forever. Though.. now I'm actually kind of wondering how hard it would be to make a set of custom arms without the elbow and droop problems. Could even work in a set of perfect transformation hands, since they didn't seem interested in those. Would be really funny if you could just pull off the arms below the shoulder, and replace the whole assembly with a set of Yamatos.
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
Hikaru Ichijo SL replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Witch Watch was so good again today. I love this show. -
The arm peg issue is even worse than thought. Back when I got my VF-1J, I discovered they get blocked from pegging in when the backpack is in place. The backpack flap is too long and pushes the arm away from the peg. So even IF the arms pegs in securely, it physically can't XD You have to do the elbow trick either way.
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That's kind of the point, though. She's taking advantage of two vices freely available at a wedding reception - excessive consumption of alcohol and uninhibited dancing - as a way to dissociate in a public setting so she won't have to immediately deal with the emotional toll from the events of the day. Her dancing is clearly meant to show that she is emphatically NOT OK... something that other characters are also meant to notice (e.g. Perrin, who clearly notices she's in distress at the end of the episode).
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A humongous shout out to Greg, a very special friend and collector. Thank you!
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
Big s replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I accidentally read that as Gorilla Grod I was happy he might finally be trying to start settling down.
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I get the reason for trying to drown your sorrows in alcohol, but that was super cringy pill popper dancing
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Well, that was certainly a fever dream...
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
Seto Kaiba replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl is a bit of a weak offering this week. Mostly just high school mean girl shenanigans. -
After a bit of wiki-surfing, it looks like that's what happened in the non-canon pre-Disney version of the Ghorman massacre. I don't think we've seen anything teasing an appearance by Tarkin for Andor's second season, so the actual events of the massacre may be rather different. Unfortunately, the subsequent death of Bail Organa on Alderaan leaves her the de facto leader of the Rebel Alliance's Republic government-in-exile. That, in turn, sets her up to become the Supreme Chancellor of the New Republic where her desire to return to the status quo ante rather than make meaningful reforms to fix the Republic's broken system ultimately paves the way for the rise of the First Order and the subsequent overthrow of the New Republic a few years after her retirement. That's hardly her fault. After all, the whole reason she's trying to lose herself in alcohol and dancing at the wedding reception to avoid dwelling on the knowledge that Luthen is presently... It seems like Mon Mothma has finally hit the point where she can no longer avert her eyes from the fact that people are killing, and/or dying, for the cause. The YouTube channel Generation Tech has a thoughtful analysis of the situation. I originally linked it below, but in hindsight because it uses real world political references I am removing the link out of concern that it may be of issue WRT the forum rules.
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Went ahead and installed some of the clear parts, I tend to always make a mess of the job if I do it after painting. Installed, sanded and then coated in Microtech's brushable liquid masking film. Hopefully the edges stay as sharp and clean as they are here. Finally got time to drag out the airbrush for the black basing. Everything looks wonderful except for the nose cone. Not sure what happened. Part of me think the canopy glue stayed wet on the inside and slowly ate at the plastic. All the way around the joint is like this. Giving me old Testors glue tube vibes when you'd apply to much. So off to fix it with some putty. Masking off details to try to save myself on rescribing later.
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She sure dances like a tool
