Honkhet's armored VF-25F attempt

[honkhet]

hi macross world!

i am working on alto's armored messiah in a non-canon scheme right now,

and wanted to share some pics of the work in progress

the armor scheme is not yet finalized, but i admit its too late to change most of it already

i dont have an airbrush at home and all this is hand painted

so here are the pics, any comments/advice are welcomed

shoulder parts:

the legs:

shield:

armor pack:

main body:

overall scheme trial run:

Edited September 2, 2009 by honkhet

[mickyg]

Wow! Very nice effort. Especially given you're using brushes! I really like that darker colour scheme (and you know how pedantic I am about colours!).

[Ratatarse]

Excellent effect !

As our budie said, the darker armor makes more agressive on this valk

And I saw I am not the only one to not use airbrush, greetings for the fluid paint !

[honkhet]

thanks for the comments guys, really appreciate them!

meanwhile, i have just completed the jet mode.

in the end i kind off decided to stick to the canon scheme,

but still retain the black armor plus some metallic here and there.

i cant show gerwalk/battroid mode yet cos i havent finished painting the rifles and hands

was supposed to finish them this weekend but i was travelling and forgot to bring the related sprues.

so i js contnued with what i had brought along with me,

and here are some shots i made at the hotel

[Thom]

Beautiful work!

[honkhet]

thanks for ur comment thom

i finally completed my model now, posting these pics before i go to sleep

thanks everyone for viewing

part 1: jet mode

[honkhet]

part 2: gerwalk mode

[honkhet]

phew, finally came to the end

it has been a long road, thanks to all for viewing

presenting...

part 3: battroid mode

[mickyg]

Looks awesome Honket! I still can't believe you hand brushed all this! Amazing work.

You've got both guns mounted in one of your photos, is that part of the kit or did you come up with a way of doing that yourself?

Really wanting to grab this one now - thanks a lot!

[honkhet]

thanks mickyg!

yeah actually for those pics with both guns mounted i merely used thumb tacks

its just for photography purposes, i simply couldnt resist the temptation since bandai provided both guns anyway

[Excillon]

Very nice brushwork. Wish I was that good with a brush. What's your secret?

[honkhet]

Thanks man!

i used a solution called "mr hobby's retarder mild" (funny name huh)

it keeps the paint on your brush fluid for longer periods,

and greatly reduces brush strokes

[regult]

mild retardation is good for modeling...interesting!

[shinagami]

congratulations honket, love ur paintjob. what happens to the green missiles in the earlier pics?.....i thought the green looks cool though. by the way what colour did use for the green missiles?

[honkhet]

thanks shinagami! those earlier green missles were a mix of green + yellow, more to the yellow though.

i dropped the green missle scheme in the end, as wanted to be closer to the canon colors

cos i figured that i had to have the canon SMS squad collection first

after i finish my ozma, i will definitely want to do some non-canon armored messiah schemes