MacrossJunkie

Thanks! I'm not really sure what you mean by solid black lines. However, the lighting kind of washed out most of the weathering on the ARMD-L and the entire toy was extremely pastel to begin with out of the box. Here's some shots of the Quarter doing yoga... I mean in carrier mode. This time, there's no light directly reflecting off the surface of the deck so the details should be more visible.

Wha?! Maybe the complainers just need to adjust the color balance on their monitors. The color on the prototype seems pretty spot on to me.

That looks absolutely fantastic! I see you got the hang of using the Tamiya weathering kit Thanks for sharing! I also had a heck of a time getting the legs to snap back in with the packs on. My first time around, I was struggling with that for quite a while. The legs have to be perfectly aligned to have a chance of snapping the peg in on both legs.

Oh man, those are pretty pics. I haven't made a model in my life, but that hasegawa VF-25 makes me want to give it a try.

Roy colors - White, black, and yellow with purple tinted canopy.

I think the 21 was also the last to use those terrible thick double layer stickers. The destroids, VF-1's, and the VF-11 that came after all used the current style of stickers we got until Yamato's final release. So is the Arcadia stuff the same type of stickers, waterslide decals, or dry transfers?

Every time I've looked at my Mac Quarter, I felt a little dissatisfied with the way it looks. When I first got it however many years ago now, I painted the areas they neglected to paint, according to the line art, and added a bit of weathering with the Tamiya weathering kits. I still didn't get any sense of scale like the cap ship it was supposed to be because it was so plain and generally lacking in surface detail, so I drew in panel lines some time later, inspired by some shots of various scenes in some episodes. It was better but still didn't look quite right to me. Last night, I used my airbrush to weather it further and this time also treated the panel lines I drew in as actual panel lines and weathered them too with varying widths from broad to hairline. Not really sure what else I could do with it at this point other than finding some glow in the dark stickers and applying them all over like I did with the SDF-1. Here's how it came out with last night's endeavor:

It's under the shoulder pauldron on the back of the leg in fighter mode. You can kind of see it here in this pic. I don't know why they don't have it attached to the back of the legs for battroid mode in this pic, but it ought to be there:

That actually looks pretty comparable to Yamato's. So how much commission would your mom be getting since she'd be doing all the work?

I would have liked another 2 more high maneuverability missiles at least so that there would be enough for each hardpoint on the wings, but that's just a very minor quibble.

Hmmm... somehow the prototype just looked better to me. The toy in those shots looks so bland and just not very good in general. I think the dark olive color on the nose and tail fins looked better with a darker shade like on the prototype. I might have to try painting the stripe on the sides like this: I think some scenes had a stripe near the leading edge of the wings as well. As it stands right now, it just needs... more.

I wouldn't mind if they just did a "Macross The First" version.

Which ones already have it in stock?

I'm sure they'll get around to re-releasing it. Just have to wait it out.

Unfortunately, the v1 25G's sniper rifle wouldn't be mountable in fighter mode on the renewal if you went that route, however.

The MDE bombs have fallen off mine on occasion. It's definitely not as tight a fit as the other missiles.

Not just some wood, find a forest and knock on every tree!

Thanks for the feedback! I guess I'll need to work on getting some highlight lighting in there somehow.

Actually, I believe the Q-Rau came out a couple years after the 1/48 VF-1's had come out rather than the v1 1/60's. But, yeah the engineering still wasn't very good. I found the leg articulation to be pretty poor in particular. In the looks department, I think it still holds up though. It just felt cheap and loose when actually handling it.

Aaaand the thread has been derailed! Back on topic, I feel like the canopy is too bright blue. I think it could use a lighter, less saturated tint like Alto's 25F, or a darker tint like the CG render seems to be.

Well, I guess that answers my question. I was really hoping the helmet was just somehow removable. That would have been a neat feature.

Just some new pics of old stuff. I was bored and played around with lighting, exposure, saturation, and other camera settings to see if I could get a feeling of the cold darkness of space with the only the reflected pale light from a nearby moon or distant star as the light source. It shouldn't, but it still amazes me how much a camera can pick up over what my eye can see given enough exposure time. 2 shots. One under dim light and one under near darkness, same camera position: VB-6 and VF-25S in the dark:

If they're smart and decided to make a new fold booster, they'd make the mounts the same so it would be compatible with the older adapters so you could use it on the VF-22/YF-21 as well.

That thread actually doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about them. The last few pages has a lot of posts about how they get slow or no responses from them.

Hmm, the production version Isamu's YF-29 certainly looks different from the prototypes. It actually looks like a CF VF-25 to me I think that is better posted here http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36536