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  1. mickyg
    Been a very long time since I've posted but glad to see a few familiar faces showing up. And I'm not just talking about the VF-25F and VF-25G! 😉 Timely thread, given I just tweaked my renewal 25F the other day. Wanted a more purple tint on the canopy and the nose cone and front landing gear doors were driving me nuts. All of them came out OK but yeah, mine feels a bit like it could use a refresh. I don't collect any more though so I'll have to live vicariously through all the pics you're posting. That 25S announcement is VERY exciting though... Not revival but I wanted to share some purple.
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    Yep - anything ABS will be a better stand-in for "toy plastic" than PVC. ABS seems to be notoriously difficult to get paint to stick to. If you can test it on ABS, there's a great chance it'll work as good or better on your Chunky.
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    Oh, that sucks, man. I knew there would have been a reason to not include them when you had the 1D pictured. Yeah, that design is cool because it's compact but it means figuring out how to toughen up what's already a very fragile means of weathering. Lacquer based clearcoat on top, maybe?
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    Bravo, sir. Bravo! Can I ask for one tweak to your VF-0S entry? Can you put the finished work up for reference? I know you've got them posted elsewhere but this will make this entry a nice, standalone piece for people to use, all in the one post. I've been meaning to do this to my VF-0S for a long while now. This is a great push to help me get my act together and at least make a start. I'm really good at starting...
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    Wow @Lolicon! Amazing work! Had I not seen the custom pain mix for the RVF, I'd have had no idea that you were actually repainting these as well as just weathering. Very, very nice job.
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    I'm still trying to figure out how Kylo even got to Exegol. I get that he'd been there before and all but isn't it impossibly difficult to get there without a wayfinder? Or did Rey send the navigation stuff she sent to the resistance fleet his way as well? I guess I could live with that answer, except that it's just totally absent from the movie. I didn't hate this movie, I'm just not sure I loved it, either. Easily the best of the three for me though.
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    Been working my way through the Hasegawa SV-51y/a kit over the last few months. I don't get much time in the last few years to work on models so progress is snail-pace slow. Been enjoying getting back into it though. Here's a very low Q pic of latest progress: I struggled to find what Hasegawa calls "Aircraft Gray" in their callouts but ended up using some Gunze FS36321. It's a bit darker than the shade of gray the kit is molded in and looks nearly identical here in this harsh LED flash lit photo. I also spent a great deal of time "thinning" the leading edges of those intakes. It's a pretty abrupt angle though and the closeup picture makes that a lot more obvious. Still, anything is better than the stock thick, blunt profile. Lots more to to do but it's good to see Ivanov's ride coming together.
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    Also noticed Great episode!
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    It looks very, very nice. Your attention to details is also spot-on. I see nothing but respect and a labour of love on this project.
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    Is the YF-29 Alto version an officially verified reissue? I thought it was just being shown at all the usual events as a "see what we did?" sort of marketing thing.
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    I'll say! Man, at 25 years in the making, this is even more impressive to have followed. Really love your work, your attention to detail and all the time you put into journalling your build here with us Macross folks. Inspires me to get back to a lot of my unfinished projects and keep up with the threads I started but never finished.
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    Pshhh! Speak for yourself man - all my skills are top secret! I keed, I keed. I can't think of a single thing I know how to do with my own modelling experience, that I haven't learned by reading a tutorial, watching a video, or chatting with someone else. A lot of that has come from this site, alone, too. Of course you've got to then try it, but the point is that Ted's spot on. It's never too late to start learning some new skills and modelling is one of those things I hope I never stop doing. @tekering Lovely work on that figure! Got any poses on the Monster, now that you've reached the finish line? I know scale probably won't be kind but your previous pics looked great and certainly didn't make me think "that monster is way too small!" in the slightest.
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    Love the outcome on this one! The panel shading on the heatshield/"canopy" is a very nice touch, too!
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    I like them so much, I'd happily be the Australian distributor for all his stuff. Just don't have enough folks down my way to order the quantities to make it worthwhile, unfortunately. I'm sure your pics would help his stands reach some other audiences too. I'd try to segue to get us back on topic but this thread is long since gone anyway. You're probably one of the last folks to get an original Yamato variant of this thing! I love that it's still about as good as it gets, even being an almost exact template for the much newer Bandai High Metal R version. They certainly did this one nicely. Of course it being MacrossWorld and all, I'd be remiss to not complain about all the "Should haves" that we didn't get: missiles that don't like to stay put very limited arm posing options no "official" gunpod mounting option (though that's pretty easy to do anyway) Some paint scratching issues on die-cast parts wings and control surfaces that aren't at the "correct" angles and/or don't have any way to tell you they're properly aligned I'm still in agreement with you though, it's a greatly done toy and as others often say, surprising that it manages to hide a robot in there in fighter mode.
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    Not a problem! Happy to help a fellow member out (you and Yeti both!). Yeah, until you have these in hand, they really are difficult to visualise.
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    ^^^ Bingo! See, I knew it'd been too long since I'd browsed the site. That set is exactly like the Bandai bundle, but requires you to already have an Arcadia stand for it to work. Still, those two adapters it comes with and wmkjr's pic should help this make a lot more sense now. The one thing to remember with these stands is that there's no right or wrong adapter. Well unless you buy a Bandai adapter for a non-Bandai toy, of course. Using a combination of parts and elbows means there are a huge number of possible mounting options to experiment with.
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    Seconded. @pengbuzzthat is amazing!
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    Yep, been getting reports from friends back in the Santa Rosa area for the last few days. You guys all stay safe! Bolt, that looks awesome, by the way.
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    Not quite. The adapters are the things that bolt to the end of the clear arm. For Yamato/Arcadia, they are a small rectangular hole, which the included stand mount that comes with the toy, slots right into. Same for the Bandai ones, only they are a long rectangular hole. And then there's thee new Macross 0 ones which I think use a different sized hole altogether. In short, if you buy a Yeti Stand without an adapter, you'll have no way to mount your toy, even though it's also got a stand adapter with it. I think Yeti bundles some simpler stands for Bandai use with a Bandai adapter but as far as I'm aware, there's no "bundle" for Yamato/Arcadia offerings. Hope that helps.
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    Looks GREAT! Was just about to ask "why the door?" when I remembered the base the aircraft sits on is the elevator. Makes you wonder why "real" aircraft carriers don't use this approach. Seems like it'd potentially save a lot of space. Though, I'm guessing space is the reason it exists, as it's likely to be a design choice for making sure it holds atmostphere when it's, you know, in space. A big rolling door would be perfect for that when the elevator is lowered.
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    Hi-Metal R

    mickyg replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    ...And no Strike pack for the extra parts.
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    Hi-Metal R

    mickyg replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    You big tease!
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    YetiStand Alpha.

    mickyg replied to ChaoticYeti's topic in Toys

    New parts? Oooooh!!!
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    Those four big, dark "missiles" are actually fuel tanks + micro missile launchers. See the entry on Armament here (http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrosszero/sv-51.htm) So technically, these ones could be on the aircraft for extended periods, and get the sort of weathering you see. The light grey missiles are not as weathered and those definitely are more the sort of weapon you're talking about.
  25. mickyg
    Looks great! Care to share what steps you use for painting metal? I've done a few other DX valks and am always a bit worried about durability (flaking, scratching).
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