Urashiman

yeah, I mean, they did a bunch of their limited boxes like the VF-0C and so on as well recently. Hope they do the VF-0A as well (or I just butcher one of my VF-0A/S w Ghost boxes).

I am wondering if Hasegawa will reissue some of their Macross Delta kits. I wanted to get a Mirage VF-31C. A lot of them are listed as "Discontinued" on HLJ (which doesn't mean much though).

Depending on the Vita3K build Delta scramble will actually load up or not. I have been testing around with configurations and can actually get to the point where it loads a mission, but then rendered stuff is either black or, fittingly, highly scrambled.

I think the playstation store for vita was shut down, so no - unless you download the DLC from somewhere and CFW/HEN your vita, you'll be out of luck.

Putty and sanding on the VF-1J. While doing this, I noticed I am on my last bottle of Alclad 2 primer and microfiller. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be distributed anymore (through the UK, due to some regulations on lacquer colors). Now I am in search for a proper replacement as I don’t want to pay the ridiculous shipping prices from the US to Germany. Any suggestions? Mr. Surfacer doesn’t work for me as I am using Revell enamel colors. Same for Tamiya surfacer. They tend to develop cracks on these two surfacers. The revell primer is okayish, but I want something that is primer and microfiller.

I wonder why I cannot like grahams post… not giving me the heart…

Sigh… preorder time…

@electric indigo 30 years old? What kit maker is that? The panel lines look so crisp ... @nightmareB4macross so much evergreen. looks like it is coming along well. @SteveTheFish looks nice @pengbuzz aah ... good old cannon fodder. Haha

1/48 VF-1 build updates. Hand painting Hikaru and his seat here. Clear coated these parts with Tamiya XF-22 for washing. CLAMPS! Cockpit details + built nose with cockpit and Hikaru. I am going for the bubbly canopy, but it has that ugly seam line. I find that weird, because they managed to do the flat canopy without a seam line in the middle. scratching off the seam line. (Ugly ugly…) Then sanding and buffing and putting it on the nose. As good as new. Little snap together just to show off the VF-1 Need to add some putty here and there as well as sanding. After that, masking and priming

Did a bit priming and coloring this evening as well as further building. This is a big one… (probably not as big as the plamax 1/20 one, but 1/48 big)

The hasegawa YF-19 isn't too accurate and not true to the kawamori line art. The underside is quite different.

That fighter mode YF-19 is based on the Hasegawa YF-19, right?

Workbench stuff. After the VB-6, I am Building something more „traditional“. I haven’t build anything 1/48 in ages. Totally forgot how big 1/48 stuff is haha. Anyway, this seems like hasegawa took everything they did wrong with the 1/72 and fixed it. Like a revision B, just in 1/48. would be cool if they could update their 1/72 mold with the improvements the 1/48 has. Just dreaming. As the 1/72, it can be broken down into build groups. So I am doing this group by group.

@Graham cool! Have fun! I definitely had fun with my VB-6.

@Chronocidal Yeah, I figured. There are still the pieces for the head unit on the runners. There are also a bunch of duplicate parts, as they just "copy/pasta" a few runners. A lot of pieces are just the same and were reused. In general, I think this kit is more aimed towards the "toy" audience, and not a scale model builder like me. While I had a ton of fun building this, I probably won't have fun painting this. If I ever want to paint this, I probably would glue the VB-6 into permanent shuttle mode and then do the paint job. I saw a bunch of Bandai builds with primed parts and then painted and so on. They rarely transform their kits, for the same reasons. The paint would just wear off too quickly. So - maybe only panel lining with a gunpla marker for me on the VB-6. As of now, I will store it in a box and move on to the next kit.