Urashiman

Okay @Graham game‘s on. I got a ps vita tv from eBay, only to play scramble… I‘ll probably CFW it, so i can play my old psp games on the big screen.

In the 80s, I was sitting in communist Germany, and build classics like the IL-62... plasticart model kits hahah. No airbrushes, only brushes. And when you wanted to build something else ... well, you got to get material from somewhere and scratch build, but I was too young for that. I build a Spitfire Mk.II from wood based off picture from books though. It was looking horrible. That messerschmidt - is that a prototype? Looks fancy

@Big s & @MechTech oh man - I didn't expect to trigger people's memories with this one. Haha Yeah, it has some optional parts that ended up in the bin, because I had no use for them. One seemed to reassemble a gatling gun ... but that is Revell quality. Just a blob of plastic haha. I know only one guy that was in Vietnam, the dad from one of my best friends. But he was on the other side and got an award of honor because he ended a few US soldiers. He never really spoke about it, until I went to military services in Germany. He took me aside and said "war is not good. first thing a soldier should learn is to drop the weapon and raise hands." He told me a few things about the war, and gave me some valued advise. My friend was totally flabbergasted as his dad never told stories about the war. ... and man flying in one sounds awesome @Papa Rat Yeah, I let him cut and glue some pieces from time to time, but his hands are still a bit too much uncontrolled. He builds tons of stuff with (Lego) bricks though.

Awesome stuff everyone! I did something not so awesome recently. My kid likes choppers, so I build up a Hughes 500C without paint etc. (because he doesn't care for paint). Horrible Revell kit. The windows were too small and didn’t fit into the frame (check the last and second last picture, you can see the gap there). Not to speak about the terrible fit. Had to clamp down everything…

yeah, last November I dedusted my PS3, got new thermal paste onto it and did some general cleaning of the insides, replacing pads and as well, replacing controller batteries. I got some fancy ones off eBay with double the capacity the original ones have. Then I also added a bigger SSD as the old 120gb HDD was horribly slow and degrading. I got platin on Macross 30 in December and 100% all the hybrid pack games. The only Macross game missing for me now is Scramble... (except for my emulation attempts with Vita3K).

ah okay - but pictures are up on 1999.co.jp. It appears they remodeled the engine bays/legs from scratch.

cool, congratulations - I am thinking about getting a vita TV for scramble, as it apparently works properly on the big screen. Scramble is probably the only game I want to play on Vita, maybe uncharted too, but I've been told Golden Abyss pretty much sucks and does nothing to Nathan Drakes story. I don't want to purchase a console to play only one game on it (again).

do some unboxing pics, pretty please

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.

@derex3592 haha, yeah. It is funny. In the German version he says „wide“. Might be some dubbing thing. Anyway. build log (2024/12/11): Time to finish up. The literal „last leg“. Still needs a cockpit. And done. The V.F.G. claims her ship. By scale, she must be bigger than a Zentradi. Gerwalk mode: I was to lazy to change to Battroid, as the whole transformation on this one is kinda hard. The joints are a really tight fit, and I didn’t want to break a thing. The VB-6 is heavy. I think it must be around 700g. I am not sure I want to ground and paint this. As i played around with the transformation, I figured that the paint will be scratched. So no coloring. I might want to panel line it. For now, I declare this one to be finished. It is interesting how many pieces are leftover on the runners.

@Bolt here, check the saddle. It can be pulled off rather easily. Build Log of today (2024/12/10) I managed to put together the rest of the main fuselage and a right leg. Nothing too nerv wrecking. I got tired and forgot to add some parts and had to take apart the fuselage again. But hey, fun is fun Temba his arms wide! And closed… I like that they added some hinges, so you can clip the stuff together and there are no giant gaps. Here, a few repetitive parts for the legs: Pieces for the right leg: inbetween and done… (with the right leg). This is the progress so far. I was able to discard two sprues today. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!