Urashiman

@MechTech my condolences

@electric indigo 1/72? You got too much money… hahahah

PRIME TIME!

did some priming along the seams, just to check where to sand.

23 hours ago, Graham said:

Did you CFW your Vita TV yet? Any issues doing it?

Not yet. Didn’t have the time unfortunately.

But I got this now:

Quality and gameplay wise, I think the DYRL hybrid pack game was even better than macross 30.

15 hours ago, Graham said:

 

Awesome. Enjoy! I just unlocked the YF-30 today in Delta Scramble.

I may also look into playing PSP games on my Vita.

Although I've currently got Macross Ultimate Frontier & Macross Triangle Frontier on my Android phone using the PPSSPP emulator and using the Backbone One controller rather than the phone's touchscreen for controls.

In other news, the replacement batteries I ordered for my old PS3 and PS4 controllers arrived today, so installing them is gonna be my project for the weekend. 😅

Did you CFW/HEN your vita? You can pack the iso/cso for psp macross onto the vita and play it on the vita.

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.

5 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

@Urashiman @MechTech I, too, was hooked on the Hughes after Magnum, but fortunately skipped the Revell kit and built the Kenyan Defender kit from Hasegawa in the 80s; still in my brush paint era.

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I love the race car profile of the HG Messerschmitt

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…

7 hours ago, Graham said:

Heh, I actually just bought a Vita TV so I can play Macross Delta Scramble on a large TV. I haven't set it up yet though. 😅

I'm the same, Macross Delta Scramble is pretty much the only game I want to play on Vita. Actually over the decades most of my consoles were bought specifically to play Macross games. Of course I bought and played other games. 

I just got my old PS3 set up and it still works after so many years. The only issue was the battery in the controller has died, so I've got a replacement battery on order.  Been having fun the last few days playing the Macross Last Frontier PS3 game.

 

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).

11 hours ago, GMK said:

Not my box or table, sadly. 

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

On 1/30/2025 at 11:31 AM, Graham said:

Was able to jailbreak my Vita last night. Actually, it's pretty easy to follow all the steps on the various videos on YouTube. 

So, I've now got the DLC I downloaded installed. 

Having a real blast replaying this game again after many years.

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).

On 1/29/2025 at 9:35 AM, GMK said:

 VF-1S Strike Valkyrie box art. 
 

 

do some unboxing pics, pretty please

15 hours ago, Big s said:

discontinued just means that they aren’t making anymore at the moment and may not have plans to do so for a bit, but that doesn’t mean they won’t in the future, for hasegawa, it’s just a matter of time before they recontinue production. And it may be soon since Delta is streaming in more areas than just Japan 

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).

12 hours ago, Graham said:

I've actually got the Macross Delta Scramble ROM and all DLC downloaded on my Android phone, as I was hoping to be able to play it on my phone using the Vita3K emulator.

However, Vita emulation is still in its early days and and the game crashes after the game's loaded when I try to go into Hanger or Missions from the game menu. That's kinda what I expected though as Macross Delta Scramble is one of the games listed as currently having a low compatibility with Vita3K. Hopefully Macross Delta Scramble may run better with future versions of Vita3K.

Anyway, once the PS Vita 2000 I ordered arrives, I'll look into trying CFW/HEN. Just been doing some light reading on it now.

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.

On 1/14/2025 at 9:04 AM, Graham said:

So, I sold my PS Vita TV and Macross Delta Scramble years ago.

But I've recently had a desire to play Macross Delta Scramble again, so I just ordered the game and a second hand PS Vita, which is on the way.

Anybody know if the Delta DLC is still available on the Japanese Playstation store?

 

 

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.

On 12/28/2024 at 5:32 AM, Graham said:

A couple more quick pics.

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)

3 hours ago, Adriano said:

Sim

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

The underside is quite different.

On 12/11/2024 at 2:13 PM, Adriano said:

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.