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Huzzah!!! 😁...... and on that momentous note.....I am now pleased to announce that.... now we have a battleship gentlemen! Primary hull painting DONE! (and gloss coated with Alclad Klear Kote). Definitely more user friendly to me these days than that Tamiya TS-13.
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Great job as always @wm cheng!
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Yeh, I hear you @M'Kyuun, my inner 10 year old boy watching Robotech every day after school is screaming "BUY IT!!!" - I still remember the birthday I got my first Gakken Blue Alpha Robo whatever is was called. Pure unadulterated JOY! 😍
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I agree, I haven't ever gotten masking fluid to work for me either. I wish I could, especially on canopies.
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SPACEBALLS! The Action Figures! 🤣
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I gotta say, I can't afford it, and even if I cooould afford it, I have ZERO space to put that BEAST, but it does look pretty darn cool in Soldier Mode with all the hatches opened up!
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Yeh, I agree with @mechaninac here. Look how far these have come in just a very short time frame. In 5 years I can only imagine what will be possible. Crazy.
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
derex3592 replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
HAhahahahaa! TRUTH! -
OK......I'm kinda in! Looks fun! 😂
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General Sci-fi designs across various media
derex3592 replied to M'Kyuun's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Same! Had no idea that odd black droid was anything other than something the model/prop makers dreamed up for that 1st scene at the droid sale! Awesome! -
Well.... probably not well. Arylics are very fragile in my experience. Speaking of which, so I hit the B-52 with Tamiya rattle can gloss clear and immediately wanted to cry. Never had it happen, but apparently (after some Googling) sometimes it will darken your paint about 3 shades which it did.. So now my beautiful 3 hours of work this morning is super dark grey and my pre-shade has all but vanished. Sometimes I hate this hobby. Very upsetting and I don't really know what to do about it 😔
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Primer, pre-shade and painting of the BUFF this morning! Used Vallejo Acrylic Grey surface primer, fantastic stuff! No smell, water based and airbrush straight from the bottle. Also don't know why I don't hear more good things about Mission Models acrylics. They are fantastic! Water based, no smell, NO thinning, airbrush straight from the bottle, dead flat color and soooo easy to put on. Beats Tamiya acrylics by a country mile if you ask me.. 🤔 🙄
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That's my game plan. I'm waiting for March to get here and then I'll have to ship the two kits I have in my PW, maaaaybe shipping and tarrifs will be slightly better by then. Either way I'm not going to be pre ordering anything else from Japan for a long long time. Oh well...
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Red and black masked and painted! 100%! Now...I have had 2ish years to figure out the shade of gray for the rest of the ship.....and I'm still unsure....😂 Nothing looks right to my eye yet. Going off the new restored high resolution pics off the Battleship Texas Foundation FB page and YouTube videos, it really depends on the sunlight of any given day as to the blue-gray shade this thing appears to be.. 🤔 I know what the "official colors" are but on a 1/350 scale ship it's way to dark. This may be a mix situation and then trial and error more than anything...
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@tekering - I would like to rent out the top floor corner penthouse please sir! I'll have my things sent over next week! 😂 Looks awesome!
