derex3592

in my opinion, I would try some decal set solution. I have used it on some things and had it work fantastically well, others not so much. Can't hurt to try. Water slides are ALWAYS preferable to stickers for me anyway. As for the best way to panel line...some people say Gundam markers, some say Micron Pens..(i have used these--good but very dark black lines) OR you could try weathering wash. Carefully paint over/fill in the lines and then wipe away the extra. PRACTICE first however on an old toy or model that you don't care about!

good advice so far...keep it coming! thanks!

Poooor Ben....he gets NO love..

Hello Everyone, I am going to start what I hope will be an informative thread around here. As we have SO many talented people around here, I'm hoping some of them can help me (and anyone else) out who has questions, be they simple getting started questions, or more advanced stuff. I will start this off...Just purchased the Photo Etch Parts for the 1/3000 SDF-1 from a fellow Macrossworlder. I have NEVER done PE etched parts before, but want to learn (as I also have the ones for my Finemolds 1:144 Mil. Falcon kit). Those I kinda get how to to do as they came with instructions in English. The Yamato ones....not so much. Do you remove them from the "backing sheet" somehow and then paint?? Paint first?? carefully snip parts out, do you have to "fold" some of them??, and then how in the world do you get the ones to stick on that hang out in midair???? HELP!! apparently my thread name was to long...It was supposed to read the "Everything I always wanted to ask about modeling, but were afraid to ask" thread---maybe a mod can shorten this for me..

Awesome job! Looks great!! gotta build this bird at some point....

I have a problem getting the beam canon to "lock" into place in bike mode on Rands and I'm stumped...it kind of barely sits there and looks right, but I know when I got it it was actually secure....any help?????

I don't care if i have to use 3 tubs of putty and sand for a year...want Want WANTTTT!!!!

Yamato would charge $2k for an HDP kit of that. But how cool would that be???

If you don't want it...mind forwarding me the info on it??? I just recently picked up the 1:72 Spartan and Regult re-issues. Gonna start on them soon.

That's PENGUIN mode man...jeez get it right!

I grew up watching Robotech...and have since moved on to DYRL Mac Plus, Mac 7 and so on...however...THAT poster is just plain WRONG.....LOL

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.....cool piX!!!

I got a "status update" email from BBTS the other day for my Regult Light Missle Pod, don't know if it was an automatically generated email or what, but it gave me some hope at least that maybe they will show up someday??? The "status" on my order still says Pre-Order however..with a July 2011 release date.

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I'm diggin that!!

LOL. if it inlcudes the legs, I'm all in. up to a point...$$$$$$$$????

I was just hoping that enough interest would be shown in this line for Toynami to consider some Invid/Inbit...

nice panel lines on the Angel Bird....not sure if I could do that to that one! It being exclusive and all.. shot from the top for us????

I guess it's not the fact of the HDP kit I mind at all. I would actually be in for buying the kit....IF IT HAD THE LEGS AS WELL. That's the part that annoys me.

TV FTW man...DYRL schemes are tooooo i dunno..blah???

hey, if you wanna blow ur money that's ur call, me, I'll just track down a 1:72 scale model and build one. That's the route I'm taking with the Spartan.

WOW. great strategy Yamato. You gotta hand it to them...LOL...so to get a Phalanx you're gonna drop $100 on another destroid and THEN have to pay for the HDP or whatever top---which I'm SURE they are gonna charge at LEAST $80-$100 for. SORRY---NOT GONNA HAPPEN....

Built this over the last couple of weekends...Scale Solutions 2 piece resin Super Star Destroyer kit..Always wanted a model of this! I pretty much guessed at the colors as there really is no 100% accurate source of info. The RPF forums and other places around the net showed several different schemes so I came up with this.. Model Master Neutral Gray for the light sections and Model Master Intermediate Blue for the darker sections...I also attempted my first try at drybrushing to bring out some of the details..worked ok I guess..but at this scale didn't want to do a whole lot of weathering..the ship looked new in ESB anyway.

+100000!! AWESOME JOB!

already got most of those....thanks EXO...