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Thanks Petar, Good to hear from a local!! Cheers,

Hey - looking nice!! You have gone to the trouble of narrowing the nose as well... very cool stuff. Please promise me that you will finish it!! Love to see that one painted up. What scale is it looks 1:72 to me. Cheers

WELL ITS FINISHED - HURRAH!!! CHEERS,

Woah - yes cool!! This stuff is perfect reference for a model build!! Thanks very much SVF-GERWALK appreciated. Cheers,

Actually............... Can anyone help me out and post some nice pics of a macross F14 Tomcat.... Reference reference - you cant have enough reference.... Cheers,

No problems!! I'd like to see the pics of what you are working on... Cheers,

Ahh, Exactly what I needed to hear.... Thanks very much for the advice.... I have a mate who is a tomcat nut - should be able to source some parts from him. Cheers,

Well - got 'em this time... Enjoy - looking forward to building this one myself.... Please post some pics of the finished article... Cheers, Queadol.pdf

WOAH - OOOOHHHHH YESS!! I must have one of these 1:48 wooo hoo!!

Bugger!!!! Left the instructions on my workbench at home.... sorry!! - will bring tomorrow.....

Hi there all, I am thinking of building a Macross Zero F14 Tomcat in 1:48 scale... Was wondering if anyone out there has already done this and if there is anything special I need to know about the Macross Tomcat.... I will be using the Italeri 1:48 F14A Tomcat kit.... with home made decals. Cheers,

I have that kit in my stash - will scan on monday and post.... Cheers,

Any pics of these? I'd love to see them. Cheers,

Hello to all, Got a bit of work done on this project over the easter break... I'm starting to get close now.... gloss coat, decals, washes & streaking / leaks and a flat coat and I'm done, Then I can mount it on my custom made stand... thanks Benny!! Woops, this should have gone under the workbench topic!! sorry! Cheers,

I LOVE IT! Did the little drop ship come with the kit?

More progress on this plane... Alcald & testors metalizers on the engine area. Canopy shaded & painted - nose shaded & painted.... Cheers,

Here is my Imai Thurval Salan.... My second Macross kit - a quick build too and fun to paint.. Cheers,

Hi Bri, Yes it looks like a baneblade in the background.... The pics were taken at the NSW scale model expo 2008 - the baneblade is another contestants model. Thanks for looking.

Wait a minute....... There is a Macross convention on in Australia........ (picking my jaw back up off the floor) Can you give me the details? Coooolll!!!!

Hi Mechatek, The smoke trail was made using polyester filling material (the stuff used to "stuff" cushions etc) you tease out an amount that you need and form it onto a length of flexable wire. You then cut to length and bend to shape desired. The real trick is in the painting, this is the make it or break it part. I started by airbrushing the yellow and orange, yellow near the missile end and orange at the other end. Then you need to add white at the tip that goes into the missile and red then black at the end that goes into the destroid. You will need to use well diluted paint 90% thinner and just build up the effect on the smoke material gradually.... it is possible to adjust the angel of the airbrush to the work so that just the high spots are painted.. Its fun to play around with the effects that you can get in this way. After you have your painted smoke trail, you need to have one of the moulded missiles drilled out from the inside of the missile pod arm and a missile tube scratchbuilt inside. Its just a matter of mounting the smoke trail in the missile tube and then in a hole drilled in the end of the missile (I used a spare missile from a Valk that I had laying around). The flexible wire allows you to adjust the missile and smoke trail shape after you have them all mounted up. Hope that helps.

Hey electric indigo... Yup mate it will be a UPEO job.... gunna have to mix my own paint to get the right colours though.. Thanks for looking.. Nice aircraft gallery by the way - good to see!!

Yep Berttt, Its the 1:100 bandai kit...