David Hingtgen

ron5864---could you explain what you mean by "solution"? Because I've used Pollyscale Steam Power Black for years (and used it yesterday), and it's not a "weathering" paint or anything as I know it--it's not thin, transparent, or anything else that indicates it's formulated for weathering effects---it's just normal paint. Do you thin it a *lot* to make a wash out of it? (In fact, it's the color I plan to use to touch up the rubbed-off spots on my v2 Roy left tailfin---it matched best of all the blacks I have)

Giant flightsuit Grace would have worked too, and been more appropriate.

For the shoulder--I think he's talking about the biggest piece of shoulder armor on top. Look around where the actual shoulder joint "opening" is---there should be a ridge on the inside edge. The "photo model" has no ridge there. I think the example one has the left and right armors swapped.

Sundowners! PS---what'd you use to cleacoat and how'd you apply it?

For the Model Master semi-gloss clear----do you mean their enamel one in the spray can, or the acrylic one in the bottle (and then airbrushed)? And what'd you use to tint the canopy--yours is the best I've seen.

Done to match his stomach grill? That'd be like molding G1 Prime's legs in yellow to match his forearm markings. Cyclonus should not have gold/tan/beige. Like I said at TFW---that's like green on Prime. It's NOT one of their colors. And as I also said at TFW---that's the worst "silver" plastic Hasbro's ever tried. Look at the G1 Dinobots--nice silvery plastic. The G2 Dinobots used it as well. And ever since, Hasbro's tried a bunch of different silvers, all of which are far inferior--they look like plain grey, or barely metallic. And Cylconus is the worst--that's "metallic off-white", not silver. Plain grey would have looked much better. Or you know, PURPLE, since Cyclonus is well-known for being very purple (or lavender, really), even among Decepticons. Look at the digi-bash I found and posted--the only difference with the middle one is that the tan and white are molded in silver-grey plastic. Looks a million times better. Cyclonus doesn't need any paint apps other than his eyes and abs. Just mold him in two shades of purple for animated appearance, or purple and silver for toy appearance. But tan and off-white do not make sense at all.

Thanks much for that--I'm still finishing up a few other things before starting my "practice Gundam", hopefully I can decide/perfect my technique before I actually get to the VF-25. Got a lot of things to try...

Digi-repaints from TFW2005---look at what COULD have been:

Jarrod--did you decal over the bare plastic, or did you clearcoat first? Also----you mentioned you've done washes before over bare plastic--what type of wash?

Uh oh. "Final" Cyclonus pics. He's about 60% tan and white. (no, not the pics from a few days ago that were obviously samples). http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/u...-wave-1-165935/ How the **** do you screw up Cyclonus' paint scheme?

I believe credit for creating that sequence goes to EXO. Dante did one, too: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?s=&a...st&p=567188

Yeah, but we're not a TF forum and we've yet to get complaints, since we're "off the radar". Not that a mod could condone such things...

There's been a carrier version of EVERYTHING proposed. Including the DC-9 and 727... FYI, the Naval F-16 carried Sparrows on the main gear doors.

They made the Nyan-Nyan mascot and bikini Sheryl, but no Grace at all? Though that does give hope--if they're already doing THOSE two, surely they have at least one Grace figure planned--hopefully in flightsuit.

The longer the thread gets, the harder it is to check for previous stuff. Fairly recently made Michel/Klan AMV: Hatusne Miku/Rin duet "Interstellar Flight": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDdMicLPXA4&fmt=18 (fully animated, too) ::edit:: And now in 3D! Some vocaloid owners have WAY too much time on their hands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lcAVKwE9I&fmt=18

That is beyond lame. The G1 *cassettes* had better 2-bot combiners...

I'm not sure if these have a dedicated thread, and I'm not even sure these pics are new: http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-76082-1-1.html

I've seen several "new" Conquests around town, but never another Rattler. Anyone get some Cobrastickers.com stickers yet? I still haven't stickered my Rattler.

Pre-net Macross fandom? None. I never saw Robotech until just a few years ago. "In the early days of the net" I was looking for Transformers----and remembered that my brother's Jetfire was one of the best ever. That lead to finding out it was one of the most expensive G1 toys to "re-acquire" and that it actually came from a series known as Macross. Soon thereafter I discovered Plus, Alt.Fan.Macross, and then there came news of the Toycom valks.

The complete guide to Future, featuring every known "what it is called in other countries": http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

I could edit the poll, but the numbers would be VERY screwed up, since the most popular answers seem to be the nonsense ones.

You know, they could sell a zillion "girls of Frontier" pin-up calenders... Heck, I'd buy anything that had "Grace in flightsuit"... Did she actually build it herself? Kinda looks that way.

I was hoping this'd get "all A's" from A7. It just rocks in so many ways.

Mr Mark softer will only make the decals conform to the surface better, and *slightly* increase their adhesion to the surface. It will not seal/protect them. As for coloring the canopy and visor----Tamiya clear paint (various colors) works, but it is sticky, and behaves strangely due to being transparent. Put it on THICK. Flood the thing. Do not "brush" it on in my experience--that will lead to "varying opacity". And only use it on the visor. Using any ready-made colored clear paint will be WAY too deep for the canopy. I'd go with 'dip it in tinted future' for that. Food coloring is popular for the tinting. Or probably a bit of Tamiya clear paint mixed in would work---try it out on something else first though. PS---paint clear parts from "behind".

3 Fei-Yens? I always assumed I was the biggest Fei-Yen fan here---and anywhere. (though I haven't even built my Marz one)