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Cool. Those will be for your final display? I hate bending with heat. Never comes out right. Looking great. Is the body actually that smooth for future printing, or are you using some visual "smoothing"? A lot of 3D valks out there are blocky. Not that I would know how to design 'em better. You've filled A LOT of gaps on that thing. I remember having to mask the transparent part on the bridge for some reason (probably for blocking the lighting). With the "promenade" being ready and all, you're giving me movie flashbacks. I don't think you overdid the chipping, but the base coat looks too "new" with those chips, so I think you need to modulate that coat. And the greenish color of the chips is confusing, since I am used to seeing a rusted color. I've seen modelers paint into the chips, lining the outside layer with a darker color, and resahding the interior of the chip with a couple tones to really give them depth. But I don't understand your masking technique, once you put the precut decal with glue, how do you get it off???

It seems to be a fictional aircraft designed by Lockheed Martin. https://lockheedmartin.com/topgun

Okay, after some thought, I'm thinking: Is this the best aerial combat movie ever? What did I just see? We are not worthy....

Brought a tear to my eye. One more sunset over the aircraft carrier, and I was gonna start bawling.

Oh my goodness. Beautiful work. The painting and weathering are just right. And great photography too.

The SDF-2 looks awesome. Any details on the original garage kit?

The plane looks really cute. The design looks more like the line art than other examples I've seen.

Mega Macross-Bash! Looks like a VF-2SS with a bunch of other stuff. Great job with the hard surface modeling designs. Do you like this CAD software you are using?

This is off the hook! Looks like a cool Macross City addition. I was thinking we need a 3D designed Macross City that fits in the 1/3000 and the 1/4000 SDF-1 leg.

You worked long and hard on this. Lets give it some glamour pics with a full black background. It deserves the effort for some clean photos.

And then there is the F-14 shaming to worry about from all the perfectionists out there 😄

For those (few) who just can't live without more Alto in their lives. Please try to contain your enthusiasm.

Welcome back to Macross City.

Blasphemy! Just kidding. But actually I'm not a perfectionist, I used the first uniform I found. There is no shortage of sailor school uniform models online.

If I might make a suggestion: It looks like your small-scale valk wings are disintegrating. I have had the same problem when scaling 3D objects down. Sometimes, for 3D Printing very thin objects, you need to "solidify" them, i.e. make them thicker. 3D Builder, Netfab and Microsoft 3D Repair fix a lot of problems, but they will not solidify an object for you. One option you can use right away is Meshmixer to "Make Solid". You can check youtube for some tutorials. It is a trial and error process to make an object solid using different "Offset" parameters, until you get a result you like which thickens, yet maintains a nice appearance. In some case you may thicken an entire model, or in other cases you may separate parts to thicken an individual part of the model giving problems. Another option is to use Blender "Solidify" Modifier as a first step before Meshmixer, to give a completely non-3d model some depth. Additionally, in whatever design software you use like Blender, you can select specific parts of a model that are too thin to print and thicken them using various techniques (such as fatten, extrude, scale). Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Looks like your designing details for your big SDF-1?

Finished up these version 2s, trying to fix some proportion problems.

That's actually hilarious, since I get your joke. I'm a pretty old 70s rock fan myself.

I did think you were messing with me 😆 I agree. Hair tends to come out smooth anyway and can be easily sanded. Shorter arms? I see what you're saying, I'll see what I can do, but no guarantees. Thanks. You are the official Macross cheerleader. Thanks for the feedback. Good points. I will look into them and see what I can do. These tend to improve with revisions, when I feel the need to go to the trouble. My philosophy with these 3D figures is to get an "overall" kinda accurate look, but can't be a perfectionist on the details, otherwise I would just give up. I will do whatever my skills allow. True that 👍

Cool! I have the Mars 2. Best thing I learned is to use the default settings for the printer for each resin. Never had a bad print with the Mars 2 except from user error. I think you are really going to like the Elegoo 4k.

They're not THAT big, are they?

Thanks @Nyankodevice! I'm a big fan of your work. I do not sell the stls because many of the figures are copyrighted models, although it took a lot of work to process them, make them printable, pose them, and resculpt errors. But I do share them with friends I trust for their projects. A few of the models were made by me only using some base parts from around the net, that I may distribute at some point. The ones I made are Sara Nome, Ishtar, some of the Sharon Apple figures, Minmay School Uniform, and Minmay Captain Uniform. But I need to improve them first, as I think Minmay's head is too small.

Thanks. I also use the Hi-Q eye decals. But I did not consider scaling them down. The main problem is placement. In a couple example, my figures eyes look okay when they are placed correctly. The other main problem is cutting the tiny eyes from the white decal paper with a hobby knife, the 1/48 eyes are less than 1mm wide. I printed your eyes, and the resolution is far less than the ones I made. Perhaps I can remake my decals to look more like your professional ones.

No wonder I'm not getting notifications. Best of luck!