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looks great as always Kurt ! ...Mark

Hey Dave if you don't know how seamless they look, check out the "custom toy" section and take a look at some of the members work eg. Kurt & Jung to name a couple - everybody else's as well! BTW most of these are "only" re-paints a couple of them have a few seems filled eg. on the "thigh" air intake (bottom side in fighter mode) but the quality of the toy speaks for itself! Page one Page two Page three Page four Page five ...Mark

Almost forgot taking masking tape off before the paint is completely dry and gently burnishing the edge down will minimize the edge thickness. I believe that the only way to absolutely remove it is to clear coat over top - not a dull coat as it's too thin. Gloss coat then followed by a dull coat if needed. One of my biggest impediments in modeling is getting the dull coat to be absolutely dull - not "eggshell" or satin finish but as dull as flat black from paint jar! The same mix of thinner to paint on different days seems to flatten better than others. I know temperature humidity, surface paint type - if it's fully cured all play a role. What I can't get is how to control the result? I have success less than fifty percent of the time Mark

Hey David! reading this I couldn't help being reminded of myself. I've had the best results w. liquid mask specialy on models w. deep panel lines and where the paint designs cross those panel lines I havent had any models w. panel lines as deep as the Yamato toys of the VF-1. When repainting one, after masking it very carefuly the usual way, I removed the tape - it looked like it was hand painted by a blind person w. arthritis! liquid mask was my saving grace. I don't think even a good brand of tape would have saved me as my cheap airbrush compressor has too high air preasure and tends to "blow" paint where it shouldn't go. So theres my next piece of advise: try w. lower air preasure - less likely for paint to blow into small crevises even if you spray away from the tape into the painted area and start w. a series light coats to seal the edges. I did everything that normally works for me on that Yammy valk and it didn't work I gave up on it for a while.... Here I am handing out advise and I still haven't finished a model in ten years+ no I haven't dug out my old fujimi/hase F-14's and finished them yet!?! LOL ...Mark

That mech looks awfully gold red & black in kind of an, optically confusing paisley print sort of way

Ordered mine on the 15th of Jan!

Hey KingNor (whats KingNor mean anyway? ) Tisinc - treasure island sports has 'em for $59.00 US so they're probably a little cheaper elsewhere if you could find 'em. Treasure Island seems to order vast quantities of stuff and seems to have everything around a little longer than others...too bad about Kevin at V.E. but good for him (congrats Kev! ) Mark

Comercial Dragger (trawler) it's all year-round we're out in some nasty weather, bought a few houses in the last year w. my fiance and sold/selling some - doubled my money on one house so I guess my "part time" job makes me more money than my actual job. Right now it's all getting re-invested and any wage I draw dosen't compete w. what I make at sea, so I'm still on call any hour of the day gone for undisclosed amounts of time ....for now Mark

Looks awesome Wicked Ace! Nice details on the missles and the paint fade on the chest looks killer! Definately original..

Yeah thanks grahm, great pic!

That's totaly cool cap! been gone for awhile is this kit been released yet? I'm still interested if it's not too late!

Here's a pic of a flight gone bad for one little kid

Me too! can I be on the list? do you take Visa That looks amazing! Oh hey kensei just FYI I'll be in oz on oct 4th... way on the other side though, have a wedding to go to.

Another custom valk picture to save in the folder, gonna have to call it "Kurt's custom valks" - there's so many of them! Excellent work as always Kurt! Hey 'noticed your gerwalk mode is still Keepin' up its posture

Wow that's the first "A" I've wanted! That looks great

I remember who you're talking about, I'm pretty sure it was glane(with some numbers). I've seen him around once or twice since then Thanks nemesis - I think your right - all the best g.

Hey guys, what ever happened to the guy who posted to say that he wouldn't be posting for awhile, that he might "lurk" from time to time becauase the day before his post his wife was killed in a car accident. He was definately hit hard, I wonder how he doing?

looks great, 'got any pics of the inside?

looks really good, there's so much stuff coming out - I can't wait!

WOW! I'll definately be buying that, looks better all the time ....imagine a custom low-vis painted GPB to match the low vis' out there..... but I don't have to worry about that do I Godzilla just kidding, it's an idea though

Effect thanks for that, you guys that read the all the the books are experts - I'm just a "watcher" I understand that there were a few discrepansies w. the books/vs. movies?...... or so I was told by a "reader" ....Anybody care to elaborate?

He most likely did do the lightning thing before, but not on a subject as close as Mace was. In the scene, you could see that Sidious was getting hit in the face by lightning that was bouncing off Mace's body. Either that, or he was always an ugly bastard and was just able to hide that fact. I personally believe that he was damaged by the lightning though. As we saw in RotJ, Sidious was not immune to his own attacks. For my own gripe, I just don't buy the deal that Padme simply lost the will to live. My wife thinks that Sidious may have played a subtle role in her death just to make sure Anakin freaked out in the desired way. Not to far fetched considering how powerfull that dude was. Beyond that little gripe, I loved the movie. Hey guys could be wrong but it looked to me as though the lightning was being reflectd back to him by Mace and it was the "receiving" not the "do-ing" that was damaging him. I think the battle scared makeup was over the top but it was probably exactly as it was done for ROTJ, only in that movie it wasn't so obvious.

I put a hase pilot body in on of my 1/48

Looks pretty sweet!

Now's the part where we add "they should make it 1/48 scale