GMK
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Cribbed some build tips from @tekering and cut off the front of the backpack to deal with the ejector pin marks. Also temporarily removed the ECM bulges and increased the taper by making the end 4mm narrower: It is minor, but it is progress.
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Really liking this! Do you hand paint the high-lights?
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Mocked up the backpack using Hasegawa’s 1/72 proportions (very roughly). I need to work on the taper for the top surface. Compared to this:
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Okay. 21.1mm wide - main screen bezel. https://i.imgur.com/iFB2g7D.jpg 14.5mm high - main screen bezel. https://i.imgur.com/7P4gPKx.jpg 34.3mm wide - instrument panel, including quarter consoles. https://i.imgur.com/2gFJ2el.jpg 5mm wide - centre console. https://i.imgur.com/Boj7cG9.jpg 12mm wide - quarter consoles. That ought to get you started.
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I’ll measure it up when I get home.
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Looking good. Do you think you could make the instrument panel the same interface/outline as the kit one, just with the TV layout?
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Just panel lines to check their consistency.
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Would you consider a TV-style cockpit?
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Could you extend the fairing down to cover the gap?
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Thanks @Seto Kaiba most helpful.
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Made a start on Plamax 1/20 VF-1: https://i.imgur.com/LNhLSw9.jpg
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For SDFM, did the cannon fodder pilots have the equivalent cannon fodder flight suit & helmet colours? Thanks.
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Boom. Just arrived. It’s not little! Bottle of Asahi for scale
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Looking good, so far. Any insights into the technique or tools you’re using?
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Hmm. My EMS package is listed as “Retention”. No idea if that’s in Sydney, or more locally. Good times.
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@Mr Jones - what scale is that CF?
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Thanks for keeping us all updated on your build. With a layout structured like that, it looks like closed intake covers are the only practical option! Shame. Now to find some SDFM artwork of a Gerwalk operating in-atmosphere with intake covers closed.
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Thanks for that. They look close enough in scale terms, so that’s a relief!
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Regarding SDFM & DYRL?: are the pilot’s helmets the same?
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Thought I’d collate line art of the backpack for reference purposes.
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@tekering what are your thoughts on how Hasegawa tackled their Gerwalk’s backpack? (https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/m/image/10289602) Thinking of using it as a template. Btw, apart from the nozzles & antenna, did you do anything else to the backpack to improve the look?
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Well, mine has landed in Australia. Should arrive this week.
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Boo on the backpack. The Master File incorporates the USN/USAF methodology of grouping series production into “blocks” within a variant. In the real world, this practice goes back to WW2. An example could be the F-16C, it could be further distinguished as a Block 30, or Block 32, or Block 40 etc. The specific characteristics of aircraft by block differ. The Master File books on the VF-1 rationalised the differences between SDFM & DYRL VF-1 by saying that the SDFM were early block aircraft (Block 5 rings a bell), and the DRYL VF-1 incorporated differences (instrument panel, controls, seat) as they belonged to a later production block. I’m considering building a VF-1 and ascribing it to a later-than-SDFM production Block, but not quite at DRYL standards, if that makes sense?
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All just modelling “challenges” - but, yeah, I get it. May just use the Macross Master File methodology and build a block that crosses over between the Block 5 (SDFM) & Block x (DYYL?).
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I think @tekering is referring to the gaps on the inside/inboard top of the intake, where the top and side don’t intersect quite correctly. I’m hoping that the intakes can be built “open”, as well, but can’t see the intake turbine face parts on the sprues that have been shown.
