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Hey IIymij, GLad to hear you've got the future, for the clear parts at least, alll I do is find a part of the canopy that I won't see (like a peg or frame) and use a pair of pliers and dunk the entire thing in the future. I then take it out, and angle it to let it drip off the excess, sometimes if I see excess pooling up around the edges, I would dab it with a paper towel (look for lint!) but pretty much leave it alone for a few hours and let it harden. I would paint the canopy frame on afterwards, since you probably don't want the frame to have the same glossy sheen as the clear portion of the canopy anyways. Word of caution, the future doesn't do well with Microscale liquid mask - I think there is either alcohol or ammonia in it that will eat away at the future finish. Hence if you goof up (and I have many times) you can strip the future off with regular blue windex (it has ammonia) and try again. Good Luck. I don't know about your decals at the moment - maybe if we could see pictures.

Hey that looks great!! Where did you snap it - you can't tell at all - keep it up

I can't wait - when I get this little beauty, it will push all my other projects down behind it!!

Thanks everyone Grayson72 - I tend to shade the longer panel lines (easier ) and ones that are closer to the moveable surfaces - however on the top, the dark colour of the plane makes the panel shading hard to see (I must work on this since my next model might be the YF-21 and its dark blue, so I don't quite know yet how to do the post shading on that bird for it to show up against the dark background - I might alternate flat and semi-gloss like this one a bit). If anyone has examples of this - I would love to see some. Hellohikaru - the model above the X-29 is an old Crusher Joe kit, one of the Minerva's fighters - I can't remember what its called - it was built while I was still in high school. Yes that Skull VF-1S is a model on the second shelf closer to us - its an old ARII 1/100 fighter mode only kit also built in the eighties. The farther Skull with the fastpacks on is a Yamato 1/60 VF-1S toy though. Firefox - sure no probs - I would love to see them though, maybe get a copy. By the way - where is Tober? He made some excellent photoshop images of my past work - I'd love to see him or anyone do that to my pictures - all I ask is to send me a copy. Lightning06 - I wish these kits were 1/72 - I love that scale (although its a bit small - but I just don't have the room) unfortunately, these are made by Bandai part of their EX collection (which are snap fit kits that require painting - unlike their Gundam kits) and are in 1/100 scale.

Omigod!! It looks great - can't wait to see it lit up. Man I wish we had decals like those 10 years ago - arrgh I had to mask everything back then all the blue patterns were masked - I even created a template in CAD and masked the aztec pattern on the saucer in a different shade as well as different panels for the hull and nacelles for my Excelsior. I drilled out all the windows back then too! Just too crazy - I'll never do that again especially to such a crappy kit!

The metal gleams in the sunlight...

With enough light, everything is sharp.

Sorry for wasting your time with the previous posts with indoor indirect lighting.

Oh!! The sun is out, wow, what a difference the sun makes - there's no light like it. This is taken on a white foamcore board with the exposure set a one full stop over-exposure to try and get the background white so the grey/green reads true.

Ahhh! what a difference sun makes

Hey everybody, I just posted the completed pictures of this model in the Model section at: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...ct=ST&f=3&t=697 Enjoy...

Here's the family shot everyone asked for. The stuff on the top shelf is from when I was in high-school. Its only the stuff on the lower shelf that I started back up again in the last four years.

Here's a size comparison with the 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1A

A shot from the borrowed coat hanger from the Supersylph

A shot with the older brother...

Stripped and ready for a dash!

The forward landing gear hatch is snapped in place, there are little blunt ended pegs that also fill in the rear landing gear holes - but I didn't put them in here, I think they might be hard to remove after. Its kind of wierd that there is no rear gear well - its like this in all the line art as well as the resin kit - hmm, I guess the gear magically dissappears

Even the missles come off the launch arms. Note the forward sensor array with the blue lenses.

I love that fact that all the underside stores and landing gears are removeable after construction!

Ready for the carrier!

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