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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
wm cheng replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Great! Now where's that big Star Destroyer they teased us with so long ago? Enough with these tiny micro-machine kits, I don't need another bbroken golf ball, give me a decent sized SD!!! -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Ah thanks Lolicon, that's why... I'm usually pretty light on my weather (hate to over do it) so I get it just right or a bit under then clear coat it and it disappears - argh. I'll try to over do it next time and see if that helps. I end up dry-brushing it with white paint now to get it to show, but it doesn't offer the fine control and shading the Tamiya powders offers. -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
I found that when I clear coated, the Tamiya white powder disappeared - let me know if you find the same thing? -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Looks great Lolicon! Where did you get the decals for the fast packs? Are they Hasegawa 1/72 scale ones? -
Nippon-Yasan Received: wm cheng, Not Yet: no3Ljm, Funny, I have noticed that while the N-Y prices are a few thousand yens cheaper generally, the shipping is a few thousand yens more expensive. I like N-Y since they generally under-declare their shipments and it gets through without Customs & Duties in Canada most of the time - so that's a good savings of $50-$60 for me generally. I just got the GX-77 Gypsy Danger from N-Y, while they were Y3,000 cheaper than HLJ, their EMS shipping was Y6,600 when HLJ EMS was Y4,500. When I actually received my package, it said Y4,500 on the shipping bill. Is there a case to ask them for the shipping difference? I can see over estimating $5-$10, but over $20 seems like just profit taking.
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Woohoo!! Great news, I've been meaning to get my little girl to watch this, but she can't read the subtitles fast enough and gets frustrated. I would like to have a chance to admire the artwork on screen more myself!
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Some great news... I got mine from N-Y in Canada. I'd pre-ordered from N-Y Oct 6th (9am EST) and it took 2wks via EMS (unusually long delivery via EMS) but I got it and its beautiful. I initially submitted a polite question a week after Mar 24 release date and got a canned response. But in the end I did get it, so all I can say is try to have patience - they might still deliver. I hope all of you get yours. I can't wait to lightly weather and panel line this baby! (after I stop zooming around the house!)
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Nope, I'm only Rank 1 and it was shipped out Apr 02, but still stuck in slow Canadian mail system, left Japan Apr 03 and arrived in Canada Apr 06 and its been just sitting there - argh! 1. 10-06-17 2. 1 3. EMS
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Close, its a mixture of Alclad Steel with Alclad Jet Exhaust. I did some Flory clay panel washes of varying greys to black and used a mechanical pencil to draw in the really light panel lines that were too shallow to hold the wash. I then smudged the panels like a post shading with a pencil shader/smudge stick with some ground graphite (leftovers from the mechanical pencil sharpener). Its easier to control than the airbrush. There's some light white dry brushing on the darker fast packs but it was too subtle to pick up on the camera, it looked better in person. Thanks for all the kudos! Spent way too long cleaning up my workbench to just get to work - argh. -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Thanks KB. I wish I could get to it more, but having less and less free time nowadays. Haven't done much lately other than just panel line the Macross Delta toys - they're pretty good with just a light panel wash. It's the naked Arcadia toys that needs the work and decals. -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Hi all, After a few months, I finally got a chance to finish up decaling/penciling/weathering/clearcoats my recent VF-1S aquired from #recon (thank so much!) to make my own "Premium Version" You can see it next to my original Yamato version with the rainbow canopy, its so much brighter and makes my older Valk looked yellowed even though it isn't I tried to tone down the brightness/pink with a more heavy shading with smudging mechanical pencil shavings to "grey" up the white a bit and it worked for the most part. Piecing together white data stenciling was the hardest part and set me back weeks trying to get the right thing, in the end, I just scrounged around my spare decals to find what I could even though the actual fastpack armament numbers aren't exactly right (and I was too cheap to buy a 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1S Strike kit just for its decals) - so much for accuracy! At least its finally done! You can see the pink tinge on the big missiles as I hadn't touched those with the pencil shading.
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Is it me or does it look like the canopy is actually tinted yellow and not that crappy silver metallic paint?!?!? Just got shipping notice for Canada!!! Woohoo. Nice panel lining there too Lolicon!
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Well, Canada reporting in... I got a "Preparation in progress" e-mail - have my fingers crossed!
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Ordered mine from NY on 2017-10-06 22:32:28 and still no news yet... argh did they just skip over me?!?!
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Beautiful!!!! Turned out great. Wish I had an extra Hasegawa sheet lying around. I'm just piecing "close is good enough" stuff from my spares -
Well it exactly as I had expected (I'll wait for the video) when they took the production away from us in Toronto (we did the first PR) down to Sydney and changed the production staff. It's for a much younger audience and unfortunately we all getting older and older On a brighter note, this Hong Kong thing looks like it would be worth a look (they definitely liked Pac Rim but fully embraced the Japanmation aesthetic)
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Got it! Thanks for the HLJ links guys. Good night and good luck to everyone. Too bad HLJ didn't have any discounts.
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Yeah, 2am EST is 4pm Tokyo time right?
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Yep that would be me. I never liked the colour combination, but I love that bulky mess of a Armored Missile monstrosity and figured that it hides all that colour scheme anyways. I don't want anything to hide Chuck's radome, so I guess I got "Bandaied" ;P
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I do like the Armored, but not the Arad's scheme. Does this armor appear on any other scheme?
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Then why aren't they consistent? There's no reason why it should start off deep and go light have way though. Bad molding or old dies or too much paint - I don't know but I don't buy they were entirely intentional.
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That's just stupid... they made a mistake and won't own up to it. I've found that if I used a really sharp mechanical pencil, I can "draw" in the lines of the really shallow panels lightly. The problem is sometimes there is no consistency in the panel line depth, it can go from ok to really shallow in the same line.
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Beautiful Noel!!! Glad it worked out so well. All you gotta do is a light panel line on that beauty!
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Damnit!! Originally not a fan of Arad's Teal & Grey scheme - was gonna skip it, but now I gotta get it - sucker for all the extra add-ons even if it seems like overkill. At least you don't see much of the Teal & Grey scheme (hidden under all that!), but unfortunately now I have to try to get one to dress the armour on (it would be nice to get a bundle set, but I doubt it).
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Yeah I think off the top of my head, there's the arrow near the front, red "DANGER" near all the nozzles, "BEWARE OF BLAST" at the end near the foot and one of those yellow warning data rectangles on the back calf as well as one of those Hasegawa fast pack designations; white "NP-FP-01" I believe.