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I don't know, but that's the current plan is using the decals - I was thinking it would be easier to scratch them up with an exacto. However if the decals suck, I may have to resort to painting them (but this was supposed to be the quick and fast model to get me back into modeling again - argh).
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Thanks! Han is grey now (along with me) because this is the Force Awakens Falcon. I wish I can find my vision in one of the many boxes in the basement! Yes, I going to mostly use all the photo-etched, the gunwells are completely photoetched, definitely use the landing gear baskets, not sure about the landing gear doors though, they kind of look too thin even for this scale. I did the initial panel wash knowing that it was too dark/stark, because its on the bare plastic - its my "post shading". I finally mixed up a good shade of White (with a bit of tan and light grey) to approximate the AS-20 Tamiya Insignal White that everyone seems to agree on as the proper base colour. This toned down the stark panel shading, but the edges still pop a bit so they stand out a little more but more in keeping with the original ILM build. I also sprayed the greebles around the waist and all the openings with a light dusting of the hull colour, this lighten the original Alclad steel to more in keeping with the ILM build, but still have the depth of the original wash and steel colour behind some of the overlaying pipe. The Bandai stickers were used on the round engine exhaust as masks (yay! finally a use for Bandai Stickers!). I've gloss coated the entire thing with Future now in preparation for the decals, then a light post-shading with the airbrush and I get to go to town on the weathering and streaking!
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Well, its not Macross related, but I'm trying to get back in the saddle again after a few years hiatus. I'm trying my hand at the beautifully rendered Bandai 1/144 Millennium Falcon. Man! I'm getting too old for these tiny things - my eyes, my eyes!!! Thank god I got some huge ass magnifying glass, I didn't remember it like this the last time I was doing Macross models. I'm also trying my hand a lighting this tiny model. It's pretty much straight out of the box except for the following mods; Cut the greebles trench on top of the cockpit access way to sink it Hollow out the A-Frame ties to the top greeble hatch Dremel out the blast marks and scarring Shapeways 3D cockpit nosecone and gunwell window frames Greenstrawberry Photoetched cockpit control panels and gunwell controls to allow for lighting Greenstrawberry Photoetched engine grills Customized lighting kit from Tydirium models The detail in this kit actually puts the Fine Molds 1/72 scale kit to shame!
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Oooh, I love the long tail in between! Come on, lets give us some different pods in the toys as add-ons I hope.
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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
Stunning!!! Can't believe that's the toy, looks like an amazing model. You should be very proud, congrats, what a stunning piece in your collection. Now you have the dilemma of bringing all your pieces up to this standard to not make it stand out You might want to paint the landing gears white now to make it fit into your gorgeous finish. -
It is back from the dead!!! I am trying to get back into the game... although I'm just trying my hand at the Bandai Millennium Falcon right now, trying to shoe-horn a lighting system into the tiny model is proving difficult and trying to get more than times a week to work on it as well. Might post something on the workbench in a little bit. Always nice to hear there is still some interest in my work (although dated now - my looking back at that VF-2SS is kind of embarrassing)
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That was an awesome trailer!!! Why does it have "Starblazers" in the Japanese logo right above 2022 - is it to be dubbed?
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Thanks Noel!!! Was waiting on HLJ instead of Amazon, just pre-ordered it.
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Your weathered VF-0S looks great! Yes, its amazing how bare the toy is straight out of the box for $400-500. I'd get one on sale maybe, but like you said, its a lot of work.
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I know what you're saying, Roy's white, black and yellow scheme is my favourite of all of them too! But it would stand out in my personal collections as I have detailed every one of my toys. so this would stand out like a sore thumb (aside from the exorbitant price tag they are asking for - I always feel ripped off by Arcadia these days, not a nice feeling to have after being parted of $400-$500CAD dollars at a time). I don't mind spending lots of money if it makes me feel good in the end, but its been once too many that I have been disappointed and burned with Arcadia. BTW, its not the reactive armor, it looks fantastic and the price is ok too, its the VF-0S, and I wouldn't be able to just get one, one has to be in aircraft mode while the other wears this pretty armor - so 2 VF-0S is out of the question!
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Never new about these Tamiya cotton swabs, gotta give those a try too! THANKS!!!
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Yep just can't seem to bring myself to pay those kind of prices for such a bare toy. The fact is that I just don't have the time anymore that Arcadia releases demand of me to bring it up to a respectable display level to match the others in my collection. LOL Aint't that the truth!!! I wished I had a VF-0S to put this baby onto, but never managed to find one at a price I could swallow for what they manufacture. It's a beautiful scheme though.
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That looks phenomenal!!! MJ, you did it again, I've gotta try that, it looks amazing. How it should have come from Bandai. Just Tamiya red clear after you took off the crappy Bandai stuff with the alcohol?
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Scale Model Link Thread for Non Macross builds
wm cheng replied to EXO's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Hmm, seems in all these years of technological advancement in molding technology that Revell hasn't up their game from the 80's -
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
That looks fantastic as always MJ!!! Glad you got around to it. I've got to light a fire under my butt to get a few things done too, but the idea of working on multiples do save some time. Everyone one of your toys have looked better and better, you should be proud of a real sense of accomplishment and progression. So have you graduated from the Future clear coat entirely to be replaced with that Vallejo Matte Varnish? Is it as durable as the Future? -
WoW!!! That looks amazing! Why couldn't they make Macross Sequels like that (instead of Delta!!)
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Man! I Love that Orange and Grey scheme!!!
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I just wished they didn't keep making more and more joysticks that are specific to only one generation of Playstation - same USB stick, they just want to keep gouging you to buy the same thing over and over again - argh!
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Oh man!!! I'm so psyched for this. I just got the PSVR for Christmas for my existing PS4 and have been loving Eve:Valkyrie and the Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR mission to bits! I just can't stand the thumb dualshock controllers to fly, just ruins the whole experience. I sure hope they have a HOTAS setup for this like they did for Ace Combat 5 (BTW, I managed to rig up my old AC5 flightstick PS2 to work in PS4 via Cronusmax and a PC laptop - its a wiring mess, but at least you can fly via joystick) I'm just too old for the thumb gerenation
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But you didn't do that for the front part of the windscreen right? So can we skip that part and just go straight to the tint/future mixture without pre-future before the tint?
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Hey MJ, with the main canopy, did you coat it first with future, then spray the yellow/orange tint mixture (with future) or did you just spray the mixture already contiaining the 2 drops of future right on the milky plastic without a pre-prep amd the airbrushed mixture took care of the frosting?
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Wow that looks amazing! Great work as always MJ. So did you say after the alcohol rub that the canopy plastic was a bit milky? So you dipped it in future... how about the front piece? Did you spray a really thinned/wet Tamiya clear orange to get that tint? I've never found that I could airbrush a satisfactory clear tint (always some pebbling) I always end up tinting a future mixture. Did you just airbrush the Tamiya Clear orange straight on? Yes, the red sensors could be clearer too, I'm just afraid of the alcohol soaking through the Tamiya masking tape and ruining those tiny white warning tampo prints. Thanks so much!!! Unfortunately I already scanned every page - I love having the digital copy to transform with and I could leave my instructions packed away in the box.
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Thanks! Can't wait to see you're creation.
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Thanks! So did the alcohol strip the black as well? I guess you painted that back in? How about the forward piece, its all together with the red sensors, how did you remove that?
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You don't need those weird legs, I've had mine on the stand without those legs since it came out and its plenty stable.