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  1. wm cheng
    I would very much like to see build-up threads on this kit when it arrives. Please, whoever is ordering, please take the time to post a thread on your experiences during building and for a little while after the build to see how it holds up. I for one would be very interested.
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    I never did build one of those P-51 Mustangs or those beautiful F-104 Starfighters - but now I know the love of bare-metal finished planes! Here's she is with four different Alcad colours ranging from Polished Aluminum for the fuselage, to Stainless Steel, Dark Aluminum and Magnesium. There isn't as much difference as I would have thought (easily blended with any weathering). There's a little post-shading I did with Magnesium over the Polished Aluminum. I'll spray the clear red over the nose sections to give that a metallic sheen. I'll mask a few panels to give it a darker sheen on the fuselage and I'm almost ready for decals. I do like how this particular kit has broken out all the colours as separate pieces, now I have to spray all the leading edges yellow. I even liked how ridiculously deep the panel lines are (typical of Bandai) - it helps because I had to spray a thick glossy black undercoat which would of obscured all Hasegawa panel lines! Nice little kit so far...
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    Thanks Noyhauser, I loved the Academy F-16 kit! Here's my build a few years ago... I was going to get the Academy F-18C kit when the new Hasegawa F-18F kit came out, so I opted for that instead - always a sucker for the skull squadron. Back to anime for the moment, just a small project to hopefully finish by weeks end (before I start a new job!) Nope, its not stealth... its just the glossy undercoat in preparation for the Alclad Polished Aluminum.
  4. wm cheng
    Thanks, I guess HLJ doesn't normally carry this eh?
  5. wm cheng
    Where online would one recommend Canadians to order from? NY has been my saviour (at a mark up) but if these are easier to get, where should I go instead?
  6. wm cheng
    Hey Noyhauser, I'd like to know how you feel about the Academy vs. the Hasegawa F-18s? The Academy new tool F-16 blows the old Hasegawas out of the water - I was very pleasantly surprised.
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    I saw it with my wife and we both liked it a lot. Great story, its just too bad the CG elements were so obvious - I wished it just used a little bit of old fashioned camera work instead of the flashy CGI - but it was only 2 or 3 instances. Overall, I highly recommend it (I always love bank heist films).
  8. wm cheng
    WOW!!! How could I have missed this... finally saw it posted on facebook which is what led me here. I will follow your amazing thread with baited breath. This is simply too awesome, I can't believe the tiny work you can accomplish. I wish you all the luck and smooth sailing till the end of this fantastic project. I can't wait till you tell us how you solved the paint issue with scraping and transformation! It looks so good so far. Keep up the great work! You my friend are my inspiration.
  9. wm cheng
    Oooh, that's great, because I love that rendition. I guess the first to go is all the surface cross-hatching... which I guess we can add back in with a mechanical pencil.
  10. wm cheng
    Woohoo!!! I've been waiting for that classic Galactica... couldn't afford the Timeslip resin version (plus its always sold out!).
  11. wm cheng
    "nails on a chalkboard to my brain" - I can't believe how succinctly you've managed to put how I feel about Bandai's aircraft design WOW! I can't imagine how these plastic armatures/mechanisms are meant to stand up to being handled and transformed. Those Bandai MF valks are such a b*tch to build!
  12. wm cheng
    Let me know if you find an extra set for a decent price Thanks.
  13. wm cheng
    Thanks, that's really useful. I've got the v1 VF-25F Tornado and saw the missiles accessories around, but thought you had to get a whole other full set. It's the only v1 I own. What would you say it was worth? Is it worth the $120 on ebay or is that just scalping?
  14. wm cheng
    Totally agree! (if the plane looks sleeker, I'd go for that over the right number of rivets!)
  15. wm cheng
    Hey, I have a v1 tornado without those missiles... I didn't know they were sold separately by themselves (I thought it was another whole kit). Can they still be obtained?
  16. wm cheng
    If you look closely, that Jaeger has 3 arms...
  17. wm cheng
    +100,000,000 Is that an old tool Amdromeda?
  18. wm cheng
    DEFINITELY!
  19. wm cheng
    Haha! My thoughts exactly! I'm sooo looking forward to this!!! I hope they do the whole line including the Armored and Tornado. Now what to do with my other un-built Bandai kits...
  20. wm cheng
    Yeah, I just hate the way Bandai deals with panel lines. They obviously don't have any understanding that panel lines are the result of piecing together an airframe with various panels, so they should never just go somewhere and end without ending at another seam. Bandai (like many Robot designers... aka Gundam) treats panel lines as a graphic design, something to break up large areas of colour. That's what really bugged me with their Yukikaze models too. With Bandai, you can always count on bad panel lines that go nowhere and fat overly thick landing gears with no tire proportions! Overall this interpretation seems like a step backwards... just goofy and ill-proportioned. Although it might be worth the spare parts to detail up the internals for a Hasegawa kit.
  21. wm cheng
    Wow, MacrossJunkie & Lolicon ARE the masters! I bow down to you! Great work on all the toys, it makes me want the ones I never new I wanted now... argh. It's especially hard weathering the dark coloured planes convincingly, but you've done a great job! Have have that Tamiya B kit too, but I found the consistency of the colours to be too hard-like paste, it doesn't pick up much with a brush, it just stays in the container, I have to use the smudge brush to pick up the colour, then it won't lay on the plastic, it just stays on the brush/smudge sponge. Any tips? Fantasic photography BTW MJ! You should do a step by step thread with a photo-spread section at the end, I'd like to know what you're lighting with and is the background just a dark velvet curtain?
  22. wm cheng
    YES! Definitely.
  23. wm cheng
    Then, what makes it a model? Isn't it just a smaller fragile Yamato kit then?
  24. wm cheng
    Oh man... this is a grail kit for me too. I can't imagine trying to put together another Bandai crap to get a VF-25. Have have the utmost confidence in Hasegawa's interpretations and expertise - please just DO IT!
  25. wm cheng
    Didcha say something sonny?! can't hear ya over my hearing aids
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