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Boy are you right! Everytime I look at it I think, hey there some good spots for more decals!! This really is so detailed for a toy... Yamato has really outdone themselves on the sculpt and the amount of details they put into it, I'm constantly amazed as I transform this baby and discover new spots they populated with "gak" I HAVE TO STOP!! or I'll never finish. So after another few hours of applying decals (which I thought I was done yesterday!) - I finally clear-coat sealed the decals in with a thick glossy finish. I will let it dry overnight before I start to dust it with the flat Neutral Grey to tie everything together and a few coats of flat/matte clear coat.

Just finished up on my last job and have a week in between jobs so I thought I'd finish up this baby! Unfortunately, I got really sick on the last day of work (just as your body slows down, it thinks its a good time to get sick!) and I've been in bed the last few days. However, as soon as I had a bit of foggy vision, I hit my bench to start decalling again! OMG!!! I have never decalled so much... - I've must of spent days and days just applying decals. The aztec panels were a huge job to cover the entire toy, now comes hundreds of these tiny warning stencils all over to give it that mottled scale look with splashes of red and white like the animation. I think its these hundreds of tiny decals that will give it a sense of scale in the end - but the process is tedious. After 3 days of decals, I thought it looked pretty good, at a point I would stop and possibly clear coat it to protect them. So I stop here to take some photos, and oh man! it doesn't look like much in the photos, especially in the full shots, it looks like I hardly decalled it at all!! So I took some close ups, but you really don't see how many decals I put in unless you're in person, it is one of those models that look really different in photos than it does in real life (or maybe I've been working too close to it!). This overall shot looks like I've done nothing!! so discouraging... I zoomed in closer and start at the front... I liked that the decals on top of the panelled decals are so small that you can't make out any words... I chose all the smallest decals I could find from those sets (they are fantastic for this application) I couldn't resist putting the bridge on, even though I'm not finished with it... There are these yellow caution stripes that I thought worked pretty well around the launch bays... Everything still has the gloss coat over it so its shiny and allows the decals to adhere better - after I will seal it in with a matte flat coat which should lighten the overall tone and blend it all in... All those odd Photo-etched panels now work themselves into the darker grey scheme a little better and the decals provided a much needed layer to tie them into the overall darker leg area... I tried to pan along the length of the SDF-1 (might work if you enlarged the web browser) I almost forgot about the underside! so many tiny pieces... Mico pieces? ;-) Final parting shot for now... Hopefully something more to post in the next 2 days!

Let us know how you made out? I'm curious and in the same boat too.

Thanks for all the feedback, I guess I watched on the sidelines as AC6 sailed by on the XBox, I can watch this AC:AH sail by too.

Call me old folgie! Thanks for that Amazon review... I was afraid of that. I really just want a HD version of AC5! I want to like AC:AH so badly, but the controls is a no-go for me unfortunately.

It's so ingrained in my consciousness that it oozes out my pores! ;-) I don't think about it that much, but it comes instinctual. Hopefully there is always a reason for it and its not just shoe-horned in there.

Has anyone tried this game with any type of flight stick? I know the old Ace Combat 5 HOTAS doesn't work with it. How about this one? http://www.cyborggaming.com/prod/v9stickps3.htm Although AC:AH is not on the list of compatible games - does the game have to be specifically written for the stick or will the stick just re-map the thumb controls? I'm part of the "old generation" - I can't fly with my thumbs!

Thanks, at least it will pay for the upcomming VF-4! Did you notice the VF-1 intakes laid vertically in that screen grab of the trailer? Look for the Vernier thrusters liberally sprinkled thoughout the rest of the sets ;-)

Oooh! That looks great, I wonder if it will be compatible with any kind of flight stick? like this maybe? http://www.cyborggam.../v9stickps3.htm Too bad Ace Combat Assault Horizons is NOT on the list of compatibles...

Yep, I designed the China Fall (set and virtual).

ARGH!!! New trailer is up! http://trailers.appl...es/totalrecall/ I think it visually looks great! damn good design if you ask me Come on out and support a fellow MacrossWorlder! ...at least I got what I wanted out of it!

I would of thought they didn't charge you till the order was in? (standard practice for pre-orders) So is CD Japan charging us now prior to July 26th?!

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That would be my Holy Grail! It's because they are waiting for me to buy the resin version first!

How could I have missed this thread the first time around! Excellent work Dobber!! Truly one of the best VF-4 I've seen - I love the traditional canon scheme too. If I had seen this, it would tempt me to buy the kit as well, but you know as soon as I buy the resin, Hasegawa would come out with it!

Thanks so much Keith!! Not the best price, but after the anguish of the last few days, I bit the bullet - came out to $210cdn - so that $232cdn price wasn't so far off after all. Damn! All these posts on this thread got me antsy...

Tamiya clear blue and clear yellow lightly airbrushed over top of Alclad metalizers.

Oops sorry, so long ago... I guess I just lump all my resins to the great Captn'

How could I have missed this thread! Thanks so much Captn! The first set is his amazing launch rail... (I don't think I ever posted the Booster ones as I'm really un-happy with the way the photos turned out - I just couldn't seem to get the right colours, colour balance & exposure). And the launch arm!

WTF?! 13,800y=$168.23cdn So this "free shipping" for a Blu-Ray package is $64?!

I feel the pain... not a happy camper right now...

I thought Amazon.jp & HMV.jp won't ship to North America because it has "computer software" (the PS3 game) as part of the Hybrid Pack?

What the F$#@! Sold out already... what does that mean? Argh!

Where would the best place be to pre-order this Hybrid pack if you live in NA (Canada)? I was told that Amazon.jp won't ship this to NA because the hybrid pack will have a PS3 game which it will not ship outside of Japan (is this true?).

I guess now that "The Thing" (2012) has been released on video, here are some photos of my sets (which were hardly seen at all - argh!). It's such a shame, we all worked so hard on them and this really is a tribute to all the amazing carpentry and scenic artist in Toronto that were able to bring our vision to physical reality. The top hatch, we tried to match the original JC matte painting (it was waay off in the distance) and added our own details to bring it so we can see it close up, but I don't remember this making it into the film... Sections of the interior alienship corridor and corridor intersections... This was the interior alienship command bridge (which was re-written) - it's a shame since I thought it was very good work. So much great effort sometimes gets cut, its just the nature of the business. I think the Toronto crews can be proud. BTW, is there any special features on the DVD/BR that has anything on the set design?