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I hope these help. Areas are out of focus because the instructions wouldn't sit flat. - MT

Thanks guys! That black on black looks cool Electric Indigo! Clean build Ignacio. Now you just have to make it look like a teenager has been piloting it in battle! - MT

That's COOL! So, is there like a piece of a kit in each day? You'll have to virtually share with us now! - MT

That looks great Xigfrid!!! Glad to see you getting to this design! - MT

Thanks MickyG! Yeah, I went from being a network technician for a couple of decades to graphic design. Another reason I was offline a lot, going back to school for the degree. Now I'm doing something fun. Hopefully that encourages you more! No photos, but my son and I successfully tested out a small rocket to fire from the ship-not on the ship yet though. I also finished the water tight compartments to fit the ship radio in. Maybe some more work this weekend. - MT

Those hanger are cool NZEOD! The lighting makes them realistic. Sorry I haven't been on the boards much lately guys. I started a new career as a graphic designer/artist. So now I work all day and have harry time to get on the PC, let alone build models (on the weekend now). - MT

The Cylon Raider looks great Pengbuzz! I'm having some serious flashbacks! Arbit, yeah, lilke MickyG said, it is just hand brushing, almost dry brushing with progressively lighter colors. I'm sure there are a ton of wargamer videos on them out there. It does look like your paint needs thinning or filtering (with panty hose) to help get the globs out. Airbrushing can be a pain sometimes. I'll get some more photos of the ship with scale items on it. NZEOD, those look great! I love how you used the Macross scheme on them. - MT

The Pukin' Dogs would be proud NZEOD! Arbit, it's not based on any one design, just a small patrol/fast attack missile boat. It's the 1/72 Tamiya PT-15 hull (ripped off by Trumpeter) heavily modified to what you see. Even the hull is heavily modified for the prop channels. This will be one of my few 1/72nd scale models. 1/20th and 1/24th figures are perfect for shading. It's basically your main base color with shading in the shadows and then adding a bit of white to the main color for highlights on the surface. The you do it again with a lighter shade yet and so on in layers. Wargamers do it to add depth to their figures. There's tons of tutorials out there. - MT

Yeah, I believe that is Dorobou 's build. It is an awesome build! - MT

I would suggest using those 6mm geared motors if you really want to motorize the Daedalus. Screw drive or get a SLOW geared version and use a lever or something. That will be a tight fit alone! You could probably get most of it to fit in the legs. Did you solve your battery issue with the Arduino? The opening sequence of DYRL would be great to see all the lights and how they are sequenced - plus some artisitc license. Use magnets as contacts and to hold the ships in place, then you can remove them from the SDF-1. Just some ideas. - MT

Looking good Thom! You can see the throttle quadrants and everything! I love the paint scheme and detail Chavakaiser! It has a realistic look to it. The ship and your figure look GREAT Arbit! The fiber optics take a fairly bland design and make it stand out. The figure looks great with your updates. Are you going to paint highlights on the clothing for depth? ALMOST DONE with the ship. Biggest change was adding a 1/4" lip around the top of the deck from the wheelhouse to the stern. The lip is a "C" channel of styrene that a square tube slides into snuggly. The square tube goes onto the lip of upper deck. So the top deck slides on and is now mostly water proof. No fasteners to undo. I extended it to cover the "exhaust" and give me a small helipad (helicopter sold separately, batteries not included). Also added the "glass," Harpoon missile tubes, rebuilt the .50 cal HMGs with brass parts, and added a ton of detail all over the place to include bollards and other tie downs. The crane was built of spare parts and the inflatable boat needs to be finished up. - MT

This is cool, it is not just the main weapon that is new, the rail guns and other items are new too " the OT ultra fast rail cannon of the shoulder, the elbow joint, the bridge (head), a part panel of the fuselage , It is a model that set secondary guns of each place with new parts. " I was disappointed with the cruiser mode, but this is much better! - MT

With Monsters too! - MT

Nice Jean Arbit! That Tiger will look good once you get some paint on it Zombie. Just hang in there with it! - MT

Thanks NZEOD! It's hard to believe its been 35 years too! - MT

The details do look minimum. The fan blades look shallow without having real blades, just engraved lines. What's with the heads? They should be separate from the fuselage piece. Not to mention the laser thicknesses? Then again, this is NOT the final kit we are looking at so take what you see with a grain of salt.- MT

NZEOD - Those buildings are cool for a diorama! That will look awesome. What material are they made of? NYANKODEVICE - That will be a cool diorama and I think you chose a good scale. The 1/15000 is too small to go into detail with. - MT

(Russian accent) Dosvadania to dose Russian veekles! That came out great Xigfrid! Its cool to see people make models that aren't available commercially. Great finish and execution over all! - MT

That kit is coming along great! The shape of the nose always bothered me too. The extra mini-binder data card that came in each one (that hopefully you got) were really cool too. Mine are framed in my shop. - MT

That's cool Kelsain! Dang, I better hide that ring better now... - MT

If it says "King Bong" on the bottom, its gotta be good! Does it need power to levitate, or is that for rotation and lighting only? The diorama is a good idea with that LCAC too! - MT

Thanks CrossAir! They are from the Italeri 3.7cm Flak gun. I had to heavily sand the backs and then link them together around the base. That diorama sounds cool Arbit! -MT

Talk about a "big girl" Nyankodevice! She is looking great. Thank you guys for the positive feedback! The gun is done! I cut down the mount to the correct height. The "bottling factory" or ammo handling section below deck is included too. It should be two rows of ammo, but I ran out of ammo, so only one row. The bottom piece was a tire machined down. I got the rotary table alignment off so the pieces are slewed slightly, but no one will ever see it besides you guys (sshhh). The whole assembly is hollow and lightweight all the way through to reduce weight on the boat. It only weighs ten grams. I love the Oto Melara so I thought I'd go all out on it. 120 rounds a minute at 3,000 FPM! That's a lot of steel raining down. It is also an effective CIWS system too. - MT

Those look GREAT, especially for tiny 1/700 scale models! - MT

That turned out great CrossAir! The white metal parts were a nice touch for that kit. Nearly finished the gun turret! The turret has an access hatch handle with five spokes on it. Of course I already have spare three and four spoke versions the right size already I can't use. But this has a FIVE spoke version so I had to make one. I cut five slots on the mill rotary table and straightened them up with a razor blade and high power magnification. Then cut it off on the lathe. Then after five tries, finally got a thin enough rim to go onto the outside. The next photos are of the finished turret parts. I think the base is too high so I'm going to cut it down. The ammo feed will glue under the turret next along with some hoist points for the turret. - MT