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Hey now! that looks really good. Nice choice of paint colours @Papa Rat I gotta say though with all the black and holding the sword like a cane I kind wish he had a monocle on a chain and was doing a little soft shoe. lol! I finally got back to building at my bench (well really just painting 'cus I did the initial assembly a while ago). I've always preferred Max's VF-1J scheme to his VF-1A, so when I ordered the new PlayMax 72nd scale 1 J I got two so I could build one as Max's machine. This is the first go at the base colour ( a custom mix), so no detail painting and not cleaned up yet. I'm pretty happy with it overall. Maybe needs another coat to get it right, but so far I like the look of it. First pic is within flash 2nd without. All the white is bare plastic as I went with no primer on this one. I traced the decals from the kit (Hikaru's 1J) to make the masks for Max's white stripes. (Just an FYI: as I said this is the Hikaru 1J kit and that white stripe on the fuselage below the canopy on Hikaru's ride is red, but there is no decal for that in the kit nor is one referenced in the instructions. The finished pictures on the box and in the instructions show the stripe, but there is no decal for it.)

Those look great, but given Wave's pricing they will likely be very expensive.

Oooo thanks gor that! Fingers crossed@

I'll say it again that is a thing of beauty NB4M! It's the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1:55s. Can't remember if you mentioned it before, so I'll ask : what paint scheme are you planning on laying down? And whichever you choose do you planning to do the whole vermillion squad in the future? Don't have pics of anything I've been working on, but have been doing some 'work on the bench'. Namely, cleaning my airbrushes. Don't know how many of you know, but another hobby of mine is audio, more specifically analouge audio. I'm one of those people who refused to switch to CDs back in the late 80's early 90's and just kept buying records - untill they stopped pressing them. I have about 800 or so records and a couple of years ago I got a 6L ultrasonic tank with a spindle and motor attachment for cleaning my records. It works a treat. The other day I realized that if I filled the tank with some LAs Totally Awesome All Purpose Cleaner ( which is a great paint remover), I could use it to thoroughly clean my airbrushes. So today is the day. I've done 2 so far. Disassembled cleaned and reassembled, and man I gotta say, it is awesome! They look brand new, and spray like that too. I highly recommend an ultrasonic cleaner they are so useful. You don't need any 6L tank for airbrushes, something smaller would be fine and likely cheaper, but boy do they do a great job.

Yes,yes. Please, tell us more. Such an effort deserves a more fulsome accounting of all the ups and downs over the many years through which it was sustained.

That Q-Rau is soo awesome. The paint variation is just incredible, so many different reds and grays - just so subtle and well done.

Yes, but the big question is, if they did a multi-version set for the battroid kit would they include the standing figures? 'Cus I with Kakizaki being a limited (Japan only) release I'm SOL for a complete set. And still really miffed by that!😡

That looks so darned good it almost brings tears to my eyes! 👏👏😱

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Holy crap! That looks sooo awesome! Best looking 1/55 I've ever seen!

Really like these last 3 battroid builds! I can forgive the absent damage to the restaurant, but what about the missing 'bullet' holes on the chest plate of the VF-1D??. This is the Playmax kit so there should be decals for those no? Strange choice to do that scene and leave them off.

Holy Ezra Maguire, Spiderman!

Awesome job on the detail painting there. It's all so good, but those eyes are particularly well done. How big is this?