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Looks really great NB4M! @MechTech dude! Your work is simply inspiring. (And your tools are enviable!) Always a pleasure to see what you've been up to. @arbit wish I had the patience to learn 3D modeling. The things that 3D printers make possible, I mean the sky is the limit, and your designs look so good. Fist asteroid underway.

Thanks arbit. I noticed that as well. Gonna balance it out a bit when I do the weathering on the bottom of the ship.

Got my payment request today ☺️ 🤗 😊 😁

So clean and Smmoooth! Lookin killer!

Finemolds 144th. Got a Bandai in the wings. Thinking maybe a cloud city landing platform dio for that one.

Well, not to be stingy.

Jesus! That looks soo cool!

Ahh! Very clever! Thanks for the explanation. That was very instructive and helped clarify a lot. The top and side-walls of the old girl are done and dusted. Matte coat on and window masks removed. If you hold the ship right up close you can see Han and Chewy in there, but Leia and 3P0 are nigh on invisible. Oh well. Now I gotta do the bottom and then fashion and paint some Asteroids. Here's the main ref. I used for the weathering details.

@nightmareB4macross plastic weld? Is that MEK based ? or an epoxy? I'm very intrigued by the process of securely bonding different plastics together. Do you thoroughly scuff the two surfaces to give the adhesive some bite? I figured it wouldn't be used like a toy, but still the different assemblies that are being twisted, folded, extended and turned have some fairly good heft to them. Don't get me wrong I'm not doubting your assertion ( I'm certain you wouldn't be doing all this work if you weren't sure of your process). Just interested in learning how you work with such desperate materials being used in such high stress application. More weathering on the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. This time with a ref . Pic. Think I'll need to darken some of the grey panels a bit.

Nice workmanship there NB4M. So tell, about this, are your new parts Styrene? If so are they gonna be strong enough for the weight, stress and forces involved? How are you bonding them to the old plastic of the toy (ABS?)?

Detail paint done ( sorry 'bout the glare, forgot to turn the bench lamp off) Gloss coat and first go at oil wash.

Very smooth paint application. Planing on doing any chipping?

After doing some quick and dirty tests, I wound up going with olive green (RAL 6003) for the curious. There's just a hint of it on the upper hull. The lower hull is a bit more noticeable however.

Nice job on that canopy! No hint of the seam line to be seen. Those masks look like they will do an A1 job. Started the next build this weekend and it's not from a 40 or 50 year old animal series 😱😜. Gonna do a dio with this one flying through an an asteroid field. Basic build is done (OOB). And I decided to use some Tamiya white rattlecan primer I had lying around. It went on a little thicker in places than I'm use to with the Mr. Surfacer And my airbrush, but that was mostly on the bottom, which won't be too visible in the set-up I have planned - so not too worried 'bout it. Now the question is what colour to use for the preshade? I would usually go with something dark like Panzer Grey, but was thinking maybe a brown might be good to warm up the tone a little. Never done a Millennium Falcon before, so what do you folks think? I've already mixed up my own base colour for her. It's about 6-7ml of white with 4-5 drops each of light grey and wooden deck tan (all tamiya). Also wondering if it might be an idea to skip the presiding at this scale (1:144) as it may spoil the scale effect .

Holly crap! So much great work here! @Kurt those figures look great as does the tank! Love the mud and scuffs on the paint. @Rock those belts and buckles really level up the scale effect and that paint job looks like it's gonna be killer. Can't wait for the finished shots. @pengbuzz Murphy looks really good👍. Sweet little dio display too, really sets off the build well and is very evocative of the film. Perfect way to display a character build! @HWR MKII always loved the look of that jet- so real world, and so Sci-fi cool at the same time. You really did a fine job of making it shine. So many great builds I'm sure I missed some. Finished up the gunship from Nausicaa this weekend. Nothing special, just a straight OOB build. Perhaps I'll do a folded wing version with the Tsukuda kit that's still in the stash. Had a minor scrape, down the left side rear fuselage below the rear cockpit when I installed the windscreen. Other than that and the mis-aligned lines in the flaps on the left wing (didn't notice 'till it was too late to fill and rescribe) I feel pretty good 'bout this one.

Thanks! Of the two I am most interested in the Ed 209, but I've got kits pre-ordered every month from now 'till June, so I've been holding off on it. Don't know how much longer I can resist. Decided to work on Nausciaa's Gunship of the Valley of the Wind for my next build. I've got two Boxings of the kit: the Tsukuda Boxing from '84 & a Bandai Boxing from 2004. Scalemates says the Bandai is a reboxig of the '84 kit, which is what I've read and heard since forever, but my eyes are telling me a differet story. At some point Bandai engineered a whole new kit. Parts layout on the sprues is completely different, not to mention the parts themselves being different sizes and shapes with different details. Is anyone here a member at scalemates? Thinking they might want to know their info needs updating. Tsukuda on left Bandai on right. Bandai Tsukuda

Murphy is looking good @pengbuzz. I've been looking at the Good Smile Co. Moderoid Robocop and ED-209 tha are both upcoming, but haven't pulled the trigger yet. @derex3592 you've done better than I did closing up the bays on my Academy F18, but then the canopy cracked and so it sits unfinished in my stash. Hope you have better luck than me. After building the redesigned Academy God Phoenix I was pleased, but still not quite satisfied so I got Wave's, screen accurate kit and, although it is smaller, I am much more satisfied with it. Unlike the Academy kit, it did not come with a stand, so I modified an old one from my spares with some images from the 'net and glossy photo paper.

Thanks for the responses. Waiting gets harder the closer the date gets.

Anyone heard anything 'bout the Moderoid Orguss release? No payment request for me yet.😔

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That's some really great work there. Got a few of these in the stash myself. Couple of questions for you. How did you do this: Was it by making two diagonal cuts on the sides and then repositioning the two pieces on the sides and gluing? And which size Gundam hands did you use?

Nice job on that! Simple and clean always looks great. Love the simple wood block base the colour really sets off the model. Congrats. Built and finished this little guy today. It's box scale, but I found an old 1:100 scale figure that I chopped up and threw some paint on and it looks OK ( for what can be seen through the canopy).

Detail paint done, dull coat on looks much better. Think I'm gonna call this one done.

Thanks. While I was filling and sanding all the extra 'detail' on this kit, trying to make it smooth, I had flashbacks to the old AMT refit Enterprise with it's horrible panel detail. I just ordered the Getter Dragon from the same kit line, so I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. (Looking at pics online, that one will need a fair bit of re-sculpting of the head/face.) @pengbuzz love what you're doing with that Robocop. I totally agree with your take on the toys too -way too expensive- and for me all the fun is in the building anyway. Can I ask where the figure is from? I got a project in my head that might benefit from acquiring one of those.

Been working on the 1:144th Bandai Grendizer and it's almost there. Still some touch-ups and details left, but it's coming along. Here's a shot of where It is at the moment with a stock web photo of What it looked like out of the box. Compared to: