Chas

Decals mostly done(Just the gun and hand Decals left). Some detail paint and weathering tomorrow.

Getting set to gloss clear coat Wave's 1:100 VF-1S with Future. Planning Togo a little easier on the weathering this time. We'll see how it goes.

It's the colour recommendation in the instructions for Tamiya's 1:32 Type 21 Mitsubishi Zero kits, so if you want to see what it looks like sprayed on just do an image search for those and you'll get a good idea. It may be a little light, but with weathering that should work out fine I'd think. (Just realized Stig's ride armour is numbered 21 and is really close to the colour the type 21 Zero . . . Hmmmm🤔 Anyone else think that is more than a coincidence?)

The closest Tamiya Spay can I can think of would have to be AS-29 Gray Green.

So in love with your painting and finishing skills. Always so clean and perfect. I've put the scratch/bash SBY carrier away for a bit. That's what comes from making it up as I go - I tend to take long breaks while I mull over where to go with it. In the mean while I had a go at finishing up this 1:100 Wave VF-1J battroid. As usual I think I went a little too far with the weathering, particularly the 'chipping', but it's too late now. Just a few minor touch-ups and off the bench it goes.

Have had plans for doing the same for a few years now. After researching what others have done, I'd suggest looking into getting something like one of these to base the mods around. https://www.hlj.com/1-12-scale-sozai-kun-m-size-flesh-ylsppc-t62

That VF -1J is by the same fella whose VF-1D and VT-1 I posted back on the 1st page of this thread. Dude is still killing it! He also does a Wave Starship Troopers Powered Suit in B&W manga-esque style using gradient tone transfers like the old Letratone sheets. It's way back from May 2015.

Yeah, kinda makes you wonder, if the design changed so much from the art work to the artifact why they would bother to show them together.

That piston in the front of the shin area is bugging me. Why would you need such a large piston in that spot? It's not visible in the artwork, which I think looks better ( in that area at least).

Love the pics of all the classic Orguss kits! These are mine. Can't wait to add the new Moderoid to the set.

That illustrated three-quarter view of the head looks a lot better. On the shots of the prototype the raised chest piece blocks the bottom of head, which creates a very Optimus Prime looking mask effect.

That's almost exactly what I thought. There's definitely a Transformers feel to it.

What the heck is going on with the head unit on that Legioss/Alpha?

Hope this does well enough so we eventually see an Iczer Sigma.

Just pre-ordered the Iczer Robo from Hobby Search. Been waiting almost 40 years for a kit of that little beauty!

Are those miliput molds?

Gosh, I have no recollection of the price I paid. I just recall that the main reason that I decided to pick it up was the cost was so much less than what I had seen online before I left Canada. I don't have any pics of the kit built up, but it was this version here (except mine didn't have the rocket launcher on the left arm.

Think it was the Mirage. I got cheap in 2006, when I was in Seoul. I'd built it up ( straight OOB build) and kept it that way for a few years, but it never really grabbed me, plus the joints had gotten all floppy and it was either glue it in a fixed pose or strip it down and throw it all in the spare parts bin. I figured it was worth more to me as spares to build other stuff from, still got a butt load of goodies in my parts bin from it, so all in all I think it was a good choice.

Yeah that scoop has been bugging me for a while. I've hesitated redoing it, cus it's so much work to rip it out and replace it and I work so slowly that I hate to take such a big step back, UT I know if I don't It'll bug me forever. Thanks for the kick in the pants!

Definitely replace with styrene sheet. The cardboard and Styrofoam are used to quickly work through ideas. When I settle on a shape I like it is used as a pattern to build a styrene Part. Then bonds, or Apoxy sculpt is used to smooth out the mating boundaries between the scratched pieces and kit parts.

Thanks for the compliment, but I am nowhere near professional level at scratch building/ kitbashing. Plus I am really, really SLOW! Here are a couple of early pics to show a bit of my ad-hoc process. Cardboard and Styrofoam were used to get a quick and dirty idea of basic forms that had to be scratched.

Wow! You guys are all pumping out some really great builds. After a really, really long hiatus I've been bitten by the bug again and gotten back into building. Well After moving my workbench and stash around a bit. I started this scratch/bash many years ago and decided to break it out and see what I could do with it. It started out life as a Trumpeter 1:700 scale USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 aircraft carrier, but I decided to make it my own version of a EDF carrier from the Space battleship Yamato universe. There's a bunch of parts from all sorts of stuff in here so far. I've ued bits from Gundam kits, Macross, Armoured Core, S.B.Yamato, a Trumpeter 1:35 Morsar Karl, a Revell Magnaguard fighter from Star Wars and more. I've taken inspiration from a few Japanese scratch builds I've seen, but I sort of making it up as I go along. The super structure and guns are just placed there for now to mock things up to get a sense of where I'm headed.

Rest well in the sea of stars sensei, your spirit and influence will continue through all those your stories have touched. Thank you for everything.

Just logged on for the first time in many months and OMG! this is absolutelyincredible news! It's like that recurring dream we've all had where you walk into this random, unknown hobby shop and you turn down one of the isles only to find a treasure trove of all of your vintage grail anime kits - Except this is REAL! UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE! As for spreading the word, if there is any Starblazers/SB Yamato stuff I would think the folks over at ourstarblazers.com CosmoDNA would love this story and be very interested in letting their readers know about available vintage kits etc. Now you'll have to excuse me while I go search for some grail kits I have yet to add to my collection.

Holy crap! What is that? ( I mean other than frikin' amazing , of course!)