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Since the black strips are linear, I thoguht it would be easy to use the painting tape to tape all parts and brush away quickly..

Wow, compliment from mw_cheng. Thank you very much. We need more modellers, that's for sure. I hope more people would put up some eye candy of their building process. I could learn a lot from reading them. I am still waiting to read the juicy details for your latest 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1 + Booster step-by-step. I hope you had done some during christmas. Check out my VF-1S to VF-0S battloid Conversion too.

I haven't got much done today. I only painted the chest, and air in-take part is looking more like VF-0S than VF-1S now. The air breaker piece has been hand drilled, but I probably should have used a pan to align the holes before I drill them. They don't look aligned when looking closely. I sand away so much detail today that there is no turning back to a VF-1S now.

The cutting tool helped in dividing the top right arm into two pieces for my new pose. I was extremely pleased with the cutting result.

I brought a new automatic sanding and cutting tool today. It used to take me hours to send a single part. Now, all parts were sanded in 10 minutes...

I put the kits back together and wait for them to dry...

I am trying to fill some of the holes and alter the details with epoxy putter. I am not sure if I am doing it right. I used my fingers to mold the parts into something that look like the shoulder pads, and fill in the circle on the legs. I also added some putter to the head so it would look like VF-0S's head. However, those hand made parts don't look professional at all. I am waiting for the parts to dry. Next I will sand those parts to remove finger prints from those parts. If I am not doing this right, let me know. I will try to remove the putter as soon as possible.

Yes you are correct. My bad for using a big "X".

I will try out the ZAP glue. I don't want my kit to glue together too fast by super glue, so I can model it a little while I am building it. Thanks for the tip.

I breath in a lot of the white powder. I will watch out from now on...Thanks I hope I don't die any time soon.

Got it at hobbyfan.com. I think that's the only place available online now.

Thanks. As long as you keep your brush clean, I think Citadel colour paint will work. Good luck.

Here is a rough visualization of the pose. The gun is pointed in the different direction instead of holding by two hands. I am almost convinced to alter this kit to become a VF-0S, but it will be a lot of work to reform the legs and various parts using eproxy putter. Lucky for me, I got some extra eproxy putter left over from my VF-0S plane project. Now, I just need to wait for someone to enlighten me on how to glue resin parts together.

Here is a dry fit of most of the pieces of the kit. The drilling and pinning were done in matter of couple minutes...

Here is a shot of the staple pins in the left arm from a different angle. Note, try to avoid using the bended section of the staple pins.

Here is a shot of the staple pins in the left arm.

I am not so sure what to use to glue the resin parts together. Hints anyone? For now I am drilling holes between the pieces and pin them with staple pins.

I manage to sand all of the pieces. Resin is much more easily to sand than plastic. Resin turns to powder rather quickly.

Here is a piece of the shoulder. I apologize for the blury picture, but you can see there is a big junkie piece stick out of the shoulder.

This kit comes with really rough parts. There are things sticking out all over the place and some of them ruin the details...

I got the kit 2 days before Christmas. My initial plan is to make this VF-1S a different pose from the stock kit. However, I am not sure if I should convert this to VF-0S for uniqueness. Here is how I started it...

Post your progress making.. We love to see more people's building process and helpfully learn something too.

I hope you had done some of it over the christmas time. Some pictures of the progress would be nice to see. I used flat white on the plane, and the charcoal weather makes the plane a little grey, and clear coating brings the metal feelings to the plane afterward. There is more than one way to make the plane, so enjoy it.

Anyone can do as well as I did. The hase kit is really great. Everything fits perfectly. I only had one minor defect on my kit. If you take the time to make the kit, you can bring it to life too.

I doubt that I could reproduce the same paint job again. Brand new paint brushes really helped on the paint job. We'll see if I can keep up the paint job quality for my current project.