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Agreed. I used to paint Warhammer figures competitively , especially Harlequins, and even when I won its not fun. Hell even my Show cars and bikes I hate being judged on, I do it for me, not accolades or derision from others. You'll just be asking for trouble if you do. If the decal was small why not battle damage the area to obliterate the decal? Just need a hot knife, hot wire or a steady hand and a soldiering iron to hit it with a Beam score or cratered armour. Alittle metallic colour, rust colour, blued metal or composites and some soot staining and your done. Even day to day patrolling would cause paint transfer and scrapping and then there is mud, dust, dirt... Also military gear gets alot of none standard markings from being parked up too close to other units unattended. We all carry stencils and paint in our vehicles to tag other unit and ESPECIALLY other countries kit with our unit logos! The worst I've ever seen was 3 ASLAVs parked in East Timor that got a line of red dogs paw prints from the ass end, up over the turret and down off the front like a dog had walked all over them. The Paw Just happened to be the Engineer Regts Logo and there was an on going feud between the Tankies and the Gingerbears. Every vehicle unfortunate enough to be transported on the Assault ship HMAS Tobruk "The Rat Ship" deployed into country with a rat painted on it somewhere.

They also dropped a Kitchen sink from a Skyraider during the Korean war.

Couldnt resist and bought one of these for one of the VF-1Ds on my carrier scene...

I like the wreaked VF in the hanger and the Gerwalk thats ripped up the runway!

There is an easier way. Scan it in high res then feed the scan though a vector trace program. I can scan a set for you. There are a couple of online trace services that offer the first couple for free and the quality is outstanding. Just the Tomahawk or the Defender and Phalanx as well? Mods are we happy with me doing this given its an in production kit? This is not considered like recasting?

Its easier to mask off the parts for some of the more fiddly panel lines and stripes. The gunpods are usually a different colour from the rest of the plane as well

Stealth didnt seem to be a big thing in this universe either.

Ok so I watched up to EP10 and first up, I noticed Hayates Seig when it wears super parts gets some sort of HUGE back mounted lump of a ... something... missiles? Speakers? it was visible in the episode where he kills the young Knight in the asteriods. Second... where the hell does the Yellow 31 of Chuck fish boys hide the radome when its not being used or is it an attachment like a super pack? Wondering how these will be shown in model form.

Less smoke from the barrel, propellant burns fairly clean, and make it a lazy curl... Most of the smoke off a hot weapon is gun oil burning off. A heat haze off the barrel jacket perhaps but definitely less smoke. The powder in a cartridge is call "Smokeless" Powder.

As are used by Alpha and Beta Squad and they also have Alpha 01 through 05 and Beta 01 though 05 aircraft numbers.

Thanks! Production line is up to add these to mine!

watching the show I noticed they dont wear harnesses at all... does the EX gear lock them in?

just found this... http://www.shapeways.com/product/H5PBJ53JQ/72-h0070-carrier-catapult-1-or-3-crew-scale-1-72 could be helpful?

want us to buy that stuff for you to help out? I understand the hassles involved. I was just dreaming out loud. So when you say you'll include that in a ground crew set, do you mean as a pilot saluting the crew chief/cat launcher? or do you mean a member of the ground crew saluting the pilot?

pretty sure nearly everyone is after an arm saluting/waving ahh... no... but we can do the signs ourselves easy enough. That one was a test piece printed up on plain A4 paper. the final ones smaller again.

EXO will do a way better job than I can!

yeah... its a nightmare at that scale with the spindly arms on the Hasegawa figures!

Agreed! English is, in fact, one of the hardest languages to learn with all its contradictory rules and exceptions so if any is a moon language its the amalgam of other languages that is English! Resin nose? Buying it!

you need colour changers so you can get the White then Yellow flare of a propellant burn https://www.adafruit.com/products/1938 And the cheap board to run it https://www.adafruit.com/products/2010 And some connector options http://i-fiberoptics.com/light-pipe-connector.php or even better... a DIY connector for LED to Fibre Bundles

there is the other Homeworld Remastered Mod thats underway at the moment.

ahhh its 2750yen or so

Seems to be from a review post I've found online. It claims it has new decals and an EX cockpit but is otherwise a 1J

damn it... I only have 23 display cases on my wall and the 4 launch arm hangers in the boys room... where will these go??? Its a shame they are reusing the 1J and not making new parts for the changes to the 1EX. Longer nose, hump shape behind the cockpit etc.

hmmmm because we want one... no