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  1. pengbuzz
    Thanks sketchley! I couldn't remember what the mech was or what it did, but that sounds about right!! Edit: found it!
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    Hey, it worked for Hikaru when he went after Bodolza in his fortress!!!
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    Well, my Destroid Defender came in today: I only made a couple of mods so far; removing the strip of plastic between the arm guns, and backing the searchlights with foil tape: It scales nicely with my 1/72 VF-1J. I had been thinking of shortening the height, but I may just leave that alone: Once I'm done, it will go into the diorama with one of my VF-1's, while the other goes onto a different diorama: (not exactly the one included in the Robotech/ Macross Factory set, but I will hopefully get one of those at some point). Mods to be performed: washing, rebuild of radar antenna and ammo chute covers, drilling out of barrel ends, repainting and detailing, accurate decals. Possible mods: pivoting hip joints, articulated knee joints, opening pilot hatch, fuzzy dice. Stay tuned folks...
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    On another note entirely, I found a pic (or so I thought) some time ago amongst the online series productionl sketches of the bridge internals for the SDF-1 (google searches for sdf-1 bridge sketches, black and white). From what I recall, it showed a pic of the bridge from the inside, showing the layers of the bridge tower, but from the back facing forward. The thing I recall was that in the sketch, there was a battle pod (or some other Zentraedi mech, not sure) attacking the bridge bubble, and it had cracked it with laser fire. It showed the crew in panic and shock, and Captain Gloval high-tailing it, running as fast as he could for the exit! (needless to say, the sketch was apparently done as a joke I think!) Has anyone else run across this or ever seen/ heard of it? Or...is dementia setting in on my part?
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    Interesting mods! I have that kit, so i'll see if i can pull that off on it!
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    I'm waiting for them to do a 1/20 SDF-1...
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    You know, that would be interesting... a US version of the Yamato (Missouri or New Jersey). For the "Murican flavor", it shoots cans of Budweiser
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    I would try slitting the corners and reapplying the softener.
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    Wow bro! Wish I still had some of those you had there! lol Yeah, I wanted that base back, but it's expensive now, probably not complete anywhere and not in good condition. No to mention I had some ideas. Thank you for posting these; good to see you as a youngin' and your modelbuilding exploits as well as your collection!
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    On another of my projects (taking a break from the base), I got new feet for jetfire, but need armor and a gun for him. However, all the ones on Ebay were expensive for me, and a few avenues I pursued were...less than helpful. So, after getting more than a tad annoyed... Admittedly, it came out slightly chunkier than I intended, but I sanded it down as much as I could for circumference (the difference is by like a milimeter). And the barrel is slightly shorter (end nozzle is the problem, planning on fixing it later). But at least I ahve a gun pod now. Total build time: 3 hours, 25 minutes (from start, to paint and decal).
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    Well, jetfire needed one just recently, so yup. Pretty much. I think gremlins...
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    Okay...just got gifted a Destroid Defender toy (Exosquad/ Robotech matchbox Reissue) that I'm going to be reworking into a 1/72 to go with my valks in the repair diorama. Meantime though: been working on a different project. I had one of the Warren transformers Activity Centers (cardboard base) when I was a kid. Well, recently I decided to build one from scratch, but it ended up...erm...upsized: The lower level was bare in the main section, so i built a "power reactor" for it; meantime, the two level "tower" looked kinda dumb to me, so I built a working hand-crank elevator with clear plastic enclosure. The angled "pyramid" like section was the armory, but I think that whol;e area can be cut in half so a med center can be put in. Here's what I started with: Stay tuned folks...
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    It was having canopies break that forced me to learn how to make my own. Carve a wooden "buck", then get a cd jewel case and a heat gun (or stope top to soften the plastic), and use the "heat and smash" technique. BTW: I used the technique with soda bottle pastic for the canopy on the 1/100 vf-1 strike valk i built. If you ever get a really small fighter that you don't want a overly thick canopy on, use soda bottle plastic and "heat and smash" on a wood form.
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    I'd be very interested in this series! I think Mount did an incredible job as Pike, and the rest of the cast they ahd was pretty good as well. (Anything beats STD and PicTurd!)
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    Hi-Metal R

    pengbuzz replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Devcon Plastic Welder should be able to take care of that. Just remove the pin, clean the parts with alcohol and apply. Let cure 24 hours, make sure none of the mix gets in the hole, lightly sand and buff the extra material that squezzed out, and reassemble. Model cement won't work on this: while it can fuse polystyrene and ABS together, I have tried it on ABS to ABS and it doesn't work very well.
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    EYEBLEACH!!!! EYEBLEACH!!!! EYEBLEACH!!!! EYEBLEACH!!!! EYEBLEACH!!!! AAARRRGGHHHH!! Right? That's like Kentucky Fried Chicke having served a crappy chicken breast TWICE in their entire history, and the rest of the time was just their sides being served! Seriously... are they so inept or apathetic out there that they cannot be bothered? O.o
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    Hey, from what I've seen of it, it doesn't look bad at all! Just a few touch ups are really all it needs. On that note: I built a 1/48 scale F-16 in the YF-16 paint scheme, and it really is hard to get those lines even! It's even harder on a valkyrie, so give yourself some credit!
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    And of course: "All your base are belong to us."
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    1/55 chunky. *runs*
  20. pengbuzz
    Do they use the Sledge-O-Matic ™?
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    I would try using pencil to do slightly off-shade "panels", then use a kneaded eraser to fade them (dab them with the eraser), rahter than "lines". Once you're happy with them, then you could clear-coat it to make it permanent (keeping in mind it gets a bit darker with clear coat). I'd get a scrap of flat styrene, paint half white and half blue (hull colors) and try it out on that first to see if it would work for you and to see if the clear coat would make the pencil too dark. On that note: I've also used colored pencils to do a "color filter" effect on models; you might want to look into those as well if you get a moment.
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    It could have been a bad dream after Luke ate some porg that had gone bad...
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    You know...after seeing that, I had to clean the drool off my keyboard!
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    Yeah...kinda hard to pilot a ship if Misa and Claudia had to get 30 foor stepladders just to hit the buttons for thrusters. O.o
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    I can just imagine when the crew of the SDF-1 talks with UN Spacy High Command, HQ sounds like the teacher fro Peanuts. BTW: not sure if it counts as "character art", but at least it's funny:
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