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As promised, pics of the Dougram as I got it: After doing an inspection on this and the Bushman, I decided to save the Bushman for later and focus first on the Dougram. It needs duplicates of the shoulder and arm armors, hip block, a new cockpit, backpack, weapons pods, pilot and new knee and ankle joints. Also, one shoulder was snapped in half, so I reworked that. Pics of current work: With the age of the plastic, trying to salvage the snapped linkages on the old parts was a major waste of time, so i removed them. I opted instead to replace them with clip joints from 1/144 Gundam kits (leftovers I scored at a thrift store) that would last longer and allow for disassembly without prying apart fragile glue joints. I took apart the remaining pieces that were glues, sanded and re-glued them, and will wash components when they are assembles as module units. The cockpit: while normally, scratching up a cockpit is a major hassle, the flat plates of the Dougram make this a lot easier: It's nice to have reference pics: (Pics courtesy of BigBadToyStore) Stay tuned folks...

Is there any way you and Derex could carve up wood bucks and do a "heat and smash" of the canopies?

Frankly. the Discovery looks like a hood ornament attached to someone's partially disassembled hard drive.

Just took a look at the "issue 11" preview. Frankly, I think I know how Rick's eyes got burned out in the comic: he also read the preview.... O.o

Okay, got this today: It looks like "Condar" from the "Robotech Defenders" line (Fang of the Sun Dougram's "Bushman" if memory serves). So...who thinks this model is doomed, and who thinks I can save it? Bets anyone? Update: I apparently have most of the actual "Dougram" model as well (will take photos in a bit); just missing the head and weapons amongst a few other things.. I'm going to see if I can scratchbuild the missing parts on each. Stay tuned...

Sketchley, Devcon Plastic Welder works wonders for reattaching small pieces. You can even make parts from it; I've had to when something fell and the components vanished.

Nice job! Though for some reason, i can imagine Han, Leia and Chewie outside discoing to those lights.

Well, guess the stealth feature worked!!! Seriously, I reshot some pics with all the lights and lamps I could find AND a flash:: This one is with a lamp directly on the figure: And normal light: you can see the shadow behind the fig- Camera was on different settings: for the brightest ones, I had it on high ISO, while on the rest, I had the camera set for low-light. Maybe I should have used orange instead! lol That, or a lighter backdrop and broad sunlight (if my psycho neighbor lets me without trying to gnaw my leg off) Right...moving on to my next project, coming soon...

My newest project, with some "backstory" to it: "Reporting as ordered, Sir." "I take it the techs explained the new suit to you?" "Yes Sir..." "You seem ...dissatisfied. Explain." "Sir, if this is supposed to be dual purpose for flight ops as well as SpecOps duty, armor panels are going to reduce the mobility and flexibility on both counts, and the suit's too damned...shiny." "Shiny?" "You may as well put christmas tree lights on it, as well as a bullseye on my ass, Sir." "You did read the specs on the light refractive coating? It may look 'shiny' to you in full light with the system off, but when active, it's designed to make sure you are anything but noticed, Lieutenant." "If you say so Sir. i have my misgivings..." "That's why you're going to test it out before we send you out there. As for those armor panels, those are to make sure you don't get anymore holes punched in you." "A little thin for that kind of protection, Sir". "Did you plan on standing there while they shoot at you, Lieutenant?" "Not particularly, Sir." "Listen to me Lieutenant; the situation we are facing is grave. You know what the Black Rose Conspiracy did the last time around." "I know all too well...the bastards almost killed me..." "As well as nearly took out this fleet. And seeing as we are out in the middle of uncharted space due to their 'escapades' with our navigation system the last time they reared their heads, the stakes are way too high. We need a combo of a Valkyrie/ SpecOps team that we can send in on a moment's notice". "I see. So, if we screw up, we're done. Right?" "You 'screw up', we're going to end up another footnote of a missing fleet, like the Megaroad-1. They don't particularly seem interested in sending a postcard back to the Unity Government to tell them they they took us out". "Don't you mean NUNS?" "Lieutenant, there are reasons I wanted to helm a New Macross Colony Fleet. One of those is that I really do not care for Earth's antics, let alone how they keep changing their minds on what they want the government to be called. I joined U.N. SPACY, not a convent." "Understood..." "Good. Report to Testing Area 3 aboard the UNS Sagan; you're to test the suit there and once you're done, make a full report. " "Yes Sir."

Asking 48$? Okay, thanks for the info.

This is probably a stupid request, but I looked op junker Mospeada Leigoss Fighters on Ebay, and I wanted to know what a fair price for a junker would be. I'm considering selling the one I have on MW (really do not want to deal with ebay!), but I don't want to be ridiculous about it (or sell something no one wants). This is the one I have: Missing: left arm, head, cockpit/nose and gunpod. So, what would be okay to ask for this? Thanks, -PB

Thanks for the info, borgified! And yeah: Evolution toys really needs to fire their designers; as for the model kit, i had the "GoBots leader-1" version in the 80's and that was just a disaster.

Some progress: Adding some more planes (Four A-4 Skyhawks now, after 9 Tomcats and one Intruder), and the rigging is redone (all metal Mast now): Stay tuned folks...

It's not exactly Macross, but I recently came across this: Definitely from Mospeada; looks like it would be "Rook's" (don't know her name aside from Robotech) Alpha. Missing the head, canopy/cockpit and one arm.; they appear snapped off at the joints. I picked this up on a lark (didn't find the other parts though), and I'm undecided on whether to try to restore it (no money for parts) or simply sell it (maybe someone here could use it?). One side of the cockpit hinge is clean busted off, so I'd have to find one with the same kind of joint were i to do so. Since I know they had larger and smaller ones (it says "Gaiken made in Singapore), this is most likely the larger one (metal landing gear and click joints).

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Some progress on my project: I removed the mast-work I previously did, as some of it wasn't shaped right. I also want to put it back on once all the major stuff is done, so as to avoid damaging the fine stuff. At any rate, I set this in a foam base that has painted crumpled tin-foil glued down to it; I'll do the detail-painting, additions of white-caps and resin water later to make the ocean look more like water. Meantime, I started adding some custom-made aircraft to the ship, as well as fire vehicles, the rolling crane and the tow vehicles on deck. Finally, even though it's just set on there right now and not in permanent position, is the ship's coat-of-arms, set into an old barometer housing that thought would look naval and add a nice touch. Stay tuned folks...

Say it ain't so, numbnuts!!! RIP Gunney...

My two cents worth: as long as HG has a deathgrip on the rights in North America, manga, anime, live action movie and just about anything else isn't going to work very well here. Aside from the issues that have already been talked to death about HG, they just are not very good at promoting anything, period.

The Kitchen Sink: I plan on doing this ship as "a diorama within a diorama within a diorama"; that is, the hangar deck will be something of a diorama (with a plane being brought out to the elevator), the flight deck being a diorama (complete with people, we'll see how I pull that one off!), and the ship underway on the ocean. On another note: in SDFM, the Prometheus and Daedalus are considerably larger than CVN-65 (and all modern carriers even today), and they are mounted on the SDF-1!!! (Just something for folks to think about when it comes to scale in Macross) Stay tuned folks... I think I may feel "the need for speed" very soon...

Speaking of which... After I had done the painting of the carrier (USS Enterprise), I realized I did not have a model of that carrier. Nor did I have the 23 dollars to purchase one. Longing and frustration began to set in until I could stand it no more... It didn't look like much, but then again, when did THAT ever stop me? So I continued... And well... see what you think: Work on the mast is going right now... it's a royal pain though: Stay tuned...

Really looking good there! I like that you're painting in the red rather than any sort of decal for it (haven't worked with the Nu-BGS Moebius kits, so I'm not sure what they come with!).

Thanks.

lol! House is probably filled with kits now, right? On another note folks: had to fix my previous post, as my pics in that one turned into links. (I HATE when that happens!)

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