pengbuzz

Well, you cannot really base your happiness on Macross upon how others react to it. But as far as the new Macross series go, they don't really excite me so much as IMO they're rehashes of what came before. Personally, I'd like to see a series about the origin of the Zentraedi and the Protoculture civilization that came before ours.

UPDATE: Paint work now in progress: Got some initial work done, then went back over it today to try to "fine tune it a bit more. Here's the valk in Battroid mode: And yes: that Mauler Dual-Action Laser Cannon DOES pivot in Battroid mode. Handy for when you want to tell a Regult or Glaug exactly what you think of them in some rather explicit (and explosive) terms> Next up: clearcoat, decals, weathering, and thinkiing about some Reaction ordnance for this one. Stay tuned...

That book looks quite interesting! Meantime...in the paint shop: Not nearly done with painting yet... still gotta touch up several places and put in some more stuff. But it's progress, and the conversion from "Super" to "Strike" seems to have gone well! Meantime, thinking about doing up some heavy "reaction missiles" for this one.

UPDATE: Got the Mauler mostly together in this pic, sans hinge: Needed some cleanup in this one: The part finally together: After initial priming: I had to touch up a couple of areas by hand on the side here; next up is to sand out some of the "lumpies" and re-prime, then I'll be set to start detail painting (the rest of the valk is primed as well, just need to give some attention to a few trouble spots). But for a start on the strike conversion, not a bad go so far. Stay tuned...

Thanks! Styrene, plastic welder and an old metal radio antenna. Thanks Thom! Yeah, a little weathering, but I think not as much as I had previously done, and I'll be more careful on it. I generally have an easier time with weathering darker colors, so we'll see how it goes.

Thanks! Minor Update: Well, the Mauler is nearly finished; just needs some more sanding, smoothing and detail work before jointing it and adding it to the booster. But the majority of it is there: Kinda rough still, but as I said: it still needs work, I just need to make sure it will stay in one piece before squaring it all up and whatnot. Stay tuned...

Thanks guys; but the "blochey" thing isn't going to work all that well on this one. We'll see on the next project though. UPDATE: Guess what I'm building here? Meantime, the rest of the armor's been attached: The remaining paint on there is "Stained" into the plastic; that should be remedied by a new coat of primer. Also, need to inscribe some panel lines into the armor sections (good thing the arms and legs are on removable joints!). Also, the new joint for the Gerwalk mode is in the correct place now, which means the VF-1 won't have the "broken femur" syndrome it previously had before the rebuild. Also of note: you can see the arm launchers a bit better here; they're the wooden ones I had started, and they are more in scale so I just went with them. Stay tuned folks...

While that is true, it's also been some years between Megaroad-1 launching and Delta. A person can gain a lot of skills and determination between then and now. Also, I'd hate to think that Misa would turn out like that (JMO), while Minmay has always been a bit shallow and self-absorbed.

That looks a lot sleeker than I thought the VF-4 would be. I may have to change my mind about how I feel concerning this valk...

Talk about "pumping iron"

I can definitely attest to that!

"Here we come Gerwalkin' down the street We get the funniest looks from Everyone we meet Hey, hey, we're the Valkyries And people say we're flyin' around But we're too busy shooting To even wear a frown..."

I think the valet parked it on the top level of the garage.

That looks to be one big display.

I try not to watch any TV nowadays; preserves what little is left of my ebbing sanity....

Devcon Plastic Welder should work fine for this.

My only suggestion: Lady M is Minmay, and Misa threw her off the Megaroad on their way out.

Okay...nuked.

*nuked*

Well, after some snarky comments about my VF-1S in another place and a rough week, I had just about had it. I had started making super/ strike armor for this (the Mauler cannon was a major issue) and I was feeling pretty low. Thom changed all of that... Thom: "This is UNSPACY Mission Control; sending materiel reinforcements to Pengbuzz's position. Standby for drop..."* And the Pengbuzz almost keeled over from shock! So, I set to work: Yeah, I need to finish scrubbing down the old paint and whatnot. But so far, a pretty good fit! One thing that was not going to work was the arm launchers; they were too small (an issue with the kit, not Thom's kindness!). So, i simply used the ones I had been making. On one of the super boosters, I removed the front missile module; guess what's going there instead? Stay tuned... this bird's goin' to space...

Yeah; a true understatement that does NOTHING to describe the utter devastation this behemoth can handle. I imagine about 4-5 taking the place of all the destroids during a Daedalus attack, and doing twice the damage as all of them would!

Sarcastic understatement, eh?

I prefer Comet myself....

It would definitely "Ragna-rock" the house!!!

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