SteveTheFish

That's a wild design. Geometric patterns in loud colors... It reminds me of some design you'd see on a Trapper Keeper from 1991 or something.

It's cool to see the 1:100 Destroids happening. Several years ago, I built Arii's Defender and Imai's Phalanx. Arii has better surface detail, decals, and they employed polycaps, however Imai's overall proportions and fit are superior. Imai didn't do a good job with providing locator pins on a lot of their parts though. I've no idea why. Imai provided decals to represent the "Ichijou molds" on their UN Spacy mecha and decals for the sensors on Regults, whereas Arii would have that surface detail molded. Arii provided the cool "nose art" for their Destroid kits too. It's just a shame that their stuff looks a bit awkward when built.

My friend took this pic at the show. Looks like Plamax is getting into the S-Valks. It's new to me. I probably haven't been following this as closely as you guys.

These are pics my friend took at the event today.

Today begins the All-Japan Model Hobby Show in Tokyo. I was unable to save up money to attend like I could last year. My daughter is in high school now and it's so expensive. (Yet Japanese politicians wring their hands and wonder why the birth rate is plummeting...) My friend who works for Hobby Japan will probably be there and he's a huge Macross fan too, but I don't know when/if he would be free to take a look around. My other friend who'll be there is Brian from Beaver (you may know him from the HLJ videos), but he's not into Macross, so he wouldn't know what's what really. He's big on Godzilla stuff and not really any anime. I really hope we may see a prototype Glaug that's been 3D printed or something. Or something new from Crusher Jor or Dirty Pair...

@MechTech I'd say black on the blue and dark gray on the light gray would look better, assuming you have dark gray panel line color. @wm cheng Brilliant recovery!

Looks like GoLion's sword, but I wouldn't know if it was the Bandai kit or the new Moderoid kit. Personally, I'm holding out for a Dairugger XV Moderoid. I'd be all over that.

Oh that is cool! I assume that is a new HG kit? I built the old, legacy Gundam Sentinel kit and lit it with LEDs. I shelved it for a while, but finally finished it about 3 years ago. I used Oyumaru and UV resin to cast the face in clear. The booster units are hollow inside, making them easy to run LEDs with thick fiber optics inside.

@wm cheng I really feel for you. I have a bottle of Alclad Liquid Gloss, but I only use that on metallic surfaces. I rarely use it, but recently I used it on my Mr. Color Silver-painted P-38. I know now for sure that I should not use anything other than an acrylic for a top coat then. For what it's worth, you can apply lacquers over acrylics if you don't go too heavy all at once. I've done lacquer clear coats over Tamiya and Mr. Hobby acrylic paint jobs and had no problems.

That is fantastic! I've never used a Pi Nano or Arduino before. OK guys, so I guess I am done with my sofubi Y-Wing, but I'm not so sure about it. Look at this. Isn't the fuselage supposed to be level with the ground? It looks like the front landing gear sits way too high. What do you think?

Ah, OK. So it's like blue tack in how you can use it for masking and such. Thanks. I use blue tack to do camo patterns and such.

Neat! I thought it looked familiar. I saw the Patlabor 2 movie fansubbed after it first came out, and it blew me away. It felt like a Tom Clancy movie. So what is eraser putty, guys? That's something I've never heard of.

Electric Indigo, is that from Ghost in the Shell or Patlabor? It looks familiar.

My friend in America 3D printed this small figure of Minmay. She wears a dress like this in the manga, Macross: The First. Today after work I primed her with Gaia Notes Surfacer Evo Flesh. There are four parts: head, torso, waist down, and a stand. I really wish her waist/hips was a separate piece from her dress because I won't be able to paint up to the top. It's not like anyone can see up there, but since I'm OCD I can't stop thinking of this. She's pretty much nopan too. He printed her in dark blue resin, and this surfacer did a great job in covering that up. Next I'll paint her dress red. Dunno how well I can try painting her eyes at this small scale, though.

I got out my 550 scale Gundam Dendrobium model a few nights ago. I built this kit nearly 20 years ago (mostly unpainted), and I wanna give it another shot. But this time I want to light the engines. I'm slowly strategizing how I can go about doing this.