Papa Rat

Plamax VF-1 Alaska scheme. Just using an unfinished Hasegawa stand for photo purposes. I would like to get a brass rod and make my own stand later. This was a fun one, but think it’s a bit sloppy. 🤷 don’t mind the dog hair 😂

What a good score!

Getting closer. Need to clean up the oil wash a bit, enamels for lights etc… and lastly decals. So far so good.

Hahahaha. No way 🫠

It’s here!!! After a total of $140 spent, I can finally add this to my to build list for summer. I will have to give it a full 75% effort. Hahaha The Q-Rau golden ratio. 😂

The base is a mix of MR Color 66 bright green and 56 IJN green. 4-1. Then put in some highlights using same color mix with a little white added. Then I sprayed straight IJN green through poly fill to get some random texture areas. In hindsight I think the texture is a bit too heavy handed but I’ll work with it.

Oh Yeah! It’s a great kit. Hope to get the small stuff finished brush painted and cured by the weekend. I finished up the airbrush portion of the build. Got to do touch ups and panels etc…

@slide so clean and organized. My bench is a pigpen 😂

👀 That’s bananas

Wow. That’s looking great! It’s hard to judge the scale of that but I imagine it’s tiny tiny.

Not sure if a thread is needed or is already out there, but wanted to share this. I saw this on a discord channel and thought others in here would like to know. Please move to appropriate thread if one already exists.

Amazing! 😂

Cool. I‘m glad it’s not completely lost. I plan on doing a wash and panel lines later. Hopefully it brings it all together nicely and doesn’t overpower the surface variation too much. This is a fun super simple little build so far.

Got the main color down on the VF-1 Alaska. Tried out some pre shading in a black metallic over a gray primer, followed by an off white, then went in with the poly fill scraps like my previous build and filtered a very light gray in areas. It’s so subtle and difficult to photograph on my phone. Maybe you can see it in the final two images? Anyway, I’m not sure if it’s effective. Maybe higher contrast would be better? Anyway. I’ll mask off tomorrow and get the green down. This one’s coming together quick. It has so very few pieces and the masking on this color-way is very minimal. edit* wow there is a bunch of dust and crap on the surfaces I will need to buff that out. It always finds a way to get stuck on my painted pieces. I’m cursed

Oh wow that’s a great deal! Hobby lobby? I’ll have to see if those exist out here in the PNW.

@joscasle @Big s thanks

Just putting this out to the group. When painting a VF-1 are you thinking white, gray or something in between for main body color? What’s your go to?

Wow! There is so much to look at. Amazing work.

@slide Thanks @joscasle nice. That blue is looking great! Love the shading texture. 👍

@slideVery cool. Excited to see more. While I work on the L-Gaim MK-2 I decided to crack into the Deculture. What a simple smart kit. I’m going with the Alaska version. 💚 The MK-2 is a 1/100 and here it is next to the Volks IMS 1/100. It’s slightly smaller but will look good next to the FSS builds in my collection. Also the binders in the kit have a beautiful clear blue. They will look even better once I put silver behind them.

Awesome…oh wait. Hahaha

Hahahaha. Thanks. It means a lot to hear from you guys on this stuff. Same goes for all the amazing builds that I see here. It’s so inspiring.

Same here. I wanted to cancel and just buy off eBay for cheaper. Too late. HLJ has a small pack option for kits in average sized boxes and it’s not completely horrible for price

For sure. That’s a motivator

@Big s I totally see your point. I have a kit that had a “special” coating on it. I didn’t want that version but that’s all that was available. It didn’t have under gates so it left bruises all over the place. I knew it was going to be an issue and one that could have been avoided if the gates were hidden. I may go back and strip off the coating and paint it later. Yeah didn’t want to pay $140 for the the Q-Ray TV version but that’s what happened. 🥵 Hate to say it but EBay might be a feasible option these days.