Papa Rat

Thanks for the tour!

Starting to look like a Motar Head. Now I’m waiting for paint to dry and I need to fiddle more with that scratch build face armor. I haven’t totally committed to it yet. I did reach out to Volks and I might be able to buy a replacement sprue. Just waiting to hear back, but I feel like I could just skip it if the one I made is good enough. I hand painted the red in Vallejo acrylics. I want to put down another gloss coat over it, but read that I should give it 24 hours before I mess with it. Once that’s done I need to do one more layer of brush painting. I guess it’s more like a white enamel panel line outline on the red eye shapes on shoulder armor.

Those look great! Thanks for sharing. 😊

Hahaha

Oh, I like this take!

Awesome! Excited to see. 1/144 KOG is coming along. Got the base colors gold and brass/copper down after masking. Lots of these smaller panel details in Nagano designs are rather hidden but I’m a sucker to paint those areas as well. Lots of those elements are areas under skirt armor and small panels sandwiched between other parts. I’m really digging the nice contrast in metallic colors and also appreciate the lighter value of gold for the cockpit that is silver base coat with a 70-30 split of transparent yellow and orange. Gives me ideas on how to make my own gold colors using transparency and silver base coats.

Wow. Love the mask!

Hahahaha. I see what you did there. Lol Arcee is looking great! Is the Starscream from the same producer? I’m very excited to see more. 👍

I have notifications on from many retail sites for any restocks so one day I might get to try it out. I have the larger 1/100 KOG with buster in my stash. I‘M saving that big boy for the Gaia. 🤩

Thanks. I never found it. I assume my dog must have ate it. Otherwise it would be around the general bench area which I tore apart looking. I also reached out to Volks US site to request a replacement sprue. I guess you can sometimes purchase them if they have them. We will see if they can help me out. Otherwise the small piece I built will suite the purpose fine. Until then I will work on getting the gold down and small hand painted details here and there. The color callout for the gold is a Gaia star bright gold which is as rare as a unicorn so I went with this MR Color Rough Gold. It has an interesting texture and sparkle to it, but I think it looks nice. It’s difficult to photograph but here’s a look before I put a gloss over it.

I’m Ready! She’s beautiful. ♥️

Was able to knockout the copper on the frame and underside of armor pieces today on the Volks 1:144 KOG. I used MR Color Super Copper over a black primer, I’m digging it. Next I need to mask that off and move on to gold. I’m excited for this little KOG. Going to be shiny. Too bad I am already seeing a little dust here and there, but most of this is not very visible when it’s completed. I think I need to clean my spray booth well before I do the outside armor pieces and make sure my dog isn’t at my feet shaking off that summer coat.

@Thom Nice. Please post the results. 😊

Thanks for sharing! 👍

@tekering Thanks so much! When moments present themselves to me like in this case where my own negligence “losing a part” offers me an opportunity to learn how to make something I can’t say it’s all that bad in the end. Lol. I’m blown away! Beautiful work and such a beefy build at that. I think you mentioned being super busy in preparation for a macross event. 40th anniversary if I remember correctly? I imagine the SDF-1 will be on display? Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. Hahahaha Anyway, If you have time please share more when the event happens and I also love seeing all the progress you make along the way. Oh and I’m digging your tackle box(s) of figure parts. That’s amazing! Edit* I guess it’s the 43rd anniversary of Macross

It makes eBay pricing seem more reasonable.

I hear ya.

Did a quick check to have my private warehouse shipped and it was going to cost $300+ yikes. I guess my stash lives in the warehouse indefinitely

Love to see it!

I’m ready. Also just got notification that the VF-1S Strike is in my private warehouse! Now if I only had an affordable shipping method?

@Big s @Chas I really appreciate the tips. Thanks so much. 👍

So have you ever been super careful with tiny pieces, cut them out and immediately put them in a dish to keep them safe as you work on other elements of the kit? Days pass and when it’s time to clip them up for priming, you look in the dish and the small part is MIA and have no idea how or where they went. Well it was my turn to deal with this issue. So I guess I need to make a replacement piece. Hope this isn’t too rough I’m missing one part of the head/face armor. (Part D10) on the new 1:144 KOG. It’s a tiny piece and most of it is hidden in the end so details can be ignored which is nice. Just glued a couple small pieces of Pla .3mm and some sanding and will probably shape it more for a better fit. Once it’s painted and in place nobody will know. Does anyone have pointers of best practices to keep parts safe. I may have to get some zip locks or tiny jars with lids? An open dish is well…open and ready for failure I guess. Lol

Thanks so much. Hands…come to think of it I do have some of those rounded finger Gundam hands laying around from a Gerwalk project I was working on. Great idea! I’m not familiar with the Pallas, but I am digging the design and that great color scheme. Looks amazing so far!

Thanks

I’m calling it on this Ashura-Temple. Not really pumped on how it turned out but moving on. Apparently couldn’t be bothered to go back in to fix some seam lines and shoddy masking. Oh well. Here's a before and after.