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One final design for this adventure, and it printed successfully. Now I wait for it to cure, then I’ll start painting everything. I’ve also been working on the official zentradi ARII kits that inspired these, but that seems like a separate project given it’s nature. presenting the Zentradi picket:
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Honestly the stand size is intentional and almost necessary. those stands are about an inch or two tall, I’d guesstimate. Not really that big, just in comparison with what they’re holding, they are. I wanted something I could easily grab without risking damage to the ship, something that would be easily visible, and most importantly something that wouldn’t risk snapping when I printed it, something I could anchor the support points to as well so I don’t have much scarring on the ship itself. are these models too small to really be practical, to the point I need to compensate with a large stand? Yes. But I’m having fun with them anyway
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Well, after adding some stands to the design, I actually have real world results! Printed and primed: I printed some with and some without stands, but the ARMD are the only ones that really are large enough that I don’t worry I’ll lose them without stands. Also note the two ARMD in the rear with connectors for the 1/20000 Macross, and the part on the far left that’s the lower hull of the Zentradi flagship (whose name starts with N but I cannot ever spell without looking it up) at the same scale. Really shows the difference compared to an ARMD or even a poor Oberth class. close ups of the Oberth and Quel-Quallie. I’m happy so many details are even slightly visible at this size. Now how in the world do I even try to paint these…
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Still finding it a lot easier to be motivated to design vs printing right now, so here’s an ARMD. I think before I try printing anything I need to include a stand or space for a stand. I’ll probably work on that next, then the Picket ship, and that should be everything I want to design at this scale. Oh! This reminds me I wanted to add a mounting point compatible with the 1/20000 SDF-1 to the ARMD. I’ll tackle that next.
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You would think I would either try printing something, or designing something simpler and larger next. You would be wrong. 1/20000 Quel-Quallie: this will be very small, around 2/3rds of a cm, so the landing legs will be very thin. I’ve got that block in between them in one version of the design to add a bit of strength. We’ll see how that turns out
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I spent the last two days working on an Oberth-Class destroyer design for 3D printing, shown below. now, I’m pretty happy with it. You may be thinking though, that it’s honestly pretty rough. Details are lacking, shapes seem to be slightly thicker than they really should be, that sort of thing. Why would I do that? Because a 200-meter long Oberth at 1/2000 scale is a centimeter long. So I’m trying to get what details I can in there without things breaking 😄 (And I basically gave up on the radar, as much as I like it. Too spindly) 1cm will put it in scale with the ARII zentradi capital ships and SDF-1 that I recently started acquiring. If it goes well I might try to design an ARMD (perhaps even a version I can swap in as docked to the Macross, after all I have a few…), a Zentradi picket ship, or if I’m crazy enough a simplified Quel-Quallie. I’ll document any of that here. But for now, time to start trying to print this Oberth.
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I can’t pretend to know too much about transformers (blame Zoids for bringing this to my attention, the fan communities I’m part of we’re having a lot of fun with this), so I’m happy people more invested and knowledgeable than I are able to weigh in. I had to post, though, because the 2-second whiplash of watching a transformers video and thinking “oh, look, an animation of a transforming- wait, that’s the other transforming mecha animation I know!” Was something else.
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This is a screenshot from a Tomy T-Spark announcement trailer I was just watching. The video is full of teasers for new collab projects at various stages of development, this came right after a few seconds showing the VF-19 fire Valkyrie in action and right before showing off a silhouette. It looks like a Macross 7/Transformers collab is in the works! I don’t know the policy for posting links, so let me know if I need to remove this, but if you want to watch yourself (it’s a lot of transformers stuff if you like that), here it is: https://youtu.be/CUWB2iakKcA?si=m4MuGHuQ76W-W2YJ
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Thank you! Since I posted this I did actually finish the Tomahawk too, and I’m pretty pleased with it, but I want to wrap up a related project before I post it…so, stay tuned I guess?
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Thank you both! That all absolutely makes sense, and the comparison to US Marine assault ships does help. I was mainly wondering because I was having a hard time visualizing the Daedalus’ upper hull as a flight deck, but I forgot just how long that ship is.
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The description (and decals) of the Hasegawa VF-0C state these valkyries were assigned to the SLV-111 Daedalus (the same that would eventually become the SDF-1’s punching arm full of destroids) before being phased out. My understanding is the Daedalus is an assault ship, not an aircraft carrier. I’d assume a model kit’s description isn’t exactly primary canon, but it does have me curious. Does the Daedalus have the ability to launch non-helicopter aircraft? Did the VF-0C pilots just always use GERWALK to take off or something?
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It’s a good warning! …and sadly a little late. Both of mine had the tip snap off in roughly the same place when I cut them out, so mine just has slightly shorter antennae. Then I accidentally brushed against one of them that I couldn’t see in the painting booth and snapped it again…minor surgery has occurred there, you can see a slight bulge of superglue around the middle of the left hand antenna. Wire or spring is a good idea, honestly
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Thank you! Yeah, I’m no good at weathering and honestly kind of like it when a kit looks minimally used. Maybe one day I’ll figure that out though. As for the zentradi pod, that may have been another addition to my backlog… what can I say, I like the background machines!
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Hello everyone! First time posting here after stumbling across the forum while in a Google search. Coincidentally this is only my second or so ever model kit from Macross after getting a lot of them from a friend downsizing their backlog (kits which now stare at me from my backlog, because this Wave destroid and others are in fact additions I made to the pile rather than projects I finished…) I have a good amount of experience with other models (looking at you, Bandai) but am slowly working my way to the full paint and glue requirements of most of my Hasegawa kits, so the Wave destroids, in addition to being good depictions of some of my favorite machines, are a good middle ground. Not to mention they’re more proportionally accurate than the IMAI/ARII defender/Tomahawk and not nearly as intimidating as the Moscato Phalanx that are all also in that pile. Ultimately I’m happy with how the Phalanx came out and looking forward to the Tomahawk that’s next. And since this is my first time posting, if I’ve done anything wrong or weird with the post format, please let me know!
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