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With my limited Japanese, this is what I understand (please correct me if I am wrong): 1. Is the 9800 polishing compound (he also uses it for polishing the canopy) 2. Is "smoke" that he is spraying. He is doing it base on how he think the air flow will affect the oil stain. I can't seems to be able to see the different after the smoke was applied. I did enjoy the video. Learned a few new things.

Thanks for the hint, Penguin and Noyhauser. Ok, to be on the safe side, will try to avoid mixing them whenever possible. Because, once you mix them, there are two types of paint, and using either thinner will not be good, as Noyhauser said. So I guess mixing these two types of paint will works (as Penguin has experienced) but maybe results in paint with poorer performance.

Hi, I did a quick search here and in the web, but didn't find any direct answer to this. I have both Tamiya and Gunze H-xx water based acrylic. Can I mix them ? It is ok to use the Tamiya thinner for the Gunze H-xx paint ? Thanks

Me too. If I found this on my next trip to Japan, I will definately buy three. One each for all of us. So wish me luck man.

Hi Chas, What you said make senses. Damn, now I am tempted to wash the who thing clean and do decal first. Some part might be a bit difficult to clean and some hours of effort down the drain.... Thanks for the explaination, it is much clearer now. If it is too late to save my current build, at least my next one will be better (I hope). I am amaze that you can paint just using brush. I try to do that when I started, but it is very hard to not leave some brush mark. How did you do it ? Some other people in this forum also said that they are using just brush. Putting on a few coat of very thin paint. I try to do that, but the results is still ver bad. Then I invested in an airbrush.... But still good to learn to do just brush painting, it is a very valuable skills I think.

Thanks Chas and HWR for the encouraging comments and advices. Now I feel more assured. I am not trying to recreate any specific subject (too ambitious for a first timer to do that I think). I will keep going and hopefully finish this soon (without another big disaster, like the fin dissapear into the nose con when I try to glue it on). Yeah, I was wondering if doing the panel line first before decal is correct. I do it this way because some of the panel line was disappearing when I was done with the painting. If I do decal first, then I need to seal the decal with another layer of future before doing panel line. I was kind of worry that by then, it will be one layer of coat too many for some of the line..... I hope this will turn out ok (finger crossing)....

hi, I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but I need some advice from you guys. this is my first model and I am at the panel line stage. Is the panel line shown in the picture too prominent ? I am using chalk pastel mixed with water and a few drop of washing liquid. I try to use dark brown so as not to create too strong a contrast to the base color, but it didn't seems to work. The panel line still look very dark. The pastel is great, very easy to clean up and almost idot proof (I can redo them many times), but that bad thing is that it is too easy to remove. It is very hard for me to get a consistent "darkness" across the whole model. Some of the line is very shallow, my own fault (too many layers of paint and primer), so it is very hard for me to high light some of the line. Will using ink or oil wash be easier ? Thanks for any advices in advance. Cheers, kkx

This is neat. Found a fellow Macross fan near me.

Hi, Good that you have decided to build this kit. I am building my first kit too. I do run into a lot of problems. But it is fun to learn along the way. I am not sure this is good advise or not, but if you can pay $100 for someone to build a model for you, then you could buy a "cheap" air-brush with not much more. I am sure there are more models that you would like to build after the VF-0D. So it will be good to invest in a simple airbrush from the begining. Good luck.

Found this just now: http://sonicmodel.com/topicdisplay.asp?topicid=1441850 http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid=105393 (it is in chinese, but you don't have to understand the text to be impressed) I am speech less. This is the second amazing project I saw today (the first one is wm cheng's 1:1).

You are a lucky guy Brian. I am dreaming to have a 1/48 transformable MG2. Once again your work turn out great, if I need to do any paint removal, I will definately try to get a few tips from you. Thank you for the encouragement. I am still waiting for the MG2 decal. Anasazi is probably very busy, so it will be a while before I start my MG2 project. I am currently struggling with my sv-51 build. It is my first real model, so I am learning as I go along. Progress is very slow, I am too busy preparing for the working trip to Japan next week. Any luck with the visor removal ? cheers

Good job. Transformable MG1 and 2. WoW! If my attempt at an 1/72 MG2 build turn out crap, maybe I will buy a 1/48 Yamato and do what you did. I remember that you use rattle can for the MG1, are you still using those for the MG2? The transparent headshield looks great.

A bit off topic, sorry. Most of the people here had been Macross fan, model builder and member of this forum for so long that it can be a bit intimidating for new comer like myself. Some of my posts had been ignored. But as Brian (GutsAndCasca) said, don't just give up yet.

Just wacthed part b and c. The VA for Mao is great but Sara's one is a bit lacking, in my opinion. I hope Mao's VA will get well soon and complete the recording. I can imagine that finding the right VA is taugh. Do you have special setup to do the recording? If not, then you could get people from "the net" to be your VA. cheers

Great effort Hikuro. I like the voice acting of shin's co-pilot (edgar ?). He is good. I find the switching between voice over radio to "present" is very good (or from speaking without and with the face mask), especially just before the dog fight. It is a bit "over done" at some later part, I feel. Keep up the good work. I have not seen the whole thing (or what is available), but somhow I find that the projected character of Shin is not a good fit to the original japanese voice actor and the character in the story (sorry Hikuro, only my subjective judgement). Actually the mis-match of character is the one big reason I stay away from dubed anime. I know is not an easy problem to solve. cheers

Opps! (I am obvious too new here....) thanks for poiting that out. Will check it out. cheers

Me too. It will be great if anyone can help repost those scans. Thanks.

Hi HWR, I been lurking here for quite a while and I love all the tank I saw from you. I wish I have the skill to build something half as goods as yours. If I know where you live I will crash in to steal/rob all your tank. I have just started on a SV-51 gamma (nora) kit myself. It is my first kit and it is not going well.