Kurt

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Here they are, as promised with the fast packs. The customer wanted to add kill marks to the fast packs, so they are not exact DYRL repilcas (and my Max numbering mistake ). Let me know what you think. Up next... TV VF-1J Super, Low Vis and a Minmay Guard. Thanks!

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I agree with Jung. The 1/48 is excellent to customize. The only problem areas I have found is the heat shield and the VF-1S head lasers. If you are extremely careful you can minimize the paint scraping. However on the heat shield, I actually like a bit of paint scraping. I tend to weather mine a bit more than everyone else so this is a matter of personal taste. I use acrylic paint. Jung is correct, enamels are more durable. But I airbrush so much that the smell and the extra clean up time is not worth it. I do prime everything with lacquer. I can tolerate the smell for this short period of time. The lacquer "bites" into the plastic and the gives a nice surface for the acrylics to hold onto.

I sure do. These three where done for a customer. PM me and we can discuss it.

Stupid question : How to get rid of it? Putty and then paint? I filled the seam with thin super glue then sanded. Followed that up with some Mr. Surfacer 500 and smoothed everything out. Then primed and painted. I used Anasazi's decals on the these three. The decals are far supierior to stickers if you want a realistic look.

Thanks everyone. The 013 on the Max was my fault. The original plan was to build this as a 1A, which 013 would have been fine for. However the plan changed to making the 1S version of Max. How I have to be honest and admit my lack of knowledge here. I have only seen DYRL once. So most of my Macross knowledge is based off the TV series. And since Max never flew the 1S on TV ( I don't think. I hope I'm not wrong about that also) I assumed his number stayed 013. If I would have paid closer attention to the Hasegawa 1S decal instructions, I would have picked up on this. At least the customer is happy, and that is my first priority. Thanks Gene!

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Hey everyone. As promised here are the completed DYRL VF-1S's w/o fast packs. I will have an image of all three in fighter mode as soon as I finish the fast packs. I want to limit the number times I have to transform them. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

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