wmkjr

Looking forward to the pics! 

Sure, I just need to make 2 more for you though.

26 minutes ago, Tober said:

Because the VF-1D is a trainer which has two seats similar to the Elint and Ostrich, it could come out when those do. I doubt Bandai will pass it up as it shouldn't be a difficult remould for them.

I thought the VF-1D 2 seater was same level seats with no hump and the VE-1 and VT-1 had a raised theater seating with hump? I can see doing a Virgin road or CF along with the VF-1D though

58 minutes ago, Mommar said:

 

I've noticed every single person who has posted pics of Gerwalk have the wings posed wrong.  The bits attached to the back are supposed to be folded down parallel to the ground and the wing tips should be folded down toward the ground.  Though it is interesting how dynamic you can get with the wing positions if you want some sort of fancy action poses.

 

I just noticed that it looks like even in the manual they don't have the 262 transformed correct in Gerwalk.  Either that or the wings can't fold down all the way, which is incorrect.

Maybe the middle part of the wings hits the shoulders? You can kinda spread the inner wing parts down till the middle almost touches the shoulders but I wonder if you can move it away from them just enough to clear it?

I'd rock it like this:

Wow. Did you have to bend the legs to get it in then adjust it? Looks like you can barely squeeze a sheet of paper up top!

Anubis approves:

George Jetson approves of the clear canopy:

Looks kinda F-22ish. 

Edit: The F-22 canopy reminds me of the VF-5000 canopy more.

Almost at the home stretch! I finished the stencils on the leg fins and legs. I also painted the intakes white as much as I could since I don't know how to remove the blades. I'm gonna do the other side of the gunpod inverted, blend the greys on the bottom of the tailfins and spray the arms and head. Here are some pics of where it's currently at:

With the correct chest undersides for the winglets:

It doesn't fit the Yamatos and only some parts of the 0D.  The review above you at www.anymoon.com provides additional info.

Which service did you use to ship from Japan? I've used EMS, FedEx, and regular airmail via all the normal online retailers and never had a box dented like that. I know that some proxy services allow an option for extra padding for a fee. Maybe you can request that they mark it "fragile" or something? Could be some disgruntled employee somewhere along the delivery chain not giving a rip.

Battle effects?  I'll keep mine in the box for a few weeks. Hopefully it cures or something.

On 3/16/2017 at 4:31 PM, slide said:

She's a Beauty wmkjr!

Thanks! Hopefully it turns out alright.

16 hours ago, Xigfrid said:

The new nose with the blue line is sexier! And ouch I can imagine that hurts to dissemble them once painted... Thankfully these parts are not visible and don't need to be repaint in the correct scheme!

Unfortunately the part I was talking about is visible and the earlier pic wasn't clear. Here are both of the parts for each of them. The one for the C with the indents is mounted while the other one is for the B without the indent. This was taken after I resprayed the colors.

Not too much done today. I redid those parts, created the UN MARINE Font and made a stencil for the gunpod and sprayed it, did the smaller 00 in the front and sprayed the leg fins blue. Those small 00 are a pain. I wish someone made these decals for 1/60. Next thing is to create the VMFAT-203 for the legs and do the other side of the gunpod.

Finished the other tailfin. I also extended the blue at the nose as i found out that it was too short. Here are some pics of it mocked up with the missile pods and canards.

I've run into a mistake on my part. I swapped the upper chest covers thinking that was all that's needed but it appears that I now need to swap the bottom part of it out as the 0D has an indent for the canards and it's on the 0B right now. At first i thought I couldn't get to that part as there are 4 small screws (1 smaller one than the other for the outer hole) holding it together and after taking out the screws it was clamped together pretty tight. I used my spudger set to gently pry it apart.

Here is the top half of the upper chest piece with the 4 screw holes:

Here is the bottom half that I need to swap out under the white area. I just need to take out the pins that's holding it, take apart the 0B a little, then swap them out.

That's it for now.

18 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

And speaking of white Drakens, anyone knows when is the PO date for this?

PO is closed already for this one. I think it was February 30th or something. That left hip tampo is not lineart accurate though. Panic mode everyone! 

I bet you PO will be around the same time as the VF-31As.

17 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

See.. this is what I would basically love to do with all of my models.  Painted markings are just so much more attractive to me, I love trying to paint as much as possible and only use decals for very small lettering and things that would be impractical to paint.

Those vinyl patterns pretty much nailed the markings on the tail, I love how clean that looks.

By the way, as long as you're at it.. why not cut out some clear plastic inserts and replace the painted on wing lights?  That's one feature I was pretty disappointed with when Arcadia didn't keep the clear ones.

I give you credit as it's a PITA to do your own paintings this way.  As far as the clear inserts go I'm not at that level to trust myself with something like that let alone attempt. The one thing that helps me is that I have a lot of free time on my days off from work and can goof off and learn some of the programs to help create these.

BUWAHAHA! 

I did it backwards as I painted the tailfin blue overall then the yellow. Getting access to the smaller parts of the decal is a PITA. Now I gotta draw the other side's RH lettering and redo the decal to face the other way. I don't have the other texts because it's too small to work with.

Biginjapan 9400 yen

August release including sword and shield without the hinges in the way! Count me in!

Pre-owned though.  Don't know how much shipping would be but there is also one on Amazon for $133 shipped via prime.

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=TOY-RBT-1237&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_cate4%3D9687%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

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2 hours ago, Thom said:

Nice pair of VFs, Pengbuzz! But, what's that in the background..?

And great looking Power Loader!

 

 

Looks like his originally created VF-113.

Don't wanna burst the bubble but just a friendly reminder for everyone so you don't get in any trouble:

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I've sprayed the nose blue. Just need to do the leg fins and wing tips then gotta figure out the hardest part to me, the tailfins. I tried looking for a high res image of the tailfins but couldn't find one so I just grabbed a pic online, upscaled as much as could then retraced it line by line in Inkscape. Luckly, my wife has this thing called a Silhouette Cameo so I'm experimenting with using a low tack vinyl decal as a mask. I gave it to her in a png file and she inputted it in her software. The one you see is just a test as she started to throw it away after she thought she made a mistake. I put it on to see if it'll work ( I didn't peel the beak part), I'm impressed at how small that thing can cut! It sticks on pretty good and peels off nice and easy with no residue or damage to the paint. Next thing I'll do is test paint the tailfins then work on the UN MARINES font and right tailfin RH letters as it slants in the opposite direction.

More affordable because of not paying licensing fees plus no research and development costs and not giving 2 Fs maybe? All of them are just reverse engineered Yamato items. If they created their own 1/60 valks and offer them at a cheaper price then I'd be impressed. 

Some of those $10 prices are for deposits only but still, the full payment prices are still cheap. The only thing is the middleman fees and shipping which eat up some of the savings. I ordered a KO just to compare and when I got the item, I couldn't tell any difference.

1 hour ago, 505thAirborne said:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/NMN5PCYEF/vf-0-fenix-trainer-b-type-conversion-kit?optionId=42420452&li=marketplace

Here's a possible option for making a VF-0C. Might see if I can get a spare Yamato 0A cheap. 

Yup, it comes out very nice. I've seen 3 of those customs finished. I think it was robodragon, valhary, and ratatarse's ones. I wonder if you can get it where it's printed oriented in the way with less noticible steps visible.