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Those....are.... amazing

So after a few days of a pure Simple Green bath and scrubbing once each day, this was the result: There was some stubborn paint on there. I was really hoping it would get all of the paint off, but I'm fine with the results. It got most of the brush marks off, and whatever is left, I'll call it surface texture, lol! Don't think the Klingons were too concerned with having a pretty ship and finish anyway

I'd love to see you and @wm chengcheng refurb some old models.

I think I started my build here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/35120-whats-lying-on-your-workbench-mk-iv/?do=findComment&comment=1536712

I build the DYRL version a few weeks ago, but I don't know what I'm doing so not a whole lot of insight or tips, sorry.

Will do, thanks for the tip. This is the first time I've seriously tried to remove paint to refurbish a model.

Ohhhhhhh.....a smoothie. I wish I had one of those to start with. If I don't look at mine too closely, I can live with the inaccuracies, hahahaha!

Haha, I think I was being overly optimistic. The jug of Simple Green I had is at least 10 years old, the Testor's paint on the battlecruisers is at least 30 years old. Those might be contributing factors? Maybe if the Simple Green was a fresh jug, it might be more potent? The grey stuff is sprayed on, and I can't even recall if it was Testor's gray, engine enamel primer, or something else. The rest of the colors were all Resorts enamel, all brushed on. If anything, I hope that this process at least got rid of most of the paint that was brushed on to hide the brush marks. This morning: One of the K'Tingas is mostly stripped. The one on the right is still pretty stubborn I just gooped on that bronze didn't I? Since it's raining, I'll let the parts sit in the bath a bit longer. I'll rinse this stuff off when the sun comes out then let the parts dry under the sun.

Some progress. Scrubbed the hell out of these, but I'll probably let them soak another day or so. Raining here anyway and I want to sun dry these parts after I wash the crud off. I guess I don't need to get them down to bare plastic, I just wanted to remove the paint with visible brush marks. I'll sand whatever the Simple Green missed and try to get started on these guys soon.

Lol, you just described the way I felt almost every step of my latest attempt, just wanted to take a hammer to it, or find some fireworks and go to town on it. If I had known it would be such a pain in the dick to build, I would have gotten the 1/350 instead, and went straight to Auto Destruct version on the 537. In the end, it turned out ok and looks reasonable from a distance. And since I also had my old grade 8 Refits laying around, it was either into the recycle bin, or see if I had the ability to polish a bowl of diarrhea into a turd (the jury is still out on that). I still want a Polar Lights Refit one day, but will have to arrange space for it.

K'Tingas sitting in a Simple Green bath, decals arrived. Where are my Strongbacks decals??!? Ordered them from HDA before the K'Tinga decals, lol!

Kind of want a Legioss kit now. I had one when I was a kid....hand painted that thing into a huge mess....still have it around somewhere.

Lol, never thought of that....probably should have left it what the BO smell, hahahah!

Paint is starting to come off after soaking for 24 hrs and a bit of scrubbing. Will let it soak longer and scrub again later

I guess Kawamori-san didn't actually come out and say it, but it was just speculation that he felt that way.

With the Deep Fake tech getting better and better, even fans can go back and make their own special editions. Dropping Harrison Ford's face in Solo, Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher's Face in Rogue One. Pretty amazing stuff from fans, and I guess the de-aging tech will only improve.

I also have a fuzzy recollection that apart from not liking top go back to stuff he's done already, there was a secondary reason why Kawamori did not want to revisit SDFM for another reason....he didn't want to feed HG by giving them any new material...but that might have been a rumor. Getting old here and don't remember things clearly.

Nice! Sure is a pain in the buttocks to get Macross stuff here isn't it?

Me too. Guess I better start paying more attention to this thread to see when I should be standing by to order one.

I felt the same way, didn't have much of a desire to get Kakizaki until recently. Something about having a complete Skull Squad. Not 1/48, but I would like to replicate this in 1/48: Maybe just OD'd on Hikaru and Roy Valks, so feel the need to get a Kakizaki

After spraying them with Simple Green and letting them soak overnight, I scrubbed them down and this was the result: It took some of the paint off. But still left a bunch. Took the decal off of this one. This one was poorly brush painted. Left the decal on this one. So I'll try more. Submerged the parts in undiluted Simple Green, let's see if it's easier to get the paint off tomorrow.

Nice clean build, I really like it.

Btw, simply spraying on Simple Green doesn't work, I think the parts have to be completely immersed. I was too cheap to try it, so I just sprayed it on, left it to soak overnight, scrubbed with hot water and though some of the paint came off, it wasn't like with LATA.

I'm even close to those two in terms of skill, but I am in the middle of resurrecting a few builds from over 30 years ago, lol!