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And athough you can't see her very well, here's Nora. Since my friend wants to put his SV-51 with (come on..we all know it's coming) Hasegawa's VF-0D to recreate the scene from OVA 3, I thought I'd position Nora looking to the left like she does in the same scene. More to come.

I've got the completed cockpit shown here, minus the ejection seat handles, as they interfere with Nora's head. If I were to glue them now, I wouldn't be able to glue Nora to the seat. So, prepainting first, the assembly. Something I.. don't particually enjoy. The control stick was quite annoying to fit in, plus.. I don't think it's long enough. You can barely see it between her legs when Nora sits in.

Here's another shot of the closed doors glued to the kit. Later on, I'll put some Mr. Surfacer around the edges of the doors, then sand back and rescribe to make it perfect. There's a bit of a gap on the doors on the legs of the kit, but it's nothing too major. With the nose, I test fitted the piece constantly with the assembled nosecone to make sure it all fit flush while it was drying. Had I not done that, it'd be rather annoying when I go around to fixing the nosecone to the fuselage.

Shown here is where I've glued the now closed covers to the landing gear bays. The actual bays themselves will still be glued to the inside of the kit of added stability. This part is actually slightly difficult, as you're trying to keep the covers flush with the kit. If they sink in too much, you'll need to cut it out and reglue it in. If they sit raised slightly, then you can just sand it back. I've fiddled with raising the landing gear on all of my Hasegawa Macross kits, and by far, this is the 2nd easiest kit to raise the gear on. The easiest being the YF-21. Sofar the YF-19 was the one I've had the most trouble with, as the nose gear has the molded on gear bay with the kit. Still working to get that one right... one day.

Here are the rear landing gear covers. It's really important to keep them flush while drying, using extra glue gives it a little bit more playing time to get that final finish perfect. Also, the SV-51 has panel lines going across the covers, so they need to be kept in line also. Don't worry if any glue seeps out through the gaps, as these will be rescribed later when the glue dries.

To start off with, I cut the front and rear landing gear covers out of the sprue. I then cut pieces of 0.4mm sheet styrene, and afixed it to the back of the gear covers for support. Then I trimmed the connection points that attach the original open covers to the fuselage.

I aquired this kit today as a commission for a friend of mine, combine that with my new digital camera (Sony Cybershot: 5.0mp w/ 4x Optical Zoom) I decided to share my work in progress with Hasegawa's newest offering: Nora's SV-51. Most of this is OOB, however my friend wanted some little extras done, such as raising the landing gear. So I started work on what I could to begin with, keeping everything in front of me.

Nope, the above screenshots are indeed from the Seed-MSV commercial. There isn't going to be an animated Astray series, Sunrise is presently working on the Zeta compilation. Gunota has old info as well, but it's still relevant, as I was talking to RGZ last night aeug.blogspot.com

I just thought since I'm also building my VF-0S right now, I'd add a quick solution for the rivet problem on the feet. Valkyrie posted in his thread that he machined a quick little rivet scriber, I found just then that instead of scribing, it was easier to gently drill the surface on the sides of the feet with a 0.5mm drillbit. If anyone has one handy, it's the same size as the actual rivets on the kit. Shown here is the foot I've drilled out, and the kit foot.

October, 2002. Same issue has an Elintseeker Battroid, VF-1S Gerwalk, the above mod, scratchbuilt 1/72 YF-0, Strike Battroid conversion (a good year before the actual kit came out) and GBP-1.

"A well known German Sports Car" Duh, it's obvious. The prototype they were originally working on was Jazz as a Porsche. So I find it hard to believe they're going to package the RX-8 as Jazz. I'm still waiting on a release date for Hound, as we're not going to see the RX-8 until after Hound is released. Then after that? I hear it's a NSX from a semi-reliable source.

Hasegawa website (and everywhere else for a while) has clearly stated that it comes with a pilot figure. It's probably hidden amongst those sprues somewhere. Any chance of scanning the image?

Volume 13-14 is out already (covering Japanese book 6, and featuring the Jagd Mirage for the first time.) As for the Knight of Gold, you're incorrect. There's 4 Knight of Gold's, the first being the Auge (Amaterasu's first prototype), the 2nd being Schpeltor, then the 3rd and 4th being the previously shown KOG and KOG AT (Paratisque Mirage). The V3 is simply the V3, as in the 3rd rendition of the KOG. Nagano frequently redesigns his Mortar Hedds, the LED and KOG V3's being the newest of the bunch.