Jasonc Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 Hope you like it. I'll post up more shortly, but here are just a couple. the upper leg was modded for the A-stance look. Let me know what you all think. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 My gawd, that is f***ing beautiful!!! Quote
ChristopherB Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 You did a great job! The paint and leg mod. really stand out. How much do you want to sell it for? Just joking, I'm in no position to buy anything until I get back to the states. I presume you used someone's E-seeker armor/head recast. Perhaps made by Rob or Mike? It's great to see a 1/55 custom, definitely nostalgic as well. Quote
TheLoneWolf Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 Excellent custom! Love the pilots! Did you replace the nosecone with a resin one or is that from a Bandai? Quote
mojacko Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 wowowoweeee!!! that is one really nice & neat VE custom!!! like the stance ....looks awesome!!! really lurking to own a recast part for the elint!!! Quote
Jasonc Posted July 31, 2006 Author Posted July 31, 2006 Here's the details: The armor parts were done by NighmareB4Macross. And they are a real solid and high quality recast. the decals are by Anasazi here as well, as I always use his sheets. The paint for the Valkyrie is simply the Tamiya Grey fine primer. that's all. The nose orange is Tamiya orange. the leg armor is a testor's hull blue or something like that. the fastpacks were dark ivory, also testors, and the radome is from a model master grey primer, slightly darker than the Tamiya primer. I used a Bandai reissue VF-1J Hikaru for the custom. I didn't want to use the round nose. Even as a kid, I could never stand the stubby nose. the pilots are two pilots from the 1/72 Hasegawa weapons set. they aren't detailed too much, but they make a decent addition to the custom. More pics will be coming today, when I can get back to my computer and add the pics. Quote
big F Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 Hey hey keeping the chunkies alive. Pimping your A stance as well. Excellent job. Quote
Jasonc Posted July 31, 2006 Author Posted July 31, 2006 More pics: I will have to post these in increments here. My computer sucks Quote
cube Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 looks awesome! did you have to do any sanding/filling on the recast armor, or just paint er up? Quote
Jasonc Posted July 31, 2006 Author Posted July 31, 2006 Last one with the A-stance. As far as sanding the armor. It does come out very clean. However, this isn't the standard resin that most recasers use. From what I understand, once it cures, it cures very hard and solid, but expands. therefor, sanding is necessary to get things to fit into slots and the sort, but not too much sanding because of excess junk. These are probably the nicest recast I've ever worked with. Quote
cube Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 ^thanks! i've been looking for an elint recast, and may have to bug nb4m and see if he's interested in doing a color matched run of em. Quote
MechTech Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 Good looking "Chunky Monkey." Too bad they didn't look like that from the factory! - MT Quote
do not disturb Posted August 1, 2006 Posted August 1, 2006 that looks freakin awesome! i really like it alot, especially the swivel thigh mod, it makes such a huge difference in the toy. keep them customs coming! Quote
Jasonc Posted August 2, 2006 Author Posted August 2, 2006 Thanks for the comments everyone. I'm glad you like it. so far, it's in a temporary "done" state. I have a few other mods I plan to do with it, and from there, I'll post more pics of the mods as they come along. Right now, I'm modding the hands with the Gundam posable hands. Next, I will be doing the posable feet. So, this will be a stretch from what I'm used to doing, but it will be a better piece than now, Hopefully. Quote
LL Cool VF1J Posted August 3, 2006 Posted August 3, 2006 very nice. As soon as I forget about chunky monkeys, somebody has to do something to get me motivated again. Now Im going to be up all night trying to figure out how to mod my 1/55. Quote
Jasonc Posted August 3, 2006 Author Posted August 3, 2006 very nice. As soon as I forget about chunky monkeys, somebody has to do something to get me motivated again. Now Im going to be up all night trying to figure out how to mod my 1/55. 421999[/snapback] That's part of the plan. Many of us here still do the chunky customs, but it's been silent for awhile now. Start on those customs and show them off. I love them. Aww come on, one gervalk pose?. I will do one of these once I get the feet rotating. However, I will take a pic without the armor on in GERWALK, as the weight of the armor is a bit heavy for it. I'll get it here by tonight. Quote
big F Posted August 3, 2006 Posted August 3, 2006 Where did you get your Gundam posable hands from? Thats one part I want to do for mine. Quote
Jasonc Posted August 4, 2006 Author Posted August 4, 2006 Where did you get your Gundam posable hands from? Thats one part I want to do for mine. 422238[/snapback] The gundam hands were recasted by NightmareB4Macross. From what I understand on these, they are from the Zabe kit (probably didn't spell that right). They are posable and are on a ball joint. You just have to find a joint to put it in after you cut off the hands on the valk, and you have a perfectly new hand. I will also create the retracted hand shield when it's done, but gotta keep the slides because of the armor pieces. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 Where did you get your Gundam posable hands from? Thats one part I want to do for mine. 422238[/snapback] The gundam hands were recasted by NightmareB4Macross. From what I understand on these, they are from the Zabe kit (probably didn't spell that right). They are posable and are on a ball joint. You just have to find a joint to put it in after you cut off the hands on the valk, and you have a perfectly new hand. I will also create the retracted hand shield when it's done, but gotta keep the slides because of the armor pieces. 422284[/snapback] The hands are from the Bandai Sazabi Kit. They are re-casted with all the individual parts, 11 peices per hand. Great job on that Elint!!!! Quote
big F Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 Where did you get your Gundam posable hands from? Thats one part I want to do for mine. 422238[/snapback] The gundam hands were recasted by NightmareB4Macross. From what I understand on these, they are from the Zabe kit (probably didn't spell that right). They are posable and are on a ball joint. You just have to find a joint to put it in after you cut off the hands on the valk, and you have a perfectly new hand. I will also create the retracted hand shield when it's done, but gotta keep the slides because of the armor pieces. 422284[/snapback] The hands are from the Bandai Sazabi Kit. They are re-casted with all the individual parts, 11 peices per hand. Great job on that Elint!!!! 422456[/snapback] Are you still making them or should I just go out and parts rape some gundam kits. HLJ have gundam hands like those but as far as I can remeber they are all fixed ones Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 Molds are still nice and fresh. Cleaning is required on these. I decided to leave the flash as it helps to keep an account on all the parts required for both hands. Believe me, it's much better this way. While setting the molds I almost lost several of the tiny original parts twice. Luckily, I keep a clean workshop. So the parts were found. Just PM me if you'd like some. Where did you get your Gundam posable hands from? Thats one part I want to do for mine. 422238[/snapback] The gundam hands were recasted by NightmareB4Macross. From what I understand on these, they are from the Zabe kit (probably didn't spell that right). They are posable and are on a ball joint. You just have to find a joint to put it in after you cut off the hands on the valk, and you have a perfectly new hand. I will also create the retracted hand shield when it's done, but gotta keep the slides because of the armor pieces. 422284[/snapback] The hands are from the Bandai Sazabi Kit. They are re-casted with all the individual parts, 11 peices per hand. Great job on that Elint!!!! 422456[/snapback] Are you still making them or should I just go out and parts rape some gundam kits. HLJ have gundam hands like those but as far as I can remeber they are all fixed ones 422562[/snapback] Quote
Fortress_Maximus Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 The CHUNKIES rules!! Great work. Let's see more pics though. Ie on the flexistands. Quote
Jasonc Posted August 5, 2006 Author Posted August 5, 2006 OK, here are more pics, not the greatest, but they work. There's one in the A-stance. Enjoy, and all comments are welcome Quote
big F Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 It`s amazing just how much the A stance makes the 1/55 look better. Quote
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