Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0D gerwalk

[Cesar Enrique]

Dear Macross friends,

I´m back with a new gerwalk customization, as I said before, I am a gerwalk lover, and a fan of hasegawa detailed kits. So this time, I am doing a VF-0D gerwalk 1/72 from "hase" using the VF-0D and the VF-0 Battroid.

I didn´t found any helpful reference on the internet to make this convertion, however, the work isn´t really new or different from the steps for making the vf-1 gerwalk convertion, the same basis is used, just some minor changes need to be done in order to make the VF-0D in a properly converted gerwalk.

* Arms are straight from the battroid kit.

* Leggs are straight from battroid kit, BUT, the knee will be attached backwards, and some little sanding will need to be done so the leg can move without problems.

The rest of the process (at least the one that I came up with) is as follows:

Shoulder´s attach:

Fixing wings to it´s correct position after avoiding the valkyrie leggs:

tsuzukeru...

Edited November 11, 2010 by Cesar Enrique

[Flakpanzer]

This looks pretty interesting, I will follow this work.

Regards,

Flak

[cool8or]

Am I confused or I saw this thread in somewhere else?

Anyway, great proyect, I want to do the same!! I'll have an eye on this.

[Cesar Enrique]

Am I confused or I saw this thread in somewhere else?

Anyway, great proyect, I want to do the same!! I'll have an eye on this.

Hehehehe, maybe you are comparing it with my VF-1 gerwalk post:

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33351

This is a VF-0 Gerewalk...

So lets continue,

Now, let´s see the modifications for the upper back of the Gerwalk:

Now, the VF-0D Gerwalk has some Ailerons position very different from all other vf-1 and vf-0s gerwalks, let´s see:

There is no pieces to make such change on battroid or Valkyrie mode, so, this simlpe solution was made:

The final major change was to glue many styrene pieces one after another in the center (and inside) of the fuselage, then, drilled an -ANGLED backwards- 2.5 mm hole so we can insert a metallic rod for display the kit when finished.

Now, let´s star the painting process.....

Edited August 4, 2010 by Cesar Enrique

[Cesar Enrique]

I am sorry, I didn´t took photos of the painting process, but the scheme was this:

1.- base coated the whole kit with Tamiya Light Grey 25% mixed with white75%

This kit is a 2 tone painting scheme, Light Grey on the bottom, and blue on the top, so...

2.- post shaded with tamiya dark grey ONLY where the light grey will be visible, avoided preshading where blue color will be painted.

3.- some layers of the step 1 mixed paint.

4.- Masked light grey areas that will be visible, and then preshaded with Tamiya xf-17 sea blue

5.- Then painted the blue scheme mixing 20 drops of Tamiya x-14 sky blue, 5 drops of Tamiya XF-18 Medium blue, and 3 drops of XF-8 Flat Blue, of course I made this mix several times... next time I will prepare a lot more on a spare bootle

6.- Unmasked and clear coated with Tamiya CLEAR.

7.- Now the part I love MOST, panel lining, and I love it because I am using an excellent product that doesn´t affect clear coats like turpetine and oils, also it doesn´t react with any kind of paint, and is WAAAYYY EASY AND FUN to do panel lining...

I will be using promodeller´s wash, I had many headaches with turpetine and oils in the past, but not anymore, you simply apply it, wait 10-15 minutes to dry, then (with cloth or paper moisted in water) rubb gently the surface and it is gone...MAGICAL!!!

Next step...DECALING!!....oh no... the almost infinite "NO STEP" decals again...mmmhh!!!

Edited November 9, 2010 by Cesar Enrique

[Kelsain]

Wow! Excessively awesome.

[Cesar Enrique]

Hi again friends.

This is how it is going, I have decaled it and clear coated it with taimya clear, I still have to completely paint the gun, also need to paint in dark sea gray some joints of the legg, it was going to be easier to paint it at the end than paint them first and then masking for painting base color and blue color.

I have almost finished and assembled upper body...still some clear parts and some antennas need to be painted and glued.

I love how I DID NOT used ANY glue to assemble all painted parts, just glued the head on the bottom, the res was just pop up, even the complete cockpit is just attached firmly to the body....I LOVE HASEGAWA

Here´s how it´s going:

And this is how it will be suppoerted for final Display on a wood base:

I have to say I am in love with this Valkyrie, it is very BIG, it is almost double size than a normal valkyrie and even bigger than a Macross Frontier Valkyrie, I will upload pics for comparison at the end.

[miriya]

It is beautiful!

[valhary]

wow!!! someone should try this with the yamato

[Horatio Positronic]

This is looking amazing! I can't wait to see this done.

[Thom]

Looking damn good!! Awesome conversion.

[Mommar]

So was this conversion ever finished? I'd love to see the final outcome. The in progress pics look fantastic.

[buffalostyle]

Oh, yeah! I would like to see the progress as well...

[caslon]

Happy Modelling!

[cool8or]

Great advances!! Congratulations for such outstanding and documented work!

[Cesar Enrique]

Hi again.

I am very sorry for taking SOOOOO LOOOONG on uploading the finished gerwalk, I have had so many things on my head that I forgot to take pictures of it.

I used a different camera so pictures are horribly grainy, I hate this!!!

Thank you for your compliments on my process of building and modifying it, it was very fun because I didn´t found anything on the internet about this convertion. I wanted to make some vf-0b gerwalks but I just can´t find where to buy the VF-0B, some days ago HLJ had them available but they flew away very fast.

Let´s stop writing, and let´s see some pictures:

And here you have some comparisons between 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1 Gerwalk, 1/72 FineMolds X-wing, 1/72 Bandai Messaiah Gerwalk and a Hasegawa 1/72 Battroid

A close up of the modified and battle damaged Battroid...ignore the resin kit and metal pieces on the base

[jardann]

Wow! Great work on the Vf-0 Gerwalk. It is huge!

And that Vf-1 Battroid is bad ass!!! I'd like to see more!

[505thAirborne]

Now that I've stopped drooling over your VF-0D, I am for sure getting a another VF-0D & Battroid kit. In all seriousness though, your kit came out amazing and the attention to detail is second to none!!!

Edited November 10, 2010 by 505thAirborne

[caslon]

Impressive work! But for the last pic..i find that the VF-1A's head is little too big..;p

[Flakpanzer]

Excellent result.

Regards,

Flak

[Mommar]

Man, that thing is cool looking. I wish I had the skill/patience to pull that off.

Makes me wish Yamato would make one, I'd buy it.

[miriya]

Inspiring work. Thanks for sharing it. The stance on that VF-1A is killer!

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Great work, you took this gerwalk conversion to a higher level of awesomeness!!!!

[peter]

Holy crap man, I'm not a big fan of the VF-0, but that rocks man. I'd like to see more pics of the VF-1 tho.

[m0n5t3r]

that GERWALK VF-0D looks awesome! great work!

[Cesar Enrique]

Thank you very much for all your kind comments my friends, I really invested some time on this VF-1 and VF-0D convertions, I am glad you liked it, makes me feel that my effort really worth it.

I think my next convertion will be a GERWALK hasegawa VF-1D... double cabin, nice huh? I don´t know yet.

Impressive work! But for the last pic..i find that the VF-1A's head is little too big..;p

Well, it might be the picture perspective, as this is the head that the hasegawa vf-1 battroid provides.

Holy crap man, I'm not a big fan of the VF-0, but that rocks man. I'd like to see more pics of the VF-1 tho.

Yeah, this gerwalk automatically maked me fan of it since I watched it on the Macross Zero show, so I had to have one, but there wasn´t any toy of it. Here you can see the process and final pics of my VF-1 gerwalk.

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33351&st=0&p=858656&fromsearch=1entry858656

Thank you all!!

[big F]

WOW!! excellent work, Hasegawa really really need to take notice and produce Gerwalk kits, that and produce some different kits from the range.

[valhary]

anyone has schematics of this bird specially of the wings and could confirm if the vf 0d of one pilot its official or is a custom?

[Skull One]

Excellent and Beautifull work

[Reïvaj]

How did I miss this thread? This gerwalk VF-0D looks awesome! Excellent job!

[pfunk]

Very nice