Big s Posted January 7 Posted January 7 2 hours ago, Thom said: I chortle more for the fact that you already have him, and I think I knew that, but totally forgot! Who was the base figure, because he does look dang good! I’m probably totally wrong, but it almost looks like a modified Mego Superman Quote
MechTech Posted January 7 Posted January 7 @nightmareB4macross The landing gears look cool! If you want to go slimmer, you can use K&S Metals. Their brass or aluminum is easy to work with and is more durable and will last longer. - MT Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 7 Posted January 7 2 hours ago, MechTech said: @nightmareB4macross The landing gears look cool! If you want to go slimmer, you can use K&S Metals. Their brass or aluminum is easy to work with and is more durable and will last longer. - MT Thank you. I have a stash of K&S goods and the thought was to build this with metal. The innards have metal embedded for strength. I wanted to use this method to allow the paint to really grab onto something since there will be some movement. Also it gives a robust landing gear that fits well with this build. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 7 Posted January 7 So much can be had in such small spaces. Gotta keep going. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Looking back at my previous work. This 1/55 has come a long way and much more to come. Quote
Wewyllenium Posted January 8 Posted January 8 King of the space fish. I guess this is the final version. Time to move on. Quote
Urashiman Posted January 8 Author Posted January 8 Putty and sanding on the VF-1J. While doing this, I noticed I am on my last bottle of Alclad 2 primer and microfiller. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be distributed anymore (through the UK, due to some regulations on lacquer colors). Now I am in search for a proper replacement as I don’t want to pay the ridiculous shipping prices from the US to Germany. Any suggestions? Mr. Surfacer doesn’t work for me as I am using Revell enamel colors. Same for Tamiya surfacer. They tend to develop cracks on these two surfacers. The revell primer is okayish, but I want something that is primer and microfiller. Quote
Thom Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 hours ago, Cheese3 said: Finished the falcon! Great, we had monstrous space worms, now we have humongous space cats! Beware, as you are close to reenacting a scene from Zapped!! Great looking Falcon! Quote
Big s Posted January 9 Posted January 9 3 hours ago, Cheese3 said: Finished the falcon! Nice’n dirty. The cat looks like he’s gonna start on the Falcon. Better be careful, he doesn’t look like he can be reasoned with Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Have to keep checking that everything fits nice and proper before finalizing parts and beginning the primer phase. Quote
derex3592 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 @electric indigo - Gorgeous! I really struggled with having to improvise yellow stripes on the A-10's weapons, and I struggle with 1/72 weapons detailing period, did you mask and paint them or use water slides and somehow make them look good on a reducing radius tiny surface, because I tried that and it didn't come out great honestly... Quote
electric indigo Posted January 9 Posted January 9 @derex3592 I switched to 1/48 to make things less fiddly, but with only partial success... For the bombs, I painted the tips yellow & masked them, the very front and the fuses were painted with a brush. The stripes on the missiles and ECM pod are decals and metal foil. It's very important to start working on the payload in parallel to the kit, otherwise you might run out of steam once the plane is completed Now on to that A-10... Quote
Cheese3 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 I really enjoy it when everything is in the same scale! Quote
Cheese3 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 2 minutes ago, pengbuzz said: D-flat or C-sharp? Seriously: some really nice work on those models! Haha! That was very clever, I literally loled! Ha Quote
MechTech Posted January 13 Posted January 13 @nightmareB4macross AWESOME improvements to that '55! We can't call it a "Chunky Monkey" anymore.😁 All of those details and added "gimicks" look MUCH better than outa the box! @Cheese3 That Falcon came out great! Your cat on the other hand has that look of "Not another photo! Leave me outa this!" 🤣 Yes, it's cool having everything in the same scale. @Urashiman Cool start on that Valk! @electric indigo Your Corsair came our BEAUTIFUL! Congrats! No bias here😎, but I'm glad to see one in the Air Force livery. They're lesser known, but heavily used. For the 1/35th Dougram... Things are coming out WAAAaaaaay slower than expected with finishing the Dougram. I'm behind schedule for the model show near the end of Feb, and I haven't even started the backpack weapons yet! Oh well! Most "portable" Gatling guns have a handle on top as did the stock one. So I did one, but the handle stuck out A LOT. So I scrapped it. The ammo drum was made of two LED tealight candles cemented together. I milled out rings to go around it for strength and to attach it to the shield. An old brass flashlight was cut-up and turned into the cover for the gear case. It had threaded ends making things easier to complete. The problem was soldering it to the main body (that old piece of hose nozzle). So a wooden guide had to be lathed to keep the parts aligned and concentric. Thankfully it worked! Then I added "bolts" cut around the edge for detail. This can come apart for maintenance, so the end cap screws off. I etched in an arrow to show the direction to open it. Then I realized if it gets stuck, there's absolutely NOTHING to grip it with. So I drilled two holes in it to get tweezers into. The problem, I made a "smiley face". Oh well. It's a happy cannon now! The gun and ammo drum together. Since this was all an afterthought, I didn't build the wires into the model. So they had to be added in afterward. The gun also needed to be detachable as the original is. So old PC board IDE connectors were cut with a razor saw. They work great for this. It's the only way I know to find connectors this small. So one was made with a "fifth pin" glued to the outside to ensure it's keyed for the battery poles to align correctly. The female fits flush in the arm and the male is on the cannon. Add a glue gun and old detailing spring and everything came together while being fairly rugged. Other details are being added to the cannon case for realism. That's it for now, thanks for checking in! - MT Quote
Thom Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Wow, some fantastic bit of work, @MechTech! I'd be smiling too! @pengbuzz That head is looking great! He's really beginning to look like Exedore! Quote
electric indigo Posted January 13 Posted January 13 @MechTech You're operating on another level!!! Got some sunlight today and was able to shoot some pics of the Corsair II. Some more in my flickr album Quote
derex3592 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 @electric indigo - Really great job on such an old kit! Looks like a real airplane! Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 13 Posted January 13 (edited) You guys are doing some amazing work!! The level of detailing and paint throughout all these projects is truly inspiring. Thank you all for that. I’ll just keep on trudging away with my little ol’ custom. These landing gear bays are getting cramped. Edited January 17 by nightmareB4macross Quote
wm cheng Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Wow! That looks really great @electric indigo - you made such an ugly duckling look so sleek! Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 14 Posted January 14 If I wasn’t building these, I would swear they are not the legs of a 1/55. Quote
Big s Posted January 14 Posted January 14 13 minutes ago, Cheese3 said: Even more! That’s a hardcore coffee stand. Those baristas ain’t playing around, better tip well Quote
electric indigo Posted January 15 Posted January 15 On 1/13/2025 at 9:59 PM, wm cheng said: Wow! That looks really great @electric indigo - you made such an ugly duckling look so sleek! Whoever coined the term SLUF clearly had no taste 😄 Quote
MechTech Posted January 15 Posted January 15 @pengbuzz Thank you! WOW! Talk about brain surgery!!! That's some serious sculpting. Looking awesome! I can't sculpt people. Maybe I should try a glue gun to add "hair" to my balding head. I bet I won't need much hair gel.🤣 @electric indigo I don't know about that, but thank you! Yeah, SLUF really isn't accurate; but yours is (see what I did there)😁. It was one of a few planes to actually fly properly and be on production schedule as planned. It had a good all around record. I guess that's why the AF purchased them too. @nightmareB4macross You're right, they no longer are the legs of a '55! They look younger! You ARE a plastic surgeon!😉 @Cheese3 Those are definitely the girls my mom told me to stay away from! Great looking paint and details on them! - MT Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Battroid A-Stance GERWALK - Agressor stance and Proper thrust vectoring. 🥰 Quote
SpacePirateNeko Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I think ill call the gold knight finished, the volks models are awful tooling, i should have filled the caps. Whats on my workbench though? many many things, See if you can guess with whats visible . Quote
SteveTheFish Posted January 16 Posted January 16 There isn't an acquisitions thread as far as I can see, so I guess I'll post it here. New kits! I don't usually have much interest in Gundam kits, but these old Sentinel kits are real cool. My friend in the UK sent this old Imai Macross kit to me! Quote
SpacePirateNeko Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Does anyone know a good website to find scanned old decals to print out yourself? So many of my kits are so old the decals fall apart so easily. I tried spraying them with surfacer and other techniques and they still crumble. Quote
Thom Posted January 18 Posted January 18 8 hours ago, SpacePirateNeko said: Does anyone know a good website to find scanned old decals to print out yourself? So many of my kits are so old the decals fall apart so easily. I tried spraying them with surfacer and other techniques and they still crumble. Had to hunt for it, but here is the Decals Library, Quote
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