Jefuemon Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 Finally finished! What I was looking to do was this: Did I succeed? Couple of firsts for me on this kit. All of the red and black were painted, not decals. Never done that much of an extensive masking/painting before. Used the Jasmine Models PE set for the first time. And, used Wave sculpting putty to modify a Studio Starforge pilot figure to get a the First figure. Quote
Benson13 Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 I cant wait to see this on my computer and not my phone. Quote
Vi-RS Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 I can't wait to see this on my hands and not my computer. Quote
PetarB Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 Very cool colour scheme - I have not seen Macross the First, will have to look it up. The geometries of the new paintwork give a nice modern update to the VF-1. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 Your masking skills are quite formidable. Decals could not have been any better. Excellent job! Quote
MechTech Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 That looks awesome! I think you pulled it off. Nice to see a new paint scheme on an "older" design. - MT Quote
Benson13 Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Now that I finally got to see it, fantastic job bro. Quote
Jefuemon Posted July 30, 2012 Author Posted July 30, 2012 Very nice! Is this the 1/48, or the 1/72? The 1/72. PetarB isn't doing figures in 1/48 yet. Maybe if a few more people yell in his direction... Quote
Jefuemon Posted July 30, 2012 Author Posted July 30, 2012 Your masking skills are quite formidable. Decals could not have been any better. Excellent job! Thanks. This was a very intensive masking job. And I myself was shocked and amazed to find that the lines from the body to the wing matched up perfectly! Quote
Astralith Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Wow! Anybody sitting on an 1:60 unpainted kit they'd want to paint like this? I want to see this in Battroid (beside the illustration)! Quote
pfunk Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Thats an awesome color scheme, and a great job executing it Quote
Capt Hungry Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Wow, very cool! Nice job on the painting. What is/are Jasmine Models PE? Decals? I really dig seeing valk models with alternate paint schemes instead of the usual canon. I need to build one of my valks! Quote
Lobizon Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 What is/are Jasmine Models PE? Decals? http://www.macrosswo...showtopic=36490 btw, great job as always jefuemon, awesome color scheme. Quote
Berttt Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Heynice work dude, love the figure. Regards, Brett T Quote
Jefuemon Posted July 31, 2012 Author Posted July 31, 2012 What is/are Jasmine Models PE? Decals? Photo Etched parts. Here's their website. The set I used was 272003. Didn't use all the parts, but what I did makes it look a lot nicer. My favorite bits were #1-5. Those go on the exposed part behind the wing, and on the wing part to hard the visible inner parts. If they made of sheet of just 3-4 sets of that, I'd buy again in a hurry. Quote
UN Spacy Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Now that's awesome. I kinda want Yamato to release MTF VF-1's now. Quote
grapetang Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Great job recreating the scheme! It looks fantastic! Quote
Capt Hungry Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Lobizon - thanks for the link. Jefuemon - thanks for the explanation. It should've been more obvious to me that PE stood for photo etched parts. Quote
Chronocidal Posted August 2, 2012 Posted August 2, 2012 Beautiful job on that. I have to admit, I have a personal thing for fully painted markings, I love doing any marking I can that way, just because it looks so amazing once everything's painted. Plus, I've never enjoyed having large decals shred on me. I can't remember if you mentioned attempting this before, but did you tweak the angles the lower legs sit at? They look a bit higher than the standard 1/72 Hasegawa kit has them, closer to way the 1/48 kit has them, and the plane overall doesn't look like the nose is pointing down so much. Quote
GGemini Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Great work Jefuemon! and the pilot also looks amazing! For the last 2 months I've been building this kit: After seeing your photos I realized I screwed up in many parts I hope it ends up looking as good as yours! Wow! Anybody sitting on an 1:60 unpainted kit they'd want to paint like this? I want to see this in Battroid (beside the illustration)! Hopefully, soon! Quote
Jefuemon Posted August 5, 2012 Author Posted August 5, 2012 Nope, no tweeking was done on the legs. Guess it seemed to turn out fine on its own! I'm glad everyone seems to like the paint job. I was looking on the net for other builds like this for tips/inspiration, and I found nothing. Thought for sure there would be a few more people willing to challenge this build. Quote
Lt. Z0mBe Posted August 5, 2012 Posted August 5, 2012 Nice job on your first attempt at uber-masking! You fought two wars there - masking AND using vibrant red in a build. That can be tough. Not bad, Sir. Kenny Quote
Jefuemon Posted August 6, 2012 Author Posted August 6, 2012 For those who are interested, the colors I used were: Mr Color 311 Grey FS36622 for the base color Mr Color 108 Character Red for the red Mr Color Flat Black for the black Quote
ivorysniper Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 That's a beautiful livery for a VF-1 !!!. Awesome masking job !!!. 10 out of 10 stars !!!! Quote
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