derex3592 Posted July 3, 2018 Posted July 3, 2018 Welcome to MW! We're a pretty good bunch around here! Looking forward to your build! Keep us updated either here or the "What's Lying On Your Workbench" thread! Quote
lavinrac Posted February 16, 2020 Posted February 16, 2020 (edited) This is still messy but here goes.. I just started scratchbuilding tonite and you can see the shapes starting to form.... I have never been satisfied with the wad the front-middle section hasegawa didn't bother to do right ... All that kibble on the legs is going away too. Edited February 16, 2020 by lavinrac Quote
505thAirborne Posted February 17, 2020 Posted February 17, 2020 17 hours ago, lavinrac said: Little further. lot cleaner... Looking good so far!! Quote
Dobber Posted February 19, 2020 Posted February 19, 2020 AWESOME!! I had considered trying this too but chickened out. I wish the Storm Attacker kit was still available or would get a rerelease to use it’s more accurate parts. Keep the updates coming. Chris Quote
pengbuzz Posted February 19, 2020 Posted February 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Dobber said: AWESOME!! I had considered trying this too but chickened out. I wish the Storm Attacker kit was still available or would get a rerelease to use it’s more accurate parts. Keep the updates coming. Chris Same here; I would have loved a crack at that one. Quote
lavinrac Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 Few more recent ones. Removing all that detail from the legs seems like sacrilege but it has to be done Quote
peter Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 Amateur hour guys, please don't laugh. I started building this kit and compared to what's in here, mine will look like a steaming pile of feces, but this thread needed a bump. Quote
peter Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 The ARMD carriers, at 430m, are supposed to be bigger that Yamato, at 333m in the latest 2199 version. The toy Yamato I have here for comparison is clearly smaller but I have no idea what the scale is. Quote
Dobber Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) Tiny little Yamato is so much more powerful too. Even the Macross Cannon is no match to the Wave Motion Gun. Damn is Yamato overpowered. What little Yamato is that? It does look like it would display nicely. I’d like to put it with my Macross too. Chris Edited July 14, 2020 by Dobber Quote
peter Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 46 minutes ago, Dobber said: Tiny little Yamato is so much more powerful too. Even the Macross Cannon is no match to the Wave Motion Gun. Damn is Yamato overpowered. What little Yamato is that? It does look like it would display nicely. I’d like to put it with my Macross too. Chris To be honest, I'm not sure. I found it at Hobby Off, a used hobby shop in Japan. Quote
pengbuzz Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 18 hours ago, peter said: Amateur hour guys, please don't laugh. I started building this kit and compared to what's in here, mine will look like a steaming pile of feces, but this thread needed a bump. Hey... all our work looks bad when we're right in the middle of it. Just consider yours "in progress", and don't worry about how it looks at the moment! I'm pretty sure the rest of the gang here will agree with me. Quote
MechTech Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 Dude, you haven't even cut all the pieces off the sprues. That's unfinished! Maybe we'll bug you about it when you're done!. - MT Quote
derex3592 Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) Give the man a break! Sometimes a brother just runs out of alligator clips and wooden sticks! Gotta just paint on the sprue and call it a day! Edited July 15, 2020 by derex3592 Quote
peter Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Lol, this one's going to look just a bit better than the one I did when I was ten Quote
peter Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Of course the decal automatically rotates the wrong way. Frig these things are small....I can barely see them, even with a magnifying glass Quote
sketchley Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 6 hours ago, peter said: Of course the decal automatically rotates the wrong way. Are you putting them on with tweezers? If so, before you let the decal go, try (gently) rolling a Q-tip over the decals to squish out/suck up the excess water. Quote
peter Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 3 hours ago, sketchley said: Are you putting them on with tweezers? If so, before you let the decal go, try (gently) rolling a Q-tip over the decals to squish out/suck up the excess water. I'll try that next time, thanks for the tip I ended up doing it the hard way with tissue paper, lol! Quote
peter Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) I saw @wm cheng do this....dab of silver paint then clear red to simulate those little red lights dotted all over the SDF-1. Still working on that wash. Really subdues the bright colors of the decals. First Mecha Colle Yamato in the background that my kid ended up destroying when he was 2. I was really hoping Mr. Mark Softer would settle these decals and I'd wake up this morning with then all sucked right into the seam lines....but instead I woke up to air pockets under each one, lol! I ended up cutting into each seam line to resolve the issue. Edited July 17, 2020 by peter Edited to add tag Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) Calling it done. Very amateur, very out of the box, and even with the magnifying glass from the helping hand, I still missed a lot of stuff, but it looks better than the last SDF1 I built, lol! That Monster is just so tiny. Those rings turned out ok after cutting the panel lines. Yamato is tiny but apparently close to scale? The tiny section of the ARMD carrier I tried to replicated in my Valkyrie stand Edited July 17, 2020 by peter Edited for spelling Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) Next to the last SDF1 I built, lol! Might have been more than 30 years ago Edited July 17, 2020 by peter Quote
pengbuzz Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 44 minutes ago, peter said: Next to the last SDF1 I built, lol! Might have been more than 30 years ago Peter, I think you've got a LOT to be proud of with your work! You've come a long way since your models at 10 years old, and the experience and skill you've gained shows tremendously in your work! Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Haha, thanks This kit is pretty cool. Glad Hasegawa made it possible for us to have this. I came from a time when the only DYRL SDF1 Macross kits available were really expensive garage kits (Yellow Submarine)? The Yamato 1/2000 and 1/3000 toys weren't exactly super cheap either so to be able to have a model for about $50, it's not too bad. Quote
505thAirborne Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 @peter That SDF-1 looks pretty damn good to me. Panel lining is great and the ARMD's are nicely detailed! Congrats on your Macross kit. Quote
pengbuzz Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 4 hours ago, peter said: Haha, thanks This kit is pretty cool. Glad Hasegawa made it possible for us to have this. I came from a time when the only DYRL SDF1 Macross kits available were really expensive garage kits (Yellow Submarine)? The Yamato 1/2000 and 1/3000 toys weren't exactly super cheap either so to be able to have a model for about $50, it's not too bad. Yeah, I remember the Yellow Submarine ones; solid resin. I'd love to get my hands though on a Hasegawa Storm Attacker TV version and do a transform for it. By the looks of it, should be possible. Quote
electric indigo Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 @peter Thank you for documenting the building process; it's an amazing kit and you really did it justice. I was always bugged by the official pics and most builds where they blocked out the hangar doors of the carriers in solid black, I like your wash solution much better. Quote
Thom Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Fantastic looking SDF-!! The paint and washes look great, and nice on the decals. I'll have to keep that in mind. Brava! Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Thanks guys! I noted the blacked out hangar doors on other builds too. I was thinking about going gray, just to highlight them, but that would require skilled masking or skilled brush work, and I possess neither of those skills so I figured the wash would be good enough to make them pop a bit. I hope to see more builds here. Would be neat to see some customized ones, like mid-transformation, or maybe one in Zentran colors, or even a Supervision Army version? Wasn't there something in DYRL about the ship possibly belonging to the Meltran army? Have to go back and watch it again. Quote
wm cheng Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 That looks fantastic @peter!!! Congrats on a great build and thanks for posting here, Iove seeing everyone's work when I don't have time to build (makes me feel connected a bit). It's not amateur - give yourself some credit. It looks really great. Keep going! Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, wm cheng said: That looks fantastic @peter!!! Congrats on a great build and thanks for posting here, Iove seeing everyone's work when I don't have time to build (makes me feel connected a bit). It's not amateur - give yourself some credit. It looks really great. Keep going! Thanks! Your custom 1/3000 inspired me to add some of the red lights.It's hard to notice on my 1/4000 scale though. The amount of detail you added to your kit is mind boggling Quote
peter Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, wm cheng said: Thanks, mine was a 1000x bigger Lol! Quote
peter Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 Has anyone seen this before? https://youtu.be/SW4pxzuMNwA Quote
505thAirborne Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 10 hours ago, peter said: Has anyone seen this before? https://youtu.be/SW4pxzuMNwA I've seen this one many times and it never gets old. The LED work is phenomenal. Quote
Aleckzander Posted May 31 Posted May 31 On 7/17/2020 at 2:54 AM, peter said: Calling it done. Very amateur, very out of the box, and even with the magnifying glass from the helping hand, I still missed a lot of stuff, but it looks better than the last SDF1 I built, lol! That Monster is just so tiny. Those rings turned out ok after cutting the panel lines. Yamato is tiny but apparently close to scale? The tiny section of the ARMD carrier I tried to replicated in my Valkyrie stand Greetings, such a beauty, i have some inquiries tho, You said that it's very out of the box and i assume its just Waterslide decals and panel lines is that correct? as if there is no painting were needed for this kit?(besides of the red dot lights i think they are optional)because im a beginner on Plastic models and had started with Gunpla and only do Panel lines and Decals but not paint, so i wanna know if Paint is not needed and only waterslide and panel lines are sufficient to make it look beautiful, TYIA Quote
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