TMBounty_Hunter Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 It kept gnawing at me and gnawing at me so might as well have a go while it's still gnawing at me. Also before Hasegawa announces the official one. Cutting up GB6 to fit The D And it fits To make things on top fit, chopped up GB11 and D5 The product. The support column from GB11 was moved over to GB12 And finally cutting out the bit that drops down like A17 would on the A/J/S Fits together pretty nicely Probably still some tweaking to do but overall that was pretty easy Quote
mickyg Posted April 26, 2015 Posted April 26, 2015 LOVE it!!! Keep up the great work. There's nothing quite as iconic as a VF-1D Gerwalk! Quote
Ignacio Ocamica Posted April 27, 2015 Posted April 27, 2015 Can't wait to more progress pics, good job!!! Quote
GMK Posted April 27, 2015 Posted April 27, 2015 Wow! That looks great. Must admit, forgot what section of the boards I was in & got very excited that Hasegawa were releasing a -1D. Oops. Great job. Quote
dbh1973 Posted April 27, 2015 Posted April 27, 2015 Looks great! What two kits did you combine for the Gerwalk? Quote
spanner Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 Looks pretty good so far! Dont you think the cockpit canopy length of the kits looks so much longer than the 1/60 toys eh! Almost too long.. Quote
TMBounty_Hunter Posted April 30, 2015 Author Posted April 30, 2015 dbh1973, the two kits are the VF-1A/J Gerwalk kit plus the VF-1D Valkyrie kit. I should probably mention I'm a slow builder. Right now there's a lot of really boring stuff to do like filling in ejector pin marks and occasional sink hole, that isn't really worth updating is it? Optimistically it's getting primed in 2-ish weeks and done end of May? Pessimistically... well I have an ARII VF-1D that was started in December 2012 and still isn't finished.... Two things scare me about this build though: Hasegawa's really really fine panel lines and inevitably trying to scratchbuild a 1/72 Minmay... Quote
MechTech Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 That came out great, thanks for sharing! Now you just need a scale sized Zentraedi to play dead next to it.-MT Quote
coronadlux Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Looking good so far. Slow builds or fast builds, it's still faster than my builds. Quote
cowie165 Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 For your 1/72 Minmei you could see if PetarB still has his 1/72 Macross female pilots in stock? Could do a head swap for a pretty good 1/72 match. http://www.studiostarforge.com/content/un-spacy-female-pilots172 Quote
Zinjo Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Nice! If only someone would make a custom Armored Gerwalk kit, I can die in peace... Quote
spanner Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 that VF-1D kit cockpit canopy does look strangely long don't you think?.. Quote
Model-Junkie Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Great job on the kitbash. I have been wanting to do something similar with my Hasegawa VT-1 or VE-1 The canopy reminds me of the F-16D. It may look unusually long due to it having a flat profile, canopies for the F-14 and F-15E are taller and curved Edited June 22, 2015 by Model-Junkie Quote
TMBounty_Hunter Posted June 24, 2015 Author Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) I have encountered significantly more laziness than anticipated with this project. Also kinda enlarged in scope ass I'm building the valk mode in parallel so that I can paint them at the same time with the same paint batch. In the mean time here's some VT-1, VE-1 builds from twitter: https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/613698564162596865 https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611409945842442240 https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611412752662310912 https://twitter.com/Temukichi/status/604551226479374336 Seems most people can't be bothered to wait for Hasegawa Edited June 24, 2015 by TMBounty_Hunter Quote
TMBounty_Hunter Posted May 25, 2016 Author Posted May 25, 2016 And here is a monument dedicated to my laziness...orz Quote
slide Posted May 25, 2016 Posted May 25, 2016 And here is a monument dedicated to my laziness...orz well... bright side: you don't have to scratch a 1/72 Minmay... Will you finish it in a different scheme now? Quote
wm cheng Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 I can't believe I missed this Hasegawa issue - I didn't think it was a limited release thing, but now HLJ says its discontinued - argh! Quote
NZEOD Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 there are still a few around, I'll PM you the locations Quote
NZEOD Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 I can't believe I missed this Hasegawa issue - I didn't think it was a limited release thing, but now HLJ says its discontinued - argh! PM sent Quote
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