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That came out great! A great build and finish. I can't tell you how many times I have had to mix custom paint for Macross models. That's my only beef with them, all those crazy colors. - MT

  • 3 weeks later...
Posted
On 9/17/2017 at 4:07 AM, spanner said:

It is gorgeous eh! We did a trade, one of the TV VF-1A brownies I was selling for the built Regult.

 

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Looks nice!  :good:

If you get a chance.....can you take some pics of just the Regult kit and the Yamato v2 VF-1A side-by-side?  They look like they scale pretty well....at minimum as well as the HMR Regult and VF-1do...

 

 

  • 2 months later...
Posted (edited)

More work today messing around with the stance to be a bit dynamic. All flex points are pinned with 3mm brass rod for strength  (including the foot base joint). The front toe is raised as a crushed vehicle will be placed underneath it. 

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-Brett

 

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  • 2 weeks later...
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More progress pics. Tamiya TS-54 laid down as a substitute for "Zentran Blue". After this hardens I'll mask up for the rest of the otherwise standard colours. Also I got some pictures of the finished base which has been tuned from Australian Red Gum especially for this build. I think it turned out great!

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- Brett

  • 4 weeks later...
Posted

More progress. Grubby weathered engines. The story is that a Zentran team resprayed a scout they found in WRC blue but didn't bother with the rest. There Zentran why would they - if it works why fix it! The metallic blue will stay relatively fresh while everything else will be weathered.20180131_210630.thumb.jpg.534f31e8e8588ad9b6acebe6cf7c5dd7.jpg20180131_212010.thumb.jpg.a7287d8c6be7a31ccd9a182bd405f7e6.jpg20180131_212024.thumb.jpg.8f6ace84e87b506820f7226f27b65264.jpg20180131_212043.thumb.jpg.09408cf385b9233198b967b70876fc60.jpg

Enjoy!

-Brett

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted (edited)

Tonight I mocked up the pod to the custom Red Gum base. Pretty happy so far. :D

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There is still more work to be done on the legs before I move onto all of the EW kit. Although eventually I am going to have to face up to fixing the paint issue on the top of the body <_<

- Brett

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  • 1 month later...
Posted

Its been awhile between posts. I had a peeled paint issue on the main pod which required a full strip and repaint. Combined with a work trip away and picking up a bug at the airport and my modelling time was shot to pieces.

But the build is back on track and tonight I started the weathering. 

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- Brett

Posted

Some nice chipping there. I don't have the patience for such detail.

Posted
19 hours ago, arbit said:

Some nice chipping there. I don't have the patience for such detail.

Thanks Arbit. I have been using the Rinaldi Studio SM.03 book as a guide:

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Some more progress on weathering.

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And I am in the process of getting these decals printed:

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Cheers,

 

Brett

Posted

That's looking good Brett! Just seeing this now. The base is classy and the blue paint looked very "automotive" before adding the other colors. Great paint chipping. Nice sponsorship decals. They going on the pod?:p Just kidding!  Looking good! - MT

Posted (edited)
On 02/04/2018 at 5:54 AM, MechTech said:

That's looking good Brett! Just seeing this now. The base is classy and the blue paint looked very "automotive" before adding the other colors. Great paint chipping. Nice sponsorship decals. They going on the pod?:p Just kidding!  Looking good! - MT

Thanks MT.  Just a little more progress on this one. 

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Plus I started messing around with concrete slabs for the base.

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- Brett

 

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  • 3 weeks later...
  • 2 months later...
Posted

Love the stop sign!

So, do the scout parts fit into the regular grunt pod or is the pod part a significant change?  Wondering if there's a "Scout upgrade" set available for the base Regult.

Posted
On 7/3/2018 at 2:38 AM, derex3592 said:

That is freakin awesome Brett!

Thanks Derex!

 

On 7/3/2018 at 8:49 AM, mickyg said:

Love the stop sign!

So, do the scout parts fit into the regular grunt pod or is the pod part a significant change?  Wondering if there's a "Scout upgrade" set available for the base Regult.

Haha yeah thanks. The base needed a pop of colour and the stop sign added a little humour to a pretty grim scene.

 

The scout is a completely different kit to the rest of the line up. You can see the difference between the normal Regult and the scout kit here:

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- Brett

  • 1 year later...
Posted

Latest build up. This kit was actually painted and assembled some time ago for the R2KF Advent Calendar gag a few years ago and I am only just getting to the weathering now.

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Painted in Tamiya acrylics with oil paint weathering using Mike Rinaldi's OPR techniques.

 

Cheers,

 

Brett T

Posted
34 minutes ago, Bolt said:

For some reason the images aren't showing :(

same

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