Making of a 1/60 Drop Tank set, also looking for any help to

[R0P3-F15H]

Hey all,

Been wanting to make/get something close to the VF-0's Drop Tanks but starting to realise ill have to make something of my own probably so looking for any advice or help with what to use as a base or making from scratch so far my plan is to use a 1/72 scale Storm Shadow set ( from somehwere) and cut the tail, tip and fins then fill with puty then add some width and hopefully ending up with the genreal look of the VF-0's drop tanks as they are the only refrence i really have for drop tanks in the macross world.

Storm Shadow


VF-0 Drop Tanks/Missile Pods(?)


Edit: changed title as this will now become a project of mine, time to make a mess with putty and styrene.

Edited May 31, 2019 by R0P3-F15H

[pengbuzz]

When I did a 1/48 F-14 Tomcat conversion to a GI Joe "Skystriker", I used a large wooden dowel that I cut to length and then machined the ends using a dremel tool.

[Bolt]

Is this a drop tank for a Macross toy or model?  What scale?

You could make it cheaper for sure, or you could just buy it..

Edited May 30, 2019 by Bolt

[R0P3-F15H]

2 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Is this a drop tank for a Macross toy or model?  What scale?

You could make it cheaper for sure, or you could just buy it..

from the 1/60 VF-0A, butying them would be a fall back plan but to get the style i want will take some modifcation ( if i buy just generic drop tanks ) dunno how many would want to part with that very specific VF-0A part however.

[Bolt]

Ah, got ya. 

[R0P3-F15H]

Looked through xigfrid's shop and saw the PaCSWS 2C wich starts with a much better shape im going for then the Storm shadow. Seeing as im already going to do heavy changes 3D printed parts wont be to bad 

[R0P3-F15H]

Just got my order in today, need to find time to work on them though as ive gotten ill recently.

[Xigfrid]

Nice prints! I hope you will get better soon 

[Bolt]

Those look pretty cool as is

Hope you make a speedy recovery 

[R0P3-F15H]

haha thanks! they did come out really well, almost makes me ashamed of the cuttiong and putty-ing im going to do to them x-x 

now that i have them in hand i might not even add bilk to the sides, but will probably round the nose's off the pods

[R0P3-F15H]

Hacking done! got around to them today, also got the first few coats of future polish on the others imnot hacking up .p.




To add i do not know how i am going to do the drop tanks now, as im afriad the pledge polish will ruin the hardened putty? if not i will just do the same im doing with the others after sanding to apply coats of primer

[Xigfrid]

That’s great to see your progress. And I can’t wait the surprises that will be revealed by someone making a custom out of a custom print.

[Shizuka the Cat]

Ordinance... needs more ordinance...

[R0P3-F15H]

Missile's and Pylons all done, took a while to fill in all the gaps on the 'pods' after clearing off and smoothing down the shapes and rounding down the shape. Missiles could have come out better but they look a lot nicer after the gap filling done with polish/primer.