Guppy Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 I half-finished this in record time... back in october. Then I went overseas, changed jobs, moved house, etc. So on the weekend I dug it out and finished the other half. here it is! You may notice I haven't glued in the wing lights.. I'll do it as soon as I find those tiny little suckers. More pics here (thought I'd save the bandwith) http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/batt2.JPG http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/batt3.JPG http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/fighter2.JPG http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/fighter3.JPG http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/fighter5.JPG http://users.tpg.com.au/dgus/fighter6.JPG Quote
Guppy Posted April 13, 2004 Author Posted April 13, 2004 (edited) my mistake. fixed. Edited April 13, 2004 by Guppy Quote
Sebastian Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 Cant beleive you finally finished it!!! After many months I can see the finished guppycustomvalk... Nice looking custom Gup! panel lines... come on man... dont be lazy!!!! Well even if you dont do the panel lines it looks awsome! I love the color scheme! Nice nice nice! Too bad it belongs to you, it should be mine Quote
Sebastian Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 Guppy! You changed your avatar! WHERE IS SKELETON!!! Quote
Eternal_D Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 nice, that looks like a perfect color for the low viz grey...what is it? do you have a low viz to compare colors? can you please LMK if it is close? nice custom, one more to go into the customs page. and Sebastian...it's SkeletoR with an 'R' which was pretty cool, but spy vs spy is good too. Quote
EXO Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 Nice custom, Guppy, you finally dressed up the naked valk. You need to do Spy vs Spy customs now. One black valk and one white one and have their faces on the heatshiled. And on the FPs have kill notches (or whatever you call them) on how many spies they killed.... Quote
Godzilla Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 Very nice custom. I like it. Now do it on a 1/48 yammie. Quote
RichterX Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 It looks macross zeroish... I like the colours Quote
Guppy Posted April 14, 2004 Author Posted April 14, 2004 haha, thanks! My skeletor avatar.. the avatar site it came from closed down and I can't find it again! But I thought the spy v spy was cool. Eternal D - the paint I used was Tamiya spraycans for aircraft. I'll check tonight and do a comparison pic. Sebastian - ok, just for you I'll do some panel lines! But I'm going to use a pencil (mechanical pencil, now do you know what that is?) as black marker is just too harsh. And I should really putty in those screw holes. Quote
UN Spacy Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 Cool custom guppy! I like how the color scheme on the nose flows all the way towards the backpack hinge. It's too bad your a:60 doesn't support Fast Packs (and we all know Yamato abandoned the 1/60 FP upgrades). Quote
Aegis! Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 Awesome , I really missed seeing the old 1/60 customs and what better than this particular one , really cool paint-schemme. If I had the talent I would definitively do a Suabru Imprezza custo colour scheme looking valk , kinda like a macross version of the TF alternator toy. Quote
connor99 Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 Just love the color scheme on this 1/60 Yammie! Excellent job, man, Bravo!! Quote
RichterX Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 Was that originaly a Max VF-1A or a Hikaru VF-1A?? Quote
Guppy Posted April 14, 2004 Author Posted April 14, 2004 Was that originaly a Max VF-1A or a Hikaru VF-1A?? it was originally a max. From the hlj.com sale page! But by the time I'd scraped off all the paint you couldn't tell. Although I went for the max as there were a few QC improvements over the hikaru 1/60. And apologies for the bad pics. they're a bit dark and pixelated. Quote
RichterX Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 Cool I want to get me a couple of 1/60 VF-1A Max to customize I really love the paint job! has any one try doing the holes to a VF-1 non fast pack to make it support the FP and got good results? Quote
Guppy Posted April 14, 2004 Author Posted April 14, 2004 CoolI want to get me a couple of 1/60 VF-1A Max to customize I really love the paint job! has any one try doing the holes to a VF-1 non fast pack to make it support the FP and got good results? my one big tip with a 1/60 - get yourself a good metal primer for the metal parts as the paint can flake off without it very easily. and put a few extra coats of paint and clearcoat on the tab that joins the backpack to the body. As this joint rubs a lot, the paint can come off in no time. And isn't the cannon fodder 1/60 able to support fastpacks? I forget. Quote
Rob Posted April 14, 2004 Posted April 14, 2004 nice custom you got there it looks nice and clean . Quote
Eternal_D Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 gups, update? comparison? waddup? need to know those colors!!! Quote
Guppy Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 gups, update? comparison? waddup? need to know those colors!!! hehe, sorry, I am lazy. I did panel lines on it last night so I'll take some new pics in a few hours from now after I get home from work (I uh.. promise! ) Quote
Eternal_D Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 gups, update? comparison? waddup? need to know those colors!!! hehe, sorry, I am lazy. I did panel lines on it last night so I'll take some new pics in a few hours from now after I get home from work (I uh.. promise! ) yes, please do! and get me the color of that grey-chop chop! Quote
Guppy Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 Done! The exact colors were: Gray - Tamiya Color For Aircraft spraycan: AS-2 Light Gray (IJN) Blue - Tamiya Color For Aircraft spraycan: AS-19 Intermediate Blue (US Navy) They are quite similar.. Funny.. I never even noticed until you pointed it out. The 1/48 darker shade is a darker shade gray where mine is a grayish blue. 2 comparson pics to my 1/48 low viz: Quote
Guppy Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 And here are some comparison pics to my pet bird, poppy. Quote
Guppy Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 OK.. now that is REALLY enough. back in your damn cage. Quote
Guppy Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 And last, finally a pic of battroid that is in focus. sort of. Quote
柿崎速雄 Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 And here are some comparison pics to my pet bird, poppy. why don't change your cool valks in gerwalk mode? you lovely bird must make friend with it~! Quote
Shmitty Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 That's a nice custom, I really like that blue that you used. Quote
Impreszive Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 I like the bird attack picture personally. Quote
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