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Latest completed build- Tactical Pod Regult


Jefuemon

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Old school kit, with new school tooling. This is the Bandai rerelease of Imai's old 1/72 Regult kit. Even though it has new tooling, it's still an old school kit. Be ready for a lot of puttying and sanding!!

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Since the Zentradi didn't know anything about maintenance, I wanted to make this look like it's been in action a few hundred more cycles than it should have been.

More to be seen at the regular place.

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Gorgeous. The rust weathering looks very realistic.

About the maintenance thing, didn't Klan Klan say something about Zentran weaponry being impervious to wear and tear, after Alto killed that Vajra with a Zentran cannon?

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Gorgeous. The rust weathering looks very realistic.

About the maintenance thing, didn't Klan Klan say something about Zentran weaponry being impervious to wear and tear, after Alto killed that Vajra with a Zentran cannon?

I think that was just the weapons, not the vehicles or ships.

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Wow! You're on a modelling tear!!!

Looks awesome!

Change in jobs really opened up my modeling time.

Thing is, with my current "to do" pile, if I build 1 kit a month (and don't buy anything else new), I'll finish up in about 4 years.

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Incredible work! The results are truly outstanding given how old the source material is. I've adopted a similar philosophy for coloring line art, LOL. I think the weathering and rust look particularly good. Built to last, but in dreadful disrepair; a very Zentradi-like mindset. Bravo!

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Nice work. I imagine it belonging to an ace pilot before being reassigned to a Glaug.

But I'm wondering, would a Regult ever get to be that worn out? Unless the pilot is an ace...I'm guessing the Regult would be floating scrap metal in space sooner rather than later...not one in service for hundreds of years...enough to become a rust bucket. And if the pilot was that good...he/she would probably get a better mech. Wonder what the average service life is for a Regult in the Macross universe?

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I used Sabitennen. The red bottle is very fine metal flakes in a suspended solution. The blue is an oxidizer. Basically, you paint on the metal, let it dry for a day, then put the oxidizer on it, and in 2-4 days you've got real rust. For the streaks I used Mr. Color weathering "rust".

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