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They are back!?!? Everything instock too! https://jasmodel.shop/collections/photo-etched-parts-for-assemble-model

Red, blue, or black? Money on red!

You gonna have to buy all that detail from 3rd parties via resin, etch or prints! lol But, man would it build like a dream. If your going for detail in 1/48 nobody is topping Minibase their recent Flankers are a step above! The only Fujimi kit I've had the pleasure was the Datsun Z/S30 in the mid 2000's. I don't have any fond memories of it as it was quite a curve ball for a beginner snapfit gunpla builder 19 years ago... even more of a suprise finding out it was just a repackage of their older 90's kit with cartograph decals!

An amazon led light set (dimming and color temp selectable.) I glued magnet strips to the top of the light box. And to the lighs to be able to move them in the box. Finnhomy plastic white, grey, warm white, and black backgrounds and their old 20x20 reflective and collapsing light box. Camera is just my phone. 😆 Now to the REAL question. VF-1J 5Grand or VF-1A Strike Valkyrie next?

If you did the black primer/base, you may just score the lines with a knife and able to remove paint instead of a wash.

Let there be light(box)

@Thom Use some canopy glue like Ammo Ultra to fill the gap between the halves? Got the light box refreshed for the first time in 12 years. All new lights and backdrops. Tried it out on my PG Double O Gundam. Needs a bit more light balancing and possibly another led strip (down low in the front to kill the shadows,) but pretty happy. Will leave it up this weekend and try to snap a few pics of last years finished builds before it goes back into storage.

Remodeling, recasting and remodeling again. Ahhhhhhh

We aim to be perfect.

-see below- Uschi van der Rosten's "Trinity Splatter 2" is by far the best set I've come across. Their site has plenty of companies to buy them from, or just go to good old eBay. A few others make and sell them as "weathering airbrush stencils." AK is popular alternative. I just really like the brass one for durability/reusability and since you have to soak them in thinner to clean (no scrubbing as they are essentially a big photo etch piece. https://www.uschivdr.com/shopping-categories/shop-photo-etch/

If yours came with 3, cut one in half and on the other remove the thick border edge. Or just bend one into a 90° angle. That way you can get in closer. Remember you don't want perfect patterns. Imperfect is more natural as counter intuitive as that sounds. A bit of trial and error, keep going!

After Iran was cut off from USA tech they played around with adapting mim-23 Hawk surface to air missiles! https://www.twz.com/33456/iran-equipped-its-f-14s-with-modified-hawk-sams-that-had-bombs-attached-to-their-noses Here is a great read/transcribe on reddit with images.

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