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  1. It's all good: I went back and grabbed your corrected post and replaced the quote with that! As for the NMC: I would probably use wood (cedar or something else structurally stable) for materials. That way I could simply shape it and glue/ screw the joints directly into it (much like the replacement parts for the 14 inch SDF-1).
  2. Right? I consider the mecha in Macross are themselves a type of interpretation of real-life combat machines.
  3. I've seen him before, and I don't particularly consider his "opinion" to be worth anything of note.
  4. UPDATE: While waiting on supplies for Reliant ( Plastic Welder and Purple Power to properly clean the mold release from the Reliant correction kit ), I decided to try something with Airwolf to get a windshield on it: It's a modification of my original idea for mounting the windscreen and windows, but using what little Plastic Welder I have left to tack the windows in place, followed by hot melt glue and tape to finish the seals. All that's left is the two lower windows at the bottom of the nose and that part is done. Overall progress on Airwolf: I started doing more of the overall masking tape layer, limited to one layer in most places so it doesn't "bog up" details. This will provide a uniform surface for the primer, as well as cover over the dings and dents in the die-cast. At this point, the top and bottom halves of the helicopter are sealed and the piece is now one contiguous unit. After mounting the lower windows, I simply need to make the rear rotor, cut the slots of the landing gear on the undersides of the sponsons, decide on the weapons, and mount the turbo boost nozzles aft of the sponsons and the exhausts up top. Stay tuned.... Airwolf will be back in a moment...
  5. It's actually solid black plastic (the soft kind, polypropylene), and it is recessed from the surface. The actual Bell 222's windows are flush with the surface. Also, my heat gun died 6 months ago so I have no real way to heat the plastic (cannot use the stove as it has an automatic feature to turn off the burners with no pots or pans on them). :(
  6. You know, we really could use 1/6 figures of Roger Smith, R. Dorothy, Norman, Alex Rosewater, Angel, Schwartzwald, Alan Gabriel, Beck, Major Dan Dastun and the rest of the gang. I also think it would be fun to have a line of the Megadeuses and other mechs in the series (like some of Beck's utter flops!).
  7. Not sure what "plunge molding" is; I do know the "heat and smash" technique (heat plastic, pull over buck), but I would have to carve a buck for the canopy and I don't have a lot of luck getting proportions right.
  8. NICE!!! Sometime if I come across a 1/100 VF-1 kit, I should consider at least some of those! BTW: looks like you dinged up your right index and middle fingers! O.o Watch out: those models can bite!!! Seriously, I'm sure all of us have those "badges of honor" from our endeavors with modelling. I know I get at least one during any kit or project I build! Thanks! And yeah: just waiting on more Plastic Welder (next Wednesday) to continue that project. I still need to make the windshield for it (no idea how to do that just yet!) and seal up the cockpit before painting. Also still waffling on doing attachable weapons on it. Meantime, my parts for Reliant should be in this morning; I've already done some modifications to the warp nacelles to make them look more like the Refit's (they originally had a "belly" on the bottom, the Bussards were shaped wrong and a few details were lost in sanding and needed replacement). Also: 3 Tomcats still in the works (1/72 VF-1 Wolfpack, Top Gun [Maverick's plane pre-crash], and VF-142 Black Lions), a 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1 Valkyrie (Millia's, but will be repainted to VF-33 Starfighters) with a custom flight deck catapult diorama, a new blade for my Voltron's Blazing Sword (made out of aluminum, once I can find an appropriate piece of the right thickness and length/ width that won't break my wallet!) ... ...and a new set of nerves for my old, poor shot ones! Speaking of projects: I almost forgot to post the pics of the Thuverl-Salan Class ship I scratch-built some time back- Yeah... it needs some work still (antenna, weapons emplacements, etc). Got burned out on this (kept thinking green turd); I'll have to come back to it sometime. Stay tuned folks....
  9. Still waiting on BBTS for my ML G1 Prime preorder. Looking more like April than March about now...
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