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Nice finish! I like this little project and you made it so great!

I second that you are an hero doing all this!

That’s looking great @Jasonc, reminds me strawberries marmelade !yammy

Great scaling with the figure. This is always a great satisfaction when our ideas come to live !

Woah amazing set! I love it

That’s an impressive project and great 3D skills !

Impressive Meltran collection!

I totally agree.

Nice paint job

I would love to be able to create such a nice LEGO! You should share it with Kawamori!

I am glad you like it! When I made this design, I let some room for improvements! The stripes were made with paint and masking: yellow first, masking sides and spray metallic grey. Then masking diagonal bands and spraying black.

I am sorry for the breakage, your vf-9 looks so nice, I hope you will finish it soon

That’s crazy! A figure figurine ! Or a figurine figure... go figure which figure is which :0)

There have been a lot of finished projects lately! That’s a great trade off to the lack of new toys release. Thanks for sharing!

Your smoothing technic is amazing! Please share with us !! i have also a great news: I have found a tumbler in my new job and I will test it day and night to smooth my prints as soon as the situation come back to normal :))

That’s great to share your method! I am still hesitant to use led stripe but this tutorial might convince me to tune up my detolfs thanks!

I have used 2mm aluminum tubes for some time, you should try 3mm ones, they are light and will not bend easily!

Nice custom!

I just hope these packages will find their owners sooner than later. I have made a test at Shapeways, and seriously their prices are still ridiculous compared to nowadays print services. Anyway, I have put my Ghost X-9 there just for reference: 1x Ghost in white processed plastic WITHOUT SUPER PARTS : 270 USD 1x clear parts (canopy, eye and Sharon): 10 USD add the Norev car to obtain the rubber tires add shipping add sanding efforts add red painting This is all you get with @valhary for half the price. And never underestimate the sanding hassle with PA12! I don't expect any sales from Shapeways in the near future. If ever you come by a great print service locally let me know NB: it takes Shapeways a few days to review the model before putting it online. The models will appear there soon

I hope so! The Mexican post never failed me before

I will experiment eye combinaisons later !

@Metal Man I can have a look, I doubt shapeways would be cheap anyway. Perhaps if you are ok with a version without the supers it can be affordable. I was playing lego with my kids and couldn’t resist to modify my ghost so it could have swappable colored eyes! Unfortunately the original eye hole was a bit to tight so I had to slightly adjust the LEGO antenna to fit in. No glue required for this mod!

@tekering thanks a lot for everything but of info here Additionally, these figures are so sharp, there is no way I could imagine there was one or two hand painted in the lot!

Ho! Nice info there I was going to tell to avoid the TS-clear/matte coats because they have a tendency to react to anything that is not tamiya TS and AS paints. Like making bubbles and even worse. I use cheaper acrylic coat in spray that I can found in car shops. So I can put how many layers I want to obtain a thick and glossy finish. But I am curious about the Mr hobby different cans you got @tekering, can you tell me what one does differently to the other ones? The super smooth one calls me! Also another question to experts: I used in the past TS-47 spray from tamiya, it is called “chrome yellow” and I totally love it’s formula because you can spray a thicker layer of paint and it will “magically” self-level itself when drying: it was perfect to smooth any 3D print surface. I would love the same behavior, with a clear coat. Does that even exist?

I decided on a colored paint theme for my last VF-9. It was sitting in my detolf for so long in grey primer, I almost forgot about it.