Chas

Hope this does well enough so we eventually see an Iczer Sigma.

Just pre-ordered the Iczer Robo from Hobby Search. Been waiting almost 40 years for a kit of that little beauty!

Are those miliput molds?

Gosh, I have no recollection of the price I paid. I just recall that the main reason that I decided to pick it up was the cost was so much less than what I had seen online before I left Canada. I don't have any pics of the kit built up, but it was this version here (except mine didn't have the rocket launcher on the left arm.

Think it was the Mirage. I got cheap in 2006, when I was in Seoul. I'd built it up ( straight OOB build) and kept it that way for a few years, but it never really grabbed me, plus the joints had gotten all floppy and it was either glue it in a fixed pose or strip it down and throw it all in the spare parts bin. I figured it was worth more to me as spares to build other stuff from, still got a butt load of goodies in my parts bin from it, so all in all I think it was a good choice.

Yeah that scoop has been bugging me for a while. I've hesitated redoing it, cus it's so much work to rip it out and replace it and I work so slowly that I hate to take such a big step back, UT I know if I don't It'll bug me forever. Thanks for the kick in the pants!

Definitely replace with styrene sheet. The cardboard and Styrofoam are used to quickly work through ideas. When I settle on a shape I like it is used as a pattern to build a styrene Part. Then bonds, or Apoxy sculpt is used to smooth out the mating boundaries between the scratched pieces and kit parts.

Thanks for the compliment, but I am nowhere near professional level at scratch building/ kitbashing. Plus I am really, really SLOW! Here are a couple of early pics to show a bit of my ad-hoc process. Cardboard and Styrofoam were used to get a quick and dirty idea of basic forms that had to be scratched.

Wow! You guys are all pumping out some really great builds. After a really, really long hiatus I've been bitten by the bug again and gotten back into building. Well After moving my workbench and stash around a bit. I started this scratch/bash many years ago and decided to break it out and see what I could do with it. It started out life as a Trumpeter 1:700 scale USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 aircraft carrier, but I decided to make it my own version of a EDF carrier from the Space battleship Yamato universe. There's a bunch of parts from all sorts of stuff in here so far. I've ued bits from Gundam kits, Macross, Armoured Core, S.B.Yamato, a Trumpeter 1:35 Morsar Karl, a Revell Magnaguard fighter from Star Wars and more. I've taken inspiration from a few Japanese scratch builds I've seen, but I sort of making it up as I go along. The super structure and guns are just placed there for now to mock things up to get a sense of where I'm headed.

Rest well in the sea of stars sensei, your spirit and influence will continue through all those your stories have touched. Thank you for everything.

Just logged on for the first time in many months and OMG! this is absolutelyincredible news! It's like that recurring dream we've all had where you walk into this random, unknown hobby shop and you turn down one of the isles only to find a treasure trove of all of your vintage grail anime kits - Except this is REAL! UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE! As for spreading the word, if there is any Starblazers/SB Yamato stuff I would think the folks over at ourstarblazers.com CosmoDNA would love this story and be very interested in letting their readers know about available vintage kits etc. Now you'll have to excuse me while I go search for some grail kits I have yet to add to my collection.

Holy crap! What is that? ( I mean other than frikin' amazing , of course!)

Finished the preliminary build of the Academy, Gatchaman God Phoenix. Just need to putty a few small gaps, paint and decal. Close-up of the little guys Had to use clear orange for Jinpei's tank 'cus I didn't have any other orange.

Yep. That's it. I've said it before, and I'll say it again I'm done. I quit. This is an absolutely, jaw droppingly stunning display of ingenuity, craftsmanship and creativity. Unf#@king believable!

Wow! That's really nice Thom! What medium is that, digital or traditional? If it's traditional What size? Really nice work on those mountains! I really like the treatment you chose.

OK, that's it. I quit. I give up. With builds as stunning as these how can I get excited about my crappy little excursions into kit assembly. Absolutely stunning work. 😍

Absolutely Fabulous! The colours are jus spot-on and the technique . . . remarkable. The finish is nothing short of stunning 😍

God! That paint job is beautiful!😍

So that's like what 1:300 scale? I wonder what the little Nichimo Valks would look like with that???

First of all, I know some folks thin it before application but I shoot it straight from the bottle. When you apply Future, you're better off applying a number of light coats than trying to do one heavy coat. When spraying straight try lowering the pressure below 15psi,( 15 is the max that I use with it ) and spray closer to the work.

For a Yamato of that size that thing is severely lacking in detail. Not worth it in my eyes, not when I've seen models less than half that size with way more detail.

Mikimoto only did the character design for Eve Tokimatsuri. (For all 3 parts) Toshihiro Hirano handled the other characters in pt1. Yasuomi Umetsu handled them for pt2. and Hiroyuki Kitazume for pt.3.

Unbelievable!😱

That's a good deal- nice find! Now you need to get the paints and find the time to build it!

Very nice weathering overall! well done build for sure.