Hi again,
After 2 weeks of work the job is done, it was very tired, many decals and many parts. But I liked the result.
"Leading edge", I am sorry for the delay, I asume you are refering to the knee, you have to avoid the part that covers the knee so the leg can turn to the outsides of the robot, you can cut it (modify it to let the joint still turning "left and right") and glue it in place, but I decided not to add this part, at least for, in the actual position of the robot, the knee is hard to see, I will make it a base and the nose will be higher, so legs will be more straigh and the knee will be visible, that´s when I will add the modified knee part.
I am doing a scrat build arm made from the kit sprues and a rectangle styrene to hold the robot in the air and pose it more nicely, I will add a wood base also, and I will also do an add to the back of the shoulders with the landing gears and probably with styrene, to give a nice aparent mechanical function to the retractable arms under the fuselage.
The kit was painted with acrylic Tamiya paints, base was light gray, preshaded with black, white on the top for the craft itself and a combination of medium blue and sea blue for the fast and strike packs, a clear coat of acrylic gloss gunze sangyo, added decals and sealed them, then added a thin layer of white to blend decals to the body as I don´t like they was very saturated in colour, and to strike and fast packs I added a thin layer of the mixed paint also blending the decals, and finally a coat of gunze sangyo flat clear...I would not recommend this kind of flat as it looks like it has no clear coat...hehehe, I guess I will use semi gloss next time for finishing.
I have to say I am in totally love with the result, I just love vf-1 gerwalk modes, Yamatos 1/60 v2 and 1/48 are nice, but I preffer the detail and quality of the scale models.
I didn´t added panel lining for this one.
Next projects:
VF-0s hasegawa 1/72 half gerwalk mode (in chicken mode...leggs down, but not the arms)
VF-0D gerwalk...
...I still have to figure out how to make the legg and arms convertion for the vf-0, I found a Jap magazine about this, but it is not clear, and pics are not enhough, if any of you guys ca help me with this one, I will appreciate it and make a step by step.
Here is the completed model as for now: