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Snow day today, 2nd heavy snow day in one week. Had to shovel in front of my apartment.

Decided it is a Macross day, will pull my Bandai 1/72 VF1-A/S Strike and take apart and fix/glue it into Fighter mode. Will share a base with the EggPlane Strike Valkyrie in same colours. Kinda fetish for me to add a super-deformed version.

I can do small detail hand painting at the table showen but mostly assembly, putty and cleanup.

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Looking good fellas.

@Crazy, are those the Bandai 1/144 M7 models hanging out with your incom speeder?

@Kenny, that ML installation is looking pretty sweet. I'm wondering if the PPC is a little coarse still?

Now that you mention it, I think you're right about that PPC. I think the joint between the Aves and barrel jacket needs tightening up a bit with some fine sandpaper and diamond files. I think I will brush on a bit of primer over the joint before I tackle the real priming so I can clean it up nicely.

Thanks for the input. :) I'll take it all day.

Kenny

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Just finished the Mk 1 Viper from Battlestar Galactica. It's a great kit, and it went together fairly easily. Two complaints, the wings should be a separate construction, like the vertical tail. This is easily fixed by modifying the tabs that hold the wings to the engines. The other has to do with the engine cans. It should be 4 pieces. The 3 tailpipes, and the central piece. This would make painting and detailing much, much easier.

Otherwise, I had fun building this!

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Nice work on the Viper, but what was Moebius thinking with that Nautilus-style canopy? I know they got that from the full-scale mockup, but it looks really out of place IMO.

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I'm back to a little Gunpla at the moment.

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Really like this kit, it has the beauty of the MG without the engineering issues.
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Good to know, I might have to get one! Post some more pics of it if you have time. B))

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I can do one better! Side by side comparison of the original viper kit that was re-released with a clear canopy and a pilot (who I did build into it). I did paint the original kit in a much too dark shade of grey, this time I went with Tamiya's Sky Grey, which works out nicely.

The new one is significantly larger than the original kit, and looks much better out of the box. I did, however, not install the grey striping on the engine intakes as they broke on me. I was totally expecting the thin orange markings to tear on me, which to my surprise, didn't.

I really should finish my Mk 2 and Mk 7 Vipers, along with my classic raider and new raider.

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I'm a riveting fool:

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The first one is how I started this little "detailing" project. The second is the madness that I'm currently up to as of last night. By last count, it's going to take something like 6 hours for me to do all the fastener details. I'm a sick, sick individual...

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I'm a riveting fool:

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The first one is how I started this little "detailing" project. The second is the madness that I'm currently up to as of last night. By last count, it's going to take something like 6 hours for me to do all the fastener details. I'm a sick, sick individual...

LOVE IT!!!

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I've been learning to use the el cheapo trumpeter riveting tool, to be exact. It doesn't roll well if you apply too much pressure (tends to slip, hence the "corrections" you may notice in the pics) and the holes are a bit square. But I think it's far better than nothing at all and I'm certainly getting the hang of it the more I use it.

It's worth noting that the fasteners on the real thing are a lot closer together and much finer as well. But like I said, to me, some that aren't accurate, is better than nothing at all.

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The detail on Moebius VIPER is amazing IMO, I think you nailed it with the shade of Gray and orange. Its the one downside I've had too with these kits and thats the decals, some are really good and others just fall apart. Get cracking on those MKII's & VII's!! B))

@mickyg, that is some serious detail you're putting into that kit, and your not sick, sick individual. Demented maybe but not sick! :p

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Thanks! One other thing I don't really care for is the stand. It's a bit wobbly, and I cared even less for the landing gear... So wobbly stand it was! I liked the re-issue stand a whole lot more, especially since it came with a decal to identify what it was.

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You're not wrong!

It's especially bad when you realise I bought this kit for the pilot figure and to have something to practice getting the green on gray colors right. I seem to have turned it into much more than that...

@mickyg, that is some serious detail you're putting into that kit, and your not sick, sick individual. Demented maybe but not sick! :p

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Ok...this is for anyone building Captain Americas Pinky Space Crabs..My first crabs cannons did not end up level because I took the wrong approach to mounting them...I suggest trying this method, which I thought of for Crab number 2 -- which will have straight-er cannons! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to PM me about the method but I think the pics are pretty self explanatory.

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Nice to see some inbits getting some love :)

Well after weeks of stealing bench time here and there (usually in the wee dark hours) the QF-3000E has reached this point:

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Scribing on a cylindrical surface nearly drove me mad but it's done. Not a world class effort but it will do for now.

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I just have to finish a few small detail and it will be ready for primer.

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Cheers,

Brett

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sorry to be ignorant----but what are the cylinders and bubble things about??? Great job scribing on those btw!!! I wouldn't attempt scribing on my best day!

No worries. I am having a go at (my slightly varied) version of the Ghost as shown in this line art:

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Cheers,

Brett

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Will have an update later today.

Finally got my digi camera back and also getting a pull from my private warehouse delivered.

Unfortunately the EVA-01 & EVA-05 kits didn't make it back into storage on time, had some stuff that hit the 60 day deadline.

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Hi, I'm goin to do in a flanker su-27 scheme :)

Greetings.

Cool! Looking forward to seeing how it comes out, love how it's looking so far. Here is mine that I did.....holy crap....10 YEARS AGO!! Man time flies. I also used the Nora kit.

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A few years later I also customized my Yamato 1/60 Transformable Ivanov into this scheme.

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Chris

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