THOR Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 (edited) Reply to this topic if you are interested. $135 + shipping If I see at least 20 interests, I'll start making molds. No decals, no base. Computer Generated Pics in SolidWorks... 3D Printed Parts Pics in 1/48... Interested List: Spitfire_BR...1 Heavy Melder...2 Cool8or...1 Kicker773...2or3 neptunesurvey...1 Edited July 20, 2011 by THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire_BR Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 I'm interested ! But wanna see the pics before sign the order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 (edited) I loaded pics from the computer just now...the master measurements were taken from a 1/72 resin kit. I printed most of the parts out in 1/48. Other scales possible. I'll post some of the 1/48 part pics tonight or tomorrow. THOR Edited July 11, 2011 by THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I'm interested but I want to see parts because grown parts tend to have the lines on them from the growing process making them a pain in the ass to clean up. (and usually in places where it becomes impossible to clean them up). Also is there going to be a cockpit or anything? Landing gear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Heavy... i can't stand the lines either. i will clean the parts up as smooth as glass before i cast them. no cockpit...i thought this was a (space) drone like the ghost is an (atmospheric) drone? am i wrong? landing gear? never saw any line art. if someone has them, i'll put them in. did a search...guess a cockpit is in order... BACKGROUND The Lancer II Spacefighter was one of the first creations of the UN Spacy utilising the new technology found onboard the SDF-1 Macross. Whilst the Variable Fighters and Destroids were being developed Lockhee put forward a proposal for a space borne fighter that was cheap to manufacture and easy to maintain. The UN Spacy approved the SF-3a Lancer II Space Fighter for use on board the new ARMD platforms being developed and manufactured at the Lagrange Space Dry Docks. 78 Lancer II Space Fighters would be carried onboard each ARMD, their long range high powered Laser Cannons and Medium range missiles making them excellent and agile fighters rivalling the agility of the VF-1 Valkyrie in Fighter Mode. However unlike the VF-1 and later Variable Fighters the SF-3A Lancer II is limited to space operations only. It is not designed to enter an atmosphere, and it would burn up on re-entry and be reduced to a fireball, the Lancer II's heat and radiation sheilds only being designed to defend against natural radiation and heat found in space. After Space War II the Lancer II Space Fighter was still manufactured and fighters were assigned to the ARMD platforms and Factory Satellite, as well as the Apollo Moon base. As the Variable Fighter took precedence over other mecha the SF-3A Lancer II was gradually phased out, many of these fighters being scrapped or sold to Colony World space defence fleets. By the late 2020's the SF-3A Lancer Space Fighter could only be found in the remote and poorly supplied Colony world defence forces, or in the hands of private collectors and museums. http://unsd.macrossroleplay.org/lancerfighter.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 I'm on my way to Chicago to G-fest. I'll work on a cockpit & landing gear. I'll add a pilot, too. -THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I'm on my way to Chicago to G-fest. I'll work on a cockpit & landing gear. I'll add a pilot, too. -THOR I'm in all the way and I think I may have to get two of them. BTW If you need a resin caster (someone who really knows what they're doing) lemme know I know a guy who is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool8or Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Interested!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kicker773 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 (edited) Thor, what's G fest? I'm in for two or three.. Edited July 14, 2011 by Kicker773 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayson72 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Thor, what's G fest? I'm in for two or three.. That would be the G-String festival... (men only) LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kicker773 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The miss nude galaxy competition? I worked security there before. Seen some funny and dumb ish derr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neptunesurvey Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I'm interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 So any news? Curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 I got back from G-fest last night. G-fest is a convention in Chicago for Godzilla and all things Kaiju (giant monster) put on by G-fan magazine. I met the producer and sculptor from the Gamera movies in Japan. I also met with a contributing sculptor of Resin Chef-Team Ukeke. http://rc-ukeke.com/ I designed and my friend molded the saucer for them and it sold out at the last Wonderfest in Japan. I got another tour of Badger airbrush and bought their awesome silent air compressor that can handle three brushes at once. Their stuff is really nice. After meeting the employees and ownership, I'm sticking with Badger. Nice people. I'll take pictures tonight of the parts I've had printed. Main body, wing etc. I'll also post pics of before and after sanding. I'm going to try baking soda through badger's "etching" air brush. It's just like sandblasting only using baking soda so i don't chew too much off the parts. I hope that will help smooth down some of my rougher parts. I've got to get a few molds done for other projects this week and then I can go at this full-steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 20, 2011 Author Share Posted July 20, 2011 update: printed body and engine/thruster covers: up close of the white-detail process (more expensive to print) no sanding yet up close of the white-strong/flexible (less expensive to print) no sanding yet i printed the radar sensor/wing in the white-detail and it is pretty thin. pic to come. i might need to throw in a carbon fiber rod in the resin to keep it from sagging. i'll try to clean up[ these parts and make them as smooth as possible before casting. i've got some ideas for a cockpit. use a veritech seat and a destroid-type video screen... i'm stumped on what to do for landing gear. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimateone Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 (edited) i'm stumped on what to do for landing gear. any ideas? Dunno, maybe something skid like, Viperish? If you need detailed pictures of various types of landing gear, let me know. I took a bunch of hi-res photos of many of the planes on display at the new(er) Smithsonian a while back. Edited July 20, 2011 by ultimateone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted July 20, 2011 Author Share Posted July 20, 2011 Dunno, maybe something skid like, Viperish? If you need detailed pictures of various types of landing gear, let me know. I took a bunch of hi-res photos of many of the planes on display at the new(er) Smithsonian a while back. would simple tripod setup be ok? basically sticks with skids on the bottom... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimateone Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 (edited) would simple tripod setup be ok? basically sticks with skids on the bottom... Don't see why not, I have the 1/72 version and that's the type of landing gear I always pictured it having. Easy enough to add detail to as well. You'll probably want the opinion of someone on the purchase list though, seeing as how I'm not there (yet). /Really interested now that this is getting the additional two details of gear and a cockpit. Just need to figure out if I can... Edited July 20, 2011 by ultimateone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahiachris Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Don't see why not, I have the 1/72 version and that's the type of landing gear I always pictured it having. Easy enough to add detail to as well. You'll probably want the opinion of someone on the purchase list though, seeing as how I'm not there (yet). /Really interested now that this is getting the additional two details of gear and a cockpit. Just need to figure out if I can... I got the 1/72 Lancer kit too. I was thinking on how to add a cockpit in to this kit and I somehow bump into someone's website in Japan building a non scale Lancer with a cockpit. This i sthe same guy that made the VF-9 I bought http://air.ap.teacup.com/applet/tac1991/1807_1/image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire_BR Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 i'm stumped on what to do for landing gear. any ideas? Definitely no wheels ! I agree with ultimateone, Viper's style skids/landing gear is the best option - but every time i look to a Lancer a little voice in my mind scream "skyhook, skyhook !!!" In this case spacehook, of course... Just put i tripod setup and that's fine. I got the 1/72 Lancer too and i'm buying the 1/48 just to make it with full and open cockpit, the ideia from ahiacris is great, looks like the Moscato's Gnerl cockipt, looks amazing ! And you don't need to make a vacuumform piece... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 working on cockpit and landing gear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 working on cockpit and landing gear... Nice, very nice..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ae_productions Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 i'm stumped on what to do for landing gear. any ideas? Definitely no wheels ! I agree with ultimateone, Viper's style skids/landing gear is the best option - but every time i look to a Lancer a little voice in my mind scream "skyhook, skyhook !!!" In this case spacehook, of course... Just put i tripod setup and that's fine. I got the 1/72 Lancer too and i'm buying the 1/48 just to make it with full and open cockpit, the ideia from ahiacris is great, looks like the Moscato's Gnerl cockipt, looks amazing ! And you don't need to make a vacuumform piece... That's the thing with the Lancer. And a few of the other mechs. There's just not enough pics/info on them. You're going to have to fill in the blanks with the little details, like the landing gear. Skids would probably work best for this mech. Hard to tell until you have it done in front of you! Regardless, I'm excited to see how this turns out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF-18S Hornet Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I thought the Lancer was a unmanned space drone fighter like the Earth based drone fighters stationed on the Macross on South Ataria Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 i thought it was a drone, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 Update: Still waiting for my parts. Had a snafu with Paypal thinking a scam was going on. Labor Day Weekend should give me some time to finish the cockpit. -THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Update: Still waiting for my parts. Had a snafu with Paypal thinking a scam was going on. Labor Day Weekend should give me some time to finish the cockpit. -THOR Good news, looking forward to progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 I got all of the pieces to make a cockpit-less & no landing gear 1/48 Lancer. I just ordered the pieces to make a cockpit (main body-redo) and landing gear. I'm prepping the pieces I have this week. In 2 weeks I'll have the cockpit version pieces and start prepping them. Pics comming soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool8or Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 bumpity bump.......any news on this yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 (edited) i got everything minus the open cockpit body/version for molding! i expect that very soon. meanwhile i'll start molding the other pieces. it looks so kick-arse being bigger than the 1/72. i'll post pics tonight with my half-done 1/48 vf-1 (if i'm not too tired after football practice) this thing has so many non-cannon options, too. why didn't they make an AWACS version or one loaded with missiles/bombs? Edited October 5, 2011 by THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 this thing has so many non-cannon options, too. why didn't they make an AWACS version or one loaded with missiles/bombs? That's our job, me thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 (edited) some pics of the pieces...hopefully the cockpit pieces will arrive shortly. new fuselage, canopy, landing struts... enjoy! Edited October 7, 2011 by THOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 some pics of the pieces...hopefully the cockpit pieces will arrive shortly. new fuselage, canopy, landing struts... enjoy! Looking good, very good.......however those bits off to the right don't strike me as Lancer bits..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Melder Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 So.....anymore news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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