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Hasegawa VF-1D Gerwalk


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It kept gnawing at me and gnawing at me so might as well have a go while it's still gnawing at me. Also before Hasegawa announces the official one.

Cutting up GB6 to fit The D

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And it fits

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To make things on top fit, chopped up GB11 and D5

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The product. The support column from GB11 was moved over to GB12

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And finally cutting out the bit that drops down like A17 would on the A/J/S

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Fits together pretty nicely

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Probably still some tweaking to do but overall that was pretty easy

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dbh1973, the two kits are the VF-1A/J Gerwalk kit plus the VF-1D Valkyrie kit.

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I should probably mention I'm a slow builder. Right now there's a lot of really boring stuff to do like filling in ejector pin marks and occasional sink hole, that isn't really worth updating is it? Optimistically it's getting primed in 2-ish weeks and done end of May? Pessimistically... well I have an ARII VF-1D that was started in December 2012 and still isn't finished....

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Two things scare me about this build though: Hasegawa's really really fine panel lines and inevitably trying to scratchbuild a 1/72 Minmay...

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Great job on the kitbash. I have been wanting to do something similar with my Hasegawa VT-1 or VE-1

The canopy reminds me of the F-16D. It may look unusually long due to it having a flat profile, canopies for the F-14 and F-15E are taller and curved

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I have encountered significantly more laziness than anticipated with this project. Also kinda enlarged in scope ass I'm building the valk mode in parallel so that I can paint them at the same time with the same paint batch.

In the mean time here's some VT-1, VE-1 builds from twitter:

https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/613698564162596865

https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611409945842442240

https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611412752662310912

https://twitter.com/Temukichi/status/604551226479374336

Seems most people can't be bothered to wait for Hasegawa :D

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And here is a monument dedicated to my laziness...orz

well... bright side: you don't have to scratch a 1/72 Minmay...

Will you finish it in a different scheme now?

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I can't believe I missed this Hasegawa issue - I didn't think it was a limited release thing, but now HLJ says its discontinued - argh!

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I can't believe I missed this Hasegawa issue - I didn't think it was a limited release thing, but now HLJ says its discontinued - argh!

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