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  2. Thom
    Me neither. At least I had some Aclad Aqua Gloss and that worked good. Not anymore, which will help. And the RAM panels are the one thing that every manufacturer seem to over-emphasize. At 1/48, a decal would do just fine, considering how minimally raised they really are. Not having to pick out another shade to highlight them is great.
  3. pengbuzz
    And that makes it n entire operation that I cannot imagine anyone really desiring to undertake if the targets aren't stationary. Given the large amount of opportunity for error/ "a miss", it would make more sense to simply dispatch a fighter closer to the target where such time-delay and distance would not impede success. My mistake; I just realized you were talking about the Alpha-1 and Omega-1; for some reason, I thought you were speaking about the Ghost. Oops! Right; I think the Moon's orbit isn't perfectly circular.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Indeed, considering lightspeed delay in in effect both ways... it takes the beam a second to travel one light second to the target, but it also takes the reflected light or other EM waves being used to spot the target a second to reach the firer from the target (or two seconds if it's an active sensor sending out a beam that's reflected). Sniping over that distance is, frankly, pretty absurd unless you're shooting at stationary ships because you're going to have to essentially predict where the target is going to be 2-3 seconds from now... over a literally astronomical distance. That's a whole other project, the X-9 Ghost Bird that was competing against Project Super Nova clandestinely. Project Super Nova was still expecting a human pilot. Most people round it to "about 1" since there is some variation in distance.
  5. wm cheng
    @electric indigo What do you mean you do the light areas first and mask those out to do the camo afterwards? That seems harder, because the lighter greys don't get the metallic sheen only the camo areas does. So it kind of makes sense to do the lighter areas on afterwards, then you don't have to protect the flat grey areas from the metallic mist. I'd love to see your J-31! (weird that I couldn't add anything after the original post after the @electric indigo tag - I had to make a separate post - sorry)
  6. wm cheng
    @Thom That F-35C looks amazing! Can't wait to see more and now I'm looking forward to this ugly duckling. I guess they don't highlight the ram tape anymore on the latest F-35s? That will make painting easier? @Urashiman That Shinden looks sweet! I have the earlier one with the grey and orange markings, does this one also come with a huge sheet of decals for all the grey lines? I think this might turn into a Star Trek model with wallpaper decals where almost every square inch is covered 😛 @electric indigo
  7. Papa Rat
    @wm cheng Wow! Thanks for the update. What a paint journey. It’s looking amazing and worth all the time spent. ♥️ @pengbuzz wishing you all the best. Hope you find some reprieve. Hope your cat stays tape free too @Thom Looking sharp. Having top coats fail is the worst. I have had mine eat back into layers below too. Maybe too much thinner? Not sure what causes it.
  8. Papa Rat
    The overall silhouette looks way more streamlined and agile than the Hasegawa. I’m liking it a lot.
  9. GMK
    The unpainted plastic:
  10. jvmacross
    You mean like this one? They are harder to find these days, but keep an eye on Yahoo Japan auctions or Mercari Japan... Ebay too, but it will likely include hefty "finder's fees"... Good Luck!
  11. pengbuzz
    Thanks for the well wishes, folks. ❤️ Definitely a tough slog all ways around! About the only thing I've been working on is getting more grey hairs! O.o
  12. Focslain
    I enjoyed Clevatess, was better then the other edgy fantasy slop we've have in recent years. The humaniods fighting each other is on par with human infighting even during an existential crisis.
  13. SteveTheFish
    I did not notice that. In any case, the pendant is oversized and frankly looks dumb. If I really wanted her to have one, I'd mold one from another kit in Oyumaru and cast it in clear UV resin because the one in the picture looks a bit awkward. I can't remember, but I think the Blue Water ceased to exist once she used it to cast a resurrect spell in the final episode.
  14. derex3592
    @electric indigo YEEESS!!!!! The Starfighters were and are still amazing looking!!!
  15. pengbuzz
    Gets them more money and more use for the mold with only a minimal investment to further it.
  16. tekering
    Actually, it got overlooked on the original 3D model. The full-body version had it: However, it wasn't included on the headless version. 😒 Strange, that. 🤨 Actually, that makes a lot of sense. ☺️
  17. Big s
    Possibly, I know they have a mine layer and this one seems to have some extra vents on the upper chest . Bandai probably loves this since they just have to do a slight modification and totally milk the mold. They’ve had I think four versions so far
  18. electric indigo
    Is that a new Messer variant?
  19. electric indigo
    He had the best ride of all starfighters. Godspeed.
  20. electric indigo
    @wm cheng I guess what every 5th-gen fighter modeler has to realize is that it's much easier to paint & mask the light edges before the main camo than the other way around. I fell into the same pit when I built my J-31 😅
  21. pengbuzz
    At this rate...pepto bismo
  22. lechuck
    And this one is a fan passion project... Looks damn good to me, but could use a different soundtrack. I think I'm going to be very old by the time Bandai ever gets around completing anything Crossbone.
  23. SteveTheFish
    I'm working on painting this 1:6 Nadia figure that our friend Tekering 3D-printed for me! This is like an older Nadia with a more mature body. Sexy! So far I've done her fleshtone, which is a mix of Tamiya XF-10 Flat Brown, XF-2 Flat White, and X-6 Orange. Tamiya's paints have a rather limited palette and do not include fluorescent orange, so I used regular orange. I only recently learned that there is a Mr. Hobby fluorescent orange color I could have added to the mix, but this looks fine enough as it is. Orange is pretty fluorescent regardless. (FYI: for doing fleshtones, fluorescent orange or pink is pretty essential when mixing your own colors.) I guess this print also had a Blue Water gem for her necklace, but that got overlooked when printing. No matter though; since I've decided this is an older Nadia, there is no Blue Water as it's been spent. In the back is the July issue of Model Graphix magazine. I somehow missed this issue this past summer with its big Macross article and cover, so I bought it online. It came today in the mail.
  24. pengbuzz
    Very carefully, I would have to imagine! And I would assume: not requiring the complexity of added moving parts from a fighter with a couple of alternate modes, as well as a squishy and delicate organic pilot in a cockpit that required consumables such as breathable oxygen, in addition to radiation shielding and control interfaces/ displays. Yeah, that's what I thought (and good catch: it was 1.28! I hadn't caught that.).
  25. Urashiman
    Didn’t post in a while. Got new stuff for future workbenches. Hehe Finally got my hands on a Hasegawa VF-1D that is not sold for a fortune. I was always eyeing that ASF-X, so finally got a nice one And on top, a Plamax Super Valkyrie. Fun fun. I once read: building model kits and purchasing model kits are two different hobbies. I hope to have some more time to actually build stuff. Life is kinda busy at the moment.
  26. M'Kyuun
    Sad news. While I never watched it, or much of anything else zealously with any regularity as a kid, I'd tune into Buck Rogers from time to time. Gil Gerard came across as affable and roguishly heroic, a perfect fit for the role. Of course, my eye was usually on Col. Deering, but the show on the whole was fun and inventive, like so much sci-fi from that era. Thanks for the memories, Captain Rogers! RIP
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