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Hi Ewilen.

Considering the organic design of the ships, you'd be much better off building your own from scratch.

.....Unless you are a good modeler. You could modify and customize them a bit like I did with mine.

Britaii's ship is the worse, the front end looks way flat and the depressed rivets on the "panel' lines are the worst detail put on those models.

Since they are easy to build and low cost for some people, could be worth investing time on them.

There should be a park with 1/1 scale Zoids in it so the true scale of those things could be realised.

I like starship troopers too, the whole movie is insane.

what a lot of people don't get about Starship Troop' is that it was a parody about the way some powerfull nations make everyone else believe they can conquer all with their military superiority. If you see it with sarcasms is indeed a great movie, they are intended to be silly.

Same goes for Mars Attack wich is one of the best sarcastic modern films I have ever seen.

You are right; you should have kept that one for longer. It is a very hard to find kit with that box cover design and I believe it's value goes over $100 if complete.

I don't think the shoulder missiles hatches open like on the box art, but it can be customized.

Yehey!

Thanks Shawn.

This may not be big an issue to everyone in the boards but am sure glad it has the right time here in the H time zone.

Living in the twilight zone; for me 'time' is always important... B)

I think the show is pretty good. Although the computer motion looks somewhat archaic and we all know there's a lot better out there. the swinging and fighting action are pretty good. The colors and the sarcastic teenager attitude is what makes the cartton a well done product.

Don't worry if you missed some chapters MacrossX, we all know it will eventually come out on DVD...

Oh how I dream of 1/60 Destroids to sit next to my Battletech counterparts. I know Battletech is a bad word around here, as is Robotech, but heck, the got me IN to this hobby so they cant be all bad. If they came out with all of the other Destroids, I would have no choice but to buy one of each.

Robotech and Battletech aren't bad words here. Harmony Gold 'is'.

Most of us got our bases with Macross thru Robotech, so we owe some background history to it.

pics?

Yeah, what the heck!!! we weant pics....

Booster packs and hip intakes; they make a big different, since they bring out the detail and cover some glued pieces that are a pain to putty and sand.

...but you could get away by using styrene pieces and save money. Then again, do you want to do the extra job??

Just in case you ever again encounter a problem like that one I have a suggestion. Grayson is correct on the pressure of the compressor/can being the cause that gave you that motted effect with huge dropplets on the model; It was way too low.

The best way to fix it is stopping dead and adjust the air flow before messing the model further. But if you have that one type of paint already mixed and want to give it one last use before it dries out...and you are in a roll and don't wanna stop...

here's my solution:

-keep going. Yes, If you see that the panel lines aren't getting saturated with paint then you are still in luck. What you wanna do is over paint beyond the ridges of the pannel line ( #1 red arrow has a small area filled compared to the #2 arrow)and over paint around the whole area. keep moving the airbrush relatively fast to avoid blobs of paint. Let it dry.

- Check the pressure and the airbrush; the motted affect could also be caused because the airway is clogged by dry paint. You'll have to practice the technique quickly somewhere else before aplaying it to the model just to make sure that is working properly.

-What you'll do next is "fill" the area in between the panel lines with the base color you had or an even lighter color ( this is the MAX technique). This is a tedious technique that requires concentration, a good control of the finger, small strokes and also constant movement of the airbrush ( the nozzle has to be on a small aperture or fine line set).

- I'll illustrate it on the pic. The trick is this, ( double action) start with a high air flow ( under 35 PSI) but don't let any paint spray out of the airbrush yet; get the nozzle close to the model 2-5 In. Then press softly (single-double) start pressing the trigger very slowly until you can see some specks of paint coming out just like in the motted effect that low pressure has. But since now we have a higher pressure rate as soon as you let that finger go it will splat the whole model and you'll get paint runs...

This is where the good finger control comes in handy. So increase the finger pressure slowly until the area starts getting slighly saturated ( it only takes a mere second to spot this happening). Now you better start moving the whole airbrush around the area or you'll get splots and paint runs. Then follow the white and blue arrow patterns( suggested, but once you get practice you'll get a better way to apply the paint) starting on the middle/center and then working your way out towards the panels in an oval motion...

Keep the airbrush moving fast enough so when you repaint over the area, the preceding pass has already dried.

This technique doesn't required an specific air pressure since the mixing rates and paints might vary 25-35 PSI is a big range to chose from and still get good results. Is more like a hit-miss-hit crash-course way to get it done with the minimum chance of making mistakes. And how I got it in about 2 tries.

a "while" for me is about 3-5 months just to start building it... Unless all of the sudden I find it a priority.

How bout a Pittsburgh MW Con! Oh, wait, I'm the only one in the immediate area...

That's why we have Otakon in Baltimore. Is the most inmediate place for the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. next year we have to make something like a Macross Con work for the easteners coasters like us.

Nice collection Chan.

I could only find the VF1S on a reasonable price. Bought it just because I wanted a more accurate scale. Then I realized they are exactly the same size than the Yellow Sub. and imaii models, there's going to be some mods coming up on 1/144 scale.

I am wondering the same thing. There's a lot of us who purchased the Xerogravity kits.

For my part I have both but I'll be a while before I get to work on them...

I am late to the party... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB!

My most precious macross possesions are ( because of the monetary investment and availability):

-The Macross Gold book

-My resin kit collection (G-Sys 1/48 ultimate VF-1J Strike; SDF-1, 2 modes; Yellow submarine kits all of the 1/144s)

To me, everything Macross is precious otherwise I wouldn't be spending my paychecks on them.

No pics. Try to imagine a dancing skull damnit!

So you mean something like this...Right!??

why, Why, WHY? DO you guys keep attaching the same image over and over to the boards? Just do an image link!!!

exactly my words... How about resizing the suckers down at least a little...at least that.

So they use red and blue VFs just like on the TV series...Oh well, is kind of late to paint the whole thing blue...

Muito O brigado Abombz

Thanks for the pics TWDC. I still don't see the squadron emblem though. any pics of that?

Ok; that wasn't exactly the Quead pic I wanted to show...but It will do for now...the other ones follows.

Hold on..."replace with new attachment".. AWESOME!!! Thanks Shawn....

since I am 90% to be finished I wanted to let some of you who bought my and Mslz22 recast that I haven't abandoned you. I been working on this for the whole week since I stopped the project late this spring. I'll be done soon and I'll post step by step of how I build it (IF YOU WANT ME TO).

Since I can never work on just 1 model at the time; I also have been working on the Hasegawa Gerwalk armor (the VF-1AG) I am currently stuck on the chest armor/ turret plates because I haven't figure what materials to use for it. Also I am working on the second version of the GBP armor for the hasegawa (since I used the old one for the VF-1AG)

...and Last; the 99% finished VF-4 lighting. Thanks to Valkyrie for the canopy...

As usual your coments and input is highly appreciated.. without more ado some pics for you mates.

Like the topic question asks I am wondering about that since Hikaru went away to follow Misa's tail on the SDF towards the unknown, I wonder If Max ended up having his own squadron of VF-4's ?

Was that the Dancing skulls or the Algenicus?

any pics?

OK; French looks nice and interesting, thanks goodness I can understand the main idea of all what you are saying and all of the latin root words BUT!!, is awefully rude to use bandwich without translation to the rest of the masses...

The VF-0 is way bigger and heavier than the VF-1...agility is definitively a big plus for the VF-1

1/72= 3

1/60=3

1/48=1

Where's the Spartan?? after the monster is my fav...

The Spartan It is the only mecha to achieve hand to hand combat and use hand weapons after a battroid; is slow but it makes it up with is missile load..