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  1. Little progress on the VF-1.

    Airbrushed the cockpit stuff.

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    Also fixed the burping on my VF-22, and sprayed the gears of the F-14D partly

    As you can see in the above picture I had some fun with my 3D prints. Checking how color sticks to the prints. Let‘s see how that works out for me. :)

  2. @MechTech & @wm cheng Basically, there is less detail on the Plamax VF-1 compared to the Hasegawa one, but the Plamax one stays true to the master file line art. The Hasegawa VF-1 has a bit more added detail (not in the official line art) like the small little holes on the panel lines to emulate screw/bolt holes. I like that Plamax made sure to give the RCS on the VF-1 more depth. I wonder: when bandai had the 1/72 VF-1 already, would people complain why there would have to be a Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1? The Hasegawa mold is over 20 years old by now and Plamax is introducing new technique to their mold.

    @wm cheng I dunno about your experience with real life guns, but let me explain a bit. A mint gun or rifle looks really fresh. No scratches, no chipped off color, no rubbed off plastic. Over time, the gun black would start to rub and chip off on edges and corners, as well as the spaces where a soldier would put down their hands often. The plastic parts are usually molded in the color they have on the battlefield and are not painted. Plastic starts to "polish" the more it is used. I remember my army rifle which was in service since 1964, and was really worn out. The handhold was really glossy as well as the grip. The trigger was basically rubbed blank, no more gun black on it. The hinge to reload was rubbed blank as well. The nozzle was matte, and edges were chipped off. The mag eject button was super rubbed off and polished. In ALIENS I think they used the fresh out of the box look, as the rifles where supposed to be super new. What kinda annoys me about all the customs and recreations online is, that the color on the handle and the mag holder of the M41a are always super chipped and worn out, showing metal beneath, where obiously the piece is supposed to be made out of plastic. It looks fancy but is not accurate to the movie. Yours has a mostly clean look, which I like, and kinda warhammer 40k like highlights :)

    @derex3592 & @pengbuzz I feel you ... how often did I spill lacquer color or solvents, or managed to break an almost ready wing for an RC plane and would just leave the room, to not throw a temper tantrum and smash it all to smithereens...

    @MechTech I wonder - will that ship eventually float and be RC controlled?

    Edit: ah man ... it sounds like I am super mean again. Sorry - that is not intended :(

  3. Okay, here is some stuff for the hase vs plamax thing. Unfortunately I only had the spare parts from the ve-1 left over and a mint vt-1. so here, grey parts are hase, black and white are plamax.

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    The VE-1 was a first issue kit, meaning it wasn’t produced with the now worn out vf-1 molds. The hase vf-1 is a bit thinner on the walls and details are really fine. The plamax vf-1 has really thick walls and the details are feeling deeper and broader.

    Sizes of the nose and mainbody are matching. The cockpit interior varies. The Hasegawa cockpit is smaller. The plamax pilot won’t fit into it.

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    A giant!

    I started priming on the cockpit parts today.

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    and - behold! I continued my F-14D. Love it, airbrushing with my „new“ airbrush goes so much easier now.

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  4. I couldn't hold myself back. I started building the new Plamax 1/72 VF-1A/S...

    First impression:

    The kit goes together nicely. What I like is that it is not trying to fight hasegawa, but doing it's own thing. I've build many hasegawa VF-1s since 2002 and the Plamax defo feels way different during build up. It is a nice refresh, and I like the details to it. Even being a bit more expensive than the Hasegawa one, this one really is worth it. I'd recommend it.

    If you expect something that is snap-fit here, it is not. The piece go together properly, but are not tight fit.

    First thing here: Black runner and colored instructions.

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    One plus over the Hasegawa VF-1? The little dude here that comes with the kit. No need to purchase a weapons upgrade kit :)

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    Second: from here on, no glue was incorporated. Everything is just "snapped together" (really losely).

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    Just a small comparision to my failed VF-1P nose print. I am glad the dimension of my VF-1 nose fit, which makes me happy a bit, knowing I am on a good way with the VF-1P. Notice the bend outwards walls of the 3D printed nose, around the cockpit area.

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    This is how far I got. I repeat: no glue used except for the pilot, the seat and the control panel in the cockpit.

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    Edit:

    I'll go to my basement later and grab a Hasegawa VF-1 kit to compare some of the parts.

  5. 16 hours ago, Bolt said:

    Isn't Hlj doing 25% off shipping.?

    even with the 25% off, it was EUR 26.something for shipping. The fun part: EMS was 26.something and the cheaper surface mail without tracking was 25.something. So I went with EMS.

  6. 29 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

    @Urashiman It's looking impressive already with the overall shapes & surface details. Very smooth, too, except for the stabs. There seems to be a bit of warping going on etc, so good luck with the fine-tuning!

     

    @MechTech Thanks for the encouragement. I'm doing a Kuwaiti sand hornet, and they get pretty spotty, too.

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    Yeah, they are paper thin and bend around. Light coming through easily. Have to make them thicker to prevent the warping.

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  7. Okay, I could resist. I printed every piece I think was fine, just to check wall thinkness and if it would print good, or not. Behold!

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    Around 18cm long, it is shorter than a 1/72 VF-1. everything seems fine except for the vertical stabilizers. They are way too thin. It bends like paper. So I have to redo them too. The engine bays and so on work great. They have a nice fit and I am mostly satisfied.

  8. @pengbuzz Falcon Punch to the face! hahahahaah *smash*

    @arbit Thanks a lot! Yeah, the support on the head was too thin. Let me tell you one thing - I won't use the magic support creator in Lychee anymore. Every time is use it, the print fails horribly. Yesterday evening I decided to place the support myself and make sure that everything is supported properly. I decided to print out the VF-9 nose canopy and so on ... the version one I have been working years on, because I just wanted to see how it looks printed out. The walls are super thin. around 0.5mm, but it still managed to print properly. Only when detaching the supports the back broke and the back of the canopy pieces shattered. I glued everything together, just to get a sense of the size the VF-9 has and how much thicker the walls need to be.

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    I have to go back to the mesh and change wall thickness on everything. I am redoing the nose anyway, so I make sure the wallthickness is increased for that.

    It feels so weird and amazing, actually touching the thing that I have been working on for so long, seeing it in the real world. It's just ... wow.

    hahaha

    But no further printing for me until I fix the wall thickness, so you won't see much prints from me in the next days. :)

  9. @arbit somehow your 1/72 vf-4 pilot didn’t survive the print. Looks like he smashed against a wall with too many Gs :)

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    maybe I should build a vf-9 crash diorama with thise failed prints. Hehehe

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    „3D printing is fun“ they said, „buy a 3D printer“ they said.

     

    but yeah, printing is getting better, print by print.

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  10. 6 hours ago, kajnrig said:

    Ask and ye shall receive. Behold, in all its yellow stripy glory:

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    That tail sticker is already dangling by a thread after 5 days of sitting in the box. Yikes.

    Unfortunately, I think that's it for now from me. This was supposed to be just a quick test fit for now so I could get a sense of how the kit builds before getting back to another project that's consuming my time - the 1/72 "Rodams RAS-40" GP04 (major pain in the butt, highly NOT recommended, best to do your LED wiring if you absolutely must have it). After seeing it wouldn't hold together on its own, I made what I now realize is the mistake of deciding to sticker the kit as I go. Now I'm gonna have to carefully remove said stickers and basically start the build over, for real this time.

     

    Oh well. Lesson learned. :lol: Into the box it goes for now.

    I will say, with regards to the kit, I like the overall shapes of everything. I'm still a bit too used to the Hasegawa shape - a bit fuller overall - but the slimmer look isn't bad. I dare say, though, the tail fins are maybe too vertical and could stand to be canted a bit more.

    Anyway, that's enough rambling from me. Hope everyone else is having fun with this kit.

     

    Ahahaha! Oh man - I do that quick strip with masking tape as well, just to check how far I can break the kit down into building groups for better airbrushing and decal applying :)

     

    And yes - putting lights into your kits is a churning task.... so many kits ended up in the trash.

  11. On 12/3/2022 at 8:31 PM, TMBounty_Hunter said:

    Would be neat of them to just drop a finely details VF-27 out of nowhere.

     

    Otherwise it's looking like gluing my Bandai kit into a static, solid brick is inevitable due to ABS joints aging. Redoing all the surface detail to cover up the gimmick gaps and oversized panel lines is not something I'm looking forward to...

    VF-27 would be awesome!

    @KOG Water Dragon 

    A YF-30 wouldn't be that far off, as they could reuse parts of the VF-31 Kairos. Speaking of which ... A VF-31AX would be possible, as there is only little re-tooling needed.

  12. On 12/3/2022 at 4:05 AM, kajnrig said:

    So I've started putting together the cockpit, and... this is supposed to be a snapfit kit, right? Because it really doesn't feel like it. So far, the seat, pilot, instrument panel, and cockpit fuselage (two parts apiece) don't so much snap fit as precisely but loosely align.

    Now, it's no problem for me to glue and cement things, but I was just under the impression that this is supposed to be snapfit.

    EDIT:

    Yeah, not sure where I got the impression it'd be snapfit, but I'm done with the nose cone now and it most definitely will require glue to hold things together. It was a hell of a time trying to hold it in my hand without it turning into a hand grenade. Masking tape, here we come. :lol: 

    post pictures of your build please :)

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