Urashiman

@Bolt yeah… mine wants to play lego games… @Papa Rat indeed. I learned that from building gundams @Thom not that old… it is the plamax vf-1, which is 3 years old?

This is how far we got today. note: no airbrush use. Only panel line color, permanent marker for some details and the plamax stickers. It kinda looks cool so far. It is crazy just how much panel lines can make a kit make look so much better.

Haha nice! after rubbing off the plastic with ISO, those plamax stickers adhere pretty well.

@wm cheng here you go. Giant decal sheet. VF-1D box for comparison. My kid decided I should build a plane. Plamax VF-1 it is.

Yeah… the decals are bigger than an DIN A4 sheet. Tons of delicate lines and stuff. Might want to mask that… I‘ll take a picture tomorrow

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.

oohh - cool. Do you have a teaser or something? btw: Mekanimuss sounds like "Mechanismus", the German word for "mechanism". Is that intended?

For the lulz! nah - my kid annexed it. So no 😕

What's lying on my workbench (couch). I purchased something that has been suggested to me through one of my many ali express orders for RC car parts. For a whopping 7.65€. I couldn't say no to this. The box arrived squished up, so I hoped the pieces would be okay. Checking the pieces - they seemed fine. Everything is snap-fit, colored already and printed on. The assembly is straight forward. Here is a little step by step: The super detailed landing gears - I've never seen them this detailed before XD: And done: With wings that can be swept in It were a fun 5 minutes to snap this thing together. Probably the least accurate Tomcat ever, but hey - 7 euro-something for a plane already painted and printed on? I don't complain. haha... look at those huge panel lines. hahahaa

My purse is crying… another pre-order for me

@tekering dude! That borg cube made out of scrap runners ... I am jealous!

Yeah - same here. I am from Germany and exchange rates go around often. Business as usual, except for the generally known orange shenanigans.

yeah, it's just odd ... :S

yeah! I went back into my basement to check and yeah, the sides look normal, but the picture looks really blue tinted.

And done. It is interesting how these kits can look good without any mayor coloring (speaking:priming, airbrushing and coating). This was all done with tamiya panel line color, permanent markers and liquid chrome (also some sort of permanent marker). I hope Basara and Mylene can attract some Spiritia to fix the strawberry plants in the background. XD

Anyone seen mew pictures of this? Any news?

Almost there. hands, speaker gunpod and shield not done yet. all of a sudden, one runner after another fell. Kinda like, you reached the peak and then rolling downhill at incredible speed. I‘ll handpaint the white and yellow stripes on the head. It definitely is not an easy build, but my experience with robots/mech kits is… low. A few gundams, the plamax vf-1 and this one here. It looks really nice though. can recommend

Absolutely- super annoying

That’s a 3.50€ purchase from ali

I finally secured a VF-0B from HLJ. the box looks a bit sun bleached, like it was sitting in a hobby store window for a while. maybe they found an old box in the storage or something hahahah.

Got my rim world VF-171 today

Another ~2.5 hour, a bit more progress on the vf-19

Nah ... My kid wants to play with it, so painting it is not an option. Little kid fingers magically dissolve paint XD

well ... for the VF-19, they probably attempted the same, but there are like leg parts on the same runners that have head and body parts. The layout kinda looks like: "let's split it up for easier building" and then somewhen in between someone said "we have 125 runners now" - and then they had to organize more and stuff things here and there. I'll check for the runner letters and place them accordingly ... that uses up time as well. hahaha I'll take a picture later and show you how stuff is managed @Papa Rat Nice build man!

bloody hell... I've been clipping and sticking stuff together (as well as panel lining on the head) for almost 2 hours and only came this far with the VF-19 Fire Valkyrie. Head and piece of the body. The instructions have 139 steps. I am past step 15 now. This thing as so many runners, a perfect grade Gundam is getting jealous. From A to Z and then AA to AH. That is 34 - PLUS... a few of them are double... So man runners ... I'll have nightmares of this one hahahahah.