Urashiman

23 hours ago, Big s said:

Did you put a top coat on the decals after they were applied?

yep ... but the turpentine got through it too easily and killed everything. There are also other crazy methods when it comes to decals.
1. Gloss coat
2. Apply decals
3. Gloss coat
4. Sand decals, and carefully sand off the clear decal carrier foil
5. Gloss coat again

result: no small edges around the decals.

downpoint: it takes ages, so I am not doing it. haha

9 hours ago, Big s said:

I usually do the wash after decals and topcoat so the decals get the same weathering and panel lining as the rest of the kit

I‘d do that too, but I am super horrible at washing. Last time I did that killed my decals.

On 3/29/2024 at 9:51 PM, Thom said:

@Urashiman I remember! It may have subconsciously helped in deciding to build this one. I actually wanted a quick build for a model show coming up in a week. And, except for some fiddly construction, it has been.

That snow speeder is looking real nice, but don't poo-poo the VF-1 too much. She looks like she'll be a nice shelf queen.

Yeah. It has been declared accessible for the scion. He likes it.

Now on to the VF-19 front.

Paintjob done, gloss coat applied. Now it needs to cure for 24 hours. Then I can oil color wash it. Then decals after the wash.

@MechTech pictures were taken from around 1-2 feet away

@Thom I built one of these not too long ago

Another quick build today. I don’t think I‘ve finished that much kits in such a short time for long.

A star wars kit. Haven’t build one in years.

4 hours ago, Thom said:

@electric indigo All those little, exquisite little parts are sure to make something grand!

@Urashiman Sorry about the Plamax VF-1, but there are more out there to buy! As to the VF-19, I'm liking the blue. And that is master-masking!

 

For me, I don't know what I'm doing anymore! Every time I work on my model it changes shape again. I have no idea what it will be next!!

Those intakes look familiar…

Thanks a lot!

I mean, from far it doesn’t look too bad.

But I ordered more…

I decided to work a bit on my backlog. VF-19A.

Masking masking masking:

Airbrush airbrush airbrush:

Peeling peeling peeling:

YAY!

I decided that I am done with the PLAMAX VF-1. Botched… too man fingerprints and messed up paint job. I ordered a new one and will try again. No pictures as it is too embarrassing. The kid will have a new toy haha.

4 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I hope someone tells them they have the wings collapsed.  

Hahahaha 

@Thom Thanks - the kid is trying haha. My wife is going to paint that figurine. I am only good for priming and sanding hahaha.

@pengbuzz oh, that comes along pretty well!

23 hours ago, Thom said:

Sounds great when printing toys for the Scion though!

He has fun with it. Today he gave it a paint job.

i was busy priming and sanding.

5 minutes ago, Thom said:

@Urashiman Great that they won't break, but how will it do under paint? I imagine you might get a lot of flaking.

Yeah… just flakes off. So I am not going to use it for model building.

@pengbuzz ah a classic pengbuzz tape model! Awesome!

I decided to purchase SUNLU high toughness resin, thinking I would get my prints to be a bit more less brittle. It is awesome.  I can throw my print around and it doesn’t break… but…

well…

I smashed everything I could on the build plate of my VF-9.

and also printed an army of Milias.

And you can throw them around because the stuff basically is liquid rubber.

Can be bent around like crazy and doesn’t break.

Here two additional pictures for your convenience.

@pengbuzz man, you've no luck with your stuff at the moment,

39 minutes ago, wm cheng said:

Hey @SteveTheFish DO NOT USE lacquer thinner straight on the model, it will eat into the plastic.  Sometimes people use lacquer thinner as liquid cement. 

That's how my dad used to glue his models.

oh wow ... I didn't know what to expect when I clicked the thread, but I certainly did not expect this haha

50 minutes ago, arbit said:

@Bolt @Urashiman  I had one more idea for you. 

 

good good good good man

7 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Oh yes, and I've been recently working on a batch project of all four of ARII's Zentraedi capital ships: Breetai's flagship, Kamjin's flagship, the LST, and the standard battleship. I've put two videos on YT of this build so far.

 

 

Haha cool - I have the battle ship in my basement as well.

4 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Hotren hears a Ho? I thought Christmas was 3 months ago!! :lol:

 

Hahahahaha that movie man

2 hours ago, MechTech said:

@VertexNebula Welcome aboard! I know you said you had fit issues. It looks like there is a lot of glue oozing out of the joints. You can use baking soda as an accelerator and filler too if it comes down to that.  I'm guessing that's a 1/265th gaming piece?

@Urashiman WOW! you get extra bonus points for not only being a good dad AND passing on the hobby, but for completing THREE kits! That's about one a month so far. Can he keep up!?😁 - MT

4 now. The SU-47, the VF-1 the Horten Ho 229 and the Soyuz :S

6 hours ago, Thom said:

@Urashiman Fitment notwithstanding, I hope the Scion is enjoying the modelling adventure!

Oh he does haha

17 hours ago, Thom said:

@VertexNebula Welcome! And a nice intro. Looks like a nice little kit, fitment notwithstanding. Any idea of scale?

@pengbuzz Those will be in a shuttle flight heading out Monday from Caprica. They had a little too much RnR, so treat them gently. And by 'gently' I mean Drill Sergeant Gently! whip them into fine shape! And if you use the one with the bust one will be in even finer shape!

@Urashiman Your Padewan has a nice eye for a pretty plane. And gray is good. I looked around a came actoss this...

Or this...

Glad he (and you) are having fun with it!

Thom

 

Haha great!

In Soviet Russia, model kit builds you!

Another kit finished today. My kid was eyeing this stone age kit. So we build it:

The mold must be from the 70s or something. It had horrible quality. My kid wasn‘t happy with the build and complained.

Anyway… clamps.

After around an hour it was at this stage.

Even with sanding it didn’t look too good. It probably would have needed much more love, I guess.

have a look at the instructions

Here the result without paint.

Then I blasted. Primer and then revell white 04, thinned with mr. Color levelling thinner. I have found that when you mix revell enamel colors with the levelling thinner, they dry much quicker ~ 20-30min till you can touch it and leave no fingerprints.

I used the chinese not strings attached airbrush again. Then I masked and added more color.

Then some more paint with normal paint brush and done.

Total time invested: ~2.5h

no need for decals, the kit has none provided. Hahahaha 

Okay, time for some workbench stuff again.

I went to the hobby shop with the kid, and he found something that I had actually build in the mid 90s, but it was destroyed in the annual „strap ugly kits to fireworks to make space for new kits“ family ritual. 
My kid absolutely wanted this thing. I was reluctant to get it but hey. The kid demands, the kid receives.

A Revell 1/72 Horton Go 229

I am pretty sure the updated the mold, because I found way better quality on this kit than I actually remember from building this thing the first time.

The clamps were of good use again.

I used the Chinese battery driven air brush again. It‘s so fast to color things with it. Then canopy masking and primer.

Prior to priming this, the kid wanted it to have the classic red 13 camo pattern, but he liked the light grey of the primer so much, that he declared the plane to be finished.

Build time: ~2hours.

Man, third kit already done this year! I‘m on fire! Hahhaha

I have to finish my other kits and the VF-9 project some day. The kid is currently eating time.

On 3/1/2024 at 6:24 PM, arbit said:

@Bolt @Urashiman

Done. This is about as far as I will go with it.

Haha, great man!

14 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Yeah; it's this, only in white and formerly a "coast guard" helo:

It's about 1/32 scale ( measures 14 inches from nose to tail); I found what was left of it at an antique mall, and with the main upper being diecast, I should be able to kitbash it without the blasted thing falling apart on me.

(I hope.)

I plan on doing a limited rear command center for Dom (won't be able to see much from the front), and a full front cockpit for Stringfellow Hawke. Undecided about doing a Caitlin O'Shannessy figure as of yet (kind of on the fence about that).

Weapons: may do them as magnetic "plug-ins" that fit onto the exterior. Neodymiums should work.

This is something to take my mind off of things, as I had yet another tragedy amongst my models and figures: my custom scratchbuilt 1/6 Christopher Reeve Superman figure got knocked off the shelf (loud "boom box on wheels" came by on the street and vibrated everything badly) and the figure shattered (total loss) and the hand-sewn outfit was melted (landed on the radiator).

(That one hurt. )

I'm not going to try rebuilding it, as we have other issues cropping up, and my sculpting skills for faces are no longer what they once were. Also wrestling with Ebay and an idiot seller who's trying to rook us on an item. So, I'll just continue with this.

Stay tuned.

Dude ... you get no rest. But some day you'll run out of bad luck.

Let's see how that Airwolf will look in the end!

21 hours ago, ImChris5115 said:

Printing important parts and joints using phrozen ONYX pro 410, here displayed is the one of the main parts.

how durable is this stuff?

You know what would be a "quick buck" for hasegawa?

Releasing a QF-2200D-A as a single issue kit.

They'd have to change the mold though. Space for the gear and the gear as well as the autonomous head unit.