Urashiman

Thanks a lot! did some test printing with clear resin today. Printed the new cockpit pieces and the canopy. I think I need to polish the canopy. When still wet, it was clear and see through.

Almost looks like a 3D rendering, because auf the mirror surface.

Finally got enough willpower to force myself to fix the botched panel lining on the plamax VF-1A. still looks a bit dirty but much better than before. I tried adding the wings and noticed that the main fuselage is scratching on the paint of the wings, so I had to carefully sand down the cover. Almost there… I want to 3D print better wheels for this one. The ones in the box are… not good. I did some priming on the Alto VF-171EX.

well ... technically you can do that, but you'd have to cut the canopy. I should do a little Mirage as well, so people can do this:

@wm cheng Awesome! I saw that thread about your VT-1 bakc in the days and wondered if you would ever finish that one Now to my stuff. I have been fiddling with my VF-9, not being ultra happy with the cockpit interior. Especially the panels weren't that good. Just be aware, there is basically little to no stuff about the the insides of the VF-9 cockpit except for what we can see on the VF-9 line art of the whole jet, and some stuff from the beginning of the Macross M3 intro, where things are kept rather vague (everything is just super dark). In my first version I was aiming to get something that kind of looks like the VF-1 cockpit and a bit VF-11. It wasn't too detailed though. Here are the renders of the old cockpit interior. And now, the new one. I was going more into the VF-11 direction and was looking at the macross delta stuff with Mirage in the cockpit of Mirias VF-9 during that short sequence. I didn't went as detailed as I could, because a bunch of the stuff is just too small to print properly. The main thing: I am satisfied with it and can go on rebulding the next parts or building new parts. Sometimes, something is bugging me so much, I cannot continue without fixing it first.

Just get the hasegawa decals. They work as well. I got a cheap sheet (~12€ including shipping) on eBay for the 2009 Minmay special VF-1.

In the words of the great Captain Kirk "I think he did a little too much LDS..."

My wife 3d printed som toy stuff and is painting that stuff now. Kid wanted to paint something too. Gave him the VF-9 test print. interesting paint scheme…

That cat is actually eyeing the empty food bowl there ... XD

I think it is only the perspective.

VA-3M? Maybe?

yeah ... the orange canopy is a bit much, I agree. Maybe do a vacu-form copy of the canopy and use that? I'll stick with the orange one though. Looks nice

Well ... you have it in the other comment there. I use a clear sheet and tape the whole decal sheet to the other side, then carefully place masking tape on it and follow the outline. Here are two pictures of me doing that for the VF-22. It works quite well. Another method is measuring everything and placing by hand, or how I do it sometimes: just guessing the right position and putting it on. For the Kakizaki VF-1 I first marked the whole area for the top of the fuselage, then sprayed it green. Then I masked off the green areas and went on with black paint for the black portions. Went to the basement and took a picture. Unfortunately the vertical stabilizers went off in the storage. But here is my kakizaki vf-1a.

that is how I did my Kakizaki VF-1A. I never use the giant black and colored decals. Too much of a hassle. Just mask the areas and airbrush it. I looks better imho.

Lol, didn’t notice. Hahahah

@Raikkonen here, have all the runners and a dry build

Good I purchased two…

hey ... I actually follow you on youtube and watch your stuff. I think you are doing it like most people here. The VF-1 from hasegawa breaks down easily into build groups. I am doing one by one so you have: - The nose with canopy and cockpit - The main fuselage - Jet intakes - The "Backpack" - Jet engine bays (the legs) - wings and stabilizers - wheels and landing gear bay panels I usually do priming on the cockpit (partially build), the engine bays and the main fuselage first. Then painting. After that I will put together the different build groups one by one and sand them. Then priming again, checking for imperfections, sanding and priming again. Then the paint job, decals and sealing. done. After all of this, I am putting the groups together. Let me check if I have some pictures of old VF-1 builds... In the beginning of the above video, you have the pieces for the jet intake colored already and then glue them. I usually put that together in one go, safe for the fan, that will be added after painting. Edit: didn't find anything from mine yet, but just check rocketpunch.biz, he has a great build log there. https://www.rocketpunch.biz/wip-hasegawa-vf1a-1/

Ah.. that kit is awesome. I wish they did a 1/72 version. Most if not all YF-23 kits are based off of the dragon mold from 1991ish.

The did something boneheaded and molded the pylons onto the wings. So there is two sets of wings.

@Gabe Q It is decided then. The blue Paris Show Minmay Guard scheme it will be. @Big s Yeah, but that'll be a really bad tire profile from last century then hahahah.

Some VF-9 stuff again. I decided to do a test print of the fixed parts with "3D" RCS. In my ultimate wisdom, I decided to print them in white resin... which kinda is bad to actually notice any significant details. As my wisdom is endless, I then decided it would be a good idea to use Tamiya panel line accent color, only to find out, it will be sucked up by the fine lines of the print layers ... duh. but here, have some pictures. Old v1 prototype print versus new one. As you can see I had my fun with the old print here and there. I have to prime the second test print and then panel line it, just to check how it looks.

I‘m not the diorama type guy… unfortunately. But you are right, by the time of Macross D7 the VF-1‘s are really old, so heavy weathered VF-1‘s are out there. Here are some screen caps from the intro: and in macross D7 they have the commercial Valkyrie, VT-1C aswell. @Thom yeah, the minmay one is my fav so far.

You‘ll laugh, but I actually considered the Macross The First VF-1 as well. I wanted to either go super clean or heavily weathered with a blue and white scheme. I remembered there to be some VF-1‘s flying in the Macross 7 Dynamite intro, which always intrigued me. Kinda looked like this but with way more white. I‘d do that with heavy weathering and ordinance. I was also thinking about the pink/purple minmay guard scheme, as well as the blue one here which looks pretty awesome: And then, of course the first production rollout model: these would all be clean builds.

I‘m out drinking with some friends for a while but will take pictures as soon as I am back. Edit: here you go