Urashiman

Gunpla is fun. Just add tamiya black panel line stuff and rub excess off with a rubber. Easy results

Digital workbench ... in KSP2 ... Kid wanted to see a YF-19 fly. edit: quick Update from the real world workbench. My kid is obsessed with my Master Grade 1/100 RX-78-2 and he always wants to play with it. So I got him a HG 1/144 RX-78-2 for around ~10€ off ebay. the build took roughly one hour. Articulation of the joints is really impressive for this scale. Nothing to compare to MG or PG, but still impressive. I’d recommend it.

You can produce basically anything in China, even if it is not going to be released in China.

China has some restrictive laws, especially for video games. Releasing something in China isn't too easy.

Kids I tell you…

I have the ones for the 1/72 yf-19. really good quality!

They will eventually re-issue them frequently. I saw that happening at least two times now (could be more though), so you just have to wait. You can also check Jasmine Models photo etched sets if you are up for something fancy. https://jasmodel.shop/products/248001-pe-upgrade-parts-for-hasegawa-1-48-macross-plus-yf-19 There are some re-sellers that sell the set for outrageous prices if you really want the original hasegawa ones. PS: Welcome to the board!

it is fully poseable!

Workbench stuff! I didn‘t have time or space to go on with modell kits in the past weeks/months, so I got this for 2.62€ from the TEMU online store Temu is some Ali Express style china store. They had a new customer promotion, so instead of 30€ I got it for 2.62€. PS: no advertisement for the store, because everything else (if not promoted) is just the same stuff as on Ali Express. Anyway, this was worth every little cent.

@wm cheng that is an awesome galactica! @electric indigo glory to your house!

Nice - I was thinking about purchasing one of these as well. How long does the charge hold up?

Not really my workbench, but I gave my kid my over 20 years old yf-19 to play with. He loves planes. I knew what would happen and I didn’t mind, because I have a brand new YF-19 kit waiting for me in the basement. this is what pros call „natural heavy weathering“ XD the kit falling apart due to heller glue (useless kit glue, takes ages to dry) and was heavily damaged by my siblings less than a year after I finished it. It was in bad shape already…

They HG YF-29 looks super bulky ...

hahaha - yeah, good point. Maybe you can use gears and transmit them to single axis dials or something. That might work, but maybe that is a bit of overkill hahaha.

Dude ... hahahahaah that is awesome. You are missing the seven segment display on the UHF radio for the freq. You gonna build that? Is the dial working on the rotary switch for the TACAN control panel? Gonna have the numbers on it as well? I know exactly which plane this is from, but want to let others give it a try as well.

ah okay!

Oh man! You are right! Bye bye money ... wait a moment ... my purse is empty ... damn

Nice - is that a F-14 canopy?

Oh! It'll come with more weapons.

Ever heard of that "bad influence" your parents were talking about? That is me.

I‘ll go with a careful rub on this one now.

Well, it just straight went into the fine structures of the uneven paintjob. It wouldn't be that bad if the color would have been more glossy. Technically, I have to rub the color off, and then spray it again to fix the issue here. @Big s Yeah, it is the tamiya panel line stuff. It is too thin. I will go back to oil color washes now. It smells more due to the turpentine, but works much better. I am p****d because the panel liner from tamiya worked great on my gundam and the 3D prints, even with mate colors. hurghghghghglgl! @ahiachris Nice rabbit! Is it a scratch build or 3d printed? @Bolt Yeah ... I kinda got back some motivation as the F-14 turned out that well. The VF-19 and the VF-22 looks nice so far as well. Sometimes the setback is just annoying as hell.

@pengbuzz & @Big s, thanks a lot for the troubleshooting. I usually use gloss color or a gloss coat so panel lines and washes go great. From time to time, color is less glossy in some areas, the surface a bit more rought, causing the stuff to look super dirty. To fix that, In usually spray over it, so the model is recovered. ps: my f-14 coming along well.

$%#@&!!!!!! Never going to panelline and wash anything anymore ... The wash went super bad on my Plamax VF-1. I am really unhappy, and I am at the point where I am just like "Argh ... **** it, just **** is, I am not going into contests with this." And I think I forgot to paint something... 😒

Was a busy building day today. the VF-22 is nearing the finish line. the vf-19 got the main color, the f-14 got some masking and details. and a little horror story about me destroying my plamax vf-1… this morning I looked at the minmay decal on the vf-1 and was unhappy with it. I decided it would be best to take it off, and print my own with better quality. Sounds easy but… it was not. printed decal versus the low quality chinese one. And guess what? It didn’t wanna come off, so I had to scratch the decal off…. I hat to paint it again. rescribing… No decal on it yet, but soon. Needs to cure first.