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Got my green Beta yesterday. Got him stickered up and panel lined today. Kind of sad....probably the last Mospeada toy that will go into my collection. Nothing else on the horizon. :-( (figs ....mostly still unpainted. ....by EXO)
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yeeeess....have a bandade or two handy when tranforming it the first few times!!!!
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Gawk at these piles of Macross toys..Back in the day...
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Hey----I 'm pretty sure I bought my 1st 1:48 Yamato Valk from him! ohhh....what a slippery slope that turned out to be! -
OUCH! that sux man. I still maintain that the 17's are the hardest Valks to transform because of the black hard to see plastic, that impossible effing leg swing around joint, and all the freakin pointy bits.
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I got everything I wanted from Yamato over the years toy wise except the Super O. And that one was always a luke warm want by me anyway. I surely AM glad I got a VF-4G/VF17D/and a 19F "before the fall" however. I don't have any extra's, and all mine have been stickered and panel lined, so they will never be mint but I got them to enjoy, so whatever.
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+10000000000
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same here!
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Awesome Raptor!!! Absolutely gorgeous weathering!
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If anybody's interested BBTS has Toynami Beta's on clearance for $99. I picked up a green one as it was the cheapest I've seen one in a good long while and it was the last of the 3 I was missing!
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This looks GREAT!!!
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I haven't ever been brave enough to try to airbrush a camouflage paint scheme, but now that I have a double action airbrush, maybe I'll try sometime.
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It was incredibly brittle. I was super nervous about drilling a hole for a rod to go through the bottom of it to sit on. Oh well, I fished the lower hull out of the trash, I'm gonna see if I can use it as a test bed, try and strip everything off and start over and try other methods so when I buy another kit, I'll have a better plan! In the meantime, I have a few Macross kits to work on...;-)
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The best stuff I've used is the Model Master "premixed for airbrush only" metallic colors. If you wanna see how paint should airbrush...try some of that. They have some sweet metal colors too. I just wish they made ALL colors available like that. Hell, I would pay more! But you are correct, flat colors are easier than gloss. I've learned to stick with cheap gloss or flat white spray paint for white. The hell with airbrushing white. Lol.
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Oh no my friend. Oh no. Somedays you get the Borg and somedays the Borg gets you.... :-)
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In other news the enterprise D project has been officially canceled. All the coats of primer and black paint were too thick to use an X-Acto knife to scrape the windows effectively. I got frustrated and then this happened. Anyone interested in buying the aztek decals and the lighting supplies I have purchased?..lol.. Maybe someday ill buy another kit and try again. I do not think the guys YouTube build I was following was completely honest with how he did the light block coats. Whatever. Next. :-(
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For under $10 for a small roll, you really can't go wrong with this stuff. http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/Show/category/ReadyGrassVinylMat/page/2 I got it off Amazon. You do have to be a little careful with it..it sheds sand!!! It's also delicate..easy to knock of bits of it from the mat.
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I just had my first experience with Model Master Acrylic Clear Red and Blue last week. Very hard to do as I'm impatient! You have to spray coat after coat after coat and eventually it will build up and give you a kind of tinted "candy coated" look. Be careful not to get impatient with it or it WILL run on you. light coats over like a 30 minute period. Grainy "splatter" is TOO THICK! (this is my problem 90% of the time!) Runny is tooo THIN! You will come to learn when you hit that "magic mixture" ratio..the paint goes on perfectly, no splatter, no runs, dries the instant it hits the plastic, and it takes forever to use all the paint in your paint cup/bottle. The wrong thicker mixes run out quick!
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Thanks! For anyone who is interested.. the base is a $7 blackboard from Hobby Lobby. I sprayed the wooden edge of it gloss black with spray paint. Then I found a roll of vinyl mat "sand" material for the base that model railroad guys use--(those guys use some VERY cool stuff for scenery--hint..Macross dioramas might be coming soon..) . Anyways...the cardboard was the packing material from my new electric shaver sawed in half. The texture and shapes were just too perfect not to use creatively for something! I cut some more "sand" for the back walls. Used 3M spray adhesive to glue down the "sand" to the base and cardboard to the back walls.
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As I run out of room in my case....I am becoming a battroid guy out of necessity!!!
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jaw dropingly awesome Kicker--as always..That 1:48 shelf with all those GBP armor's is REDONKULOUS!
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The technology to do anything JJ wants to do is out there people...don't kid yourself. I was amazed to watch the special features of "The Social Network" the other night to see how in a seemingly no CGI movie how much there REALLY was and is these days in pretty much anything we see. They scanned Dick Armey's head and put it on another stunt double's body to give the illusion of the Winkelvoss twins. Amazing stuff... it was seamless in my opinion, i thought they hired identical twins for the role! ...and that was years ago now. JJ could easily take the 3 actors from Star Wars, digitally de-age them and put their heads on someone else's body.
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QFT!!!
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Congrats! I find that "winging it" is pretty much what airbrushing is ALL about! You can watch videos and try it the "experts" way, but in the end it's what works for YOU that matters! Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes not. The mixture is the key..no matter what the bottles say, I always start at 50/50. whether it be enamel or acrylic. Usually get pretty good results with that as a starting point! I find that acrylics lay down nice but require LOTS more coats and time, but are easy to clean up after. Enamels cover quick, but are more of a mess to clean up. Good Luck and have fun! p.s.---ALWAYS spray for a few seconds on a scrap piece of plastic before you hit your model! (even after you think the mix is perfect!)
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They are Micro Machine storm troopers. Found 1 set on Amazon. As far as I can tell, they are perfect for 1:72.
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nope--I actually built it in flight mode..it's on a Flight Display stand..I actually built the model to be identical to the ESB Falcon..so sometime I might spray everything white and it would make an excellent Hoth set piece as well!
