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Update: Just tried to order the stickers from Yamato's website, but they only list locations within Japan. So no dice. I don't suppose someone could help me get a set of the stickers?

You've got pm.

Ever thought about trying Mr. Surfacer? I use Mr. S 1000 as a primer, and really like it. Dilute it about 50:50 with Mr. Thinner, and run it through your airbrush.

2 more before bed.....

Y'all are wrong. THIS is the true end of ROTJ dialog.

Slayer goes to church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHb4gs1hwck

Slayer does Christmas

If you're gonna play Manowar, you gotta play MANOWAR, not an AMV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgporKLnpA

And yes, I and my friends looked just like those guys (the actors, not the band) back when this first came out.

Almost time to prime the Q-Rau.

A pack of ￥100 bamboo skewers really make nice modeling tools.

I say "almost", because there's a couple of areas I needed to putty, such as the hole I stupidly drilled though a chest plate by not paying close enough attention to what I was doing. (just above the foot in the blue pin)

+1 =4

0+2=1

sorry, I don't really have anything else to add....

I know it's not macross, and I understand if the mods delete. I just saw an image of some limited edition trans-am exia 1/60 scale and thinks it's the cats pajamas. If anybody can direct me to one of these things, I'd appreciate it.

Yahoo Japan Auctions has a couple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlW9s_QGyJc

OK, lets continue the game. Someone has to post a song called "Black Sabbath", by any band. Then the next person posts a song called [artist who did the Black Sabbath] song. How long can we go?

You mean the Yamato 1/2000 SDF-1?

No, he probably means the Yamato, sister ship of the Musashi.

ADDENDUM: My wife added to my birthday haul. A 1/350 scale Battleship Musashi from Tamiya. She hid it from me because I mentioned that I really didn't like building ships, when I should have said I've never built ships before, so I have no opinion. Kit looks real nice, though. Looking forward to trying my first ship kit.

I guess a 1/500 scale Space Battleship Yamato doesn't really count.

Isn't there someone here who really has a thing for Grace?

Other question.

Do you paint first before putting the parts together? Or put the parts together in sections and then paint?

Thanks again for all the help!

It depends. If you're doing parts that will have an obvious seam-line between them, then you should assemble, putty/sand, then paint.

If they fit together at a natural break, you can paint first, then assemble.

Mainly though, just do whatever you're comfortable with.

If you can scan the color guide, I'll take a stab at translating and point you in the right direction.

40th birthday today. Got to love a wife who feeds your habit.

Told her I was interested in building a big, modern fighter aircraft. Picked out the F-14 off of Amazon, and she surprised me with the A-10 and the F-4. Last birthday, she went in half on Macross resin kit, and for Christmas she got me a Tornado Messiah. Think I'll keep her.

Cough cough

It is a recast, but looking at the pictures in the Y!J Auction, I think that's a recast, too (I'm pretty sure I've seen the one you're looking at several times).

Again, not 100% sure what that means, but it sounds to me like recast is a fancy word for bootleg.

A recast is exactly that: a re-cast of an existing kit, using that kit as a master for the mold.

They can morally be a gray area. Some people say no way to any recast. For some older, long out of production kits, a recast is the only chance you'll have to get and build one.

My personal view is if it's a current kit, or popular enough to still be around- get the original.

Very old kit, long out of production, recast is OK.

You have to be careful in where you get a recast, too. Some places do real high quality work, others do total crap work.

I myself have a recast of the VF-2 SS Valkyrie II, but I also managed to grab originals of a Musashiya VF-4, and a Club M Queadlun-Rau.

Then, maybe I'll move on to the resin 1/144.

Has anyone worked with Resin? Do I need special paints?

No special paints needed for resin, but you do need resin primer. Also, your regular modeling cement won't work, have to use CA Glue (super glue, crazy glue, what ever you want to call it). I'm building a resin Queadluun-Rau right now, and if you head over to the "What's on your workbench" thread, I've posted some in-progress shots; so you can get a small idea of what you want to get into.

Also, resin is not cheap. That 1/144 scale Yellow Sub kit is out of production, and the one I previously linked to sold for 16,500 yen on auction.

Parts prep is proceeding as planned

Until I find, YOIKS!, a bad case of Trench Foot

easy to fix with putty and patience, though.

I like some Grindcore, but a majority of it does sound like this to me:

What do you do when you are bored and have a box of failed / wrecked / unfinished models? Duh! Build an original space-fighter.

F-16 frame, and YF-19 legs?

my hlj order just arrived, prob is the water slide doesnt come with the black circular thingy on the sides of the chest, legs, arms, nose.. bummer...what do you call this circular thing? i think this is a for hanging point where the bot/valk can be secured by a tie line.

Those are exhaust thrusters for zero-g maneuverability. On the 1/48 Hasegawa kit, they're actually recessed, and you get little "Caution-Hot Air" decals to put near them.

Seikimatsu and some anime I don't personally know. Love Seikimatsu, though

Rammstein and Evangelion. I actually found this one pre-Youtube.

I decided after 20 some odd years of an old hand me down single action airbrush and an old and VERY loud Montgomery Wards $99 air compressor, that for my birthday I would treat myself to something new...so hear we go.

That was my first "real" airbrush, too. Still have it, in fact. Don't use it, though, since it won't readily hook up to my Tamiya compressor. Gee, funny thing that you can't easily find American made stuff over here. Not complaining. I really like my Tamiya, but the Pasche served me well, too.