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    Thanks guys! There were situations here where I applied it over the whole range from flat to gloss and it seemed to work very same-y through all that. I had rescribed with panel lines quiet deep because I flooded some of the OOB ones earlier so I didn't have the issues of it running out. However the stuff does seem very, very, very thin and to get the really black and cartoony panel lines I had to do multiple applications in some places to get enough pigment. EDIT: Well today was more fun than expected. Went to the http://www.torcanmodelshow.com/ The turnout in the Mecha category was pretty fantastic: http://i.imgur.com/EbtplWi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EHI4i2j.jpg They ended up splitting the category into 1/100 and 1/144 and smaller Max got the Bronze and Focker the Silver in 1/100: http://i.imgur.com/lKlJhrI.jpg Gold in 1/100 went to the Ground Gundam iirc. I'm pleasantly surprised at this, I thought the competition was pretty stiff. Yay either way
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    Thanks everyone for the comments! Petrov27, the panel lines were Tamiya Panel Line Accent Color Black. The larger areas like the verniers and top of the torso was airbrushed Testor enamel Black then wiped off with lighter fluid. Big s, well these kits took way longer than I hoped (as always) and every screwup resulted in so much internal moaning and crying that I seem to be unable to post without that attitude leaking over. Hopefully the next kit or two will go better
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    More "practice" kits because I'm still too scared to touch the Hasegawa ones. Gonna need even more practice after these because of how much I've screwed up. Managed to flood some panel lines with paint even on these ones and had to go back and rescribe. Mangled some decals too but thankfully I had a spare Wave VF-1A Valk kit for replacements. Paint peeling off with masking tape, etc. Couldn't manage a "clean" paintjob so made it all weathered instead, with black cartoony panel lines on top. Oh well, at least they're done and I'm happy enough with the end result despite all of the above. Skull Leader and Vermilion Three ready to kick ass I have two Wave VF-1A valks from a HLJ sale, one of them is gonna get painted up hopefully identically to the Max battroid so that I can have all 3 modes.
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    It's interesting that the GB tree is identical except for the chunk taken out of lower main body part to accommodate the longer cabin. Hasegawa seems to have far less fancy switches/pins built into their molds like Bandai does for removing/replacing blocks of the mold. There is a bit of flash and mold lines all around the replace main body part However, those kind of artifacts seem to appear not only around the replaced parts but all over the various trees. I kinda want to guess that Hasegawa doesn't make whole trees as a single block. Both spark erosion and machining are expensive, right? So instead of making a whole ~30cm by ~20cm chunk of metal they maybe make a bunch of smaller blocks and bolt all of them together for a final mold? Maybe their machines have a smaller working volume? Anyone have insider knowledge? On the bright side it seems to help to easily recycle kits like we have here with the D. It's also presumably cheaper to make, package and ship the entire A tree instead of incorporating the 5 tiny parts on it into a new tool. I wonder when my pre-order at HLJ will ask for payment.
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    Ok now that the initial excitement of the song and robot dance faded...
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    Couldn't resist this week and watched it live. Loving it more with every ep. Hasegawa valk kits when.
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    Limited Edition Hasegawa kit when?
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    The vast majority of the softer scenes are the ones with the subtitles for the zentradi. Back in those days those were added optically: by finishing the animation master film, then adding a layer of subtitles on top and rephotographing both together. That always results in quality loss and in this case clearly not the best care was taken. No amount of digital cleaning can fix crappy photography.
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    I can confirm with 100% certainty that it's in the January 2004 Newtype USA. Don't have the corresponding Japanese issue though. EDIT: Here's a scan if you want:
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    Yeah, I've seen that listing but another mandarake order is probably not healthy for me wallet. I've been contemplating getting the 1/100 VF-1S Fokker battroid to go with the already built VF-0S one, so that's why I went looking through the usual places first and found it weird that it's listed as discontinued or long sold out. It's a shame if that's really Wave's way of doing things.
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    Does Wave still make the 1/100 VF-1S Roy Fokker battroid kit? Seems to be out of stock everywhere. Did they just settle on making people buy the Super Battroid kit instead?
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    Hey baxojayz! Yeah it's been a while. Thanks for all the info guys. I'm looking for more info specific to the VF-1 kits. Something like the accumulated knowledge of the community over the decade+ of building the kits.
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    I've always wanted to ask, is there any specific tips and tricks to building the Hasegawa kits? Stuff that makes your life easier. Just off the top of my head: What's the best way to secure those super thin vertical stabilizers on the VF-1 valk? How best to approach the clear parts? Both the simple ones on the valk and the ones you sandwich into the arms and legs on the battroid(and now gerwalk) kit. Best assembly order? Stuff like that.
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    Hmm, so there's a bit of reference but not as much as I hoped. Oh well. Thanks very much for the pics and info!
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    Are there some official pics showing what the VF-1 and VF-0 radars are supposed to look like? What do they hide under those nosecones?
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    Beautifully detailed thread with amazing results. Thanks very much for all the posts and pics!
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    The Mr. Color Thinner bottles (as well as the plugs inside the Mr. Color paint bottles) are made of polyethylene and that's one of the most chemical resistant plastics there is. I have an old PE bottle from some isopropyl alcohol that I use to store dirty hardware store lacquer thinner and it works just fine. Polypropylene is also pretty resistant to chemical. The smallest size of solvents at my local hardware store comes in PP bottles while the larger ones are metal canisters. Both PP and PE are commonly used for lab equipment and other chemical storage. I'm still mildly amazed at this Mr. Thinner thing. That will probably lead to me changing my painting habits. Would still like to eventually find out the exact ingredients though.
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    I'm sure there must be some misunderstand of terms here because in the past I've used non-Mr. Color brand lacquer thinners as very thin cement for standard (poly)styrene kits and in extreme cases melting spare sprues and other scrap styrene in the thinner to make a filler. EDIT: So I had to double check for myself. Filled 3 paint jars with scrap styrene from Evergreen, Bandai, Hasegawa, Kotobukiya and Tamiya then poured in the thinners. 30 minutes later: Mr. Color Thinner - styrene seems untouched. Mr. Color Replenishing Agent - styrene is mostly melted. Hardware store lacquer thinner - styrene completely melted into goop, as I assumed all these years all lacquer-based products would do. So now I learn that the lacquer component of Mr. Color lacquer paint is actually in the paint bottles and Replenishing Agent, not the Thinner itself. Quite the revelation. Would be nice if they actually had ingredient labels on these bottles.
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    Whoa, Mr. Color Thinner doesn't actually melt styrene? D: I've always assumed it was lacquer thinner with a bunch of other stuff mixed in and would be just as melty on bare plastic. Thanks very much for that information!
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    http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/26/ The description does make it sound like both DYRL and TV pilots and decals are included.
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    I have encountered significantly more laziness than anticipated with this project. Also kinda enlarged in scope ass I'm building the valk mode in parallel so that I can paint them at the same time with the same paint batch. In the mean time here's some VT-1, VE-1 builds from twitter: https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/613698564162596865 https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611409945842442240 https://twitter.com/SzAdgo4GDjCLqS6/status/611412752662310912 https://twitter.com/Temukichi/status/604551226479374336 Seems most people can't be bothered to wait for Hasegawa
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    Another pic of the huge VF-1 https://twitter.com/anihilate/status/612058804721586177
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    I love this thread. The more progress pictures the merrier! And the results are amazing too
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    Awww, I assumed it was 1/72. Oh well. Thanks very much for the instructions though!
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