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Trying to kick through a few kits as practice before attacking the Hasegawa valks.

So the color for this ended up being a lot stronger than I thought. The two lighter grays were supposed to be mostly white with some Neutral Grey, Dark Yellow and Dark Earth but my eyeballing seems to have been off and they came out somewhere between creamy and tan. What I thought I'd do was get the darkest grey also a lot darker and then I'll go over the whole thing with a very thinned out and light coat of white to lighten things up a bit. Now I'm thinking I better ask first if this plan is feasible before potentially ruining a paint job.

Alternatively it seems there's such a thing as Flat Clear Grey Tone (C183), would that be safer or would blasting it carefully with a thin coat of white sound alright?

Hasegawa's site has been listing the 18th as the release day, so it's probably a bit early for any notifications.

Unless there's something I don't know about how Hasegawa does things...would be nice if it came out a day or so earlier and let me bundle it with my other private warehouse stuff.

Is that Tamiya's Type 74? I have one of those waiting in the HLJ Private Warehouse.

There go my dreams of a Fire Bomber 2060 anime. Oh well.

Hopefully they'll strike gold again at the auditions like they did with Megumi Nakajima last time.

Thank you very much for the comments and advice!

Thanks for the comments!

Against the sun was kinda hoping for a cool shot. I tried right out of the sun at first but that wasn't as cool as I expected.. The sun off to the side was a bit better. Putting the sun behind me would put an ugly building behind the model and not the pretty skies.

As far as photo editing, I didn't do anything because I'm not really sure where the line of TOO MUCH lies. How do you hit the zone of fixing if there's anything inadequate in the raw image without going into making it look better than the real thing is?

I'll probably fiddle more with photography in the future.

Thank you for all the comments!

I do plan to do the Hasegawa kits a bit more subtly, hopefully.

Any more comments/criticism/advice? Anything that's overdone? Underdone? Anything that stands out or doesn't fit? Would love more feedback.

Tried taking some pictures in the sunlight:

Thank you!

Forgot to include a pic. Leftover decals: http://i.imgur.com/r2a2FKN.jpg

Because masking is sooooooo muuuuuuuch more fun.

This is my 12th finished kit overall and the first Macross one.

Apologies for the crummy photos, I realized I don't really know how to take good ones. I'll post some outdoor photos eventually, but they're not promising direct sunlight for a few days over here.

Would love some comments before I move on to the fancy Hasegawa kits. Or any other project for that matter. I have obscenly little experience painting and could use all the advice in the world

IMO, analog video sources should never, ever be used for color reference. Especially when it's really crappy, multi-generational copies like macross/robotech have suffered from for so long. It's pretty much worthless.

If you're going to use video for color reference (which is in general not the best idea because of the variation in monitors/TVs as well as decoder settings) at least try to get the best available and use it merely as a guide and not the absolute definition.

From the BDs (which is as close as you'll get to the original film):

27: http://i.minus.com/ipsmeghuHPljh.jpg

30: http://i.minus.com/iBlPL8kwxTbvG.jpg

Sure Hasegawa's looks darker, but I like it more that way. A darker blue works better with a glossy finish, and the one on the reference model is fantastic.

I'm still a little bit scared of my Hasegawa valks. This is a very useful thread for me. Thanks for posting your awesome work!

If they're going to just keep it a single SKU they should add Miria's angle somewhere, either the inside or the bottom of the box. That's be awesome.

Those are also Hasagawa kits. It's the same as what you're already doing but with a few extra parts and different decals.

Thanks for the info antibiotictab!

I was thinking more in terms of anime stuff, not general plamo.

I'm curious at what rate Kotobukiya will be filling up their Eva lineup. They could really milk those molds.

Thanks for the info!

Is C3 the other big show? Other than wonderfest.

I require more announcements...

The boxart was at the show. Crappy screencap from a video but it shows you enough http://i.imgur.com/XZyRqWG.jpg

Do they always skip Shizuoka? O_o

Hobby Search has the images

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10271012

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10271013

But does it come with the baby missle?

what the...???

don't tell me Bandai Visual's just jacking it up with teal and orange tinting.

Wut?

Color look fine even with amazon's obscenely bad media player.

Needs more complete staff list.

A much as I enjoy occasionally flipping through the ALPHA artbook, Sadamoto and Yamaga alone aren't enough to get excited about. This have changed so much since this first came around.

While most of the mecha-heads are no-doubt over at the Toys forum and therefore are already aware of this, Save and I did a photo gallery of how to transform a VF-4G.

http://www.macrosswo...lery/#more-3968

Kudos to SAVE for orchestrating, taking, and editting the pics!

This is the absolute greatest face-censoring ever:

http://www.macrossworld.com/macrosswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/F-12.jpg

Thanks for that....

I was not aware of the screen "cropping"....Bandai really had their way with both the tv series and movie huh?

Bandai did as proper a job as anyone could: http://i.imgur.com/LTlhj.jpg

"less aggressive" cropping isn't always for the best: http://i.imgur.com/dRvBJ.jpg

When I first saw the storyboards for SDF TV I almost fell out of my chair because of how much space they left for overscan. There's probably a lot on there even in Bandai's glorious remaster that was never meant for human eyes.

If you were I chick

Are you saying your avatar lies?!