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Great job, Hexi!!

On 12/12/2020 at 1:43 PM, Ridden001 said:

Just making sure things are clear, I in know way critiqued your work in a negative light. Your detail is much better than mine.  
 

Somehow your photo makes the tips of the missiles look like a different color.

attached are photos of the missiles with seeker heads, I really think it brings them to life.  But again this isn’t a “you should have done this” 

All good Ridden001, I didn't think you were critiquing me at all. 

I like what you did to your missiles.  I think it's a great little detail and I don't recall seeing that done before.  I'm working on a another 1/48 Valkyrie right now, I'm gonna turn it into a cannon fodder VF-1A, I think I'm going add your missile detail to the loadout.  Where did you get the lenses from?

On 12/7/2020 at 12:58 AM, Ridden001 said:

I like how you painted the tips of the missiles to look like the opaque lense covers of those early version Infrared Seekers.  
 

if that wasn’t what you were trying to do, you pulled it off anyway.  You nailed the color.

I added the Aurora and Smoke lenses to the tips of my DX Missiles to act as seeker heads and that detail really brings those missiles to life.  The early IR missiles and some IR/Radar combination missiles have a grey/yellow color to them and the more modern pure IR seekers essentially look like camera domes at the tip of the missile.

looks great man, you really did a great job.  I’m sure your Father would be proud.

Thank you Ridden001.  

I didn't do anything special to the missiles., just paint from a airbrush that needed to be cleaned.  I wish I had the attention to detail that you have.  I'd like to see what you did the DX missiles, you should post some pics.

On 11/11/2020 at 4:51 PM, DWN013 said:

I'm a simple man, I see valks customised after USN / USMC squadrons and I upvote.  Great work!  Can I ask what your old man did in the RAG?

Thanks DWN013.  

My father was an aircraft mechanic, more specifically, he worked on tomcat airframes. Back in the day, usually a day before the Miramar air show, he would bring me and my friends to the hangar and we'd get an up close, behind the scenes look at all fighters. I also got to do a tiger cruise one year, for those that don't know that's when kids got to meet up with their dad's in Hawaii and sail back to San Diego with them. He was on the USS Ranger at the time and that was awesome, one the best parts of my childhood. 

"Hand model", Brett?  Yeah, I read your About Page.

Your website looks great, can't wait to see what else you have coming up, congrats!

Congrats on the centerfold Arbit!!! 

That's awesome and you're quick to credit those who've helped you, which speaks volumes.  Your work is incredible.

Thanks guys!

@peter - I think wheels up was about the same on either, easier on the 1/48 because the wheel well door pieces are bigger.  I had to file the edges down a little so they would fit but not a big deal.  After that I just stuffed the wheel wells full of Plastic-Weld epoxy putty and put the doors right on top.  It's not the cleanest, I had to re-do some panel lines and one of the doors on the front gear had popped out a little while the epoxy was hardening so it's totally uneven.  Btw, your 1/72's in formation are really nice.

I finally completed it.  I didn't want to paint this one up in the traditional hero colors so I made this as a tribute to another hero of mine... my father.

The squadron decals are of VF-124 "Gunfighters", the first one he was assigned to when he got stationed at Miramar back in the good ol' days.  

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics.  Hope you like it, constructive criticism welcome.

On 8/24/2020 at 1:51 PM, Gabe Q said:

All done!

 

Great job on the landing gear doors!  

6 hours ago, Gabe Q said:

@derex3592 That star destroyer is coming along great! She looks BIG! Wow, what a project!

@pengbuzz I like your open leg engine concept. I've always wanted to build a hasegawa battroid diorama scene with the head open like that. Really cool stuff!

On my bench, I'm working on some photoetch. 90% of the time, I think the photoetch is a waste of time and money. For this particular application though, it livens up a really bare spot on the model. 

Great job on those fins!!  Brings back memories of when I worked on mine.... and I remember it SUCKED!!

On 7/29/2020 at 7:44 PM, Duymon said:

Making some progress on the 1/48 VF-1. Went for more of a black aces style black paint around the canopy.

Awesome so far.  What shade of brown is that or did you follow the painting guide in the instructions?

I've never had an issue with them.

My only complaint (and I'm totally nit-picking here) is that shipping is on the pricey side. 

I think you got it - "capillary action".

On 7/5/2019 at 7:31 AM, derex3592 said:

Primer's down. Hopefully paint this weekend!

 

Also -- side question -- I have a spray can of Mr.Surfacer 1000 that I bought and never used, but thinking maybe it can help on Mrs. Q-Rau somehow - Can anyone around here explain to me how to use it?  I can't seem to find much on YouTube in English on it. 

 

I use the Mr. Surfacer 1200 in a spray can, and just spray it like I would any other kind of primer.  I'd use it all the time if it wasn't so expensive .

15 hours ago, Duymon said:

I'm suddenly feeling like it's it'll be 100x easier to build a 1/48 Hase and apply all those decals than it woujld be to secure a 1/48 VF-1S DX preorder. Already got so much practice building the 1/72's.

Seeing these pics is pushing me closer to doing that

Totally agree.  There are a lot of pissed off people in that DX thread.  Makes me happy to be a model builder and not a toy collector... makes my wallet happy too.

Gotta love all those tiny NO STEP decals 

 

For the cat lovers

I don't think there's another aircraft (real world) past or present that I love more than the Tomcat!

There was a petition for these a few years back but it looks like we didn't get the numbers Jasmine had wanted to start a run.  I wonder why Jasmine stopped producing their VF-1 PE sets, IMO I think they look better than the one Hasegawa puts out, maybe they got in trouble 

A Code Geass custom maybe? 

6 minutes ago, MechTech said:

Merry Macross Christmas guys! I was thinking of getting one of these kits, but looks like they are no longer being carried. - MT

That's pretty cool MT.

Merry Christmas to you and to the whole MW community!

23 hours ago, PetarB said:

Took me a bit longer than planned, but these are starting to be posted now. 

Good luck all.

I hope you're able find the time to do some building PeterB... chime in every now and then.

Welcome JagimusPrime!

You'll find that everyone on here are friendly and always willing to give advice. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. 

On 8/31/2018 at 9:45 PM, CeramicDragon said:

Can anyone tell me about vendors? Are there some actual deals out there or overpriced? And crowd size, am I expecting 10k people or how many?

Having gone last year, I'd say there are deals out there to be had. 

The venue won't hold 10k people, I think the max capacity is less than 1,000.

I would never try this myself but I absolutely admire the look and the craftsmanship that went in to the build.  Great job Domcalmet1. 

What kind of swag do people get this year for the different ticket levels?