AcroRay

Special thanks to Graham for making my [second-]most recent MACROSS purchase the completion of a personal Grail quest.

Awesome stuff, garyboy! Really impressed that they're still on the sprues! Astig!

And a very interesting photography setting, too!

I think you need to find a very 'hot' glue, for ABS - glossy, toy-type plastic. It reacts to the plastic in much the same manner as what you see in model kit styrene, but is made to work with the glossy toy ABS. (In fact, some of the ABS glues will melt model kit styrene pretty badly if used improperly.) Regular model glue or super glue won't do the on an assembly point under this much stress.

You might try "Ambroid Pro-Weld", which is thin like water or alcohol, and takes a while to set, but sets very strong. Put the parts together, clamp them, and use a very fine brush or hypodermic needle to lay the glue into the seam and allow capillary action to pull it into the places where the plastic joins. You need to be certain that the parts meet perfectly, however. It won't fill large open cavities. It's also very bad to breath the fumes. Essentially, it's the industrial glue these toys are assembled with.

Alternately, JB Weld makes some very strong glues. You might try one of those.

Of course, be careful the glue doesn't encounter any moving or mechanical assemblies.

That looks really nice. I recall a friend having a terrible time back in 1995 getting the two hull segments to fit together properly. (I've got my own a few decades late, waiting in my build pile.)

Tip for model dusting: Drop by the dollar store and grab a couple of makeup brushes for powdered makeup in different sizes from the HBA isle. They're soft but have a lot of very flexible bristles and make excellent dusting tools, getting into tight areas without tearing away paint or small parts. A little work will get all the dust out of those areas. :-)

They were a bit slow when I ordered from them a couple of summers ago. Nice products, though.

The One Macross Old School Toy to Rule Them All.....

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=42063&p=1173029

Wooaahhh.......

I bought some dried up old paint!

Oh, very nice indeed. Yeah, the genga are often much nicer than the cels in SDFM...

Very nice. Surprisingly simple. It'll fit in naturally with my vintage Imai & Arii SDFM plamos. Really looking forward to it!

Something of a 'holy grail' piece for me, as I work to build the vintage pieces I couldn't get in the past. Worn box and a bit aged, missing the missiles. But unused decals perfect for scanning and hopefully reproducing, clean body in excellent shape, and all paperwork. Just a little work needed. Purchased from a Facebook friend who kindly thought of me first.

"Across"! Nice nomenclature change from Gandam or Macres...

I've waited 3 decades for this as a kit. I'm fine waiting a bit longer, if it gives you the time and space to do what you need to do.

Sofubi yearning. Beautiful!

D'awwww! How CUTE! Lethally so!

Does widdle baby crab want a widdle L.E.D. EYE? Why - Yes, you do! Good little baby crab!

They're still in production. HLJ has them:

http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN953433/Sci

They're usually backordered, but come in as needed to fill orders. The J, A and D are also still available.

Do you just need a pilot? Perhaps Studio Starforge's 1/72 pilots might be useful?

http://www.studiostarforge.com/content/un-spacy-male-pilots172

FOR SALE: Three Takatoku soft-vinyl Macross figures, 1983 vintage.

All clean, excellent examples, in beautiful bright condition. Sale as a lot only. $45 USD for the trio, plus shipping costs. (I also have a few pieces of the cardboard packaging associated with them that I'll throw in!)

Please message me if interested! Thanks!

So great to see this coming along, especially knowing I've actually managed to order one!

My e-shekels are in your e-coffer!

Well, cr4p. I don't have those funds fully budgeted out just yet. :-/

Iiiii'm BLIND!!!!

Haha, you crack me up!

Could someone please kindly provide me with a good scan of the decal sheets from Takatoku's 1/55 Max VF-1J? I recently picked up one I'm restoring, and it only has the 'factory applied' decals. I'm trying to determine what I need to replicate myself, and what I can repurpose from other Yamato & Bandai decal sheets I have around.

Thanks!

That's really excellent! And inspiring. Hoping to get around to building my own someday...

A set for me, please, Cap. :-)

Whenabouts would payment be due?