Xigfrid

Nice finish! I like this little project and you made it so great!

I second that you are an hero doing all this!

That’s looking great @Jasonc, reminds me strawberries marmelade !yammy

Great scaling with the figure. This is always a great satisfaction when our ideas come to live !

Woah amazing set! I love it

That’s an impressive project and great 3D skills !

Impressive Meltran collection! 

I totally agree. 

Nice paint job

I would love to be able to create such a nice LEGO! You should share it with Kawamori!

38 minutes ago, Jasonc said:

I finally got started on this project while waiting on other paints to come in for the other unfinished ones. So far, I'm really liking the ease of building this, and the extra steel parts and rubber tires are going to make this a really fun project to complete.

@Xigfrid, I bought the same paints you used for this project. As for the stripes on the legs, are those decals also?

I am glad you like it! When I made this design, I let some room for improvements!

The stripes were made with paint and masking: yellow first, masking sides and spray metallic grey. Then masking diagonal bands and spraying black. 

I am sorry for the breakage, your vf-9 looks so nice, I hope you will finish it soon

On 5/12/2020 at 12:47 PM, mechaninac said:

Warhammer 40K Ultramarines Primaris Intercessor

That’s crazy! A figure figurine ! Or a figurine figure... go figure which figure is which :0)

There have been a lot of finished projects lately! That’s a great trade off to the lack of new toys release. Thanks for sharing!

Your smoothing technic is amazing! Please share with us !!

i have also a great news: I have found a tumbler in my new job and I will test it day and night to smooth my prints as soon as the situation come back to normal :))

That’s great to share your method! I am still hesitant to use led stripe but this tutorial might convince me to tune up my detolfs  thanks!

I have used 2mm aluminum tubes for some time, you should try 3mm ones, they are light and will not bend easily!

Nice custom! 

I just hope these packages will find their owners sooner than later.

I have made a test at Shapeways, and seriously their prices are still ridiculous compared to nowadays print services. Anyway, I have put my Ghost X-9 there just for reference:

• 1x Ghost in white processed plastic WITHOUT SUPER PARTS : 270 USD
• 1x clear parts (canopy, eye and Sharon): 10 USD
• add the Norev car to obtain the rubber tires
• add shipping
• add sanding efforts
• add red painting

This is all you get with @valhary for half the price. And never underestimate the sanding hassle with PA12!

I don't expect any sales from Shapeways in the near future. If ever you come by a great print service locally let me know

NB: it takes Shapeways a few days to review the model before putting it online. The models will appear there soon

9 hours ago, Bolt said:

Nice one @Xigfrid ! You've inspired me to try that with my V2. One day when it arrives, lol.

I hope so! The Mexican post never failed me before

I will experiment eye combinaisons later !

@Metal Man I can have a look, I doubt shapeways would be cheap anyway. Perhaps if you are ok with a version without the supers it can be affordable. 

I was playing lego with my kids and couldn’t resist to modify my ghost so it could have swappable colored eyes! Unfortunately the original eye hole was a bit to tight so I had to slightly adjust the LEGO antenna to fit in. 

No glue required for this mod!

@tekering thanks a lot for everything but of info here  Additionally, these figures are so sharp, there is no way I could imagine there was one or two hand painted in the lot!

Ho! Nice info there  I was going to tell to avoid the TS-clear/matte coats because they have a tendency to react to anything that is not tamiya TS and AS paints. Like making bubbles and even worse.

I use cheaper acrylic coat in spray that I can found in car shops. So I can put how many layers I want to obtain a thick and glossy finish. 

But I am curious about the Mr hobby different cans you got @tekering, can you tell me what one does differently to the other ones? The super smooth one calls me!

Also another question to experts: I used in the past TS-47 spray from tamiya, it is called “chrome yellow” and I totally love it’s formula because you can spray a thicker layer of paint and it will “magically” self-level itself when drying: it was perfect to smooth any 3D print surface.  I would love the same behavior, with a clear coat. Does that even exist?

I decided on a colored paint theme for my last VF-9. It was sitting in my detolf for so long in grey primer, I almost forgot about it.