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I wanted to thank KyeKye and vf_1s so much for the next part. The city background - they provided invaluable graphics, tips and suggestions to where to find the appropriate artwork from the available Macross Books to compile my own city background behind the city. I loved what they did so much that I liberally stole from both of them and photoshopped my own composite of the best parts that I liked from the two designs. I loved the "blue" look that vf_1s established but also the transformation signage from kyekye - I hope you don't mind guys ;-) I later de-saturated the file so the bluish hues were toned down a bit to match my painted city a bit more. I also ended up cutting pieces straight from the background and gluing them as facades directly onto a few of the larger buildings to tie together the foreground and background a bit more too. I wished I had the time (or patience) to put lighting in, but in the end, the time that would have taken would have been time from the exterior which I am looking forward to. I'm sure many Dads out there will understand how precious time is - and for the times that I will see the outside in my display case vs. picking it up afterwards and opening it up to turn on the lights just didn't justify it enough for my personally. I started to airbrush the PE parts the dark grey that I was going to apply to the darker leg areas... I love the fact that they are self-adhesive - but I worry if they will fall off over time (I hope the clear-coats that I will apply in the end will alleviate that problem a little.

Really?! – my eyes have gone bug-eyed… I realized I’m not as young as I used to be. My eyesight isn’t as good now and I found it really difficult to see down to the level of detail I wanted initially – so I ended up having to back off and stop a little bit premature than I was planning on. Oh well. To all who are trying this, now that I’m taking a crack at detailing one of these beauties up – I appreciate that much more or respect that much more the level of dedication KyeKye and VF-1S has done to make their SDF-1s look the way they do! Kudos to you guys. I managed to squeeze a few more hours over the last few nights to get the city done – I just wanted to close the leg back up (before I loose the screws!) and get to the exterior detailing and painting as soon as possible (that’s my favourite part).

Thanks, but unfortunately I can't read Chinese - I'm a Banana! ;-) I'd love a English .ass file - the Commie version is horribly encoded - the picture quality shows all kinds of macroblocking. I wish there was an subtitle .ass file for the 7Gb 1080p raw bluray rip.

Any separate subtitled .ASS files out there so we an turn them on or off?

What?! I can't believe this... waiting all these years and what a let down. That's definitely the last nail in the coffin for me - you just can't fly a plane with your thumbs?!!

Great idea EXO (never knew that before) - I have created a Gallery and uploaded my images and will try to link them into the body of the post from now on. Yay! I got another 3 hours in today... however most of that was trying to clean up the debris and cobwebs from my bench's lack of use;-) I finally have a decent space to work in now and I hope to keep it going (although all my glues and supplies have dried out and I have to go on a shopping trip next weekend to replenish my supplies). I just basically masked all the areas with very thin cut masking tape I wanted the tan ground to be and sprayed for the concrete surfaces and the centre asphalt road strip. I mixed Neutral Grey with Medium Blue (Tamiya colours) for a slightly bluish hue to the background to better blend in with the bluish background to be printed behind the city This is the first shot after I removed the masking. Next I handpainted some of the details with Tamiya Tan for the stadium (I know its not as orange, but I thought it was a little more realistic) and light grey and dark grey for the various buildings to make them stand out. I'll do the parks and water features once I pay a visit to the hobby store to get some of that landscaping flox material for the tress and shrubery. I don't want to paint the grass until I get the landscaping material to make sure the greens work together. So here's the last shot with the city component placed back into the leg to see. Hopefully see you next week ;-)