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I have a unopened copy of that book, I think I paid about $25 for it. I would sell it on for that price.

On ebay they have a copy listed:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Patlabor-The-3D-Garage...1QQcmdZViewItem

Item: 330008560857

I am in the UK and that ebay item is in the US so the various postage would vary accordingly.

Drop me a PM if your interested.

I have just seen your MCD switch. I looked at those for something I was making and they seemed pretty expensive for what they were.

In the end I used a relay board from ebay:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Electronics-Gallery

Have a look at the 12CH RF remote boards, they need 12V and work upto 500m. I have 2 and have never had any probs.

And the best thing is £11.60 and about £16 with postage.

The quality looks a bit lacking considering the £1750 asking price. Hell if anyone wants a commision I'm sure I could come up with something similar for a lot cheaper.

I would want opening cockpit with full detail. Opening arms and manouvering thrusters on the legs/backpack.

At least a year ago I remember a scratchbuild of a Zeta/Sentinal/??? at about 1/35 scale. It showed a gundam in trememndous detail and had loads of pilots/mechanics in spacesuits flying around it. Not sure if anyone has the links/pics of it as I would prefer that to the above Gundam.

I did find this however: http://www.hobbyfan.com/product_info.php?products_id=2608

Still more detail than the above.

However Gundam vs the nice girl. No contest

edit: It is the model on the cover of this book:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4499205...glance&n=465392

I use Tamiya tape, comes in 6/10/18mm then Mr Masking Sol Neo and that works fine. It is a sort of latex you paint on then peel off later (like copydex if you know what that is).

I have heard that the earlier version Mr Masking did pull paint off as do some of the other variaties of masking film. The Mr Masking Neo seems fine to me.

Its a blue sticky substance you use to put posters up with. Comes off easily.

MechTech and Sar, thansk for that. I checked out Maplins at the weekend and they wanted £10 for a litre which I thought was a bit too expensive. I looked in Stapels but no joy. I will check out Lloyds pharmacy in the next day or so, there is one round the corner which is good.

I know what you mean about modelling in winter, I do loads in my shed and you can't work when it is too cold or too warm. It leaves you a few months of the year. And this year we had the humidity a few weeks ago too.

Thanks for that, I will check out the Maplins and Stapells and see what they have.

Will cause blindness, just like Tennants Super.

Where do you get the Isopropyl Alchohol? I can't find a good source of it in the UK.

I know in the US you can get it in pharmacies but they don't sell it in Boots (otherwise it would overtake Special Brew as the tramps favorite).

I use Alec Tiranti who sell all the fibreglass and similiar stuff:

http://www.tiranti.co.uk/indexhome.asp

They are in Theale (near Reading which is close for me) and in central London.

On prop forums I go to they use the plastic skeleton and expandable foam to rough out the shape, cover it in epoxy resin or Bondo then take a fibreglass mould from it.

Bondo=US

P38=UK

Car Bog??=Australia

If you go to an automotive shop (Halfords in the UK) it is advertised as car body filler. You get a tub of putty then a tube of hardener.

I have used P38 (Bondo in the UK) near water and it's unaffected by water as far as I can tell. It's just polyester putty in a big £5 tub. Cheaper than the Mori Mori putty when you are doing big jobs.

There are loads of places:

Akihabara, loads of cheap electronics and a few anime stores. Just wander around. Try and go to a maid cafe.

Shinjuku, few places but Akihabara is better

Before you go look at: http://www.mandarake.co.jp/english/shop/

Print out the maps, the Nakano store is a bit of a trek but has loads of shops with older kits. If you are looking at getting modern kits then you can't go wrong with Akihabara.

Nice scratchbuild.

From the pics I can't tell what plastic you are using to model. The planking looks to be styrene. What are the ribs and the structure of the model made of, looks like thick styrene or possibly foam PVC (love that stuff).

Lastly have you got a good supplier for plastics, I've used a few places but can never get it as cheap as it seems to be in the US.

There are several available depending on what you are after.

This is Animation: Patlabor 2 is good (hard to get)

P-pack pictures of patlabor. About A5 size, very good as a summary of all episodes, movies, labors and good pictures. (still available online, ebay?)

Few Hobby Japan magazines and 3 specials. 1 is easy to get and 2 are impossible. More on the models of patlabor.

What is the scale/height of this?

Thanks

What scale is that in? I have one of the old 1/60 Injection moulded and a 1/24 resin.

I'm looking for a Type-0 in 1/35

Thanks, I have some flat aluminium spray so that will make things a bit easier.

From the picture it looks like TS44 is the blue for the Tachi, did you paint the grey bits as I'm just putting together an order and wondered what the closest grey available is.

I brought a load of the japanese single volume and dual volume manga off ebay a few months ago. Can't read kanji but you can get a rough idea of whats happening.

I have read various posts about how much to thin Tamiya acrylics.

What is the general concensus for thining with regards to light and dark colours.

Thanks.

Ever notice the breatplate on the Kerberos armour is the same as the Griffon's chestplate from Patlabor?

The progress pics looks superb.

I was looking at the picture with the size of the tachikoma and I think it's showing it as way too small. I was basing my one on the pic in the GITS:SAC visual book. I've attached a scan but this shows it as just under 8' tall (about 2.4m) rather than 6'4" as that pic shows.

At 1/6 your looking at about 15" tall which is too big IMHO.

I was just doing the plans to make my own 1/12 scale Tachikoma but looks like I'll have to buy one of these 1/18 now. Perhaps this is a sign to start the plans for Starbug.

I've scanned them in and they are 1.5Mb, can't get to my web space for some reason. If you email/PM me I can email them to you.

I guess you want pics of the 2nd one with the detail. I'll scan the pics in sometime.