Duymon

I hope the next release is Houquet Ride Armor so that I can have the 4 hero ride-armors.

After that I will have to save up a fortune to army build the Iota

The Talon is gonna be pretty nasty with that small footprint. 2 S4 guns with 4 S2 missiles, or 2 S2 guns and 24 S3 missiles on a stealth ship this size is insane. 

Also, it'll be stealthy too O_o

BBTS has one up for Preorder again (the eta) A OD 18:37 et

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/106981

hot damn that's a lot of work. I think if I finish my W40K backlog I might die or something 

Spent a while trimming and cleaning up my new pilot figs. The mold is starting to show signs of wear after this many casts

Now that I can do this I feel pretty stupid for having bought all these weapon sets for the pilots (yes I am a stickler for having pilots in planes) but then again it's nice to have every valk armed to the teeth I guess

dang a destroyed enterprise never looked so cool

Hasegawa: The only way to get official 1/72 TV pilots for your VF-1's is to buy more Gerwalks

*Laughs in Resin*

I got a small bubble issue on the hands so i'll just cut them off at the wrist and put tiny plasticard hands on en-masse when I clean up and paint all these suckers up all in one-go

They could at least give us a few VF-1's here or there with some new decals and call it a new release :/

Starved of lame reboxes with new decals for our VF-1's

I been away from my 1/48 brownie (thx for the feedback everyone) for about 4 days due to having  to be on-site for work

Finally got quiet today so started snapping up a side-project. I almost want to paint the suit up like a black adidas track-suit, paint the feet like a pair of Adidas Sambas and add a cigarette to get that 'Slav' look

Man I really want to pre-order these suckers but I really want to see how the ingram pans out before taking the plunge.

ahahaha, tempting peter with more model purchases while he's in the middle of build.

the life of any modeler.... (I'm buying this for after I finish my current project. Honest!!!)

anywho, I decided to change my Brownie to have more traditional off-white / brown legs because the Black-Aces inspired scheme does not work on brown like it does on the grey/green of the Black-Aces. Basically the back of the valk was looking like a blob of brown so to break it up I had to make the legs in in the traditional brownie colors.

moderoid Helldiver :0

https://www.goodsmileus.com/product/moderoid-arl-99-helldiver-1869

Just now, Gabe Q said:

@MechTech and @vincemoto7 thanks for the kind words! @Duymon that paint scheme is nice! You gonna do a black aces scheme?

thanks. Yeah I based the scheme off of the Black-aces scheme but made it a brownie so that i can have a lil more freedom and make somehting up lol

More work on the 1/48 Brownie

Magnifying glass was a life-saver for trimming the vernier blades

Got the basic paint scheme all applied. Did a dry-fit to see how it all look together before taking it apart again and doing the detail paints, decals, weathering, etc.

I'm saving my two 1/48 Hase weapon sets for my super valks that are being re-released this month, so went for some RL conventional stores as seen in some of the Master-File renders.

Could be Sentinel is doing a re-issue? however there's no indication from the Japanese shops which is baffling.

14 minutes ago, F360 said:

Aren’t those legs the same ?   If you look closer the combine version that looks more feminine is just the legs extended.

 

The legs definitely look different. Feet are thinner and the tows went from fat trapezoids to thinner ones. Calfs also are no longer fat blobs and are now more defined with sharper edges and also got a taper.

It would appear that way, and for reasons not really known to us. 

However, can just nab the book at HLJ so *shrug*

3 hours ago, KFDzero said:

Resellers in Japan are fine. I'm not familiar with grey market/parallel import laws but generally, once Bandai (the distributor) have shipped to the Japan market, it's no longer a big risk for the onsellers...

It's also why certain Amazon jp resellers will not ship internationally to avoid the risk.

Maybe someone more familiar with the regs around this can chime in

You'd assume it's like Amazon US and Ebay. Most small sellers that use selling platforms just don't wanna deal with the hassle of international sales.

Also, Amazon itself is a reseller (buy from sentinel and sell from amazon webstore) and is no different from HLJ / HS/ Etc so there should be no issue buying from them.

After having gotten the first three ride armors I wouldn't dare skip Houquet, pink or not.

Once Fuke is out I hope one day they think about making some moon-base Mospeadas so we can get some black VR-52 F/T's and a Shinobu 

If the Mosepada breakers tease was any indication I don't think they'll drop the 1/12 mospeada line anytime soon, though Yellow has been floating around for a while and is still very easy to get ($199 at BBTS or 18k yen on Manda) so I wonder if Hoquet will end up being a shelf-warmer (in comparison to stick/ray who were released twice and found nowhere for retail prices)

23 hours ago, vincemoto7 said:

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

It's mainly Tamiya XF-72-JGSDF Brown mixed in with a little bit of XF-74-JGSDF Olive Drab and XF-66-Light Grey, but don't remember the exact ratios. I was eye-balling it and have a whole bottle of it now after mixing lol

23 hours ago, Grayson72 said:

That’s looking fantastic!

Thanks!

On 7/29/2020 at 11:22 PM, peter said:

Oh awesome!  A 1/48 brownie!!  

I dunno, I've recently developed a thing for non-hero Valks.

Yeah, I love brown guys because it allows a lot more freedom than Hero Valks. When I make RL craft I also always do fictional aircraft so that I can be free to do whatever I want as oppossed to feeling the need to duplicate all the RL details (*mumbles something about naggy people in modelling groups pointing out "actually this in not accurate the real aircraft with serial xxxxx had a paint line more like this / that / *groan*)

I bet it's a case of "looks more obvious in photos" type of thing. I don't even notice the color differences IRL for the ETA but they do seem noticeable if I photograph it. 

NY is open too for 23,100

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/31887-riobot-afc-01z-legioss-zeta.html

I think he meant this Link hehe

https://1999.co.jp/eng/10713307

Still though Amazon JP is the best price as after discounts you basically get free shipping compared to the other vendors

Amazon Japan was ￥48513 for 2 after shipping, which is basically what Amiami is charging before shipping lul