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    Actually there's a lady in Venice Beach, CA who writes peoples names on rice with a pen, she prefers Uncle Bens:-) Looking at thicknesses, maybe .005 thick brass if you layer it, base w/ wings, back/breastplate area, then fast packs. Just an idea...-MT
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    Thanks guys, I am REALLY humbled and at the same time laughing at some of those funny comments! This kit was fun to build and just begging to be animated. I'm glad you all enjoyed it and I appreciate the feedback!-MT
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    Never has anything so deadly looked so good! Another awesome project with happy recipients!-MT
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    Hey everyone, last year between Daedalus completion and recovering from surgery (no lifting big 6 foot long ships), I managed to complete Neptunesurvey's and Tundrayeti's 1/350th Bug Eye kit. My kit is the newer version that was roto casted. It still weighs a ton though because of it's size. The kit is great and well engineered with brass inserts in the "legs". All the parts fit together great and required minimum cleanup. The kit is great as is, but it had too much potential to have fun with. So the big modifications were to hollow out the bay area more for the mechanics and modify the turrets. The stock turrets were great, but barrels are always a pain to clean up and the ball joints will eventually come loose. So they got upgraded. The obvious changes were to animate the eye and radars. Minor changes included adding small details and a little etching with machined leg ends. Painting was done similar to wargaming figures to give it depth of size and to appear large and dirty -Zentraedi like, unmaintained. No cover coating was used and the large decals were cut from white sheet. Since we can't post videos, there's one up on Youtube that also shows the build process. The link is below. Thanks for looking in. - MT
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    Those Vipers do look great! Hats off for a good finish that's so micro too! You can go two ways I can think of. The first is to do one thickness and waste away the wings while the fuselage is untouched thickness wise. The other is to build it in steps. The fastpacks can be built folded over for thickness. If you connect the packs with a tab it would double as the "backpack" on the fuselage back. Also decals would take the pain of painting away-a full body decal. Just some ideas...-MT
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    That looks great man! I always thought of doing that, but thought of going the photoetch route (my kit is still in storage). You could easily cast that and make a block of the casted ones for mass use.-MT
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    Welcome Yhezell, those look great!-MT
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    That's an AWESOME build! The capital ship looks great, but extra kudos for a well done SDF-1! You should put it against a ruler so everyone can see how small it is. Nice photography too!-MT My mistake, I confused the 1/8000 kit with the smaller kits, still looks grest though!
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    Nice job with the PE and decals. The wood deck effect contracts it nicely too! - MT
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    MADOX was an awesome anime and design! What other mecha can you still pilot while eating tempura shrimp to go (if anyone remembers that scene). There were awesome builds in hobby magazines inclusive of misile and ammo loadouts, but you could never find the kit-it drove me nuts (it was also pre-internet too);-) - MT
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    The finish looks great and thanks for sharing; I was going to ask you about it too.-MT
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    The forums aren't allowing me to post video, I'll see what I can do. This is what I spent most of my weekend doing. Everything is restored to working order now!-MT
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    ...and it fires actual 30mm rounds too! That looks awesome and I'm seriously sorry I don't have the budget to buy one now. Those that can get one of these have a great kit!-MT
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    Adding the Monsters and Valks is a totally cool touch. It's usually one or the other. OK, TV version with opening Daedalus, micro mechs and Valks for the Prometheus! That would be the icing on the cake. - MT
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    Small update. Spent most of this week fixing the main hatch gearbox. Long story short, the small motor fried (similar model in photo). Then I put a bigger one in which fried when micro debris clogged the gearcase. I also noticed the coarse threaded drive rod was causing excess wear on the gearcase so I fabricated a 4mm drive rod which lightens the load on the motor and gearcase, but also slows the door opening speed. I also modified a larger motor to give more torque and hopefully fix the drive for good! It won't win any beauty contests because I can't remove the whole assembly any more, but it works! So while doing tests what happens, the lights failed! What the heck!!! So now on to troubleshoot the lights... - MT
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    YF-21

    MechTech replied to cool8or's topic in Model kits

    Awesome Cool8or! Nice finish with just enough wear and tear on it. Congrats on the house as well!-MT
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    That's beautiful! I love to see "show off" models with open panels and access points - being on a valk makes makes it all that better! Thanks for sharing!-MT
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    Thanks for sharing! I can hardly wait to make prank doggy poo! I would have used a better example... :-) - MT
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    If any of you guys are having issues with your decals after printing, the Solvset guys make microfilm coating to fix brittle decals and fix old ones. I had that problem with photocopied ones (I think it's the heat).-MT
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    Thanks guys! Testors I can get easily and other paints you can still get through mail (even Mr Hobby). Scalehobbyist.com carries their primers. It just has to be shipped via surface. Thanks again guys!-MT
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    Thanks Chyll, maybe I'll give Future a shot. There's fixatives that work great with papers, but I've found they are different with plastics and non-porous surfaces. Maybe I'll try some with added flatcoat.- MT
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    Has anyone here used a clear coating that won't make Sharpie perm ink pens run? - MT
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    That looks great! Nice creative touch! - MT
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    Not that I'm biased or anything, but that Daedalus looks great! And to agree with everyone else, the TV version looks FAR better and gets no love compared to the movie version. - MT
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    So, is it time to build something that actually fits on your benchtop?;-) I look forward to seeing the improvements. - MT
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