Galaxy_Stranger

How much control do you have over how the vehicles look?

Hmmmm - I wonder if you could use automotive degreaser to strip it and start over again.

On my next window/cockpit, I'm going to experiment with masking off the frame area and spraying latex masking material on the glass parts.

Surely there's a way to export it. I know the 360 and ps3 can. I don't understand why all of the different platforms aren't parallel with the current server verison.

I'm surprised Minecraft isn't cross-platform compatible.

Can you export the map?

Very nice work!

Would be great if we could get them pilotable.

Hell if I know - I don't play minecraft on a PS4!

very cool. get us screenshots.

too bad you don't have a map editor for the ps4. you'd be able to get done a lot quicker.

Well this is a very cool project - keep it up!

Have you seen the existing Macross in both modes in Minecraft?

so cool

Yeah, it's as tedious as I thought it was....

This guy has a couple techniques I find interesting. I don't have a machine shop to make my own custom tools, but this guy has some interesting ideas. Of course, he's a freaking Dentist and inherently has access to certain things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJmxKKxsew

I'm also going to be playing around with some latex masking products and see how that works.

Good points

Great work

How do you approach canopies?

You wash off plastic model kits because they too can have residue from the manufacturing process.

That's how I always took it, but then this book seemed to suggest they were new types. Weird.

On page 108 in the VF-1 Master File Part 2, there's an image of another Master File book, which has the following printed:

VF-4 Lightning III

VF-3000 Crusader

VF-5000 Starmirage

Anyone know where I can get a hold of this? Can't find it on Amazon.

I love the look of that in Jet mode.

I've never built a resin model before, but I found this: https://youtu.be/YltXrBg2GKY

He mentions using soapy water to clean it off. Since discovering automotive degreaser, I found that there are people who use it specifically to clean their plastic and resin models. But I'm sure a good degreasing dishwater liquid soap is all you need. I've never had a problem with oils and grease on model parts ruining a paint job, however, I do believe it's important to get a brand that is specifically good at cutting grease.

Apparently, superglue is only enough to hold parts together until you use polyurethane resin for the adhesive: https://youtu.be/rF2SsWSNt5E

OH - by the way - has anybody used rare earth magnets on their Macross models? I got some teenie ones and they're amazing.

I've been getting the Master File books for reference for my modeling and it's been an enlightening experience. I'm not terribly plugged into the Macross lore and details. As a fan I always thought about how the squadrons were all organized and so forth. But after learning about what has come to be considered semi-canon, I've found some details that I hadn't really considered, and this is mostly because I'm aware that some technical decisions were made solely in the interest of visual presentation.

For example, the colors of the various light sabers in the star wars franchise have absolutely no technical meaning. For years, fans figured that red was for the bad guys and blue was for the good guys. And then Luke has to screw around and show up with a green light saber. The fact is that the color was chosen based on the color scheme of the scene and contrasting characters. Likewise, (as we see in Voltron and other franchises), Valkyrie color schemes are a device used for the audience to be able to keep track of the major characters, (with the exceptions of Kakizake and Focker which remain a mystery to me).

So at this point, when I see a Valkyrie with fast pack on, I see a Valkyrie that has had a fast pack fastened to it. Same thing for an Armored Valkyrie. Now, I can understand the VT-1 and VE-1 Valkyries being separated off as different variants as the F-15C is to the F-15E. But it appears that a Valkyrie with a fast pack, or an armored Valkyrie is considered a full variant of the Valkyrie. And yet in the TV show, it doesn't make sense that they would produce and paint a new variant JUST for Hikaru on the off chance that he would need it.

What's the deal? Are the fast packs and armored versions separate variants or modified Valkyries?

HAH - I didn't even think about Patlabor!

Thanks so much! Yeah - looks like they've got everything.

Autozone also carries Dupli-Color gray lacquer primer in-store. Imma snag a quart of that as well.

Rustoleum also has flat black and flat white enamel at Home Depot.

Well, does anyone know of an online retailer that carries the full line of Mr. Color?

You can ship via UPS and FEDEX ground.

Yeah, Lacquers are hard for me to find and even Mr. Color isn't all that easy, even with the Internet.

When I get my hands on a nice Valkyrie model, I'm making it a state trooper: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/crown-vic-lights.html

Might even put a siren in it.

Howdy ho! I have two issues to address.

First, does anybody know of a brand of lacquer based paints out there?

Second, recently I looked for a way to remove the chrome off of plastic model kits - wheels and other car parts, etc. Apparently, this can be done by immersing the parts in Coca-Cola for a week or so. I didn't want to wait that long, so I kept looking and found this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMm8iWW2FK4

As you can see, he's using Super Clean automotive degreaser. I found out that they have it at Wal-Mart, so I got some and tried it out. It works really well. After soaking for a few minutes and agitating it a few times, the chrome comes right off. Some parts I had to let soak all night - but they got cleaned off.

As a side-effect, I noticed that it cleans grease really well! The plastic parts that I had cleaned with it REALLY cleans the plastic off - and without eating it. Of course, then I have to go over the parts with soapy water to get the Super Clean off...