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The good news is the OBP-Z2 was successfully printed. finished up the base design on the Alpha. need to go back in and make the diffirent heads. I geared out the arms and legs to be poseable before rendering the file out as well. Also planning on adding some of the optional weapon systems as well. I was able to scale it to 1/350 as well. I posted these renders over there but going to post them here as well.

Started working on the Beta. I've got this part done so far to my liking.

I haven't made alternate heads yet. It is on my check list of things to do. I've started working on a Beta to go with it. It seemed like the heads were somewhat similar in certain places.

here are the 1/350 renders

Been working on these models for 285 scale, they were able to be scaled down to 350 scale. These are the renders of the 285 scale, working on generating the renders for the 350 scale, with different angles.

I'm waiting to find out what is going wrong with the OBP-Z2, I ordered it last week and it went from in production to processing order. so the print must have failed. This happened before with the Lancer II. I'm not sure how to release the model for the star goose. I need to work on it some more to make it more durable. I've been working on an Alpha fighter/battloid mini in 285 scale. But it kinda looks messed up in my current experimental version. The weird part is that the messed up looking version matches the size specs for it.

Star Goose (SHC-08 Star Goose)

The thought here was to make an objective marker. Defend this for one side, destroy this for the other. I used a base model on this one. I added in the Thrusters, windows, and some panel lines. I played with lengthening and shortening the fuselage to get it right as well.

I probably need to go in a modify the wing fins to be more taller. I need to make the lower wing fins a little bit thicker, they are prone to breakage.

compared it with the 1/285 scale model for the VF-1J to show size.

It took a couple falls, one in the car while transporting it, the fin on the far back broke off at that time but I found it and was able to glue it back on, then I dropped it showing it to a friend that runs a GW store. the tip of the close fin broke off then. I clipped them both to match and painted over it.

REF Officer Battle Pod (OBP-Z2)

used a gluag model to create this model based on Kevin Long's version of the Z2. unfortunately this is the only image of the mecha. this was the source image I used to try scale the unit correctly, which is why it is cropped weird.

the glaug in the last image is to scale, I believe. I'll find out soon when I have it in my hands.

just starting a thread to show some of the work I have been doing to bring more elements to life for the this tabletop game. some of which may never see official light of day.

been doing some more work on the ARMD today. a friend shared another ARMD model with me, not sure if he made it or not. But it helped me figure out how I need to change the sides to make them look better. I also widened the hull runners slightly which gave me the space I need to put the recessed edge on the front. Then I worked on reworking the front bridge. I had to remount the turrets on the bottom since I change the hull shape, also the missile ports on the top. I moved them slightly forward. Instead of the side engines being directly connected, I put a small pylon in between. I also added what I think is a fighter launch bay on the bottom, the big black area shown in the bottom view image right above the center lower turret.

so simular scale kit as the movie edition? so actually a 1/4500 scale kit? I would need to get the kit to make sure the scale is right. and to replicate the poly cap system. I have an idea on how to do that already. I'm gonna look into getting the kit.

I've been busy with work the past 2 weeks. so I haven't had time to play with this. I got some other projects I'm working on too.

I had a lot of trouble with the first attempt. It wasn't semetical. then I spent the money to get it 3d printed. It didn't look right so I started over. so was this yours? I sorta enhanced it a bit. Just to note, this is not what I showed the 3D print of in the earlier pictures, it is a further enhanced model.

I'm gonna go with the type 2 version because everything except the side profile seems to show the bottom longer then the side.

when I first noticed it I thought, "oooh more missile ports." then I saw it was on a round turret. tried making them bigger, didn't work so made one turret smaller again.

I had them all the same size but the one on the bottom just seems larger. I can change it back or maybe I just need to make them all bigger. It looks like there are 2 turrets under the bridge as well.

Those images will help, Thanks. Looks like i need to do some big changes on the bottom still. and I see 2 more turrets under the bridge. I'd have to say the original ARMD were more of battleships then space carriers. I love these images where the details are not drawn proportionally. the 2 larger images are have details shorter and longer then the side profile. reworked the bottom a little and made the bottom turret 50% bigger. I need an opinion on these shapes. type 1 is bottom shorter then side, type 2 is bottom longer then side.

there's software you can use called 3d exploration or something like that. I found a hw mod tools zip file that had it. but when you remove the textures, It's gonna come out looking very plain and wrong. the scale I 3D printed the first one at was 1/4341 scale, the aproxamate Star Wars Armada sliding scale for that size ship. Other people asked me for it in 1/15000 scale. When I was compairing it to the Macross movie edition ARMD mk 2, besides noticing it was too wide, it seemed too long. or rather the ARMD mk 2 was not long enough. so I measured the ARMD mk 2 and found the scale was not 1/4000 but 1/4500 scale. When I was rebuilding it, I used the model from the Macross game, and made the model 1/1000 scale, so it was 450 mm long and 220 mm wide. I cut off the front rails and made the back engine really long to compensate for the 430 m length. then I just kinda went with reshaping it until it looked roughly right. Then I scaled it down to put on the details so that they met the 3D printing requirements for engraving and such. here's some more shots of what it looks like and the line art I was using to add details. Not sure how accuract the bottom is and I still need to add detail there. ultimately I'm looking at hollowing it out for a bigger scale.

Hi, this is probable my first post. To where this started. When Star Wars Armada came out I kinda wanted to make a Macross fleet to fight the Star Wars fleets with so got a few diffirent SDF-1 kits, 2 of the 1/8000 scale kits, and 1 of the 1/4000 scale (which is actually 1/4500 scale) kits. The 1/4000 kit was for the A.R.M.D. MK 2. but I wanted an Oberth and A.R.M.D MK 1. so I started looking around for 3D models and I found some in a couple of places. I used the models from the Homeworld Mod, Robotech Assault to get a model of both ships. I did some basic modifications to the Oberth and a lot of work on the A.R.M.D mk 1 and had them 3d printed. the Oberth needed more detail and a lot of reworking. The ARMD I had to start over on. I used my other source of 3D models, an old macross pc game. I had it printed before I put in all the details. They had a SDF-1 with ARMD mk 2 arms. I extracted the ARMD mk 2 and started reworking it into the ARMD mk 1. The first 3D model is the first version and the second 3D model is the new model. The 3rd 3D model is from an earlier version at 1/1000 scale before I reduced the scale to 1/15000 to put the detail work on it. I still need to put some details on the bottom.

I'm looking into making this in 1/285 scale. my current issue is to print out the plans at that scale. each page ends up 59.5 inches by 99 inches.

the final ship will be 59.4 inches long, 23.7 inches wide at the widest parts. the main hull will be 16 inches wide.