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there are still a few around, I'll PM you the locations

Halfway through my 1/72 one but still need the black nose piece or a pic of it to recreate it. Liking it though. Displaying it with the 1/72 Ghost from the VF-0C and the 1/72 Ghost from the Bandai RVF-25 set.

no no, I mean a garage sculpter making extras for it

not far away now!

Hopefully a sculpting genius comes up with an optional front end to make a 2 seater trainer and also some FAST packs. Then I'd buy a couple. With luck the Master File will have some good variations in it.

They dont have the VFA-312 Black Lions sets anymore. Jasmine did the best set but as we know they dont make second runs of anything (think the awesome VF1 photoetch sets), Twobobs made the second best set and they also dont have those ones anymore and finally Fightertown made a set but they have stopped all their 1/72 sets and only focus on 1/48 now.

Brilliant! Just bought 2 sets! Need two to be able to piece together the chin stripe with the yellow stars to allow the US emblem to be cut out and tossed. Thanks!

Talos's brilliant VF-4 schemes! http://talos56.deviantart.com/gallery/7626781/VF-4-Lightning-III

I have a VF-4 I'm stuck on as you cant get the 1/72 Black Lions scheme decals any more so its about to become the VFA-41 2015 scheme instead. I wanted to make it like this image and started with the base colours but the decals are unobtainium! What I wanted but you cant get it anymore, nice decals too! So while I keep searching for those decals... this arrived today So I'm stealing the decals from it for the VF-4 ... this turned up today too...

Do you have an Hasegawa parts? I have a couple of unbuilt brand new Bandai's I'm intending to use for scratch build parts and wreckage scenes so could trade. Missiles, pilots, VF-1D canopy, Beam Cannon bits, anything really.

http://flickrhivemind.net/flickr_hvmnd.cgi?method=GET&sorting=Interestingness&page=2&photo_type=250&noform=t&search_domain=User&photo_number=50&tag_mode=all&sort=Date%20Taken,%20new%20first&textinput=maveric043&originput=maveric043&search_type=User Useful resource for anyone wanting alternative paint schemes for their VF-1s and VF-4s (2005-2015)

My Rear Seaters are posed with both hands forward on the carrier deck scene ready for Cat launch holding two handles on the sides of the console. As a side note... how hard is it to sculpt/design 1/72 figures running? I need figures streaming out of apartments and running away down a street while some Valks and a Regult duke it out and I cant find a single one anywhere on the net, not through architect sites or model rail!

Or if you prefer it with sound.. http://i.makeagif.com/media/6-05-2016/AkZFLn.mp4

Agree, a banked over fighter doing a flyby wave isn't weird at all

http://www.dmmb.info/t7079f69-FLIGHTPATH-FP-B-quot-A-Mechanized-Ammunition-Loader-with-ammunition-Cart-quot.html Turns out there is a 1/48 scale kit of one. http://www.bnamodelworld.com/scenics-diorama-airfield-dock-flightpath-fp-48-103b

Deck crew and pilots with other arms. As in a salute to the crew chief, thumbs up to the catapult firer, that sort of thing. The hands on the stick pose is pretty static and boring.

Excellent!

I have some crazy ideas in my head and from my time in the military... PM me some time

just have crew members carrying ordnance on their shoulders like the Carrier Ordnance techs have too...lol And a random but useful bit of training material... 47 pages of the Navy's Deck Crew Dress, Duties Conduct and Hand Signals manual http://navybmr.com/study%20material/14353a/14353A_ch3.pdf

I agree... its got the genes to be so much more

I'll trade figures once mine get here. Only want them as Combat VF-1Ds so the civvie figures arent needed.

Really like the shading on the radome, makes it look like a really thin layer over the detection arrays

I may have a Black Aces Decal kit available as I'm using the F/A-18 Hornet Black Aces decals instead.

all brand new. Next question... do they all have the same decals or is there a different sheet for each box? I can only find images of the 1J decals with the SJ decals and Blue Roses Decals

I guess in space once you've boosted from your launch point you coast toward your target with systems set to low emissions and given the distances you'd be pretty invisible. The ELINTS would be the ones to sniff you out from inter unit comms and passive heat signatures etc. Obviously once in closer or at obvious detection range, you forget all pretenses of stealth and light everything up for the final run to the target or engagement zone. By then the ELINT should have done all it can to assist the defenders to align toward the attackers and prepare for contact. Perhaps the same is true for an attacking force, using the ELINT to detect if and when THEY have been detected to enable the attackers to hold off lighting the fires until the last moments. At theat point the ELINT unit hands off to the Attackers own active sensors and burns for safety Similar to how the Raptors behaved in BSG on recon missions. So to be an Elint team would take skills and balls I reckon and the ships should be tagged to represent this. I used to write some Battletech fiction, think I should step up and write an ELINT team short story.