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Liking that!

the arms are the battroid ones so can be posed and the legs are similar.

its 12.26am Friday night and I'm waiting on paint to dry in one of the rooms I'm renovating so I started on the first of the Wave Defenders... got the basics assembled to work out how to fit in the Mechatronics to swing the body and move the arms in a smooth realistic manner. there is actually a decent amount of room inside the upper body to work with as long as the cockpit internals arent used. Its Possible to route the wiring down inside one leg and have it connect to a socket in the Diorama base and still allow the legs to be moved and posed. Really liking this model! Next mission will be to build spinning rotary cannons for the MkXV version. I have some spare 8mm Airsoft ball race bearings to use for that.

Look up Hanger 54... They made that seat from the remains of a Tornados Martin Baker Mk10 seat

yeah yeah stop showing off that your one is awesome and mine a not so cheap knock off...

The seat ejects so it cant double as the bay. It also projects up and out of the cockpit through the neck when in Battroid mode. Thats a lot of equipment under the seat to allow ejection, tilting in Battroid mode and then extending out of the neck as well. No way the landing gear tucks into this space as well as airframe reinforcing in this area for carrier trap landings and catapult launches... your airframe needs to be bigger. It cant be all packed behind the seat either as in the VF-1D thats where the back seaters legs will be and the seats would be the same. Have a look at the F/A-18 nose gear for an idea of how bulky they need to be for deck landings BTW... your seat design is looking very much like this one.... nice!

thats a tiny model, isnt it...

ahhhhhh...

think I might need to get some of these..

Did you redo your canopy? The supplied ones (3 supplied for screwups I guess) are a terrible approximation.

do the same thing... another slide out tray with another frame holding 12 more fans but in the bottom... that would work well!

The blister will be the targetter. In other words the "where is my gun pointing" device given the weapon will be in a manipulator off bore axis. You could cast in a mini flashlight reflector to look like a camera lens assembly behind the resin. If you wanted to get techo with it you could add a laser pointer as a laser designator/rangefinder.

yeah I guessed that and have mine painted like that, but a missile cant fly without fins unless you want it trying to go sideways. The fins will pop out or unwrap from the body once its under way. I was just commenting on the lack there of in the modeled form.

They are normal missiles with deploying fins. You'd have an ejection charge then when the main motor fires it forces the fins to deploy. I've had many an hour searching for parts with a grid square search and metal detectors then having to write investigation reports after things went pear shaped and fins didnt deploy correctly. They aren't meant to be banana shaped or fish shaped. Guessing the idea in the artist head was the VF-4 already struggles in atmosphere, so moving the guns from a hand cannon to nacelles aids aerodynamics, why not blend in the Missiles as well.

I've seen blue and also camo vf4s with blue and camo missiles...lol

So I have a question on all the models I've seen of the VF-4 while I work on mine... No one treats the 12 long range recessed missiles on the airframe as missiles. Everyone seems to paint them the same colour as the airframe. Any reason? Ordnance is generic and never painted to match any weapons platform. They are usually white, grey, green or yellow and if its a prac round its blue. The striping colours refer to the type of warhead carried and its intended role. So, do people not realise these items highlighted in red in the image below are actually weapons and not blisters on the airframe?

I'm using banks of 120mm PC fans on mine. I've sprayed them in silicon to aid cleaning off any paint particles that get through the filter elements. Four fans across and three high for 12 fans at the back all run off a cheap old PC Power supply. $10NZD a fan ($6USD) is not too bad. The fans are on a slide tray that lifts out for cleaning or replacing and the filter element is on a separate slide tray in front of that.

Liking the LED work Here is some inspiration for you https://nicholassagan.wordpress.com/ https://nicholassagan.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/commission-12256-mc-30-frigate-done/

NIce!!!

I price of being in the NZ Army ... we have to make a lot of our gear to fit the jobs we need done. My old IEDD ANDROS Robot had an auto shotgun and four 20mm disruptors fitted so we wouldn't have to bring it back to the van each time we fired. Remotec, the US manufactures thought we were mad. The NZ Army way... if we cant buy it or afford it we make it Failing that, just make the case in that shape to go round an existing tablet or phone

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I'm building a bunch of VF-1Ds as successor fighters to the F/A-18 series and E/A-18G. Same squadrons and colours as the current Hornet ones.

Looks like a blister was made on the Phalanx pods to fit into the Superpack bar thats on the backpack.

Thinking a Wild Weasel/Growler style fighter would be a cool one. Radar jammers, VF-1D nose for the extra seat/Warfare officer, VT-1 wings for the wingtip pods, Reaction missiles for the picket ships it runs into and the extra boosters to bail out for home once the front door has been kicked in and the path is clear for the rest of the strike force. Painted in Lo-viz The idea would be for the them to sneak in, blow a hole in the picket ships and run for home. So to assist in this mentality, removing the gun pod for two center line Reaction missiles would make sense and discourage unwanted heroics. Should things get dire they can have the arm launchers on the super packs switched for arm mounted cannons. Transforming into Gerwalk or Battroid mode to use them would mean ditching the pods so the mission would be blown at this point anyway. This way the key to success would be to run in, dump the ordnance and hit the boosters for home asap with no distractions along the way.

For the LEDs, after you mount them in the ali channel (needed to act as a heat sink otherwise they will die off) and fitted the clear cover over the strips, use cheap cellotape over the cover as a "tearoff". Just turn over each end of the tape so you can peel it off after spraying to remove any paint on the LEDs and have a clean cover again.