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Best idea for that model I've seen yet. Looks real and functional now.

If only those bays came in 1/72!

ahhhh yes!!! Parafilm is used in the Chemistry lab to cover over test tubes and Flasks before mixing products! Its a waxy film.

Actually the Gym in the garage is the Wifes. Shes a Genetics Scientist and Fitness Junkie thats qualified as a trainer. Likes to do stupid things like 100km offroad run events and 40hr Crossfit comps under the trade name "Kims Next Level". So I have to fight her for space. One corner has all my IPSC Target boards, Snow Boards, Gun safes and Mountain Bikes and thats all I got at the moment!

hmmmm.... I watched the first episode last night and it was pretty good. Reminded me of the Stealth story though.

... Autobots symbol... Decepticons Symbol

hand cutting and liquid latex could be another option.

Yep... And more on the way... May explore the options of a big screen TV, fridge and bed set up in the Garage/Workshop/Gym as I doubt I'll be leaving it much at night for the next few months. And anybody wanting that Damn TYRELL kit that never should have arrived, PM me.

How would you rate them? I Noticed no pilots.

You can mount a Neopixel http://www.gadgetcat.com/product/neopixel-mini-pcb-pack-of-5-a-1612/ inside the cockpit even hidden behind something like the seat and you'd get a backgound colour wash. The Neopixel can display any brightness from nothing to blinding, and any 4k colour. They are crazy tiny and blindingly bright with a chip controller built in. Then use single strand laquered copper wire to run the three wires out of the cockpit (you could just them as additional piping and paint them) and down the legs to the the feet where you could hollow a foot pad out and add the battery cell (watch/hearingaid size) or use pins to fit into slots in a diaorama base and have the power supply underneath that. Mine are powered by a USB power supply and on the fighters the copper cables are run down each landing leg as "brake lines" in into the Carrier deck though a contact pin. To get the copper lines to lay down the legs you dremel a slot the length of the legs on the outside, lay in the copper wire and putty over it and sand. This is for anything not hollow. I'm trying this technique on 1/72 tail fins and wingtips to get flashing navigation lights to the ends. Either copper strand and heavily sanded to shape 1.8mm LEDs or a single fibre optic strand. The Gundam guys and girls have been doing this awhile I think as I found the techniques on their sites.

They look great next to the VFs and would make a great counter point to the UNSpacy craft as Anti UN ones!

you can buy stencilling mask vinyl from signwriter suppliers. The sheets can be cut on a vinyl cutter, spreyed over and removed fairly easily.

The Studio Forge ones ... just wait until me and one other on here get ours. The guy making them has been AWOL for quite a few months so there is a chance you cant actually get these pilots for now. On the Airframe size issue... the VF-0 series is bigger. Think of the VF-1 as a refined version of the VF-0 Prototypes and optimized for Blue Water Carrier Operations where space is a premium. Later VF series were for Space borne ops. F-14s were behemoths compared to the F/A-18s which have replaced them. Big isnt always better. THink of the F-14 as a typical American Muscle car. Huge engine, lots of wasted space just because they can. The F/A-18 is more akin to a Nissan Skyline or hypo Mitsi Evo. Smaller, more compact, more functional, little wasted space yet still as powerful as all hell.

Adafruit sell them at 5.95USD per strip and shes still making money some how! A single LED if what will be buried inside each engine. The LEDs are blindingly bright and run 4K colour. Same RGB colour coding as you'd use in Photoshop. Red 0-255, Green 0-255, Blue 0-255. SO pretty much ANY colour can be recreated. Will post a quick video tonight of the Deck light sequence in green then flashing red. The programming takes time to get your head round but when the penny drops and you get it working, damn its satisfying!

Nothing like coming into the office on a Monday morning and finding a stack of packages waiting for you. Thunderseeker, 1D and a few Weapon/pilot packs just arrived. Friday I got an Adafruit Fadecandy Adruino board and some Neopixel strips to play with for the Carrier Deck direction lighting. Hopefully in the next day of two my servos and brass bits arrive for the Jet Blast Deflector raising mechanism. Big thanks to nicegear.co.nz for the overnight service on the electronics.

Yeah I have a few of these now and had to collect up 8 Weapons kits to fit everything out with pilots. You get 2 in each kit but I have a few two seaters so I used these up quick smart!

Tomahawk/Warhammer - I was an oldschool Battletech player before joining the bombsquad and ditching Uni. Valkyrie II due to its lines. No matter what form, Fighter - Gerwalk - Battroid, its just dead sexy!

With Radome??? I NEED one Just found the VF-29 and Valkyrie II OVA on that E2046 site so thats another 2 ticked off once ordered. Nothing on the VF17 series though

Have a Focus on order and not sure if I want the F14 in the display

Only after the Fighter models for now as they are all under perspex displays on the wall down the hallway liked pinned butterflies. Yeah I have the Hi Man misslies versions, the Super and Superstrike versions and some low viz versions of the ones I listed. Thanks for the VF-0A/S with Ghost suggestion. Just found 38 of them and bought one. Yeah they are expensive! $100USD. Are the Bandai YF-25 and VF-27 worth it? I thought they were toys not scale kits? Was there ever a VF-17 or 171?

My hallway progect uses 1/72 Fighter mode kits I have the following so far VF-0A VF-0B VF-0C VF-0D VF-0S VF-1A VF-1D VF-1J VF-1S VE-1 Elintseeker VE-1 Ostrich VF-11B VE-11 Thunderseeker VF-11 Nothung II VF-19A YF-19 YF-21 RVF-25 VF-25F VF-25G VF-25S SV-51 Nora Is there anything else out there to fill the voids in a "Development Timeline" display? Garage kit or Commercial ones.

I lost 10 years worth of all my Graphics from side projects Slydesigns Race Signs and AsylumArt when my PCs and IT gear was stolen out of a storage lockup off Base while I was on deployment overseas. Gutting.

Oh man why WHY WHHHY do you do this too me!!?? I was wondering how a Control Surfaces Check could be modeled too...

you donate them to a bunch of kids at the GW stores who are learning to paint their own stuff. I have it in my Will that if I am KIA on mission all my weapons and gear gets sold off away from my family as I doubt they'd want the reminders, my bikes go to my kids, the other hobby stuff goes to worthy people the family find that are doing it hard themselves. Preferably kids. I regularly give away all my 40K Heresy novels to anyone that wants to read them. I guess it depends on why you buy things in the first place. For me its because I want them. So once I have enjoyed them I pass them on as I never bought them as an investment. Its partly a Karma thing I think as all us Bomb Techs are a little superstitious and like to "Pay it forward" to keep the good luck credit in the green.