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Ha! that's the one I'm using as a test rig for the LED lighting project. Side by side with the Hasegawa kit there is no comparison. Bandai's one is way more basic in every respect.

Just found one of the last Jasmine VF25 Photoetch kits! bought for 4400yen including freight but its worth every cent. For another 9000Yen I also found another 2 VF25s and a whole stack of custom decals!

Be after one 1/72 scale one unpainted to make into a Low Viz with light up engine. Will pay in full on the 17th Aug is thats ok including shipping to New Zealand.

Thanks for the welcome and yeah, I'm VERY familiar with having my work ripped off with graphic design work I do on weapons and race bikes/cars. Can be infuriating.

I used to have my own afterhours signwriting business, before racing and Army studies and deployments took too much of my time up, called Slydesigns, then AsylumArt, doing door paint on airforce helos, APC names, Unit logos, Drift car full wraps and Motox helmet airbrushing. I still have the airbrushes, vinyl cutters and the Design programs which I use to camo up real steel and airsoft rifles. Might just give this a go if I can convince the wife. My own ride... make an interesting macross scheme...

The printers you guys are wanting are called ALPS printers. They print using a opaque coloured resin impregnanted onto a tape cassette. Besides the usual colours they are the only desktop printers that can do white and metallics. The bad news is twofold. They are no longer made BUT you can still get the ink cassettes as they are hugely popular printers. Second, they are between 900NZD and 1300NZD for a refurbished model out of Hongkong etc. The MD 5000 is the one you want. They carry 5 film cassettes and do 2400DPI resolution! http://www.alps-printer.com/ I'm looking at getting one to do the Hallway display models with my own logos.

Is a recast a bad thing?

Yes, as in the idiots approaching the abandoned car while everyone else is bailing the other way.

The perfect part!! I'm a few years too late.

So... now that I have to coding for the lighting heading in the right direction the next thing to consider is possibly photoetching the exhaust nozzle turbine blades so the lighting has a mottled effect comiing out of the nozzles. Luckily I have an old electrophoresis tank laying around (bonus of being in the EOD trade - we have access to the weirdest stuff) so next mission is to design and photoetch some blades to go infront of the lights. I'll get some photos up of the ideas etc this weekend.

damn... I want that one! How hard is it to buy from a Japanese auction? Communication etc?

Liking the look of the VF2SS and the racer planes so I'm searching online at the moment. I play with explosives for a living so this is my calming pasttime. I will enjoy the challenge.

If any of these show up again I'm keen for one

So is that blue one above the resin model in 1/72 scale or something else?

It would look better just doing a hydrodip finish. The paint swirl technique comes out with noticable edges and on something as small as a model if would look too obvious.

spent the night learning Adafruit coding to make the engine effects... working so far.

Any more info on that Japanese modellers awesome paint scheme?

Working on a hallway display in line with the Macross Muesum 2.0 Wall Display I've seen images of. It will have 11 aircraft on display so far with eleven 1/72scale kits arriving from Japan (in 4 days!) todays and the Adafruit ATTiny electronics parts arriving overnight from the South Island as well. The intent is to have the aircraft on display in 350mm acrylic cases up at the top of the wall the length of the house hallway. Each display will have a minature PIR sensor that will detect a persons approach and activate the ATTiny Neopixel 24K RGB LED system to power up the cockpit lights, run up the engines through, startup, cruise to full burn and back down again to shut off over a 30sec to 1min cycle. The base of the display may also get made up as a runway with a large runway number under each plane and taxiway flashing lights - not sure if this will be overkill though and detract from the models. So far I have a Bandai Super Valkyrie as the test bed for all the electronics then once thats been prototyped I'll transfer the electronics from the breadboard to permanent circuit boards for each model. The Neopixels will be used directly in the Leg Thrusters and Super Packs and fibre optics will be used in the cockpit. The other kits are a Hasegawa VF-1S Super Strike, VF-1A/J, Super Strike, VF-1J 30th Anniversary, VF-OD, VF-11B, VF-11B Super, VF-11B Nothung II, VF-19, SV-51 Nora, RVF-25 Messiah. After a VF-1D Ostrich next. Thinking of doing some custom and optional paintschemes like the Low Vis, The Blue Roses, Minmay Guard etc. Thinking about a sound system to go with them as well but She Who MUST Be Obeyed has insisted that this be on a wall switch to turn off! Shes probably right. A local Auckland company, Cambrian Plastics, will be making the display cases for me unless I find something better. Anyone with any info on paint schemes, other interesting kits, photos of the Macross Displays please pass them on. Build Photos to follow. 9/12/15 PROGRESS PICS FROM SOME MESSING ROUND TONIGHT WITH THE SUPERPACK NOZZLES ​

Are these resin kits worth the effort when compared to the Plastic kitsets?