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Started work fitting the fiber optics and painting up a bunch of the cockpits this weekend and was a little gutted to find just how many of the Hasegawa kits don't have the pilots/copilots with them. More than I had planned! Waiting on some more Weapons kits for the extra crew now.

I want those VF25 kits

Brazilian Portugese is my one to learn from the old GF.... Hey Mosa, sua bunda gostosa!

You can build a rotary airsoft cannon fairly easily nowadays. There are alot of tutorials on it online. You can also buy a Mossberg Tactical Shotgun from Tokyo Marui that has 3 barrels hidden inside to fire 3 BBs at a time. That could be retrofitted into this project easily enough.

Airsoft internals?

lol Bridge bunnies.... don't EVER let that good looking cosplay model read you called her that!

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

Slowly making progress. Try to do a little each day.

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If only those bays came in 1/72!

you still have the VF4 and do i see 1/72 Studioforge pilots?

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

http://www.e2046.com/product/22702

If I'm reading this right they have some due in anytime now.

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.

Pretty much as the title says.

After anything out of the ordinary in 1/72 scale for my hall display.

VF-2SS, Mums Kitchen, Cateye, Elint Seeker, VF-19EF etc...

Make that 2.... AFTER he gets first dibs I wouldn't mind one either.

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.

That shouldnt be too hard to remake out of a piece of acrylic sanded to shape, drilled and painted . Give it a go, you'll be surprised what can be done.

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.