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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?

Ex NZ Army Ammotech and IEDD team member - got into Macross while on deployments looking for an escape.

Back into it now that I have kids. Building a display for them in the hall and an interactive hangar with deploying Valks on arms that will be built into a bedroom wall for them.

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

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