Domcalmet1

A little bit demotivated by the big build that was my yf-19, I tried this time with a more pocket sized valk, so I did an SD vf-1s currently working on instructions on stud.io

On 6/30/2020 at 4:06 AM, Xigfrid said:

I would love to be able to create such a nice LEGO! You should share it with Kawamori!

Would love to, I don't know how to reach him hahaha

Made some mods for color accuracy, longer biceps and missile gimmicks. Also made some changes to the leg and now it can do gerwalk (with care)9

LoThis was a project of sleepless nights and still there is some frustration as I could not make it hold its own weight in gerwalk. 

On 5/30/2019 at 1:57 AM, jenius said:

Did you put the red in the pilot seat?

Then I also need to add bullet holes

I decided to go heavy with this no paint kit that I had built a couple of years ago, I was thinking it lacked character, finally it is complete.

Did a VF-4G fanart using the Hi-metal as reference, my girl wanted to join in so I let her color a rough egg plane sketch 

I did some fanart of one of my fav VF's using some cheap markers I found at Daiso.

Finally finished with strike parts

Finished with strike parts 

I am doing the celshading in an old beat up Yamato, I got it very yellowed and some parts missing but it is coming along. Some of the fotos have really bad lighting.

14 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

I've got my Flashback 2012 book in front of me, no where does it show or mention an SDF-018, so that's either something that was mentioned in a backstory somewhere or yes, Bandai reached behind & pulled something out of their...  

answer http://www.decultureshock.com/the-vf-4-and-the-curious-case-of-the-sdf-018/?fbclid=IwAR1cWp9dNKJYbbU6tdLT2jhj50Bk9djTSUV-TR2SOjnpphPP58Z-aH1wjUU

15 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Did anyone ever figure out what SDF-018 refers to? It's also on the Yamato sticker sheet so it's not something Bandai just pulled out of their ***.

because of a Kawamori illustration answer here http://www.decultureshock.com/the-vf-4-and-the-curious-case-of-the-sdf-018/?fbclid=IwAR1cWp9dNKJYbbU6tdLT2jhj50Bk9djTSUV-TR2SOjnpphPP58Z-aH1wjUU

The answer is here http://www.decultureshock.com/the-vf-4-and-the-curious-case-of-the-sdf-018/?fbclid=IwAR1cWp9dNKJYbbU6tdLT2jhj50Bk9djTSUV-TR2SOjnpphPP58Z-aH1wjUU

On 3/18/2019 at 11:53 PM, mojacko said:

WoW.....the sculpting is top notch!!!

I actually did not do any scultpting in the zentraedi armour as I only fitted the ARII Kit, you can see the original kit in the group pic

why didn't you go for revoltech style joints I think they will increase poseability? much better than polycaps can find them as ball shape joints https://hlj.com/ball-shape-sphere-joint-dark-gray-ylsppc-tn09

I adapted the armor of and old ARII model of the 1/100 Zentraedi soldier / Kamujin to display with my HMR valks, This was my cheap solution to not being able to buy the one at Wonfest

9 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

It looks good. I would only critic the choice of keeping the bare metal hips and shoulders. The flow of the custom just seems incomplete.

You are right, I just wanted to keep some of the Takatoku identity.

I recieved a commission to paint and old takatoku, I gave it my best and I am updating some pics here of the results and process

22 hours ago, jenius said:

Finished my first transformation to battroid mode. It seems pretty clear the legs were meant to stay on a lot better than they do. They give you a tool to pry the housing open. That tool is totally unnecessary as-is. I hope future variants tighten that up.  On the flip side, I wouldn't mind if they loosened up the hips a bit (but maybe that's why the intakes stay attached so firmly in GERWALK/fighter modes).  I think a lot of the complaints about parts getting jostled out of position stem from the fact that joints that are normally easy to move are really tight out of the box so people need to man-handle it a bit to get it in the pose they're going for (or to complete transformation). Once the joints loosen up a bit and people get more accustomed to the transformation many of the minor issues will resolve themselves.

Looking forward to your video review, I am still awaiting mine, but not so sure if I want to start this scale all over again, as I already said goodbye to all of my 1/48s

On 12/18/2018 at 2:47 AM, GMK said:

Really liking this! Do you hand paint the high-lights?

Yes hand painted

On 12/18/2018 at 2:47 AM, GMK said:

Really liking this! Do you hand paint the high-lights?

Yes hand painted

Weekend was really busy but I chose to work an all nighter and finish the main body, this week I will work on gunpod and superparts to the final run on this project, should be done by Sunday

This week I had an accident with decals did not notice when my fan blew a bunch of them into the water while I was busy sanding a piece

3rd update going slowly but seady