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P-51 Mustang?

Pepto pink?

Admittedly, they did an excellent job with that; I fear that's the exception and not the rule. I would love it though if I were proven wrong!

I found this a little while ago on Facebook: Anyone have an idea where it's from? Head looks kinda small in relation to the body...

I prefer subs. (Roast beef, provolone cheese, green pepper, black olives, lettuce, tomato, on white bread with a pickle on the side and Ruffles Cheddar and sour cream potato chips and a Pepsi.) As for anime, subs. I feel they better preserve the original feel and intent of the anime, as the dubs can (in my opinion) lose something in the translation. Also, a bad dub can just ruin everything and leave those voices in your mind when you think of the anime!

UPDATE 1: Final on the Tomcat: Calling this one "done" (whew!) UPDATE 2: Got this far on the Refit after someone using a car horn as a "doorbell" made me dump half a bottle of Microsol: Beginning the Aztec pattern, but not using pencil... ...freehanding in pearlescent paint. We'll see how it goes... On that note: wasn't a big fan of blackened botanical garden windows... so I did some "gardening"... Planning to do a light blue glaze to simulate the lights on in there. Stay tuned...

Seeing as I'm currently working on an F-14A Tomcat model (Top Gun), some really interesting and useful info! I just subscribed to that channel; thanks!

I'd just as soon we not have any "hentai reviews" even if "SFW", to be honest. JMO; please delete my comment if I'm out of line.

Got the decals for the Refit from Round 2 today: I have to admit: I'm impressed! I remember the old ones being a scant few, and the hull registry was far too small. These I compared to my sized prints and the hull registry is bang on! I think the strongback decals are too blue (for the refit), but a "glaze coat" of transparent yellow might resolve that. They also include the botanical section windows n black, the sensor bands for the saucer rim (complete with docking gangway hatches) and even the "runway" end for the hangar bay and the sections for the nav deflector. I'd love to see what they could do in designing an all-new kit of the Refit; seeing that Round 2 was recently purchased by another company, that could provide funds for them or it could stall them. We'll see.

Well, it was fine until the upstairs neighbors banged on the floor so hard that it shook the worktable. ANYTHING is gonna fall and break given those circumstances, and I was prepping it for decals and final paintwork. The pylons were stable and weren't an issue until "leadfoot and the stomp session "upstairs got going! As for "nuking it from orbit", I will never do a "self-destruct" Enterprise. That just hurt too much watching it in STIII! Anyways, a small update: I used JB Plastic Bonder to repair the nacelle pylons. I won't be buying that adhesive again, as even with proper mixing and prepping the repair surface (90 percent iso alcohol, bone-dry and grease-free), it took 2 hours to cure and not the "15 minutes to cure, 30 to paint/sand" as the package promised. Several folks on Amazon reviews complained about the same thing as well. But at least it's fixed. Going to wait until morning to clean up the repair areas on the hull and repaint/redecal. Stay tuned folks

Well, yesterday my darling upstairs neighbors decided to have "Stompfest 2021" upstairs. >:( They managed to rattle several things right off the table in our apartment (I SWEAR they must be dropping bowling balls and cinderblocks!) ; thankfully, the Tomcat was NOT amongst the items that fell from the table. it was safely in its' storage bin and thus was not a casualty. However... the Refit WAS. As it stands right now, both nacelle pylons are cracked apart from the Secondary hull. Thankfully, they both have a metal reinforcement rod (bent into a "u" shape") that supports the main weight. That said:... I DID NOT NEED THIS: I should be able to repair the damage with Plastic Welder; then it's a matter of repainting the areas that got cracked (ugh) and doing my best to hide the damage. But since I haven't slept since it happened (I cannot sleep when I'm upset) When I am a bit calmer, I plan on having a very detailed discussion with our landlord, which will include the price for a new tube of Plastic Welder, as well as any other amenities I may need to effect repairs. This discussion will also include the request for the landlord to issue a written warning against our upstairs neighbors (to be retained in the landlord's files and a copy for our own files), and the future possibility of summoning law enforcement/ legal action concerning them and their less-than-civil behavior. It's a very small universe when I'm angry with someone. Stay tuned...

Thanks! Truth be told though: about 99 percent of the decals on there came with the kit! The only ones I printed were the national insignia "roundels", as the kit-supplied ones looked a bit stupid: At the very least, they certainly aren't the national insignia that the Tomcat had in the mid-80's! Anyways, with the Tomcat wrapping up, I have a "surprise" project that has actually been in the background for a while now: It's an F/A-18E Super Hornet that I rescued from a thrift store a while back. Hint for what it's going to be: look at the aileron: Also: does the pilot look a bit familiar? Stay tuned.... "they're called "orders", Maverick..."

Nearly done... just a few more things to button up:

I think the new enemy will probably be some race we haven't seen before. Kawamori isn't one to repeat himself with storylines or revisit stuff typically.

Do you know what that VF-1S Battroid build says to me? "imagine the possibilities, if you dare..." That kit is just begging for superdetailing, engraved panel lines, weathering, increased articulation and clear parts with greeblies behind them.

That was the intent bro! Enjoy the parts! hey...how do you think 3/4 of my projects happen?!

Yeah, the heads I sent to you are smaller, so they might actually work out for you! As for Imai's stuff; I had to carve detail into mine after building it, that's how lacking they were.

My wife does crochet and I do models, so we leave each other alone but take time to show each other our progress. And no, I have no children; never wanted any, and I have seen the horrors of what a kid can do to collections that are unprotected. O.O One time though, one of my friends brought his grandson over to my house and the kid mad a beeline right for my workshop. Both me and my friend ran to stop him before he could make it in, and he was really upset when "he couldn't 'play' with (utterly destroy) the cool stuff". No...I don't trust kids.

Pardon the tongue-in-cheek example, but it reminds me of this part in Austin Powers: The steamroller would be the star and the civilization in question would be the guard who doesn't move in time, even though the steamroller is taking nearly forever to get to him. With that said, the civilization just sitting there while the star is giving off warnings is very much the same: it;'s their own blasted fault.

Thanks guys! I did have to walk it back a bit though, as the dark areas looked more bluish than "dirty"; was trying to go for a multi-layered paint and repaint job here! lol Current results so far: I finally finished the framing on the cockpit, which is hard for me to get my head around, because the canopy came from a different model! Stay tuned...

In case anyone is wondering where I got that from: https://cheezburger.com/13685509/tumblr-thread-the-staggering-recklessness-of-humans-in-star-trek

Thanks Thom; more to come on this, as I went over the DVD and picked one version of maverick's Tomcat (I counted three versions of Mav's Tomcat, each with a different modex) to replicate. The weathering's going to look a little heavy, but that's how it appears in the film (to me, anyways): Added the underside fuel tanks; just need to add in the underwing missile stores. Stay tuned folks...

The Romulans were stockpiling explodium and it go ker-bluey.

Well, at least this is also Macross, unlike the other two series that Macek tried to cram into the mix. So there's at least some consistency. Because we humans are adept at things like plugging two warp cores together and turning a star into a torus and giving the Vulcan Sience Academy a migraine.

Naw... "RT-style mods" would be trying to piece together MII with two other unrelated series and hack them to bits. Were just talking a little bit of added animation or maybe just a voice-over.