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GO HOME MACROSS! YOU'RE DRUNK!!!

Yeah, I've had that kind of thing happen as well! lol Really though, I tend to replace pegs on older models anyway as a force of habit: the way they are molded (half the pin is often unsupported), even reinforcing it doesn't seem to help. For these kinds of joints, it's probably best to try ABS rod instead of styrene, as it can take the pressure and force better IMO.

I would try gluing in a piece of sprue that's the same size; that way, you can extend the sprue into the bicep and use epoxy or plastic welder to hold the end in place.

A lot of times, I'll just paint lines or other decals in myself. Complicated stuff requires me to use decals at times, but for most things, hand painting will do.

Thanks! Meantime, I gotta hand it to you for making the world's most professional capgun system! lol Seriously though, it looks like you've got quite the system going there. GOing to be very interested to see it in operation when completed.

Yeah, I've been there Derex. Is there any chance you could use a color printer and a sheet of clear decal film to make a new decal?

Wow man...that royally sucks! Yeah, it looks like the outer coat contracted and split as it was drying; a cool night and the item having been just painted would probably do that. I'm thankful on your behalf that it was in an area that you could sand and repaint without losing details!

Well, some I left in, as I wasn't interested in fixing them. The booms are actually new-construction, as I felt the originals were too skinny: This was the original configuration, and the new ones I scratched up at that time. I also had to add in elbow joints so the Daedaulus and Prometheus could pose properly.

WOW!! Nice clean lines on those phaser strips, Derex! :thumbup

I believe he fudged them, as I ran into that issue when I converted the 1/8000 Revell SDF-1 into a transforming version. The booms aren't the same size (or even shape) between Storm Attacker and Cruiser mode, and other things "shift" in size and proportion. What I ended up doing is "averaging" the parts between modes (making them a mid-point size that would work in both modes): As a result, the booms came out a little bigger, but they don't look too small in Cruiser mode.

UPDATE: okay folks, got quite a bit more work done: Got the bird mounted to the launch arm, and mounted the weapons to the wings. Had to do a little rework on the reaction missiles (had big gaping holes in the tops!), but it's all good. I just need a few details here and there, including the arms that hold the valkyrie in place. Stay tuned...

Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how Tekering finishes this one!

I'd love to get one again to do this kind of project. Trouble is, I can never find one for a price that is reasonable when I have the funds. Not even sure what "reasonable" would look like nowadays, tbh. Most I've seen easily top 100 bucks.

I really wish they'd bring this line back; I miss buying them!

Right; copper appears as greenish as an ore (Malechite and Azurite), so asteroids and airless planetoids could also suffice. Just brainstorming some possibilities here.

Well, in war you sometimes have to do strange things that aren't advised. I can envisage a VF-1 Super having to make planetfall but not be able to jettison the packs for whatever reason. That, or a tech crew found them and fitted them onto a VF-1 to get it spaceborn to reach the Macross.

BAD DOG!!!

LOL!

I've had to repair Jetfires from that era, and sometimes it's so bad, you're better off replacing parts than trying to glue them.

Well, ya gotta admit: when Roy's valk is standing out like a sore thumb and the enemy still can't hit him for a hill of beans, that's gotta bee the most embarrassing thing ever! lol

rofl!

Ah; I thought Furman wrote both. Thanks for the clarification, JohnMc.

For some reason, I didn't flash on Simon Furman being the writer behind RT and Remix; that explains a LOT. Furman did the same thing to Transformers, including the mythos of Primus he himself had created in the Marvel series. He ended Regeneration One by essentially destroying all the Transformers and Cybertron, and his work in the 2009 IDW series I didn't care for either.Furman seems to like tearing stuff down, even if he's the one who built it up. In Max's case in Remix, it's like Furman to take that character and utterly deconstruct him to the point where he's now essentially destroyed/ worthless. He's also trashed the Max/ Miriya romance to the point where only a continuity correction/ reset could ever repair it. One last note: in RT, they took the SDF-1, rebuilt it with parts into the SDF-3 and sent that back into time to be rebuilt into the SDF-1. Has it occurred to anybody that should that be the new "timeline", the SDF-1 would repeatedly be sent back through time until the frame was too battered by going through the timeline and being sent back to hold, and the whole damned ship breaks apart on reentry into Earth's atmosphere? That ship is in an infinite loop, but it's not infinitely durable!!!

UPDATE- Well, nearly there: Now I just need to convert the head lasers from dual to quad (already sanded the head into a VF-1S config) and button up a few lose ends. Then we can attach the ordnance and mount this onto the launch arm. Stay tuned...

You know, it really sounds to me like much of the "Remix" fanfic here was written by a man who despised Max in the original RT and felt compelled to take a collective dump on him. Keep in mind: a "favorite" can be someone's favorite punching bag...