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Good suggestion Thom! On the pengbuzz projects forefront: I recently got a G1 Jetfire as a very belated b-day gift(1/55 scale valk) but the feet are incredibly brittle. I need to find a pair of newer feet (even a KO version would probably work). Need to also find a gunpod and the armor, but the feet are important. (if anyone has any, please shoot me a PM! Jetfire feels weird without his toes!) The thrill of victory, the agony of da feet....I can barely stand it.

I've had times where my masking jobs took the paint right with it: in my case, I found I had to let the paint cure for about 2-3 days before trying anything. I don't know if that would help you (you probably already tried something like that) I also know some paints don't stay on primer very well; that said, you could try "post-it notes" (the adhesive shouldn't pull up anything).

Maybe in the "tummy" of the SDF-1 (which has a natural hinged compartment) and run wires to the legs? That would allow you to access the batteries without ruining anything.

Yeah, there was. It took a lot to do the conversion; I wish I had pics of that, but I didn't have a digicam at the time. But maybe someday I'll get another crack at it. Meanwhile... I'm really liking what you're doing with the main engine clusters here. It's really going to be very interesting to see it assembled up!

Okay, I wanted to gove back to the forums for everyone's kindness here, so I did some clean-up: 1-3000 SDF-1 assembly.pdf 2 Hopefully, this will open; if not, i'll post the jpeg of it.

Well, he didn't go to prison for that; he was kicked out of the house, got married and moved away. He ended up nearly killing his 4 month old daughter (shaken baby syndrome) and the state took her away, and sentenced him to 10 years in jail. Anyways, enough of me derailing the thread; I wonder if tekkering finanlly decided on a color for the engines?

So he went from trying to smooch Minmay to managing a ripoff band? Sigh... what's next? Bootleg Hikaru ichijo action figures?

As I said folks: it met a tragic end. As in it ended up shattered in a billion pieces shortly after it was photographed in a freak mishap (thanks to a certain malicious/ psychotic sibling who later ended up serving time in prison and was disowned). Anyways, at least I had it for a little while...

Exactly; it's called "red lead" or "antifouling red" for the hull below the waterline, and "haze grey" above. I suspect UN Spacy wanted to "break up" the hull lines on the Macross so that the enemy didn't have one solid-colored target to strike at (in space, dakrer colors would not sho up so well). Also, I suspect without Earth's atmosphere, the year-long trip, exposed to the solar wind, charged particles, UV and other forms of radiation (solar and extra-solar) would take a farily hefty toll on the ship. So, like with any mode, what point in time you're depicting would also determine it as well. if you take a look at modern flight decks after some use, they have wheel marks and streaks all over the place. And yeah: neither carrier really were intended to be attached to the Macross. But most anti-slip/skid coatings on flight decks actually tends to be black/ dark charcoal grey.

Acually, I would use water and ground-up graphite to deepen the effect all over on that one, then a couple of modulated white wash passes, then some dry-brushing. On a side note: about a decade ago, I had done a conversion on the Matchbox SDF-1 I had at the time (back before they cost a mint) into the DYRL Macross. While it didn't transform ( joints snapped at the shoulder and I wasn't skilled/ resourceful enough to repair it at the time), I did manage to get a 1/3000 scale DYRL Macross several years ahead of everyone else: Sadly, this met a tragic end when I moved. Anyways, I remembered having done some "thruster burn" on the ends of the engines and remembered this project. If I ever get my hands on another Matchbox SDF-1, I think I'll try my own mods for a TV version.

I usually just paint some masking tape, cut it into strips and attach with Aileen's tacky glue.

Oh, MAN!!! I wish I had known; a couple of months ago, I had parts from a Bandai Dougram (found it mostly built in a thrift shop)! I wish I had saved them for ya!

Same here, only I'd like to be able to get my testing done so I can get paying work.

I'm in the Northeast; so far, everything is pretty well locked down tight. At this rate, September's not looking very good either to be frank.

I wonder what they're planning for the next wave of these? Destro would be an interesting one to see... Addition: saw him in the wave (oops!) Seems pretty good to me.

Probably because it hasn't featured as the one of the main mechs in an anime yet.

Hmmm... one thing I would have to say is: if humans had an inherent bent towards violence, would it be fair to say that the bent was from the Engineers' own bent (seeing as it was their DNA that was propigated on the primitive Earth)? And if that is true, then could it be one reason they sought to wipe humanity off the planet is to erase a reminder of their own inherent flaws? It's conjecture based on your assessment here, admittedly. But how often do we see in stories that those who have lofty expectations often deride their "inferiors" (or children as the case may be in a sense here) and exact harshness on them when they turn out to be a dark, distant mirror of themselves?

Yeah...there's that too!

Some good idead going on here so far. Also... Whatever happeneded to Kaifun (Minmei's "cousin"/ antagonist/ jerk)? *runs*

Well, there was that time in The UN Spacy Academy when all of us went to the bar and picked a fight with a bunch of Zolans who thought they were hot stuff. The next day, you couldn't remember the name of the bar, and the Commandant was demanding an answer, threatening to send us all to the Micross colony.

OUCH!! That's gotta stink like nothing else! One thing I used to do on stuff like that is drill a hole from one side to the other (through where the knee post would go), push in some rod, then cut flush, glue and touch up pint. but seeing as I've never done a Hase Battroid (and yours is even more complicated with the wires), I'm probably not imagining it correctly at all.

How about you just weather it there so it's "afterburner dark burnt" whatever metallic paint you want?

Same, and I can see why Bandai did it on the old ones: when I converted the VF-1 I had over to a single-nose design, reworking it to plug in the legs was a royal pain in the caboose. No wonder they used a hunky metal swing bar on the chunky 1/55!!!

Honestly, I would trade out those plastic hip joints for some metal rod or something. That looks hella weak (not your fault!).

That looks like Flat Light Aircraft Grey; this chart may help: https://hobbylandbg.com/colourtable