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That would work, as well as taking a black pen/ pencil and doing in some smaller panel lines over the surface.

What you might want to try is drybrushing the base with a dark grey paint (drybrush: dip brush into paint, brush it onto paper towel until nearly gone and then brush the remaining paint on the model as a weathering effect). You can build this up to make the base look better and bring out the detail.

Okay, last shots for the Macross Factory in 1/72: The buggy is the last of he vehicles; aside from maybe some more figures and some human-scale equipment (such as welders, air tank carts, coffee cups, etc), I think this is it for this one! (unless I get another idea, like "sumo" armor for the 1J... )

Actually Peter.... you're doing an awesome job!!! Finding parts that resemble what you're looking for and using household materials is the number one skill when it comes to kitbashing/ scratchbuilding. (Little secret for ya: the arm launchers on my Strike VF-1S were wooden yard stakes in a previous life!) Don't worry about that panel line that "isn't straight": with the amount of abuse the Macross likely took when it made the trip home, it will make it look like the ship took a dent there. If it bothers you, just sand it a little and repaint it with black primer before you go on to the color coats. Please keep going with this; I'd like to see what you do with it!

You did an awesome job on the VF-1S super! Yeah, the other one is an Arii; i recognize the overly-fat nosecone! lol I also have eye issues, and found head magnifiers that amplify things even further; maybe that can help you out if you need it.

Digital illustration (Star Trek): Star Wars: I also do some writing, other modelbuilding and figuremaking (will post later so I don't eat up bandwidth here!)

Well, aside from my Macross endeavors I also do the following: Drawing/ painting:

LOL! This time around, it didn't need it!

Well...it's been bugging me for a while now, but I decided today to make the final original counterpart of my factory diorama: the transport buggy: I got an old pilot figure from a busted P-51 Mustang in 1/72, and used a spare seat from the failed Bandai VF-1S kit I had. I then took some anonymous spare parts (including some 1/72 landing gear wheel spares), some scrap styrene, and a bit of glue and paint. I'll try to get some pics of it in the display tomorrow, when the light's better. Cheers folks! (not that I'm British by any means! )

If I had to guess, the angle's a bit off but it mostly looks like the top angled section of the port side, just before the deck becomes completely flat.

Hey...all you need to do is just detail the stand with some panels and paint it in varying shades of gunmetal/ gray. They could be skimming the surface of an ARMD on their way to a sortie. Just a few square pieces of plastic and some paint and you'd be good to go!

If you want to see "butchered", check this build out! lol :

Would that make the VF-31 a RAID array? (or perhaps more like an air RAID array? )

How quaint: a saucer on stilts....

You can always redo and resurrect your old ones: easy off oven cleaner or simple green will remove paint without damaging the plastic, while some good old fashioned rebuilding and polishing (plus some printed decals) can elevate your prior projects to an all-new level!

Looks like a saucer with a couple of car cigarette lighters and a squinty eye between the nacelles.

Let's be honest here: CBS tried twice to make an un-Star Trek "Star Trek", and failed miserably both times. If they don't do it this time with ST:SNW, they may as well sell the rights to Paramount and fire the staff who were trying to make this mess happen. Admittedly, my sentiments echo much of what Seito Kaiba was saying, but he has a point, and I also think that ST:DSC and ST:P should serve as warnings to the sci-fi (as well as other) fiction communities as well of what not to do to make a new series in a well-known franchise. At this rate, they may as well do an animated series using the same computer program as South Park...

You could always cut the nose end off and glue it on upside down. Seriously though: yeah, the nose is just misshapen to all heck. I'd resculpt it or something. I ran into that as well on my project: I ended up using a couple of pieces of very light wood and just cutting them to the proportions I needed:

The Bandai ones are wider and a bit "squatter" than the Hasegawa ones, while the Hase versions tend to be thinner and more slender overall. Currently fitting some hase parts to a bandai and noting the variations.

I like that idea, Thom! I would love to find a newer kit (preferably an actual Airwolf kit) and put the internals into it. The figures were scratched up from sprue (and admittedly, this was before I learned that glasses would help my vision!); i would want to revisit them and detail them out a bit better. The exterior of the helicopter is crap because it was just a Bell 222 that I had to mod into Airwolf and do the add-on turbines and armor myself. Another reason for wanting an actual Airwolf kit: the white plastic on the Bell 222 is quite soft and easily bent/ broken. I recall the black plastic on the Airwolf kit (I had it some years previously to this project) was a bit more rigid, so it wouldn't be such a pain to work with. Only issue is that they are currently pretty hard to come by, and money is always an issue around here (groan). If I ever happen to come across one (unlikely) at a flea market or such, that would be nice.

While waiting to find repair parts for another project, i dug up an old one from 2012-2013: I found an AMT Bell-222 1/48 scale kit. While it wasn't the "Airwolf" version, it was the base model for it. So, after some outer mods, I did a complete interior using sprue and printouts of all the controls for the CIC (Dom's "office" aboard the lady). Then in a genius moment of stupidity...I glued it all shut. So, after finding this in my stuff, i did an experiment, and was able to open her up to show off the interior. Don't worry: I still have the outer panels! I cut them carefully along panel lines and am working on tabbing them so they can pop back into place. I'll just need to rework it slightly to make sure the fit is as seamless as possible. But after remembering the work I did, I think gluing it back would be just wrong! My paintwork isn't all that great in there, but this was nearly a decade ago! Classic pengbuzz work here; see what you think!

Thanks MT! This is just the Imai VF-1S I built a while ago (not the FAST pack modded one), with interchangeable noses. I still have the other one, but I had to borrow it's gun pod (the IMAI one met a tragic end when I dropped it and accidentally stepped on it! O.o). Speaking of which: sometime soon, I have to post pics of that one, as well as the custom-designed valk I built some years ago.

"Risk adverse"= "We're so scared of failing that we remove all possibility of success and fail by default".

Yeah; I may tone it back a bit more than this, as the idea is "used but not abused".

*Checks masking tape and cardboard stores to see how much a project like this would require...*