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Tell you what: next time you want to yell at Seito Kaiba, please quote him and not me. I do agree with him, but if you're upset with him specifically, then make sure that your "line of fire" isn't misdirected here. On that note: Podtastic, I've noted a tendency with you to vehemently disagree with folks that is utterly breathtaking, even for someone as high-strng as myself. I'm done in this thread. *My blood pressure will thank me later.* -Pengbuzz out.

Thanks! It was a good build (if a bit involved). The last part was a bit hairy: drilling out the barell tips. The plastic is a softer flexible type, so drilling it meant going slow, or risking drilling out the sides of it (or gouging the ends altogether).

I'm just going to go ahead and agree with you on all counts here. I think it's what Macross brought to the table that made RT any success; otherwise, we would have seen continuations of Southern Cross and Mospeada (sans any link to Macross) that would have been successful. I mean, how many people really care WHAT happens to Dana Sterling (so long as she doesn't appear in Macross)? Weld her in her hover-tank thingie and drop them in a black hole with an s-neutron whatchamacallit missile for all we care...

Good to see MW members helping one another out! We have an awesome fandom indeed! Speaking of destroids... UPDATE: I'm just goign to call this one "done": I weathered this one like I would a tank: with some subtle "oil dot filters" and varying shades on the hull. Also dd a couple of heavy oil sludge washes, and some heavy drybrushing. i wanted this to look like it had seen some hard service aboard the SDF-1. It now graces a spot in the maintenence hangar: And that's a wrap! Next project: figuring out what's for dinner....

With the surgery they wanted to do on my hand, they were going to split the ligament holding down the tendons in the wrist (Carpal Tunnel Release surgery). that would loosen then and stop the sticking so much, but they would also lose tension and be a bit slacker: https://www.jprasurg.com/article/S1748-6815(13)00218-0/pdf

Yeah; they offered me surgery, but after hearing about the "bowstringing" effect it can have, I declined. As far as sanding goes, I found hitting it with 0000 steel wool works. As for gluing, I use Devcon Plastic Welder, which sticks pretty well. Shaping it: I wait until i'm in a really rotten mood, then sand the living daylights out of it, white threatening it: "Listen, you heaven-forsaken piece of crap: you give me ANY trouble and so help me I have a microwave with YOUR NAME all over it!!!" (Usually works :D )

Yeah, it's "fun" all right; considering I'm using nothing more than an xacto knife and a sanding block with 80 grit in it to work this, it keeps "the joys of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" firmly in mind. But that said: at least the plastic is holding up well to the mods!

Thanks! and no; I am simply sanding them down and filling whatever voids that are left with plastic welder (epoxy). There's a lot of plastic there, which allows for most of what I need to do. Aside from the boxiness and being slightly out of scale, it's not too bad (although I did have to cut the sides off and remove about 1/8" of material): when I first got this a few days ago, it didn't even have the radar blade at top; that I scratched up from a couple of planks of thick styrene and simply glued to the post (after consulting the design drawings at Macross Mecha Manual: pic courtesy of Macross Mecha Manual. (http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/destroid-defender/destroid-defender-schematics.gif) Here's wherre the project is as of today; The light makes it look a bit more yellow than it actually is; it's kind of an olive drab instead of the khaki the painting instructions I found for the old 1/72 scale model suggested. But I guess they come in all sorts of colors from what I've seen. i just need to build the sensor eye and the ammo boxes for the shoulders now and I should be good to go.

UPDATE: Some work on the Defender 1/72 (Matchbox/Playmates)... What I started with: Where I am now: Stay tuned...

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Thanks sketchley! I couldn't remember what the mech was or what it did, but that sounds about right!! Edit: found it!

Hey, it worked for Hikaru when he went after Bodolza in his fortress!!!

Well, my Destroid Defender came in today: I only made a couple of mods so far; removing the strip of plastic between the arm guns, and backing the searchlights with foil tape: It scales nicely with my 1/72 VF-1J. I had been thinking of shortening the height, but I may just leave that alone: Once I'm done, it will go into the diorama with one of my VF-1's, while the other goes onto a different diorama: (not exactly the one included in the Robotech/ Macross Factory set, but I will hopefully get one of those at some point). Mods to be performed: washing, rebuild of radar antenna and ammo chute covers, drilling out of barrel ends, repainting and detailing, accurate decals. Possible mods: pivoting hip joints, articulated knee joints, opening pilot hatch, fuzzy dice. Stay tuned folks...

On another note entirely, I found a pic (or so I thought) some time ago amongst the online series productionl sketches of the bridge internals for the SDF-1 (google searches for sdf-1 bridge sketches, black and white). From what I recall, it showed a pic of the bridge from the inside, showing the layers of the bridge tower, but from the back facing forward. The thing I recall was that in the sketch, there was a battle pod (or some other Zentraedi mech, not sure) attacking the bridge bubble, and it had cracked it with laser fire. It showed the crew in panic and shock, and Captain Gloval high-tailing it, running as fast as he could for the exit! (needless to say, the sketch was apparently done as a joke I think!) Has anyone else run across this or ever seen/ heard of it? Or...is dementia setting in on my part?

Interesting mods! I have that kit, so i'll see if i can pull that off on it!

I'm waiting for them to do a 1/20 SDF-1...

You know, that would be interesting... a US version of the Yamato (Missouri or New Jersey). For the "Murican flavor", it shoots cans of Budweiser

I would try slitting the corners and reapplying the softener.

Wow bro! Wish I still had some of those you had there! lol Yeah, I wanted that base back, but it's expensive now, probably not complete anywhere and not in good condition. No to mention I had some ideas. Thank you for posting these; good to see you as a youngin' and your modelbuilding exploits as well as your collection!

On another of my projects (taking a break from the base), I got new feet for jetfire, but need armor and a gun for him. However, all the ones on Ebay were expensive for me, and a few avenues I pursued were...less than helpful. So, after getting more than a tad annoyed... Admittedly, it came out slightly chunkier than I intended, but I sanded it down as much as I could for circumference (the difference is by like a milimeter). And the barrel is slightly shorter (end nozzle is the problem, planning on fixing it later). But at least I ahve a gun pod now. Total build time: 3 hours, 25 minutes (from start, to paint and decal).

Well, jetfire needed one just recently, so yup. Pretty much. I think gremlins...

Okay...just got gifted a Destroid Defender toy (Exosquad/ Robotech matchbox Reissue) that I'm going to be reworking into a 1/72 to go with my valks in the repair diorama. Meantime though: been working on a different project. I had one of the Warren transformers Activity Centers (cardboard base) when I was a kid. Well, recently I decided to build one from scratch, but it ended up...erm...upsized: The lower level was bare in the main section, so i built a "power reactor" for it; meantime, the two level "tower" looked kinda dumb to me, so I built a working hand-crank elevator with clear plastic enclosure. The angled "pyramid" like section was the armory, but I think that whol;e area can be cut in half so a med center can be put in. Here's what I started with: Stay tuned folks...

It was having canopies break that forced me to learn how to make my own. Carve a wooden "buck", then get a cd jewel case and a heat gun (or stope top to soften the plastic), and use the "heat and smash" technique. BTW: I used the technique with soda bottle pastic for the canopy on the 1/100 vf-1 strike valk i built. If you ever get a really small fighter that you don't want a overly thick canopy on, use soda bottle plastic and "heat and smash" on a wood form.

I'd be very interested in this series! I think Mount did an incredible job as Pike, and the rest of the cast they ahd was pretty good as well. (Anything beats STD and PicTurd!)

Devcon Plastic Welder should be able to take care of that. Just remove the pin, clean the parts with alcohol and apply. Let cure 24 hours, make sure none of the mix gets in the hole, lightly sand and buff the extra material that squezzed out, and reassemble. Model cement won't work on this: while it can fuse polystyrene and ABS together, I have tried it on ABS to ABS and it doesn't work very well.