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Looking really smooth there Xigfrid!! Just loving how this is progressing!

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Can we have another Ewok movie? :{

Really neat! BTW: maybe do a couple of "joke ones" from DYRL with the "beer can" labels on them?

UPDATE: okay, I got a bit ambitious... I saw that the 1/4000 Hasegawa TV version had tiny planes on it, and thought "well, let's see how that would look." So, I cut some simple valks out of styrene and painted them up a bit and glued them into place. I also tried to use paint to represent tow vehicles for the planes and people on the ship. The effectiveness of it may not be what I was hoping for, but a bare flight deck bothered me. On that note, it also bothered me that the ship looked too "clean" of detail, so I did something a bit daring and found the old Takatoku sticker sheets online and the placement instructions and replicated in large part the details from that. I plan on doing a few washes and drybrushing to kill down the garishness, then some touch-up and clean up on some of the work that smeared. Well, at least it ain't boring anymore,,, Stay tuned folks...

Really liking how this is coming out, Arbit! The brown is a good contrast against that blue/purple/grey, and your paintwork looks very clean. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on this one.

Looking really sharp there! Nice save!

UPDATE: Some more antennae work- At this point, there isn't really too much more left to do. I'm considering either painting in or trying to sculpt tiny Valkyries out of sprue for Daedalus, and I'm also thinking about a stand or something to display this on that could handle both cruiser and storm attacker modes. That said, all the major work is pretty much done. Here's where we started with this one: And here's where the project currently stands : Stay tuned folks...

Okay...cruiser mode: You can see on the last pic the "frame" that I had to build to enable it to transform. Unfortunately, there was just no good way to really disguise it at this scale, as it would require the legs to slide up (or the chest thrusters to slide down), and it was already getting kind of "fiddly" in that area. The hips snapped off twice before I finally gave in and simply glued them into a fixed position. Another limitation is the arms: they are by necessity longer in the elbow mountings than the actual ship. I didn't want to keep tearing up the plastic with continual modifications, having learned my lesson with the VF-1S model. So, I settled for this. For any artwork in Photoshop, I can simply edit out the frame and shorten the arms as needed. Finally: the halves of the bridge don't separate and slide to either side. I couldn't figure out a decent looking way to do that which wouldn't break about every 2-3 transforms. (Makes me wonder if Capt. Global ever had thoughts like that? "Hmm...we should transform to attack mode, but is the ship gonna break again? Hikaru had to go run and get the radar mast for the third time this week!") Stay tuned...

lol Yeah; it's just showing how big my mitts are. I'll have pics in a day or so. Got a nasty stomach bug that had me vomiting up my entire digestive system. I still feel like utter crap.

Teeny, tiny update: I couldn't find the radar mast in the kit for the SDF_1 Macross (probably went missing a long time ago before Kelsain ever got the kit himself). Anyways, some stretched sprue, glue, and a LOT of determination, pati9ence, and profanity later ( ), I managed to get something that kinda resembles it: Not the prettiest in the world, but hey, at this scale, I'm lucky to do any fine work. Pepsi cans for fingers, ya know. Stay tuned... (now with radar!)...

Yup. I took a scene from the original opening for SDFM and posed that and my VF-1J as close as I could to the artwork. I then worked in Photoshop for the rest. Original frame: I left out the gunfire because I couldn't get the arm and gun pod to pose that way without breaking something. I also figured I didn't have to be an "exact slave" to the original either.

Well, Photoshop is kinda operational. Thought I'd finish up a project I started a while back...

Yeah; in SFDM, "the man" didn't exactly want to negotiate peacefully with the Zentraedi.

O.o Okay, after seeing "THIS GUY'S" version of "brutal war", I decided to just remove what I said previously. Let's just go with "War is Serious" and I think that would be good.

*deleted, see latest post for explanation*

UPDATE: first colors (some details added, needs more refinement and detailing): Stay tuned folks...

WOW! REALLY smooth on the paint and weathering there, Arbit!!! Bravo!!

Nice find, MT! I might consider that for one of my dioramas (the carrier launch one comes to mind). I just found this the other day at a second: hand craft supply store: It thickened up, so it's no longer much good for airbrushing; I tried it with a brush and it works beautifully! I'm planning on doing lights on the Macross once it's painted up, and that should save on battery power.

Thanks! Here's a current progress shot: I just redid the feet last night: that required cutting the 4 "corners" off the feet, grinding both the insides of the corners and where they meet the rest of the foot down, then re-gluing them as close as possible to to the correct positions.It was kind of a pain, but the results were worth it! Right now, I'm working on making the 4 rail gun turrets (shoulder emplacements) positionable, so they can face forward in cruiser mode. After that, it's on to the head where it needs the transparent bubble and antennae (both will be made using "heat and smash" for the bubble and sprue stretching for the antennae). Once that's done, super-detailing the hull and seam clean-up. Stay tuned folks...

UPDATE: Daedalus and Prometheus, paintwork: I need to do more refinement and work on these, but they're well underway. More to come... Stay tuned...

UPDATE: Final "sealing up" of booms to vessel took place today. Justwaiting for adhesives to dry before showing a full-on transformation. I also took the liberty of doing some detailing not only to the booms, but to Daedalus and Prometheus as well. Prometheus' flight deck was not at all accurate to the designs, while Daedalus' bridge "bar" needed to be hollowed out so it wasn't a "one piece" with the deck anymore: While the details are a bit exaggerated to scale at this point, as i sand, they will slowly get to the point where the lines are no longer valleys.I added a bridge and extension to Prometheus, as it had neither and the line art showed it having both.They aren't perfect (yet); as I go, it will be refined. I want to do the weathering for Prometheus like you'd find on a modern carrier, and perhaps focus on weathering Daedalus like a modern nuclear sub. The overall paint job for the entire model, I'm going to be doing a bit differently than most would think. Stay tuned...

Nope. Not one cog gets to me.