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UPDATE: Booms are pretty much shaped. They just need some detailing and to have the final joint connection to the rest of the ship built- Yeah, they look massive; but better than than the anemic, wimpy ones it originally had. These put the "BOOM" into the booms. Stay tuned folks...

Good idea Big s; for some time, I had considered trying out Tamiya's paints. Now, I'm not so sure about some of their stuff. It doesn't mean I won't ever try their products, but this has given me some real pause. Derex: I really don't blame you on your caution here. I can only imagine what you're feeling with all this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Continuing to work out the transform. So far, I have the booms roughed in and am beginning basic shaping and sizing on them: The ship thus far: I managed to get Daedalus and Prometheus closer to the main hull by modifying the shoulders a bit. i also removed the "two-part" plastic pin on then and simply drilled a hole in the outer shoulder that will allow for a single pin to be pushed straight through and glued into place. The mid arms are a bit long, undecided on modifying them again or just leaving them that way. The torso or legs should slide and compact somehow to bring the legs to the chest thrusters, but I don't want to over-stress the frame I built to handle the main torso rotation. Also: I have ABSOLUTELY NO FRICKIN' CLUE how I would do the "slide transform" on the head halves. And I'm not sure I should even try. I don't want to add too many moving pats at this scale, as I ran into a LOT of issues in that scheme with the VF-1S Strke Valk, and I'm fortunate to have the Macross even this much transformable. We'll see how it progresses. Stay tuned folks...

From the looks of things, his brain is already inverted...

UPDATE: Well, I have a transform going for the Macross. it's still a bit rough, but I'm working out some stuff: I need to get the arms to where the Daedalus and Prometheus are alongside the fortress and closer in. Also, waiting on materials to manufacture new booms. Once the structural issues are addressed, then I'll get into correcting some details and making everything match up a bit better. Stay tuned...

Yeah; it matches up on the storm attacker but not on the cruiser mode. Like the valkyrie, it seems to change proportions when transforming! So, I'm just going ahead and scratching two new booms here, so that they match up and scale to cruiser mode. That should also relieve the "bottom heavy" look of attacker mode. To achieve the transform, I'm doing a "frame" that the legs and shoulders/ chest attaches to, like the 1/3000 Yammie version. That way, only the center part has to rotate and it should keep everything stable for the booms to transform.

UPDATE: some pics- Well, for one thing: I cut out the openings in the main engines on the feet. I wanted to do my own, not the dubious detail on there: I also decided Prometheus needed a smooth surface, as the engraved lines were enormous! I also began work on the body and the Bridge; I plan on doing a clear bridge when I get the materials: Shins needed some work: I had everything together overall, and for a moment thought maybe to leave the thing in Storm Attacker mode. But y'know...those booms do look kinda thin. When I did the comparison to cruiser mode, NOTHING matched up on the booms... And try as I might: the temptation to make a transform finally got me: (Including new booms carved from wood. Guess I shoulda gotten a 1/5000 cruiser as well, but I only had enough money from a recent gig I did to get this). Stay tuned folks...

Okay...it's HERE: I just got this one in today from Kelsain (awesome Macrossworld member to do business with!) with some money I was finally able to scrape together. It's the Arii 1/5000 scale Macross. The model has some issues (Kelsain received it in that condition, as did I) with size of some parts, missing details, lacking elbow articulation on the arms, and some parts that were glued together wrong. I removed the chest thrusters and placed them into the correct position; unfortunately, a few bits from the chest broke off, but I'm planning on gluing in some styrene to correct this issue. As for the elbows... I have a couple of joints here that should suffice quite nicely. Meantime, I'm working on a transform for this one that will allow for cruiser mode and storm attacker mode. These are the plans I was working with, but they don't seem to square up with cruiser mode: Stay tuned folks... the storm is here....

I'm so sorry bro... if I lived near you, I'd just rebuild the joints for you and give you a second chance on this.

Bro, that sucks!!! I'm trying to think of a way to salvage this for you; I had a similar incident with a solvent and a transformable model. Is it possible to clean where the joints joined with isopropyl alcohol and use soemthing like Devcon plastic welder to rebuild the joints?

Awesome weathering and diorama! On a side note, I kinda expect to see "zzzzzzz" above it, like it took a nap or something!

They tried. but they couldn't get them started up.Then the planes had trouble as well.

Maybe Maverick will get in the plane using a wire from the ceiling....while Val uses a walker.

Yup on all counts! Here's the extended version of the title song:

I wish they'd bring that show back. A lot in the storyline that needed to be resolved, and a lot of potential that wasn't tapped.

Lol! Well, the UMM-7 Micro-missile launchers are finally done for my Strike Valk (about time, right?). Looking forward to the SDF-1 Macross!

double post.

Guess what I finally got around to building?

And Cruise jumping all over the chairs, yelling while Oprah is watching in shock.

Definitely; with the economy right now, "scrounging for work" can be worse than trying to find a photo-etched detail part in a shag rug!

Interesting, Arbit! Looking to see where you take this idea. BTW: speaking of Yamato (and several other animes): has anyone ever noticed that many of the shows are a bunch of "bad guy ships" chasing around ONE "good guy ship"?

Yup, although admittedly I was pretty skeptical even while getting them out of the hard drive. Quite a bit rides on those magnets' ability to hold the Strike Valk in place!

Okay; what they need to do is scrap the movie, take the actors salaries that they would have paid them, sue HG and Sony for the rights to everything "Macross" in (insert unmentionable series here), then make a Macross movie and tell Cruise he can get together with John Travolta and remake "Battlefield Earth" or something.

As promised, here are the pics: (Sorry for the blurriness) Near as I can tell, it won't shake off the launch arm. Just need to do some more details on the arm (the "grab fingers" I suppose) and it should eb all set.

While I'm waiting for my next project to get here (and hopefully for a chance to get my own pc fixed), I got the chance to get my hands on some rare earth magnets. So, after popping off the backpack for my "Starfighters" Strike Valk, I glued them in via hot melt glue and put some on the boom end of my launch arm dio. I hope to have pis as soon as the glue dries and I can test it out. Stay tuned...

Okay, this DESERVES a Necropost. I know Jay-Lew hasn't been around in quite some time. of what has happened to him. But the level of work that went into this is simply monumental (like the subject he modeled in this topic!).