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7 hours ago, wm cheng said:
Thanks @pengbuzz one of the obstacles in preventing me to start on my F-22 (along with time and the metallic greys). Too bad almost all the ArcForum links are dead, but thanks to your other clear gold gloss link looks very promising. I would be really afraid to have lacquer on anything clear as it is the "hottest" of all the paint types and could attack the transparent plastic beneath and I'm not confident enough the Floor Polish undercoat would protect it but it's definitely worth an experiment on a scrap piece of clear styrene plastic - I wish I had multiple canopies lying around 😜 - maybe clear spoons?)
Thinking about it, I agree that I wouldn't trust floor polish alone. Let me look to see if I can find an acrylic version.
UPDATE: I wonder if this would work:
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BTW: if anyone needs to do a gold-tinted canopy on their fighter model(s), someone at ARC Forums found a way to do it without making them opaque:
Specifically:
(note: since it's a lacquer, you should user pledge with future shine or an acrylic to protect your canopy before application)
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A brief update:
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1 hour ago, Thom said:
@pengbuzz That dio is looking outstanding! Murphy looks great, and as said above, the foiling looks top-notch. An idea for another poster would be the TV guy from the movies with the 'I'd buy that for a dollar!'
That would be the in-movie show It's Not My Problem!, starring Bixby Snyder:
https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/It's_Not_My_Problem!
And I like that idea; going to see about that later if I feel better tonight.
Thanks!
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Decided to finally watch a short 3-part OVA: Cyber City Oedo 808
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1 hour ago, MechTech said:
@pengbuzz FANTASTIC scratch building of the backdrop! Your mods to that figure are next level and also AWESOME! Like Kurt, I think you could get a trophy at a model show with that build! - MT
And sorry, it took me so long to post my stuff, I missed your guys stuff😁 - MT
No problem.
And thanks!
34 minutes ago, derex3592 said:@pengbuzz - Dude....Robo looks GREAT! LOVING the Old Detroit diorama. You can just here "Dead or alive, you're coming with me"
Thanks man!
Going to be slowing down a bit, as I'm sick with a nasty cold (first chest, then head
). I plan though on making a discarded newspaper lying on the ground somewhere, and a knocked-over trashcan (found a tutorial for making it from heavy foil pie tins).
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UPDATE: I proceeded with the diorama backdrop-
Used everything from spray paint to melt the foam, to plaster of paris, to everything in between. Hopefully, it looks a little more now than painted foam:
Custom "Delta City" mini-poster I sketched using refs from the movie (along with a citizen's "opinion" about it):
And one last shot:
Still stuff to do, but I hope I at least got this diorama right.
Stay tuned...
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25 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
It is... but as far as we know it's never been used that way (to facilitate long-range patrols), no doubt due to the very limited range of small craft without fold capability.
It's only ever been presented as an emergency measure to protect the life of a mecha's operator when immediate rescue is not possible.
*Surprised after Project Supernova Col. Johnson didn't load Isamu into a Lancer in cold storage and fire him towards the nearest black hole*
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5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Just as well, imagine the DoorDash/GrubHub service charge for a trip of 5.4 billion km...
Don't forget tip for the driver...
Hey... a new use for the Lancer!!!
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5 hours ago, JB0 said:
I hadn't thought of it before he said it, but sketchley makes a good point. The island is under VASTLY different geological circumstances after the fold than before. It's gonna stretch out and relax now that the Earth's gravity isn't pressing down on it, and it isn't going to be particularly stable for a while until it works out its new situation.
And here I was going to write a story about the first orbital McDonalds around Pluto.
Drats.
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Wow...that feller is yeller.... O.o
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4 hours ago, Thom said:
That sounds like that could have been one of the scenes of the prototype robocops from the first movie.
Shame it didn't work out, but you still have a cool Robocop there. Keep your eyes open though, you could come across broken version of this, or there are 1/6 heads that you could find for cheap.*
* cheep being relative, as looking at the prices for just a 1/6 head is pretty up there! WOW.
Yeah; they had 1/6 heads for Murphy, but none now. I'd settle for a spare Horizon Robo head to modify.
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4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
The island itself, and presumably the surrounding ocean that came with it, is still out there... but the crew of the Macross stripped it for absolutely everything usable (including the ships that'd been in the ocean) before setting off for Earth. They probably took a fair chunk of the ocean too, since water is an important thing to have not just for human needs but also as a propellant supplement.
Yeah; that's where Prometheus and Daedalus came from IIRC.
I had forgotten they stripped the island for stuff; but I still think that it would make for a nice forward post for the sol system (some assembly required).
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4 hours ago, JB0 said:
I was under the impression that they rapidly stripped much of the useful stuff before they left, once they realized it was gonna be a long trip in the slow lane.
Regardless, even if the island wasn't stripmined, and managed to hold itself together... most of the buildings and infrastructure were not designed to accomodate deep space. They aren't airtight, and they aren't well-insulated*. Be easier to knock it all down, dig it all up, and rebuild from scratch.
* Pluto's orbit is cold enough that for most of the plutonian year, the world's favorite KBO has solid nitrogen on its surface. When the local weather forecast is "frozen air", you need REALLY good insulation.
Gotcha; that said, if the island still held together, it might make for a decent perimeter station at least.
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On 1/4/2024 at 8:38 PM, Seto Kaiba said:
South Ataria Island definitely had them, though the island was the site of several major battles in the Unification Wars.
So, is South Ataria Island still floating in the vicinity of Pluto?
Makes me wonder how much it would take, but could they conceivably convert that into a satellite city?
(if it's even possible; probably not but as a pengbuzz I must ask, since it has buildings in place as well as facilities.)
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UPDATE: alternate head self-destructed on me this morning after I just got done painting it.
Threw that across the room with all my might... so it looks like there's not going to be an alternate head. Sorry folks.
Just going to continue on with finishing details and the backdrop for the diorama.
Stay tuned.
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UPDATE: As promised, the foiling process I use-
1) Make sure the area to be foiled is clean; use rubbing alcohol to wipe away any debris, residual mold release or skin oil.
2) apply the foil evenly; I tend to "roll" it across the surface slowly so that it minimizes air bubbles getting trapped. Run your fingernail along the edge to "mark out" where you want to trim the foil.
3) After trimming, use a burnisher (mine is an old Xacto version with a ball on one end and a large flat plastic blade on the other) to smooth down the foil. Prick any air bubbles with the tip of an Xacto knife and smooth down with the burnishing tool.
4) Use 400 grit (or finer) sandpaper to give the foil a "brushed metal" look; make sure to go in one direction only, and be careful of how much pressure you use in sanding the foil. Too much can tear it and make a mess with the adhesive. For fine or detailed areas: cut the foil into smaller sections and burnish starting with a cotton swab. then move to using a toothpick for panel lines and finely detailed nooks and crannies.
5) After sanding the foil lightly, use #0000 steel wool to smooth it and burnish it down further.
6) After buffing with the steel wool, go over the details one more time with either a cotton swab or toothpick, re-buff with steel wool, then blow whatever debris from the steel wool off with compressed air/ hair dryer/ your breath. Wipe down one last time with rubbing alcohol, then seal with your usual brand of clearcoat (particularly if you want the "laminated titanium" look of Robo here):
Stay tuned...Murphy's
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1 hour ago, SpacePirateNeko said:
Petite Cola is up, i plan to update with decals in the future. Tomorrow i will consolidate this into a single thread for all future models with updates to work .
Awesome!
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As promised, here are the pics between the last I posted and my most recent update-
So first, test poses to ensure the armor would move correctly on the figure:
Then it was time to cast Murphy's unhelmeted face (still working on this BTW):
I made a mold of the face using Plaster of Paris (making sure to keep the entire thing cool until it set, so Murphy didn't end up looking like Emil at the steel factory!). I then poured Hot Melt Glue into the mold (with Vaseline as a mold release) and let that cool, then pulled it out when done.
Then, filling areas on the armor that were marred when I cut the armor apart:
First: a dam made out of masking tape was applied; then, the hot glue was poured into the void and allowed to harden. After that, sanding to match the contour of the armor and a masking tape "patch" that would be smoothed down to prevent anything from making an uneven surface.
Next: foiling the armor.
Stay tuned...
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UPDATE: A few pics to tide everyone over until I can post the rest of the progress pics:
Stay tuned...
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On 12/29/2023 at 4:14 PM, Seto Kaiba said:
An interesting thought... though not a topic I recall being mentioned in any of the writeups for the Dian Cecht Sv-262 Draken III.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me, though. It seems like something almost every VF developed after the First Space War would be designed for, considering the realities of postwar reconstruction and initial settlement of emigrant planets would mean VFs would have to be equipped to operate in the absence of properly constructed dedicated runways. Their VTOL and STOVL capabilities aside, it'd be an immensely useful thing to have and existing material does indirectly suggest roadways are reinforced to support the weight of stuff like workroids and giant Zentradi.
Whether Windermere IV includes such infrastructure is unclear. We only ever see the Aerial Knights operate from aircraft carriers or an airbase outside of their planetary capital of Darwent. They jumped right from a pre-industrial or early industrial agrarian society to an interstellar one and their economy's still near-exclusively agrarian, so it's not clear if they had the time or resources to redo their road system to support battroids and workroids in addition to light trucks and draft animal-pulled carriages.
Sounds like they went from Louis XVIII to Admiral Kirk in a generation or less...
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5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
In all fairness, the mass per unit of volume of hydrogen slush is not exactly huge... 0.085 kilograms per liter (about 0.71 pounds per gallon), a bit more than 1/10th what the same volume of JP-5 weighs (0.81kg/L or 6.76lb/gal).
The full internally-carried fuel load of a VF-1 weighs only about 1.5x what the pilot does. (1,410L @ 0.085kg/L is 119.85kg or 264lb.)
Weight isn't the problem for a VF, it's more a matter of consumption rate and available internal tank capacity.
The other beautiful thing is that the supplemental thrusters for maneuvering are pretty darned simple. The thrust vectoring nozzle aside, it's basically just a channel for propellant and either an electrically-driven laser diode or just an electrical arc across the propellant stream to flash-heat it. Simple, lightweight, and effective.
...and.... I'm out of ideas here.
19 hours ago, sketchley said:Did someone say chainsaws on a VF?
https://www.deviantart.com/studiootaking/art/VT-1CS-Silviculture-Valkyrie-Lineart-605492693
*retires to faraway planet and takes up origami*
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3 hours ago, Devil 505 said:
The way I see it, having another set of thrusters in the legs while being separate from the main engines could make for some Harrier-style VIFFing (Vectoring In Forward Flight).
One issue is going to be your fuel budget. In atmosphere, it's not that bad for a VF, but in space, propellant and fuel is at a premium. In Macross Delta, Arad had to remind Hayate to watch his propellant levels" during one sortie, as after a couple of maneuvers, you could be out of propellant or even low on fuel.
Additionally: the more thrusters and engines you put into a mech, the more weight and mass that will be added by said dry mass, but the more fuel you will have to carry. While the fuel issue is (one again) not so bad for a VF in atmosphere, the systems still take up space in the airframe.
In space... that mass costs big.
On top of that: added thrusters/ engines and such are going to add to the overall cost in time, money and materials in the form of maintenance. If those systems cannot be maintained at a reasonable level, then all they are doing is taking up mass and room on an airframe that needs every ounce working towards its' performance.
One thing many folks forget when it comes to airframe design: it becomes a series of tradeoffs, where you have to decide what the goal of the craft is and what matters most. This is why in Macross, you don't see too many "just like a Gundam" type craft; there are costs and supplies are used up, as is endurance. Not to mention that what seems like a good idea on paper often doesn't work in the real world.
One reason there aren't rocket launchers that fire chainsaws...
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Has anyone tried 91% Isopropyl ("Rubbing") Alcohol to remove the yellow tint on the canopy?
Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV
in The Workshop!
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Yup!
for taking out the trash.
With that in mind, he needs something to put it in: