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Thanks for the info. That’s a cool scheme, too.

Red VF-25S? Never heard of, I think I missed that one.

Thanks a lot! I gonna get Klan for sure. This will be my first VFG kit where I'll paint the fighter in its original colors. And for Klan I try to do her pilot suit as much anime accurate as possible.

Great idea and it looks good! Like the helmet has always been there.

If I knew I could rip the parts apart without too much damage I would consider it, but I glued my models together like hell these days. I even have some leftover decals for those kits. The dark grey of the factory is not painted . That would be the easiest part to fresh up.

I just found some of my robotech builds out of kids days some time ago: No sanding or priming at all. Just glued together and hand painted in thick layers of color. Horrible, almost no chance to panel line it by now.

peter, you're a funny guy . It seems your camera is great at enhancing photos cause I think this thing looks really really good. If I gonna build one I would be happy if it comes out half as good as yours. And it's these little flaws that makes your build unique!

@peter I think the Fortress will turn out great, too. Just as your Valkyrie squad does I was about getting me an Arcadia SDF-1, but now I think it would be more fun to build one by myself as well as to get a more realistic look. And to you other guys: Amazing builds around here again!

I preordered from https://hobbyfrontline.com/ . It is not the limited box art and the price is higher, but in the past months I had some higher pay ups for custom fees on my orders directly from Japan. Since I'm located in the EU and so is Ireland I can avoid any uncalculated custom fee.

Just preordered it. Not cheap so, seems I have to skip on some upcoming MBs. I have the Fix Figuration Final Battle Version of the RX-0, but it does not have the finish of a MB figure and it is solely green. Thinking about to sell this one once the MGEX RX-0 is build. With the MGEX kit I have the finish in my own hands and im curious about the illumination feature. And I have still my Jesta Cannon to build, so these to MS will be matching in time and scale perfectly.

Oh, ok. Good to know. So I quit on Aoshima. Wether the die cast nor the plastic kit. The prices for both are ridiculous high anyway. I would go for an old AMT/ERTL kit again but these seem even harder to grab than Aoshima by now.

I built the AMT Airwolf kit back in the 80's. And as it came with the original CIC stations, I glued the cabin shut, too. So the whole work on the interior was for nothing.But was even more worse, I "painted" the entire exterior with a black paint stick from Tamiya. What can I say, it looked horrible and a short time later I scrapped the whole helicopter - though I really liked the design. I wonder if I could have "saved" it with my "improved" skills of today I have the Aoshima 1/48 kit on my watchlist on eBay but I'm still uncertain to buy it or not. But indeed, a bigger and newer version would be much appreciated!

Thanks. Chamber in the back is not the kit, it's the completed figure from Goodsmile. But the finish of the figure is really good and it looks like it is completely painted (in contrary to Goodsmiles' Arhan from 'Expelled from Paradise'). I have to admit it is hard to tell if the black surfaces are painted or not.

My standard process: At first of course preparing the surfaces of the parts by sanding and filling if needed. Normally I don't use surface primer, currently only for resin kits. But this may change cause I made good experiences with priming, so I might us it also for upcoming plastic models. Nowadays I try to paint almost everything by airbrush. On the other hand this means a lot of masking, but for me the result proves it. For paint I work almost entirely with Tamiya acrylic colors, except for gold or chrome, here i use Vallejo. I try not thin the colors too much. Depending on the color I try to go over with a maximum of 2 or 3 runs. For some tones it is still some kind of trial and error . For finish I use solely the TS sprays from Tamiya. Normally a first layer of semi gloss clear, then panel lining and/or weathering and the one or two other layers of gloss/semi gloss/flat clear again.

Thank You MechTech. In the end it was fun to build. And as you say, in a way it felt a little bit when building 1/35 scale tanks back in my youth . Meanwhile the mech got its own pilot, too:

Finished a project I started with more than a year ago but gave up on it after spraying the base color completely white. Disliked my plan for coloring back then. Some weeks ago an idea for a suitable camouflage pattern crossed my mind and here's the result. Did a decent weathering, too. Light wear on the edges and some dust and smoke.

This guy really looks heavily used Great improvement! And matte finish does a lot to remove the toylike character.

I‘d wish for that, too. Bandai, just do it!!!

My first buy from Mandarake: B-Club VF-2JA - a little bit of a holy grail for me. One of my fastest deliveries from Japan as well, just 5 days including customs.

This weeks arrivals by the way. Some mecha stuff again after quite a long time.

In a world where every idiot can pull the trigger a little chivalry doesn't hurt (as long as you're sitting in a Gundam ) Oh, I just wanted to get off the MB-line, but this one is tempting once more.

Today I try to do most parts by airbrush. Black and white paint were semi gloss but I sprayed several layers of matte clear coat. Maybe I overdid it a little bit in the end

All right, somewhere my money has to go. Who needs food and clothes anyway

Would you please stop teasing us. Me too has an eye on the low vis for a long time but until now I could resist those high prices... but this picture...

Completed my first resin figure: Ange from 'Cross Ange'. In the beginning I had read a lot of horror stories about working with resin, especially concerning painting, so I was quite anxious about it. But after a lot of cleaning, filling, sanding and priming I am quite happy with the result. Painting and glueing were no issue in the end and although the kit seems to be a knock-off the resin parts had a smooth surface and were free of any bubbles. Now that I'm thinking about doing another resin kit I'd like to go for Macross 7 or Macross II related stuff. But this seems to be getting pricey