Dr_Breen

Just finished Insight, first half was a little slow, but it heavily explained the growing understanding between yukikaze and humans besides Rei. After the operations commence, it is a series of intense revelations about the nature and goals of the combat intelligences, Yukikaze, Cooley and the SAF, and especially Jam and Rombert. The closing sequence is fascinating and intense.

Since I started reading Insight, ive resumed work on my Supersylph. Its been quite awhile since last and my skills have improved alot+developed new ones, so still frustrated with my previous attempts to give her cockpit detail, I decided to go at it again from the top. I vacformed, rather than crash formed, new canopys from the kit plugs again, and really let the plastic sheet sag and relax, then pulled vacuum for like 12 full seconds. The canopys came out MUCH better, albeit with a few blems from presumably dust particles or such, which Im willing to live with. Then I 3d modelled in Plasticity basic representations of the cockpit panel/dash and seats, referenced from the concept art drawing of the Supersylph cockpit, scaled off the 3-view art which is available, and modified/simplified to fit the highly constrained area of the bored out cockpit slots in the kit - such as, instead of making sidewalls and side panels, then locating the stick and throttle on them, I placed representations of the controls on extensions of the dash, which isnt the layout of the ""real"" thing lol But after printing and install these look fairly good under the canopys, which will be gently tinted with tamiya smoke anyway. I also redid my old swept blade fan intakes from the past but in much higher fidelity. I mixed up some Tamiya Quick type and repaired her damaged dogtooth wing points (not the best putty user but its hard to notice and certainly looks better than busted tips), filled a few small resin blems and and voids, after sitting overnight I blended the putty in with increasing grits and polished with like a 10k or 12k pad While getting her gear on I found that my kit came with a duplicate set of main gear legs but only one main gear side stay/brace, I didnt feel like trying to measure, design and print a close one so the spares box came to the rescue, i dont remember what the gear spares where from lol I build almost everything gear down, maybe alternate options from something. Then I primed her, speckle/mottle coated. Agonized over the damn belly color for like a whole day, every source is contradictory, but the alleged duck egg green doesnt seem to match up with any shots of Supers in the show or art, its at most a greenish teal, but in a lot of shots (maybe cause of the lighting and Faery's teal as opposed to blue sky) it appears more powder blue, pastelish even, or like the RAF PRU blue, sky type S with blue in it, etc. Anyway I went with an eyeballed mix of Vallejo Intermediate blue grey, then a few drops of sky type S to lighten and add the hint of green, this was still pretty dark and grey, so I added a good squirt of Faded PRU blue, which got me close enough I think, its definitely light and greyer than on screen, but still has some blue and I think, crucially, looks better/more believable than the supposed duck egg, and a bit more subtle than the show's more vivid coloration. I went with Ocean Grey as a base on top and Dark grey blue for the camo splotches, which on its own even sprayed gently and thinned was much too contrasty and dark against ocean grey, so I misted some thinned ocean grey back over and unified them, I think the blending and softening effect looks good, however Im concerned that overall the top tones, specifically ocean grey are still too light and I should maybe try to filter them darker? But on the flip side, no washes or weather have been applied yet, and even with careful oils pinwashing, it will darken her appearance somewhat, what does the thread think of the top color greys?

Above is Insight: Yukikaze ch1 "In the fog" machine translated I should note, the images got posted in reverse order, first at top of post is the last page because of screenshot ordering

Video is Timestamped, I'm not really sure what the color on the underside of these B/C model Supersylphs is, in some frames, it looks Tealish or more Raf Sea blue-gray (I called eggshell blue earlier) and in other frames more tan or greenish. I should also note this matters because I think I wanna have my 1/72 Super be one of the other surviving SAF birds, Carmilla or Llanfabon.

The 1/72 Fand II just arrived, and man its a nice casting, flashless and silky. Only disapointment in just super sylph Im gonna have to vac form a hollow canopy and grab some after market cockpit set like from a Viper im thinking, or maybe just print the needed part. Also having finished my F111, BP Defiant, and P40B. Im thinking im going to get working on my 1/72 super sylph again, and now that Ive got a resin printer, I can print her really nice crisp fan blades, and stores like AAM-5 and such. This being said, my 1/144 Super Sylph turned out pretty nice back in the day. But im not feeling the russian style powder blue I used for the belly tone on the small one, Im thinking a more RAF ww2 eggshell, like very subtly blue cream color, or maybe an RAF Seagray, subtly blue gray? Not sure yet

Here's my translation of aggressors, its a bit shoddier than Unbroken arrow, and contains more direct quotations than the previous one:

Very excited! Now we just need one more re-release, regular Sylph, and things will be complete lol

You're welcome y'all! Im glad you like it! Aggressors inbound soon im about 65% of the way

Here is Unbroken Arrow:

So folks, Ive finished Unbroken Arrow and am Half through Aggressors. While reading Ive done a detailed summary write-up, more detailed than I planned actually lol Would you guys be interested in seeing those? Since an official translation isnt on the horizon? Its not page by page, but they are long detailed summaries.

Thank you! and I'll keep a lookout, Platz does seem to do re-releases every so often, speaking of, I feel a little silly spending what I spent on the previous release of Maeve in 1/72 on ebay, now that preorders are out for a Maeve re-release lol

I acquired the Platz 1/72 Super and am using Super Hornet Resin cockpit pieces for detailing, and for the canopies I just did an old Modelling technique of 'Crash Forming' wherein you get the part to be formed mounted (which the resin plugs from this kit made very easy) cut a little form of the part's foot print, I just used cardboard, then you get some clear plastic, I used battery blister pack plastic, heated over a toaster till starting to flow, then quickly plunged it over the part with the form and held till cooled, these were my results: Also, as for reading Unbroken Arrow, and Now aggressors, if you make a Japanese amazon account, you can still use American credit cards, etc. and get the kindle versions of both, and reading them on the kindle app on my phone has a built in translation, which is just bing machine translation, and far far from perfect, but I have been able to get the gist of each page and about 1/3 of the way through unbroken now, and some wild crap has happened lol. Lastly, I have spent a substantial amount of money acquiring 1/72 Super sylph, Mave, and Fa-27, but it seem that the Fand 2 and regular Sylph are no where to be found, if anyone knows of any kind of re-release or someone whose selling either of them, but esp Fand 2, I'd be over-joyed.