SteveTheFish

Fixed! I just used a bit of Tamiya's pink brown wash and then used Tamiya gloss pink acrylic for her tongue. Here's a link to my photoset on Tumblr.

Hey, you're right! I overlooked that detail. Thanks!

My most recently completed build, Claire Frost from Hasegawa's Eggplane Girls series of 1:12 scale resin figure kits.

I've got the very first kit, with the no-name blue-haired girl. I can scan if you'd like.

@nightmareB4macross That's always been my favorite pose, the one between Fighter and Gerwalk with the legs extended and the arms retracted. That looks cool.

Imai's kit was 1:100 and Arii's kit was 1:72. typically Arii kits had better surface detail, but Imai had overall better proportions. Some of the Arii kits are awkward-looking. Their Glaug though was pretty good. I've never seen one in-person, but builds I've seen of it look nice.

I'm sometimes working on this Dirty Pair garage kit I bought at Wonder Festival in Chiba about 10 years ago. The last time I touched this was in 2021 I think. Now I've done a dry fit to test it out. Just using pins and blue tack to keep it together. The guy who made this kit also made other Lovely Angel kits, as well as Zentraedi and Meltrandi fleet ships. He introduced me to the head of Studio Nue... I forget his name because I am apparently not a big enough fan. IIRC, I think he told me that Kei's character was sort of inspired by his wife. Don't quote me on that.

Hey, I noticed that the contents of one of my Citadel shading bottles is getting a bit too thick. What should I thin it down with before it tries up? IPA? Water?

Those look great. I am also building these same four ships, but I was not lucky to get the 15th anniversary repops and mine must probably be from the '80s. The decals for the Therval Salal were manageable, but decals for the LST and Breetai's flagship were brittle. I poured Microscale Decal Film into the airbrush and sprayed them a few times. After that, they didn't break apart but were still stubborn.

Thanks! That's exactly my thoughts on the armored parts. I've been building this Imai Armored Valk alongside the new Hasegawa one, and I had plenty of leftover paint I'd mixed for the armored parts on the Hasegawa one to use on this smaller kit. When I'm done, I'll take a picture of them side-by-side.

The eye decals are leftover for the Hasegawa Eggplane Girl resin kit I'm also working on. You can see the face in the lower left-hand corner of the photo. Fortunately, not only do they give you a choice of eyes, but they also provide several in case you screw it up. I have the 1400 Enterprise E myself, in a First Contact box. I just recently bought aztec decals for it from HDA Modelworx.

I worked a lot on my Enterprise E kit last night, laying down more decals. The topside decals went down more easily because the surface doesn't have deep concave sections. I've cut out the red and blue warp nacelle parts of the decals to lay them down without interfering with the blue fluorescent paint. I got to the point where I had to stop. Due to the nature of having to handle the kit, I wouldn't want to run the risk of handling it with wet decals lest they come off on my hands, right? I just did one side of one nacelle so far. My plan to just cut out the red and blue parts from the decals worked though, so I'm pleased with that. Oh, and there's one big U-shaped decal that goes along the front. I did not have confidence that it would survive, so I cut it essentially in half (in a blank part of the aztec pattern) and put it down in two sections.

I could've sworn I already posted this on here, but I guess not. I'm nearly done with my modified Imai 1:100 Armored VF-1J. It's altered with custom ball joints, better hands, and aftermarket decals. Actually, the only decal I used from the original decal sheet (which was pretty worn, ugly, and barely usable) is that flame/torch thingy on its waist. Uncannily, several spare decals from the 1:72 Hasegawa kit fit perfectly on this 1:100 kit. the standard UN Spacy roundel I used for the wing on the back came from a sheet of basic Macross decals from China on eBay. Other warning labels and such came from HiQParts generic aftermarket decals. I used the same leftover mixed paints from the 1:72 Hasegawa one, but made this one Millia's red Valk instead. Yes, I know that Nichmo made a hypothetical Millia's Armored Valk in 1:200 scale back in the day, but I don't prefer that scheme because I figure that the armor parts would all have the same, uniform paint scheme across all the Valks.

There are actually two different versions of the Cruise Chaser Blassty. There was one they put out in their Moderoid series, but this stylized artwork version (which a resin kit was made of) didn't become a plamo until now. It's pretty incredible as I was not expecting them to make this at all! Cruise Chaser Blassty is an old Square RPG on the NEC PC-88 computer, Japan only.

Neat. So what game is that? Can you play Pac-Man on that thing?

Thanks! Old kits don't get enough love. Speaking of which, I've begun working on that Bandai/Imai Defender kit I mentioned a few weeks ago. Below is the first video. As for the Tested stuff, it's best to put it in the 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post thread.

I'm painting this small resin Nadia figure. She comes in one part, so just one resin lump. Made by Kaiyodo. I bought it a few years back for only about 2,000 yen. Now this has jumped up in price since then. I just started her eyes but ended up making it sloppy. I need to wait for the paint to dry. I'll work on it when I get home from work this evening. I'll need to do a flat coat after I'm done, then paint her gold jewelery.

How are you priming your models? It looks like you're perhaps using a spray can of Tamiya primer, but you aren't warming it up with warm water and shaking it for a minute properly. I see a lot of splatter that's giving your unwanted texture. If you prep it properly, it shouldn't come out fuzzy like that. Either that or you're airbrushing it and it's not thinned enough.

I'm bulding mine as-is, without modifications. I wish I had puttied in the dumb rivet holes in these kits before painting them, though. The nice thing about these ships is that they'd look fine without the decals since you don't see them that way in the show.

One thing I really like about Japanese YT modeling videos is that there is a lot more content for older kits from the '80s and such. Seems like the English-language YT modeling scene just focuses on newer kits and there's not the same labor of love for doing the extra work to make older kits look great. For example, this guy has already done what I've set out to do, lighting the old Imai/Bandai Defender. His videos have that annoying computer voice narration, but he really knows his stuff. He added extra surface detail that is lacking on the molds, and even constructed a completely scratch-built cockpit interior, so his sandals I am unfit to tie. This is the same kit I've been working on! My plan is to also light the floodlights on the knees as well as light the guns and have those firing, possibly through direct LEDs in the gun barrels or fiber optics. Pyoo-pyoo-pyoo!

I started building all four Zentraedi ships about a year ago. The decals for the LST ship turned out alright, but the ones for Breetai's flagship turned brittle. I just tried a tiny decal first, one that was inconsequential. I fed Micro Liquid Decal Film into my airbrush and went over the decal sheet a few times that way. It makes the decals thicker, but it'll provide a better chance at keeping them together. I did this when I built the old Takara Crusher Joe Fighter kits a few years ago. (There's some more Shoji Kawamori love for you all!) Those decals were real old, so I had to soak them in warm water for a very long time and had to be VERY patient with them, lest they'd rip. I got a bit bored with this Zetraedi ship project and haven't gotten into it since I finished painting Kamjin's flagship. Seeing the discussions on here about these is getting me back in the mood to punish myself with this decal roulette.

Jibungous Glaug box is jibungous. I can't get over how huge this kit's box is. I remember the Q-Rau box being huge too, but I can't remember what the dimensions on that are. This kit has a full interior, complete with a seat, display screen, and HUD. I wasn't expecting a clear piece for the HUD like that. The mono-eye is clear orange. All the sensors are clear red as expected. Last night I watched some vids on YT of Japanese modelers building the old 1:72 Arii Glaug. Apparently it just hunches over due to its weight disbursement. All the builds I've seen of it are like that. Plus the arms look perhaps a bit too long. Other than that, Arii managed to make it with good proportions, and they employed polycaps which Imai never seemed to do at that time. I did a brief unboxing of the kit in a video I uploaded Saturday after I got the kit. The Glaug is featured 20 minutes into the vid. Before that I show the Misa Hayase model by Plamax.

EDIT: Here is a box size comparison. It's Big McLargehuge! I haven't get gotten the Q-Rau to compare size to that one.

I began working on the entire Zentraedi fleet sometime last year. I should get back to it. I had a decal rip, so I dumped Micro Decal Film into my airbrush and sprayed it all over the decal sheets. Hopefully that will keep the decals together.

This banner is directly from Hasegawa's website. This aligns with what will be on display at the Shizuoka Hobby Show. Let's hope for some neat Macross stuff to be announced!