Papa Rat

Silent Möbius has a special place in my heart. Besides Macross, it was one of the first anime I loved along with Appleseed, Bubblegum Crisis, Vampire Hunter D. I most definitely will be getting that kit once it drops. Thanks for sharing. Lookout Lucifer Hawk!

Hey thanks. Love the weapon diorama and the Dom looks great! The cat meme. Lol We currently have a silly dingo running the show in our home. He’s a good boi. We used to have three cats but due to old age they are no longer with us. They had a great life. We talk about adopting and will probably make the leap in the summer. Well I have another kit on bench. I finally completed all sub assembles on my current build “Terror Mirage” and it’s ready for primer. I sort of like to stay busy and having builds cycling smoothly in tandem feels right. I scored this kit from @tekering Thanks again! I’ll do my very best to make it look awesome! It’s an early Volks KOG. Basically garage kit injection model I think the translation says. So I assume it’s the same design they used for the resin kit? Have to look into it. All the parts have been super tight and wonky. There are callouts in the manual that say you will need to putty this area and that area etc…since this will have a gap here and there. Cracks me up that instead of a good mold they are saying it’s all on you now. Lol Also comes with a bunch of generic polycap sprues that you need to trim down to certain shapes and sizes to fit. That’s a first for me. I kind of dig it Anyway I’m loving it and this build has very few parts and assembly goes quick. Clean up later.

👀 all these details!!!!!

Beautiful.

Would love to see Lego put out Macross. They did a Voltron which was beautiful!

@wm cheng that chrome looks great! Giving it some extra attention and love makes a huge difference no question. 👍

So excited to see these! Hope you are safe during this storm. Heard it’s going to be brutal. I’m in the PNW and we are just getting the wind portion of the storm. No precipitation.

Not sure if at the time this kit was produced if it was difficult to cast certain pieces but this IMS Terror Mirage kit has so many smaller “granular” parts to make a simple part it feels overly complicated. Not a complaint. Just an observation as I move through the sub assembly.

It was pointed out to me recently that I had painted a few pieces in the wrong color on an older build of mine. Sad face. I guess the back of the knees were painted the same as the frame color, Black/blue metallic and needed to be the armor color which was white with pearl. Luckily the parts were glued together with CA so I was able to carefully crack the pieces apart and made the correction. Better late than never. This is the Plastic version of the Our Treasure SR3 Late Junone

@pengbuzz That sucks. Heart goes out to you and your wife. ♥️

Thanks for the info. I have used gouache before on paper. Never consider it on models. I’ll give it a try.

These FSS designs are so unique. I agree that they have this medieval knight in armor motif vibe. I think that’s a huge draw for me. I am into a BFG and they do appear in the series but prefer the sword and shield armaments for most of these mech.

Thanks so much. I know there is a completely transparent armor version, but I like the milky one. I just wish the armor was slightly more transparent so the frame could show through a little more. There are some nice lavender elements that would add more interest to the overall appearance if you could see them. Also the red cockpit. I have been using multi gray Mr weathering oils for my panel lines. I agree it looks too dark and almost black on the light translucent armor and maybe a bit cartoonish. Even after vigorous shaking the particles in it are a little rough which isn’t ideal. What panel liner are you using? That Berlin SR2 is beautiful! Love it. I agree, the softer panel lines created by light gray liner looks way more natural like a subtle shadow which is the goal. I’m currently lining up a few resin kits for spring delivery. The 1/100 scale MK2 which has such a simple clean design. I am also getting a couple old ones which are recasts since they are impossible to find. One of which is the Neptune like the one you shared awhile back. I think it’s a 1/144 scale? The other is this beauty, the Babiron and is 1/100 scale. I might be bugging you for any advice you may have once I dig in. Very excited to be overwhelmed. Looking forward to it

Since I’m getting a better grip on using my phone camera I took a few glamor shots of a previous build I’d like to share. This is the 1/144 IMS LED. I’m a sucker for these fancy paints yet they allude me when trying to take a photo.

Yeah that’s a great idea!