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Man, if Robotech ever had an uglier cousin... Educated Macross fans, could you please fill me in on what the story is here? http://cgi.ebay.com/Macross-1-100-VF-1J-Ba...1QQcmdZViewItem

You'll need to go to this post and then download the booster step-by-step. It's nearly 30mb. Inside, wm cheng explains how he created the effect. There other great information in this page at ARC.

boinger, Firstly, hats off to you for putting the time into something so many people will use. Secondly, I think I have most of wm cheng's SuperSylph pics from when the thread was recovered a few years ago. If you would like a copy, please PM me an email address and I'll send them over.

1/100 Tomahawk update: Pre-shade Base colour (MM USMC Sand) Added highlight colour (Tamiya buff), and a mix of decals from the spares box Next is some more Future, panel lines, matt coat, weathering, then final matt coat. Or something like that order.

An update on the 1/100 Mac Zero Tomcat: The nose-fuselage join is a real dog. It took three repairs with Mr 500 and a lot of sanding. The intake-engines join is also very poor. Once again it took a lot to tidy up. The seam lines are now gone, and I have to rescribe a few panels. And here's a cockpit photo for jardann Belts are Tamiya tape. The black and yellow handles are a single strand of speaker wire, painted yellow, with gundam marker for black stripes. It was tedious but helps dress up the awful cockpit. There is a really unattractive gap/hole behind the RIO's seat. I missed it until now. The nose is probably a liiiittle short. I heavily rescribed the horizontal lines and added a nose pitot. This seemed to change the feel and to me it actually looks proportional now. My wife always reminds me - vertical lines on your shirt make you look tall, horizontal lines make you look wide! Mark

Ah! I should have known you'd be all over it. I also didn't realise your battroid would dwarf the diorama!...

There's a guy in the model kits folder that is selling this kind of gear. To save everyone PMing Ron requesting dioramas, it might be worth checking out the resin sets. I'm pretty sure they're still available. http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=25359

lol, I did the same thing with a scriber a few nights ago! Dangerous stuff, this making plastic aeroplanes

Ron that city scape is amazing. I really like the detail put into recreating the restaurant!

lol, quadruple post! Rockhound I like what you're thinking about primer clogging panel lines, but it also helps highlight your work on seam lines. It gives you a chance to tidy things up before the first colour coat (that might hide the flaw). The dark dark grey () came up well! I don't claim to be an expert but it's looking great from here!

What makes it a sea dragon? Is that the USN name? Until I saw this post I thought it was just the Marines that operated them. Go Navy.

There are two different guys in the for sale section selling a Moscato Defender. I think it was Viceland and valk009

Lookin' good Rockhound. Nice work drilling out those holes. When you pre-shade, go easy with the black. Maybe used battleship grey instead. Using dark grey means less top coats which means you preserve more surface detail. And props to The Last Starfighter! Man I wish there was a resin 1/72 Gunstar around... I'd be on that in a heartbeat!

Hey nice effect creating the damage there! How did you do it? Have you decided on a paint scheme? For my 1/100 I'm going to try USMC Sand. I've added a few non-canon bits and pieces; I'd like to capture the feel of an ASLAV or an Abrams.

Hats off to you misterryno! There is a sense of satisfaction from building your own model that you'd never experience with a toy. We're bringing 1/100 back baby! Here's my Tomahawk I started about two weeks ago; around ten hours so far. It was also my first try with Mr Surfacer 1200 as a primer and I managed to spiderweb it everywhere. Added more thinner, upped the px, and it was much better. It still needs another coat and then the touch ups on the seam lines.

Has anyone received their VF-1D yet? Petar: any more thoughts on creating a few Macross figures?

Oh yeah! Wow Petar, you really did a great job. Your work is so clean! The masking looks great, the weathering is spot on (less is more! ) and the canopy turned out very nicely. Well done mate, you and wmcheng are leading the way. Beautiful.

Might it be worthwhile to include the Moscato kits on the resin page? Especially so now that we have some purty pictures of them!

Thought I'd bump Ruben's VERY cool thread. Ruben do you have an update you'd like to share?!

You should come on over to 1/100 town with me! That's the only reason I'm still here!

There's a 1/100 on eBay. It looks like a solid chunk of resin? http://cgi.ebay.com/Macross-Robotech-1-100...1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm interested.

lol, an hour later and I've just surfed away from the Teletraan I wiki... I remember having Jetfire, Silverbolt, Optimus, Air Raid, and a bunch of other guys. What a cool trip down memory lane!