Gatsu

Gorgeous weathering job. I'd like to see a WIP

I think Hasegawa designers continue to prove themselves as extremely lazy and shallow when at work on Macross stuff. They design every kit as a piece on itself. There is no coherence in their kits. The Regult looks good but is definitely too small, more like a 1/100 than a 1/72. Also the armored vf-1j has some critical points: hands are horrible, arms armours are too flat and battroid forearms could not fit inside them, just look at Arcadia version. Also the armour over the feet looks too wide and the battroid parts under it too. Very ugly, the first time i saw it i thought it was Kids logic version.

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Good Job!!! ALso with those articulations!

On 11/3/2020 at 7:34 AM, nightmareB4macross said:

Phenomenal work. 
 

I like your choice of going eight the primary lens  as dark blue versus blue.

My intention was to be closer than possible to the original design. The Macross Mecha Manual illustration is originally black and white so the only original source to know the Scout Regult colors is the anime and in the anime as you can see the main lens is basically a darkened glass, but i added to the tamiya smoke a bit of blue as a compromise. If you look at the future Bandai Hi-metal release the main lens is black because they tried to make a accurate reproduction of the anime. 

Anyway thank you guys i m glad you like it. 

Hello, i'm posting shots of the latest kit i finished

On 6/10/2020 at 12:05 PM, Return To Kit Form said:

Great job Gatsu! It's nice seeing our stuff built 

 

- Brett

Thanks i used you soldier as reference

46 minutes ago, Return To Kit Form said:

Not immovable. I just disagree that any choice is wrong because the source material is so inconsistent. Want to make a drawing? Feel free to make it any size you like. Want to make a physical thing with plauseable consistantancy? Get ready compromise one way or the other. 

The Macross sizes matter is not so vague as you think. In the anime sizes are not always coherent but for the most you can deduce what sizes should be. So there are 2 logical choices : follow official stats regardless they are nonsense, or follow anime sizes possibly with some corrections. 

7 hours ago, TheLoneWolf said:

Great job with that Quamzin kit! I think the weathering came out nicely, especially on his boots.

Thanks, it was just an experiment, i bought a Vallejo Engine Grime which doesn't look like engine grime at all but like mud, so i used it like mud squirts. 

Hello. Im posting a few pics of the Kamjin resin kit, pics are not the best. I tried some weathering but i m not used to figurines painting. 

On 5/27/2020 at 12:59 PM, Return To Kit Form said:

So it is okay for Bndai to make a 1/90 scale Vf-1 and a 1/97 scale monster?

 

I dont buy it.  Any argument about scale with regard to Macross makes no sense and is indefensible. A choice has to be made. I have already explained the grounds for the decision and it sounds reasonable to me. No other choice is more or less accurate because the source material makes no sense and is inconsistent.

1/90 or 1/97 instead of 1/100 is a very small deviance. You can't compare it. About your opinion on the sizes argument.. it looks like you already decided unmovably what should be the conclusion of the matter, so there's no point i respond on it. 

On 5/24/2020 at 4:24 PM, Podtastic said:

The official stats are an absolute joke and contradict the SDFM anime to the level of absurdity. The fact is that in SDFM a Zentradi soldier and a Battroid are on the same scale, and the Regult/Glaug is MUCH bigger.

You are absolutely right about the HMR line, funny how there's never comment about the Regult being too small next the terribly over sized battroid.

 

 

 

 

I personally believe Kawamori made the official sizes before they began to work on the anime. When they began to work on it they simply noticed the sizes were simply nonsense and corrected them... within the limits of a low budget anime... And well, about HMR... their sizes are totally non sense but it's Kawamori's fault, not Bandai's...

On 5/20/2020 at 10:39 PM, NZEOD said:

then you'd be trying to claim the old plastic 1/72 Glaug kits are the right size... now go try to stuff your 1/72 scaled Zent soldier into it... yeah... not happening.  

 

Johns ones are the best compromise.

Sorry but the best compromise is simply making Regult and Glaug big enough to fit (or to be close to the appearance it could) with a correct scale soldier. Simple. That was what Yamato was going to do...

Yes, of course the official sizes are a ridiculous joke. But if you look in the anime, in most cases, zentraedi soldiers are a bit smaller than Battroids, Britai is a bit taller than a Battroid, Kamjin is almost as tall as a battroid, Regults and Glaugs are a lot bigger than Battroids ( Noudjaseul being the smallest of the zentraedi's mechas as they are in fact just powered armors) even if dimensions aren t always constant. What is sure is that Britai and Battroids are almost the same size, just Kawamori made a mess with mechas sizes. So, you can follow 2 logical choices: 1 stick to the official sizes as Bandai hmr did OR 2 make the zentraedi's mechas bigger. So Moscato could have simply made zentraedi figures and mechas coherent with the official sizes ignoring that they could not fit toghter OR could have made mechas bigger so that they appear logically coherent with zentraedi figures and Battroids. He did not one or the other... it seems like he made the Regult first, witout thinking about a possible future zentraedi soldier release, then as he thought about making Zentraedi figures he tried to make them looks coherent with the Regult and then he decided to make them smaller compared to what they should be ignoring the comparison with Battroids.

Has anybody ever noticed that this kit is totally out of scale? I recently finished my own and noticed this is not 1/72 scale. Kamjin should be tall 11,85 meters wich in 1/72 scale should be 11,85:72=16,45. The figure should be tall 16,45 cm, but it s tall only 9,78cm....  The real scale of the kit should be about 1/118 scale... Why Moscato did that and labeled it 1/72 scale, expecially considering he followed the officials sizes with the Regult kits?? Because, even though the figure could look more proportionated compared with the Regult kit, it is also true that it looks out of proportions with all others 1/72 official Macross kits, like hasegawa battroids and Bandai ones...

hello could you repost pictures?

On 4/8/2020 at 6:02 AM, tekering said:

That's because the UN Spacy has the requisite resources.  Like the US military, the Galactic Empire, or the United Federation of Planets, they have access to repair facilities, the means to replace damaged parts, and personnel to do the required maintenance work.  Light wear (like in Hidetaka's illustrations) is all you'd typically expect to see.

Conversely, if you're depicting a rag-tag group of guerrilla insurgents, Somali pirates, or an under-funded Rebel Alliance, their equipment should appear heavily weathered and poorly-maintained, because they don't have the necessary money and resources.  They don't have capitol ships like a Star Destroyer or an SDF-1 to rely on.

Amateur modelers typically overdue weathering simply because they can, they think it looks cool, or they want to distinguish their models from their toys (that would otherwise look identical).  As they gain experience, they begin to understand how much weathering should be applied, where weathering is appropriate, and where it isn't.  

It's a three-stage learning curve, see:

1. Learning how to apply weathering to a model -- oil stains, scratches, scorch marks, dents, dust and dirt, rust, chipping, etc.
2. Learning where to apply weathering -- exposed surfaces, exhaust vents, cannon muzzles, understanding where damage would likely occur (and where it wouldn't)
3. Learning why to apply weathering -- appreciating the circumstances under which the equipment is used, access to necessary resources, and the age of the equipment

I'd say Roberto is firmly in the second stage.  

I'm not an experienced modeler, neither i m a military models modeler, so i don t have the military vehicles knowledge i would need to do a fully realistic weathering, but i remember you that a valkyrie is not a military fighter, it's a mech and as a mech it should be full of superficial scratches, expecially in most exposed points like shoulders, elbows, knees, feet, etc. No military army during war would repaint a vehicle and waste time just because of mainly esthetic damages. I didn't put any rust (as many do on gundams) because rust can damage the metal and would not be present in an operative vehicle. So i suppose i could be already in the phase 3, even if i lack skills to have fully accomplished phase 1 and 2. Also i must say that phase 3 is mostly possible with military models where you can study real reports. In a Anime model it would be more about guessing and reconstructing a possible scenario... 

Hello. This is my newly finished vf-1s Roy Focker version by Bandai in 1/72 scale from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. And a few shots of the crew..

I made small modifications, like magnets to correct legs position in fighter mode, microsol kristal clear to create clear parts in nosecone and wings. I made the weathering trying to recreate real fighters dirt and using also Hidetaka's illustrations as references. I post the one i looked at more.

Thanks

Had anybody noticed that the vf-1j in the last picture you posted looks with a better design than the vf-1s? Like a ver 2.0

12 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Gatsu,

That is such an incredible build!

The details and weathering are fantastic!

Hello! Thank you. I thought you were no more into MW forums... i see you re back.

17 hours ago, Flarpen said:

Very nice.
You wouldn't happen to have any more of those monitor decals?

Yes, i will send the file to Return 2 kit Form and to anybody who ask them after the contest is ended.

Hello i just finished my Regult for the RTKF contest. I modified the cockpit with magnets to make it possible to open it to show the interior without blocking the door open. I also created monitors decals using some pictures as reference.

This is absolutely incredible!!!! My only displeasure is that you didn t adhere to the vf_1j hikaru schemes

I retouched my Tomahawk with some chipping and weathering