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ok, now, the nose has to rotate from side to side, I was gonna cut it a bit lower, but the 'pelvis area' piece won't allow me or it will interfere with the wings, so had to cut higher, this was a royal pain in the ass to figure out how to make it work and exactly where to cut and where to put the 'pelvis area' so when it rotates it doesn't hit the rest of the torso if I made the piece itself rotate, it would look unnatural behind the nose, if I ditched that part and used the nose, I could have problem fitting it cause the nose is too thin already and could break easily while posing it, so I decided to make them be togueter and rotate ok, it's cut... broke my exacto knife...it was an old rusty one and needed a new one either way now, I added a small tab and drilled a small hole on the canopy so that the 'pelvis area' rotates with the nosecone and it should look like this, I'll do my best so the gap won't be too noticeable in the end

now, according to line art, the leggs don't articulate on the nosecone, but on a piece that slides down on transformation, here it is yeah, the piece is too fat, so, I will cut and sand to make it slimmer and fit there you go, much better, now, again with lineart, that piece is suppose to go higher, where it's outline, but I will have to put it a bit lower so the leggs don't clash with the wings

ok, last update and call it a night... cockpit cut lot of trimming/sanding to go nice and smooth little problem, the canopy shield was designed to go over the canopy itself by IHP, problem, it's too wide and can slide under the torso the shield itself was hollow, so if i worked on it to make it slimmer it wouldn't help much, found this other piece that looked like part of a canopy, actually have no idea what it is for but I took this, sand and fit it there you go, nice and snuggly

good stuff, good stuff... nice update, I think you should make the visors from clear resin, a painted dull orange line won't look too good canopy looks amazing, keep it up man!

now, I will need to cut this way to make the torso work...a lot of cutting sanding and fitting ahead of me

ok, little update...working on the torso area that's the key to Revoltech great posability...excuse the crappy pics now, the Revoltech articulate in two areas of the torso, the upper half so the body can tilt up and down, and the bottom where the leggs are attached so they can rotate laterally, Yamato's GNU-Dou line doesn't have this articulation and makes them look stiff and limit their poseability, their limbs articulation are as good as the revoltech and in fact, look better, but the body is stiff and sorta takes the fun away, this is something Yamato should address in their next GNU releases I outline where the revoltech joint woa there...

that's it for now, gonna go get a bite to eat, I will post more progress pics in the evening working on the torso and will explain Yamato's GNU line main problem that makes them lack poseability ala revoltech

looks good huh?, but wait... when we add the backpack, the way IHP design this since it's a transforming model, the bar completely blocks the joint now, I will cut on the bar to make it fit and allow the joint more free movement

here's the legg with the joint and a new problem, to front, the knee isn't low enough and leaves a gap, now, i could just sand and push the joint down to close the gap, but behind, there isn't enough clearance for the knee to bent all the way it's supposed to, so I will probably extend the knee with some spare part and putty and will cut on the back to allow for more clearance and here's the arm with the torso, I need to see how will it fits since the torso will be important for the joint to have free range movement

already drill on the upper extremities, I encountered a little problem, the joint will not fit on the shoulder, much like the vf-1, I don't like the joint to stand out too much and the shoulder itself is hollow so there's not much to drill into, so I decided to drill at an angle that will also allow the joint more free movement also on the torso will drill at an angle all extremities drilled

now, when I started looking at the revoltech joints I just gotta say something, it's very simple but yet very clever what they do and I learned a new respect for them and I know that I'm gonna have to do a lot of modding to the vf-11 to make the joints work the way they're supposed to ok, I'm starting with the extremities here's a comparing with the revoltech's and the model, I draw a line where I would have to drill following the way the revoltech joints are on the vf-1s

ok, here's the VF-11C... here's the sacrificial donor! and both of them before the crazyness begins

ok, here's my next fun little project since I'm currently having a lot of free time, I was *cough*playing*cough* with my revoltechs and was looking at a IHP 1/100 vf-11c recast box I got from Valk009 a long time ago that I just shelfed cause the model was just a fitting and built nightmare and the recast didn't help either, adding insult to injury, it came with recasted polycaps that are a big no-no and I'm too lazy to order just a set of polycaps all the way from japan now, just in case, I'm not dissing Valk009 here, he gave it to me at a nice price and had cleared before that it was not one of his best recasts anyway, while contemplating the vf-11 box and the revoltech, it hit me, hey, why don't you use the revoltech joints on the vf-11, after giving it much thought, I decided, what the hell, my VF-1S roy has a loose joint so ill butcher him and here we go...

so...any updates about this?? hope it doesn't take as long as the YF-21 to come to light...

here's my next little project, started working on it today, it will fun for me, I'll post a step by step in the coming days, I think you guys will like this...

looking good dude!! I particularly admire just how clean you are, you make it look easy, thanks for the step by step

so...did Luca ever told Nanase that thing?? and how come Ozma can't recognize Brera as Ranka's sister, they were all on the 117th fleet??

I'm not impressed

looks great...at least now you have a lot more info to work on

haha! great pic... I'm sold, just ordered mine from hlj.com

it's a 'she' hahaha! interesting, wonder if she could take other means of payment ;) hope this isn't the divorce chick from that other thread

so far 4 broken out of 21... that's about 5%... hmm... please explain what's the problem?? ackk...and I already cracked and ordered mine...

Frontier people must be kind of dumb, as many has said, how come everyone is just letting Grace and Brera just be like that, the mysterious chic that slip pills to get Sheryl sick, that somehow got a LAI artifact and destroyed Galia 4, and supposedly got rescued from there by the mysterious pilot and VF that has damage/destroyed at least 4 SMS fighters, and now Grace is allowed to be in Frontiers bridge and command, and Brera is set to protect the new macross idol....I say, President Glass isn't doing his job right, Leon has him wrapped on his finger by the way, how come noone has said something about how "sweet lovely wonderful innocent peaceful" Ranka just DITCHED poor Elmo, or didn't seem to had put any fight to keep him as him manager? the dude that found her, went trough hell to promote her (since Grace and Leon were doing everything so she wouldn't get noticed), and she just ditch him! that's the most coldest thing in Macross I've seen, worst than Hikaru attitude towards Misa.... hope she's s big bug and gets squished and Alto ends up with Sheryl and why would Canaria have a pin up girl in her Monster? tomboy

I think Frontier is recycling a lot of footage saving budget for some sick ass cool episode in the near future, THEY BETTER!!

that took a while...