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  1. Ahab
    I am curious to know how many members here (who were introduced to Macross (in the 80's) through Robotech), collect outside the orginal Macross TV series and DYRL? Looking at my humble shelf, pretty much everything I have comes either from SDF Macross or Mac Plus. For me, story content wise, everything after Macross Plus has become less and less interesting. I will, on occasion, see a design I like and take the plunge, but its rare. I guess I just have old school aesthetics Anyway, just curious....
  2. Ahab
    Nice work!
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    How's this baby coming along? Any plans for a "welcome back to Earth!" celebration/flight deck littered with people and planes etc.? This has been a great project to see unfold and an inspirational one, as well. Congrats!
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    Oh man....ain't that the truth! You should've seen me attaching the verticle stablizers....I think my lung capacity has doubled over the last few days, and my eye sight cut in half!
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    Thanks for all the kind words, it definitely helps to keep me on track! I decided to hold off on the mini monster, for now, and tackle one of two YF-19s for the attacker mode SDF display. I arrived at the decision soon after I bought the kit that I would need to build different enviroments for the Ship. A Mars base drydock will be home for the cruiser mode, while a cityscape with the SDF overhead will showcase Attacker mode. This little guy was a beast. I have a few touch ups to address here and there, but I happy with it. I sculpted a little fold booster and gun pod, too (not pictured).. Pardon the not-so-sharp images. I'll use a better camera when I post the booster pics. Next up: SDF feet.
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    Great work!
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    Hey Shipmates! Finished the legs and the paint for the regult tonight, and I'm pretty happy with the results. After assembly, I did noticed the regult's "eye" was too high on the pod, so I'll need to cheat that down a taste before committing it to silicone. The legs were constructed of steel rod, brass and applied CA. The glue was used to build up the contours. The dome shapes for the feet, hips and thrusters were created by dripping (white) casting resin on wax paper(this is a great technique for creating rivets and carriage bolt heads, as well). The gun barrels come from sprues that were heated, stretched and cut to size. Ahab
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    Thanks for the encouraging words! Mark Warlock, I"ll definitely be making molds of the regult...my eyes can't take much more of this! Pfunk, you might have something there..
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    If painting in 1/2000 scale wasn't tedious enough... I thought I'd challenge myself tonight and take on sculpting a regult. I'll finish up the legs tomorrow, eyes permitting!
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    Thanks guys! All the color is achieved with paint and brush. The 1J and 1S started with a grey primer base with the two 1A,s and the 1D started as white primer. To emphasize the sense of scale all the colors were muted somewhat to begin with. For example, the reds and blues had small amounts of grey mixed in before applying. Once the color shapes were applied, I painted a very thin wash of gray over the whole ship, This helped to distance your eye and give the faded look. I forgot to mention the geeked-out magnifying headgear I had to wear! You should've seen the look on my wife's face...priceless. On to the ARMD 04! Ahab-
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    I started the 1/2000 Macross build-up thread in the building and customizing forum. I'll post info and images in that thread from now on. Thanks!
  12. Ahab
    Hello Everyone, While I'm waiting for some last minute parts to arrive for the build up of the 1/2000 scale Macross from Yamato, I thought I'd do a little busy work and get this project officially started. The battroids stand at an impressive 1/4" while the valks measure 5/16". Most of the key characters mecha are present(in TV paint shcemes). Now onto the ARMDs!
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    Surprisingly, there is a good amount of detail. I'll give the fighter a go tonight.
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    . Ordinarily, my day job consists of designing and building models and miniatures ranging from oh, 1/48 to 1/6 scale... I decided to punish myself tonight and tackle the 1/2000 battroid! I found when painting this small, a more impressionistic approach works best. I'll upload more images when I create the 1/2000 SDF-1 build up thread in the building and customizing forum. Until then, here's a little taste..
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    Here's a small paint up for the 21 Fold Booster. Not feelin the green on this bird. I used stickers off the 1/60 Ve-1 v2 , gray primer and clear coat. I'm diggin it now.
  16. Ahab
    Good luck, bro. Lookin forward to your progress
  17. Ahab
    A VF11s head could work, if during transformation, the turrets recess into the head. Anything's possible!
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    I know I'm in the minority, but this is my least favorite valk, as far as the fighter mode is concerned. The battroid, however, I really do dig. As with the YF-21, It's refreshing to see such a unique battroid mode. ...the addition of the fast packs do improve the presence of the fighter mode, in my opinion.
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    Has anyone built their kit yet?
  21. Ahab
    Looks great! Thanks for posting this link.
  22. Ahab
    Okay, I'm inspired... Going to work on mine tonight.
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    No where near that skinny. Sadly, for a sleek fighter I guess they need to be.
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    Looking forward to it!
  25. Ahab
    Yeah, they are a bit big, but very close. Perhaps 1/1750-1/1800 scale. It still feels right to me though. Everything becomes nebulous when it comes to the "official" dimensions in the early 80's Macross universe!
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