Ahab

Good job! The Phalanx is my favorite destroid (well, as least a close second to the Monster).

Ha, and Macross ain't called Valkyrie!

Yeah you may want to take this to the Mospeada thread but I will re-iterate that the Legioss is also a tertiary robot in its respective show. It just also happened to be a jet with arms and was admitted added to Mospeada just because of Macross. Also I don't believe it would require complex engineering as the design is less complex than most elaborate deluxe Transformers to say nothing of some of the larger figures.

Have you ever seen Mospeada?

Back on topic, the VF-4's cluncky battroid mode is beginning to grow on me. It feels like a good ole' throw-back to the 80's robot...cause it is, I guess. No Lucas style re-engineering here. It is what it is, and there's a charm to that.

What the? Can I place an order?

Looks great. Keep up the good work!

In Los Angeles, whenever there's a power outage, everyone panics and races to the store and buys up all the water and batteries. I feel like the guy who was stuck at work and got to the grocery store late to find nothing but empty shelves.... Enjoy your water !

Looking forward to building this baby!

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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....

Nice work!

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!

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!

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.

Great work!

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

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..

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!

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-

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!

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!

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..

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.

Good luck, bro. Lookin forward to your progress

A VF11s head could work, if during transformation, the turrets recess into the head. Anything's possible!

I definitely want the Macross 7 Valks despite the fact that Macross 7 is at the bottom of the list of my favorite Macross series/movies. I seriously tried watching it very recently and could not get past episode 2. This was probably my third or fourth attempt trying to watch it and is the furthest I have ever gotten. As a Macross fan, I gotta get through it some time but it's so difficult. Just something about it totally turns me off. It really does feel like a chore to watch. I'll try again one day and get through it. It's supposed to get a lot better but just getting over that initial hump is killing me.

I'm in full agreement, bro.

Anyhow, I'm looking at the VF-19S as my first purchase followed by the VF-17S. I'll save Basara for after I've exhausted all other things Valk from Yamato or Bandai. I only hope the VF-17S will be re-released with the fast packs.