Tage

Hey guys, So i've been collecting Macross toys and models for a little over 15 years now. (Just looked up my old posts on the historical forums... I spelt 'cool' with a 'k' all the time... what was i thinking?) I've been building up my 1/60 collection slowly but surely and i thought one of my favourite valks is missing - the VF-5000. So i've decided to basically make my own. I was lucky enough to grab a SHE VF-5000 recently so am basically copying each part of that into Sketchup. I've 3D printed a flat wallet before - but that's it! So this transformable bot is a bit of a step up for me. Thought i'd post how i go on this journey! My plan is basically this: - Get all the parts made in Sketchup (at the moment I'm sort of getting one part done a day after work. Or a couple if they aren't that complicated. There are around 80 type of parts total, but i am learning as i go - the curve on the wing this morning was particularly tricky) - Upscale them (will need your guys' help on this to judge the best scale from a 1/100 model to become a 1/60) - Add panel lines - Add a few bumps and crevices to help things lock into place a bit more - Will see if i'm skilled enough by then to edit the model enough to create a better looking head and nose cone - the nose cone looks a little too long in bot mode. - Print out half the model as a prototype (only need to do half as all the arms and legs are the same) - Then try resin casting for the first time - Test out those parts and how they work with screws and glue - Edit things if need be - Then boom! i'll have my very own transformable 1/60 VF-5000 that then i'll need to paint etc. Have attached where i'm at so far. But right now I'm now off to my own birthday drinks at the pub - hopefully i complete this in a year so i can give myself a birthday present come next year haha!! Chat soon.

Awesome, really looking forward to this puppy.

Really want one of these so bad. That video on twitter looks great. Anyone swinging by the event Experten is selling these at and picking one up for themselves?

Wow yeah, that actually doesn't look half bad! Good stuff!

Wow yeah this is really coming along! Awesome work!

PMed about grabbing a version (if still possible) :-)

Just got my shipping notice from AmiAmi.

Same

Cool thanks for the response guys. Yeah my guess is they saw the sales of the fast packs for the other yf-29 versions and the sales for Rod's -29 and opted not to make 'em... The fast packs for the other versions seem fairly easily available, so i'll have a ponder.... Thanks again guys.

Hey guys, Just wondering if either: You had heard anything about fast packs for Bandai’s YF-29b Percival (Rod) coming out? Or if you can remember how long it the other fast packs to be released that related to their corresponding YF-29 toy’s colour scheme…? (sorry, I’m sure there is a better way of wording that sentence) Just wondering if I hold out for the Percival fast packs – if they ever do come out. Or try and buy a cheap enough set of some other colour scheme yf-29 fast packs and recolour them to match Percival’s odd (but cool) cobalt blue colours. Then I’d put that process up in ‘The Workshop’ for you all to see cheers.

merry x-mas all! happy 4th ( ? ) year? and lets hope it goes to a 5th! hope every1 gets all their macross goodies in their stockings! oh yeah and have a good new year toooo -Tage

ah man, good luck for the future n hope to see you bak soon! good luck again

hey grayson! thats really kool! those 2 look really nice 2gether, u've made me wanna do the same! hehe, and that panel line shading/weathering what ever you wanna call it looks fantastic! i'm a bit nervous about my first go at it and i'm putting it off for my models but i'll get some guts soon hopefully! nice 1 again!! -Tage

hihi! next thursday night/friday morning (the 24th) a film i made over the summer is being shown on BBC 2 (british boardcasting c-- er.. community? company? bah i dono) anyway, at 3:30am (GMT) so if ya want to see what's been keeping me from doing my macross models over the summer there it is it's a short 10 min film within this 30 min program called Blast TV for kids from 13 - 19 years old to basically get involved with filming and loads of other stuff. anyway the film is about 4 girls going to their first gig and falling out (over a guy) then get lost, then somthing else, i aint too proud of it, as it definatly wouldnt be the type of film i'd like to see heh but it definatly was an enjoyable expience to make and i've gained a huge amount of expience! -Tage edit- the time is right now, it is thurs night/fri morning soz my extreme bad

wow, that looks so kool i love the way the different shades of blue have worked out, they are really fantastic!

wow kool, huge hands heh, nice 1 what ya gonna make next?

hey i'm just in the middle of makin one actually, i've done all the puttying and i just gotta paint it and panel line it. it's pretty kool, and i'll put up a review/pro/cons stuff after it's all done if ya like?

ooo, pretty, r ya gonna color em too? v. nice work! -Tage

yay! cant wait to see next lot man! thanks again wm cheng! -Tage

hey that looks really kool, i was thinkin about getting some of my box covers scanned, edited and then printed out so they r posters they look really kool framed! nice collection too! -Tage

yeah thats wicked! i really like it! *cough* please color it too*cough cough*

i had a semi manga night of 2 films, DYRL didnt go down to well but i think thats cause i didnt realy explain it too well. then Patlabor 1 went down really well, so yeah i'd say any patlabor Princess monoeke *soz spelling yeah any Gibli film really FLCL if you can download it and get every1 to croud round ya computer hehe oh yeah while on the subject on downloading how about a few of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone complex eps? if every have seen ghost in the shell n liked it i reckon they'd like the series erm............... yeah every1 elses choices r kool too, try having a massive selection of films and say to ya guests a quick plot of each and let em decide i spose heh -Tage

heh, yeah soz i was typing it out and then at the end i realised just how bad the stuff is heh soz

hey, i use this stuff called plastic padding, it's got a yellow package, it is basically same stuff as everything else, comes in 2 parts, the cementy/mankstuff and then the hardener, u mix em up at about er... 5 parts cement to 1 part hardener, or somthing like that, depends how quick you want it to dry up heh. then before it hardens, whack it on ya model, then after about 15 mins ish or when ever u sand and smooth it out it's okish for cracks, exept sometimes the edges turn up if it hasnt gotten onto the model enough and flakes off when you are smoothing out. also it's not the best for scribing either heh, thinking about it actually i might stop using it and find something else hehe -Tage

Hi What i'd like to see would be any small troubles bits and bobs on kits that people have expienced and the way they got round them. eg. with this VF-19S bandi kit i'm fixing up at the min there are one or 2 small things that i gotta fiqure out that r just 'unique problems' i spose you could call them to that kit. also like with my old VT-1 there was an inside bit that i didnt paint that you could see from the out side so that could be some thing for other people to look out for when making that model. oh yeah and things like wm chengs pointer about the vf-1 legs and painting the insides, look at Gunner X's VF-1J, the top of page 2 (lookin kool man, cant wait to see it all painted up) er.. what else... yeah those hasegawa vf-1 battlroid (robot mode (soz i cant spell and i'm too tired to look it up properly)) how to's would be really nice to see any rareish models some one is making up, like Less than Super ostrich's VF-4 he's makin up at the moment (lookin good, cant wait to see the next step) with customing i'd really like to see people's ideas about paint scheme's either ideas or implemented onto a model (soz if i spelt that wrong) any guys who know how to use photoshop well could even take a picture of a model that some1 has made up and tamper about with the colors and things to make up a new idea or even some one elses color sceme that they were thinking off but wasn't too sure how it would look on the actual model? if u get what i mean er.. what else... alternitive materials that people use would be kool too and yeah just people bouncing ideas of how to do things would be really kool! er.. if i think any more i'll post later heh, but yeah what do u guys reckon? -Tage edit: eep, soz for the long post but i have been away for a while and this is my first post on these new forums so nuh