Hikuro

Most of the blue striping is done. The nose of the plane is still outside drying before I call it a night. The stripes on the wings and legs will need some touching up of gray once they've dried. I'll need to re-primer those areas then lightly touch up with royal gray once it's dried. You can kind of see where I tried to touch it up already and it came out a lil grayish purple. The black for the chest portion came out really well, and very pleased. Next step is to let it cure over night and then tape that area up nice and snug so I can get the blue on the final portion. After that I'll have the lower leg wings, and tail to go which is under another coat of black right at this time and will have to all it quits for the night, done or not.

Tested the new audio, it did not sync well, AT ALL. Just 5 minutes in and it becomes 4 seconds slow from the animation. I might of used a bad version. Which this bugs me, I had to convert a WAV file to MP3 to use on a 700 dollar program. WTF?

Gray is done. Next is taking measurements of the striping and putting down marks so I can tape off and start painting. Where the hell did I put my painters tape?

So....hard......not to........ah F it! I like it, real nice and inspirational to see it physical. Makes me really hope my paint job for my custom VF-1S turns out well.

Something about these cans of royal might gray where there isn't enough! I'll just barely get everything I need in gray colored, barely. Still got another coat on existing parts to go.

While running errands for work I managed to score a new can of royal light gray and blue violet which looks cool! I'll be able to finish the main trim of colors tonight then start figuring out how I'll get the secondary blue violet trim as The stripes in the wings and legs. The chest area will be a huge challenge! But the most difficult of all the paint application.

Zentraedi subtitles are done. I really like how they came out! Next is keying in some of the audio of the english dub intot he animation and timing the music score around that. Then I need to figure out how to do rolling credits.

Looks good on camera. But gonna get rid of the black filler on the cockpit. medium sea gray will be a much better fit. Maybe it's just the florescent lighting in my home.

Hmmm under better lighting, the TS-81 Royal blue really isn't all that great I think. It's a bit to light and sandy looking, nothing like the cap of the can would suggest. Looks more like a desert color to me. I think I need more of a normal gray.

Last week I won an auctioned on Yamato's 1/60 V2 Unpainted Unassmbled VF-1S. The goal to this is to try and recreate Chillyche's VF-1 paint scheme for his character Rafe Townsend (Who I voiced) for his in developed Macross Aria webseries. To achieve this I've gone all out on studying Tamiya's paint charts that will work on ABS Plastic. I carefully considered my options on what Che set his RGB scales for the 3D model render to what Tamiya had available without having to do paint mixing of any kind. Essentially I'm using TS-81 Royal Light Gray, TS-57 Blue Violet, TS-14 Black, and XF-83 Medium Sea Gray, along with a few other color choies like Silver for the turbines, and Nato Black for the color around the main body and Cockpit Green for the seats. Stage 1: Cleaning the parts; involved washing the parts in dish soap and warm water then rinsed with cold and left to air dry over night. Stage 2 BODY PAINT: This was the first few coats of Royal Light Gray which produced a some what odd look I wasn't expecting. It doesn't really look like it matches that close to the 3D Render, but hopefully with the Nato Black and Blue Violet this will really stand out and blend well with the rest. Sadly, I've completely ran out of the Gray, and I still got a lot of parts left to color and then STILL touch up after some assembly. INTERIOR PAINT: I'm sticking to the original part models for the feet and mechanics, seeing how they're pretty much the same color mold as the production figure. I did however have to paint the seat cockpit green which is a pretty close match to the production figure, and silver on the turbine blades which look fantastic! Stage 3 Assembling: I've assembled the left and right foot which was an interesting task. Seeing how the instructions are no way clear on what to do. The only option I was able to find was using this link http://www.collectio..._optional_parts which provided me a translated guide on what I safely need to do to assemble. So THANK YOU to collectiondx.com for this! SIDE NOTE: Incase anyone is reading this, the pilot figure provided for this was a TV style pilot suit. If anyone has a DYRL type to donate for the project, or know where there's a recasted version in existence please let me know. Aria is more schemed towards the events after DYRL versus the TV series, and I need to repaint the figure to match something close to the 3D Render che did of Rafe.

So after years of owning this recast I finally put a bit of it together and damn Id idn't realize this was going to be so difficult! I got the fuselage neck and the main body together but it needs putty baaaaad. Guess I'm gonna gain some experience tonight!

Well a bit of necro posting. I've purchased one of the 30th Anni VF-1S kits. I've picked up a little paint to do a macross aria color schemed Apollo squadron unit for Chillyche's movie project. I'm a tad worried about the rubbing though since this will be completely repainted from it's base white.

http://youtu.be/3cHy-5ajIdI HD Test done, despite a lil pixelation encoding issue, the picture quality is pretty damn good. This means it's time to get Macross DYRL's sub track done.

Guess I missed it.

I'm currently doing an HD test, and the first one to get the treatment is Macross Zero Episode 1. It'll be presented on my Youtube channel in 1280x720 HD 720p format. I honestly dunno if my laptop will be able to handle the rendering, so far I've been waiting 10 minutes just to see what it will do and it's still at 0% lol. But you know what? if it looks good then DYRL will be next!

Like I previous said on the head smash blur, I think of it as Miriya's foot putting the "Camera" out of focus. I noticed no one here has talked about it, but when you do the pop up menu you see 2012 and 1984, only difference i see between them is the title cue not being in the 1984 version. Anything else different?

So yeah anyone asking, the LE version is the only one with the PS1 game voucher. So if you paid over 200 then congrats The only trick is to get a Japanese Playstation account, which I provided the link from the game section. Pretty handy. Sucks I can't play the game, but then again I already own it.

masei finally got back to me thru their FB channel. Looks like the price has gone up and will take half a year to do.still though considering its still a cheaper alternative to YAMATO's I'm all in. I just hope the end of the world doesn't happen before I get it!

Is she getting you the Limited Edition version? And you have to create a Japanese PS account which isn't difficult. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=37205&st=0 scroll down the thread and there's a tutorial on how to do it.

Hm so I'm guessing this PS1 voucher code is only for those with the LE version? Don't see any voucher in my regular edition, that's lame if so. Otherwise, I like the game despite how horribly short it is. Great graphics, but shorter than a top dog Xbox game.

lol no kidding. Anytime I order over seas i get the crack addict look. Where I'm hitting the tracking update every hour to know when the hell it'll show up. It annoys my co workers a great deal.

Yaaaaaaaa, I'm okay with the scheme but not the price. These bandai valks are just to damn expensive.

No bigger than the VF-1 toy. Remember, at some point in the franchise, Valkyries got bigger. Compare it to the VF-0 and the VF-0 is HUGE, but same size there abouts to the YF-19, and VF-25.

Oh GOD that would be horrible for robocop! It reminds me of what they used in GI Joe!

I downloaded the first episode of the series blu-ray and I don't know, it was to difficult to watch it on my laptop it just doesn't have the power for the codec that ended up being used. But I still feel like what AnimEgo did 10 years ago was by far a fantastic remaster. Sadly I can't compare that to the Blu-ray release of the series. but I don't want to see the scene scratches on the top layers of the cels, I wanna see cleanliness. I wanna see sharp pictures and stunning color corrections. Closest that seemed to of done that in regards to an 80's cartoon was SONY BGM doing Transformers the Movie. They did a fantastic job in the remaster imo. However with that said, it's difficult to make something 30 years old and make it look fresh and new and vibrant. If you're going to put something on Blu-ray and you're going to remaster the footage and audio, take the time to make it look amazing and worth 80-100 dollars. I feel like some scenes were very nice to watch. Some scenes still looked a tad blurred or soft and grainy. I still need to finish watching the entire movie though I guess before I can say yay or nay. I do remember once when I first released my dub that I had a comparison shot of the old FX DVD and the HD DVD released few years ago and went "Wow!" at how much detail ended up getting lost in the old transfers. But in this blu-ray so far, it's just enhancements of the colors even more. I dunno, I kind of would of liked to of seen grain removed as much as possible. Just enough of an extent that you don't lose to much of the animation quality. The Audio track thus far doesn't ruin it for me like ADV's did. I can't even stand listening to the english dub of the ADV release, it's jarring and out of place. This, not so much right now. For now, I still stand by that taking something 30+ years and putting it on HD remaster to blu-ray is a difficult task that needs more refining. You're taking something that was never planned to go that far in definition and you're bound to get something in there that people wont like. Maybe 40th or 50th Anniversary we'll see it in jaw dropping holographic definition and play the roles of our favorite characters. I could dream.