Berttt

You never know. Heck I never thought they would go and release a 48 scale valk at all. And lookie what we have now.

The Hasegawa Battroid is the best of that line up.

Are you planning a new run? I take it we will be able to get this through SSM? I have been working on a couple of drones. Full WIP thread to come.

Whoa when did John start doing a Cat's Eye reissue?

Haha, yeah I forgot about the Bandai kit. I guess that just represents my interest in it. Hasegawa all the way.

Doh. Please accept my apologies.

Oooh. Would i be right in saying that this is the first VF-25 build on MW?

Well done. You don't see many of those old figure kits being built.

"Both canopy versions are still included". Is anyone able to fill me in on what that means? I don't own the non FP releases.

Ah and there's the rub. The Venator won't be staying in my collection very long. In few weeks it will be off to it's new home. The good thing is that I get to move onto the next bench queen.

Thankyou all very much for all of the kind words regarding the Venator. I really feel quite humbled. Regards, Brett T

I just finished this bad boy. After nearly five years to the day.

Never mind. For anyone else who might be looking, it's at Episode 15, at 02:14.

Does anyone have a screen shot of the VF - 1 with nose art and Misa sitting in the back? Alternatively, when does it appear on screen? I have tried the search function without any luck.

Oh nice IUCAV

Oh nice work. I know plenty of American muscle gets imported down here but I haven't heard of too much going the other way. I believe they were marketed here as the "Aussie Mustang", and are fairly thin on the ground here nowadays. The Valk kit is one of the original 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1A kits that I managed to snag for a princely sum of USD$7.00 along with 2 or three others back in '04. I have'nt seen that price before or since.

Not yet. But it will be the next Macross build for me after the Hasegawa 1/48 VF-1.

Very well executed. You should be proud of your work. I particularly like the grey color scheme. Brett

Consider hopping over to the Modelers Social Club forum as well. They have a whole board dedicated to "Duel Builds" as well as some kick arse how tos. Cheers, Brett

Haha :-) "She's the last of the VF Interceptors Max" I don't think that there is an off the shelf color for CF brown. I used the gunze paints and mixing as per the instructions. Mind you I have only done it twice and gotten two different shades.

Thanks Dax. Brett

Well I'll be buggered! For anyone reading this and has the same problem, you can cure yelloed decals on the kit with sunlight. After three days on a northern windowsill all the yellow has been bleached out. The devals not facing the windiw are still yellowed. Cheers, Brett

I thought it was a revision of that weird polycap hinge thing that allowed some movement at about mid thigh, just below the intake. That part is super fragile, and I hope they did replace that part with the latest non FP battroid kit re releases - but I'll bet they didn't. Berttt

I am pretty sure these came with the kit. Does John use JT Graphics for his stuff? I'm not sure. This will be the last update for the monster for a while. With the 1/48 Hasegawa Super/Strike VF-1 coming out soon I need to concentrate on finishing a few more bench queens. So I'll give the old girl's feet a rest and concentrate on finishing the scout and this VF-1A Cannon Fodder I have had sitting around for ever. As you can see it has collected more than it's fair share of dust since I last worked on it. I have also spent a bit of time cleaning my display cabinet of all the dust and crap that gets on everything, and repaired some kits that have been broken since my last move (a year ago) does anyone else have to do maintenance on their built kits? I ended up cleaning and repairing my Sulaco, Jigabachi, YF-19, SpiderBug, and StarFury. I still have to finish fixing the VF-1A Super, and clean a few other things. I am also trying to bleach the yellow out of the decals on the scout, they have sat around too long without a clear coat on them, and I am hoping the old "fix the yellowed decals with sunlight" trick will work just as well once they are on a kit. Cheers, Brett

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