Isamu test pilot Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Excellent job, PeterB, your VF-4 is becoming really beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetarB Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 Apologies, my photography is not the best. Hope you enjoy! Time for a couple more little 'fix-ups' then this one can go on the shelf. But it's not the end of the story. I've ordered another one...! This will be distinctly more 'military' including all guns and options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 wow, looks great. Nice work on the custom decals, they really look excellent and have that "macross" feel to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowie165 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 wow, looks great. Nice work on the custom decals, they really look excellent and have that "macross" feel to them. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valk009 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Two thumbs up for your great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante74 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Beautiful! The decals look really match the design of the VF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpaint22 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Most impressive, I can't say any more, lost for words. If ever I wanted a VF-4 then it's now. Truly beautiful work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie addict Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Fantastic!! that custom scheme really suits the VF-4, incredible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Top marks for that I really like this one. I'm interested in your approach to making decals. There are several methods you can use I'm just interested out of curiosity in which one you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Beautiful work PetarB! Someone needs to hit up Yamato with these beautiful images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miriya Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 That is just gorgeous. I am sure there are many jealous members looking at these pics. I for one am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy007 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 fantastic job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool8or Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Wow man!! Simply wonderful. You get a magic touch on this model. Sincerely Congratulations!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetarB Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 Thanks for everyone's kind words! I'm interested in your approach to making decals. There are several methods you can use I'm just interested out of curiosity in which one you use. I sketched the ideas roughly out on paper first. I found the image of Minmei on a scan, I think from this website. I clipped her out and corrected the colour in Adobe Photoshop, and imported it into Adobe Illustrator. I created all the curves, text, and other graphics in Adobe Illustrator, and also printed directly out of there. If you have the right printer, it's the best program to produce sharp edges in (it's vector-based), which for this scale decal is absolutely essential. I've received many 'inkjet printed' decals where its quite obvious they've produced the artwork in Photoshop for example, and black lines turn into dots, which is quite frustrating and poorly detailed for a 1/72 model... anyway enough of that. I did a couple of test prints on ordinary paper, cut them out to check the size on the Valk. Finally, I printed onto some decal paper, let it set for an hour, then gave two light coats of and one heavy of Tamiya Clear acrylic. I think I overdid it, and hence some of the decals are a bit thick. Next time I will see what I can get away with. I will try and take some pics of close-ups of the decals. I think you will be surprised at the quality - modern inkjets can make wonderful reproductions if you know how to use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Thats kinda the direction I was going to go in. I have several Vector based packages including Illustrator and your right for this sort of thing they are the only choice. I have some Laser printer decal sheets and a OKI Colour Laser printer on my desk at work. It can print. 600x1200 dpi True colour so should be great for this. I was gonna put masking tape on to the model/toy and rough sketch on the size and then peal it off and scan it into my Vector software and build on top of the image with nice crisp Vector graphics. Basically the same from there as yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 The folks at Yamato are CRAAAAAAAAZY for not making this into a 1/60 perfect transformation. Again, SUPERB work PetarB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polidread Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Wow, congratulations for the nice 25th anniv VT4 rendition (Variable Trainer, according to the decals ! ) i now share with you an old piece of fanart XD keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr March Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Very nice work. I especially like the color scheme and hull decals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetarB Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 i now share with you an old piece of fanart XD AWESOME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 AWESOME! Ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechTech Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I saw all the comments so I just had to see. That's SHAWEeeeeet man! Excellent use of colors and designs. If you're going to any modeling shows, bring it! You'll get lot's of comments (good ones). - MT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizman Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Wow, great job on the VF-4! Ha, almost makes me want to take up building models again.... almost . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isamu test pilot Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Apologies, my photography is not the best. Hope you enjoy! Time for a couple more little 'fix-ups' then this one can go on the shelf. But it's not the end of the story. I've ordered another one...! This will be distinctly more 'military' including all guns and options. Man, this VF-4 is more than great, thank you very much for share it Please do not worry your pics are very good, in fact mines are bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpaint22 Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 The more I look at this model the more I want a VF-4 and the use of the Minmay guard paris decal design suits this model so well, looks good on a VF-1S looks really good on the VF-4. I agree if yamato doesn't make a VF-4 they're crazy but they can do the VF-11B first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchawan learner Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Petar, that's the most beautiful rendition of the VF-4 I've ever seen. Makes me want to buy one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoptimus Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Wow. That turned out gorgeous! Someday I will learn to make a decent model.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinjo Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Wow. That turned out gorgeous! Someday I will learn to make a decent model.. Practice and study techniques and that will indeed happen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetarB Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 Funny to look at this thread again after all this time. You will note that my plans for a 'military' version at the end of my last post couldn't be further from what actually happened! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelS Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Still so beautiful! So are you getting a 1/60 Yamato to paint cause I would love to see that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetarB Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Not really into toys, sorry - not enough detail and the moving parts make it hard to keep the paintjob intact. I'm sure we'll see plenty of other customs though - it's an exciting release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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