Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV

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2 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Several of the HMR releases definitely had missiles painted red that way.  I believe all of the Hikaru VF-1J and CF VF-1A versions had the fins and tips painted red.

The older ones are all white for the most part, but checking the vermilion platoon versions and those have red back there.

intro for the show only has white, but in a couple scenes it shows red and others I’ve seen are white by the fins. It’s very inconsistent in the scenes I was just checking 

[Papa Rat]

This Hasegawa set has the white. It’s sort of all over the place. 🤔
 

[Chronocidal]

For Hasegawa to focus on the mainly white versions makes sense, when they got around to making the weapons sets they were mostly focused on DYRL designs, which tended to adhere slightly more closely to realistic weapons markings.

Not that the black and red markings on the missiles was unrealistic, it just wasn't the type of marking you'd see on a production air-to-air weapon.

I'd still like someone to actually detail the seeker tips with a sensor of some type, rather than just giving up and going "I dunno, make 'em blunt."

Edited 12 hours ago by Chronocidal

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2 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I'd still like someone to actually detail the seeker tips with a sensor of some type, rather than just giving up and going "I dunno, make 'em blunt."

I can’t remember which have made an attempt, but I do remember one with a little hole in the front. Maybe one of the recent kits, but I think it was one of the toys. As far as kits, you could basically take either a small drill or maybe a needle point file and make a small hole. Then some red or clear red for the sensor 

[nightmareB4macross]

4 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

This Hasegawa set has the white. It’s sort of all over the place. 🤔
 

The mostly white missiles only exist in DYRL.

The red accent missiles are for SDFM.

The color coincide with the bombs.

[pengbuzz]

UPDATE: What you've all been waiting for:

First, how to rescue 31 year old decals:

 

Soak them in very hot water for 30 minutes, then carefully slide them onto new decal paper (used backing) and swish around with plenty of water to get rid of all the old, yellowed glue (as seen in the first pic!).

And now, the pictures:

With flash:

 

Without flash:

  

More pics:

 

Wing positions:

 

Helmsman had too much blood wine:

Stay tuned...

 

Edited 8 hours ago by pengbuzz

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28 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

UPDATE: What you've all been waiting for:

First, how to rescue 31 year old decals:

 

Soak them in very hot water for 30 minutes, then carefully slide them onto new decal paper (used backing) and swish around with plenty of water to get rid of all the old, yellowed glue (as seen in the first pic!).

And now, the pictures:

With flash:

 

Without flash:

  

More pics:

 

Wing positions:

 

Helmsman had too much blood wine:

Stay tuned...

 

Looks very organic. The colors really give some depth 

[Papa Rat]

4 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

UPDATE: What you've all been waiting for:

First, how to rescue 31 year old decals:

 

Soak them in very hot water for 30 minutes, then carefully slide them onto new decal paper (used backing) and swish around with plenty of water to get rid of all the old, yellowed glue (as seen in the first pic!).

And now, the pictures:

With flash:

 

Without flash:

  

More pics:

 

Wing positions:

 

Helmsman had too much blood wine:

Stay tuned...

 

Good looking build! Also like the old decal transfer trick. Very cool. 

[Thom]

Great work @pengbuzz! Nice work on the hinges, and the helmsman is clearing trying out a new evasive manuever.