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These have progressed as far as paint. The black & red Nightstalker has the farthest to go. The green Melusine is closest to finished. Snake Eye needs weathering and a lot of gray lunar regolith dust.

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Thanks!

Actually no salt or hairspray on the Mel. Sponge chipping and counter shading. Still have wear streaks, rust, mud, grime, oil, etc to do.

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Valkyrie rescue part 2.

I'm going for a bit of a patchwork look on Hikaru's Valk here. It will take some time, but having replaced the missing missiles, and other bits, Skull 11 is already looking better.

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And heavy weathering. Needs to be lightened up, but does not look so bad right now.

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Frakkin awesome....

Which brings me to Valkyrie rescue part three... Yet another unloved, second hand beauty recovered from the pit that is the local charity shop.

The Ghost was in a dreadful shape. It needed a partial rebuild of the jet nozzle, a repaint (it was the A, not the booster I wanted), and none of the decals could be saved (should be able to find some decent 1/60 scale things though...). The VF-0 however, was just in need of a little paint and lining.

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Thank you folks. I wish I had picked up a more versatile airbrush long ago, now that I have seen what I can do with one.

However, I am still just toying with it's potential and, as this Nautilus shows, I still need practice and any advise people can give.

Currently, I am looking into doing grime and wear and would love to see/hear people's insights into that (underlining, over-wearing, weathering powders, etc.)

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Not strictly models, but more than toys, the following rescued dainties have been recently completed as well. The SDF-1 was a pre-release display piece, provided by distributers to the Missus for her shop. It had been crudely painted, and was glued/screwed into one mode. Once I discovered it in the scrap, I brought it back, scratched up a few missing parts then set to the paint job.

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The Thunderbird 2, is the Aoshima display model, and added here because it was cobbled back together from two models damaged in shipping, for which the distributor apparently did not provide return instructions. Sat in the stockroom for years, I only recently realized that two fails could become at least one win. The little minx still charged me for it once I was finished though... :o

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Just finished a paper VF-2SS in 1/100, which is unfortunately not released to the general public. I'm just good friends with the designer.

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Current work is Urashiman's paper YF-19 resized to 1/100 redrawn with the fold lines removed and landing gear added.

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and then theres a Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0S that just came in the mail today :D

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Good looking work all around.

Small update on the Frazi today.

Nearly finished with detailing the BFG mounts and the LFGs themselves:

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Decided it needed some more "warts" to more convey the lend-lease/late mark notion I am going for. So I added a big sensor boom under the nose:

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Layout thus far:

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Still need to finish the BFG mounts with just a few more touches, add some RCS thruster details and then I can begin scribing.

Comments and criticisms welcome.

Kenny

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First, push play. It may actually enhance your viewing pleasure!

Finished up Aoshima's 1/48 scale Airwolf. Sometimes, have to take a small break from Macross kits. Made a few mistakes, though. Biggest thing, and this is the second kit I've done it on- DON'T THROW AWAY THE SPRUES UNLESS YOU ARE DONE WITH THE KIT!!!!!! It's always 1 or 2 small parts that you miss (such as the upper and lower collision lights)

Anyways, on with the kit!

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Now, I just need to try and find Aoshima's Blue Thunder, and complete the set.

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Just finished a paper VF-2SS in 1/100, which is unfortunately not released to the general public. I'm just good friends with the designer.

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Current work is Urashiman's paper YF-19 resized to 1/100 redrawn with the fold lines removed and landing gear added.

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and then theres a Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0S that just came in the mail today :D

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Still nice seeing people building my stuff. I need to get into my papercraft works again, there is still alot of stuff I need to finish. But there is not much time ...

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That's an awesome build, and I'm sure it'll look great on any display shelf or desktop.

How about on my workbench stereo speaker? Stringfellow can watch every build from now on...

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Starting on the VF-0S. Not having any decal solvent I ended up hand painting the instrument panel (tried to make it look like there was stuff on the MFD's lol) and Roy's helmet since i couldnt get the decals to snug down. Be gentle folks this is my first plastic model in like 10 years, and I wasnt very good at them back then lol.

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