The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post

[SteveTheFish]

Something like a FAG/Mospeda kitbash?

https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/336221928450528161/

[Bolt]

Riding into battle in a thong. Why not.

[Thom]

Hymn of the Battle Thong!

[electric indigo]

Completed work:

 

Edited October 31 by electric indigo

[electric indigo]

Gene splicing alert!

 

[Big s]

12 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

Gene splicing alert!

 

That’s a real monstrous guntank

[Bolt]

1 hour ago, electric indigo said:

Gene splicing alert!

 

Lol ! Well done and very entertaining!

[sh9000]

1/48 Regult by Egil Ballestad.

[Cheese3]

I just finished my vf-25!

[nightmareB4macross]

On 11/12/2025 at 6:38 AM, sh9000 said:

1/48 Regult by Egil Ballestad.

Looks nice, but seems a tad short. I think Sculpts from MLZ22 nailed the scale and perspective of their size.

[tekering]

12 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Looks nice, but seems a tad short.

Yeah, more like 1:60.  🤔

Moreover, what is the point of producing such a large model if you're not going to add any detail?  Without markings or weathering of any kind, there's no visual indication of size.  It might as well be a capsule toy. 🤨

Conversely, here's a 1:72 scale Regult from yesterday's modeling exhibit in Okayama:

Despite its comparatively small size, the surface detailing suggests a massive mech.

The larger the surface area, the more detail you can add...

...and thus convey a much greater sense of scale.

Just imagine what a talented modeler like this could do with a kit twice its size!

[Papa Rat]

17 minutes ago, tekering said:

Yeah, more like 1:60.  🤔

Moreover, what is the point of producing such a large model if you're not going to add any detail?  Without markings or weathering of any kind, there's no visual indication of size.  It might as well be a capsule toy. 🤨

Conversely, here's a 1:72 scale Regult from yesterday's modeling exhibit in Okayama:

Despite its comparatively small size, the surface detailing suggests a massive mech.

The larger the surface area, the more detail you can add...

...and thus convey a much greater sense of scale.

Just imagine what a talented modeler like this could do with a kit twice its size!

Thanks for sharing. That’s a great looking build. 👍

[Big s]

2 hours ago, tekering said:

Moreover, what is the point of producing such a large model if you're not going to add any detail?  Without markings or weathering of any kind, there's no visual indication of size.  It might as well be a capsule toy. 🤨

I’m a bit of two minds on that one. While I do love extra detail, there’s also the fact that these are machines for giants. I guess that panels would be larger and such to where they may appear somewhat like a Votoms size mecha. But the weathering would have to somehow help convey size more than detail or even decals. I think it’s really a tough one to really be able to find a balance there. Too much detail and it would look like it was made for a human sized pilot and too little might just make it look like a toy.

so I basically dig the more anime look that these hasegawa ones have since they do have the larger panels and decals and lack little tiny things that would just be silly to a giant. As far as the height , that one still confuses me since Macross scaling is all over the place.

[tekering]

45 minutes ago, Big s said:

Macross scaling is all over the place.

Not concerning the Regult, it isn't. 

Say what you will about official stats post-SDFM, but the original 1982 series was pretty consistent with Zentraedi height being equal to that of the battroids.  Regults were always depicted in the animation to be about twice the height of a battroid, and it was only after DYRL went into production in 1983 that they decided to downscale the Zentraedi, thus all the scale charts published post-SDFM reflect the new scaling.  Everything produced post-DYRL follows the aesthetic changes made for the film -- and merchandising has always referenced the 1983 stats -- leading to the scale inconsistencies that confound us all... but during the production of the original TV series, the Regults never changed size.  I do wish Bandai, Hasegawa et.al paid more attention to the anime itself.