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Hi all, I've posted my Wip pics to this thread; Here are my finished picture of my J-20S . This was the actual picture that convinced me that I had to buy this model and try to get a shot like this!

Hi all, I noticed there wasn't much on this kit here so I'd thought I post my recently finished J-20S here. I liked the relatively obscure subject, unfortunately there weren't many 1/72 upgrade parts or even decent cockpit interior photos to go by so when I first received the kit, I thought I'd just do a quick straight out-of-the-box build. When I saw how simplified the landing gears were, I'd thought I'd just build it closed up in flight mode but when the kit didn't have any pilots, that kind of blew that idea out of the water! When I started to actually look at the kit, I realized tha

Hi all, Finally digging out my old Fujimi 1/72 F-22 Raptor kit out of the dust bin and looking through it and found the landing gears on that kit are woefully inadequate. With all these new 3D resin printed upgrades I keep seeing out there (unfortunately mostly for 1/48 kits) I was wondering if anyone knows of any upgraded landing gears for 1/72 scale F-22 Raptors? I've got the Aires resin cockpit and the Eduard Photoetched parts already.

Are they lacquers - wonder if they work with Mr. Hobby leveling thinners? I may have to look into that, as I did pre-order the 1/72 SU-34 from them, so that's what this inquiry is all about.

Thanks @seawinder Does anyone have instructions for any of the other 1/48 scale SU-48 kits that might have Mr. Color references?

Oh that's what I was afraid of - THANKS @annie.shikinami! I will have to try these light coats of GX100 to protect paints underneath @seawinder thanks for the link, I tried but unfortunately when I checked out of Spruebrothers it says "Unfortunately one or more items in your cart can't be shipped to your location." - I think there must be a ban on these types of paints in Canada as I can't find them anywhere. Is there any instructions with Mr. Color mixing ratios?

Thanks, I can’t seem to find MRP Paints anywhere in Canada? Are they true lacquers? Tamiya X-20A doesn’t affect them? (I’d like to try that ink wash/weathering over the paint)

Help, what are the best Mr. Color lacquer paints to use for this 3-tone blue/green camo for the SU-34? (I see MRP makes a set, but I am not familiar with them, are they a lacquer - I would prefer to stick to Mr. Color if possible). I think there might be some mixing involved I guess. (I'm prepping for the upcoming 1/72 TempModels resin SU-34 but I don't have Mr. Color information). TIA!

Finally finished the Nu-Galactica - not the greatest of kits (I've been spoiled with Japanese kits that just goes together!). Lots of huge gaps, internal sprue gates to cut off and shaved an entire deck off the nose and ground away so much plastic just to the head to align correctly with the body. The Admiralty turret guns were a highlight to use, but the string of dollar store LED lights were too dim to see in the daylight (you get what you paid for) afterwards. The Acreation Models decal set were great and added a lot of depth to the ribbed areas, however there was a variation in darkness be

Not really, they were good, just some trimming here and there to fit, the only thing was the rear RIO panel was not the right shape and I had to piece together some bits and was left with some empty space to fill in the upper section. I do wish they had a specific set for FineMolds.

Thanks for the advice, I went with spray can so I don't have to use my airbrush for the clear coats - I find they often clog up my airbrush really fast especially the flat/matte clear coats. I would just go back to spraying airbrush clear coats instead of decanting, I think I should try again with a much lighter initially misting first and build up in layers, I thought I wanted to give a thick enough clear coat to hide the decal carrier film edges and allow it to self level, but I think I might have over done it and maybe didn't shake up the can long enough. OK I've finally gotten

I think I managed to save it by re-piecing the VF-84, but the font is subtly different and because I always know what I did, my eye is always drawn to the paint repair instantly, I hope it doesn't look repaired to the fresh person seeing it. Its getting there very slowly, very hard to find time to work on it when I'm working.

Argh, I might be getting old, but it always seems like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Thought I'd finally seal in all the decals under a gloss coat before the final finish, but for some reason, the gloss coat (maybe the Mr. Hobby Mr. Super Clear gloss spray cans - are these different to Mr. Color Spray gloss?) went on a little too thick, it "melted some of the decals" and pulled them in the direction of drying - I stood my model up on end vertically (in hopes to provide less surface for dust to fall on the drying clear coat) and the clear coat seems to have shifted and took some decals down

Well the kit could be $30 if you lived in Japan, but with shipping (only available through couriers like UPS, FedEx, DHL) nowadays during the pandemic, that tacks on another $20-30usd and if you live in Canada, there's courier brokerage fees and customs and duties that tacks on another $20-$30. Mine arrived after $25 shipping + $26 brokerage fee and customs just for a $30 model!

What are those metallic decals for the engine metal sections? Are there links to where those are sold?