Hoops Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) A work in progress right now, did the major painting today. This is the idea for the paint scheme: path4496-9 by J Hooper Primed, major painting done, and I'll let it sit a day or so for everything to completely dry out before doing touch-ups and detail painting. 26510583_10214270578140258_2075452127_o Underside is light ghost grey, top is dark sea grey. Construction is out of the box with two exceptions: I created a rear bulkhead behind the seat in the cockpit, and I deepened and boxed in the intakes on the top of the "leading edge root extensions" I hope you enjoy, Cheers! Hoops Edited January 1, 2018 by Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ikon Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I like that scheme. Very flashy. Looks like a CAG bird. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
frankycee Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Always wanted to build one of those macross kits...how big are they vs say a 1/72 Flanker? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 (edited) [/url] [/url] On 12/30/2017 at 9:01 PM, Ikon said: I like that scheme. Very flashy. Looks like a CAG bird. Spine was inspired by VFA-37, tails by VAW-121. I had come up with a few ideas inspired by various USN CAG birds, but this is the one I wound up liking the most. Thanks! 20 hours ago, frankycee said: Always wanted to build one of those macross kits...how big are they vs say a 1/72 Flanker? The YF-19 is about Super Hornet size, I've got a VF-0D that is probably bigger than a Flanker. I've got a VF-11B kit that I'm not going to build (too many kits, too little time) and I could let go for cheap if you are interested. It's probably about the same size. - link to HLJ - Edited January 1, 2018 by Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
frankycee Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 could let go for cheap if you are interested Hi Hoops, I'm not sure I can build it anytime soon either...theres one on amazon.ca here in Canada for like 32$ CAD shipped, which is like 25$US...so I dont know if you wanna let it go for that... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 IMG_6278 by J Hooper, on Flickr IMG_6277 by J Hooper, on Flickr IMG_6275 by J Hooper, on Flickr IMG_6273 by J Hooper, on Flickr Complete, I hope you enjoy! Cheers, Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Silenoz Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Nice and colorfull... nice work... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SebastianP Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 On 2018-01-01 at 2:17 AM, frankycee said: Always wanted to build one of those macross kits...how big are they vs say a 1/72 Flanker? Depends on which one. The VF-1 is tiny, closest thing in size I can come up with off hand is the F-5 Freedom Fighter or the Gripen. The VF-11 is a little bigger, more like an F-16 or a Legacy Hornet, except still a little shorter. Wider in the fuselage, though. (Actually the VF-11 is pretty directly comparable in size to the X-wings from Star Wars, while the VF-1 is more the size of an A-wing.) The VF-0 is Tomcat-sized, by design - it's basically the VF-1 scaled up to Tomcat size. The VF-0D with its massive Delta wing is one of the two biggest fighters in the franchise, at least in atmospheric fit (the other is the Sv-51, which is the rival of the VF-0 in-universe and based about as much on the Su-27 as the VF-0 is on the Tomcat). Most of the others - the YF-19/VF-19, YF-21/VF-22, VF-25, and VF-31, are all somewhere between the Super Hornet and the Tomcat in size, trending towards skinny forward fuselages and very beefy engine nacelles. Of Hasegawa's kits in 1/72, the only ones I haven't touched are the Sv-51, the YF-21/VF-22, and the VF-31 kits, so I can't really say much about them. I do not recommend the VF-1 kits or their derivatives (VF-1, VT-1, VE-1, etc) as a first Macross build - because they were the first kits made, they're very over-engineered, and the atmospheric versions have serious alignmnent issues with the engine nacelles, which are difficult to correct. The VF-0 kits are less over-engineered, but still have some flaws due to how the base design is put together. The VF-11, VF-19 and VF-25 kits on the other hand are fantastic, with paintable sub-assemblies that slide and lock into place so well they can be zoomed around the room before gluing them together. :) About the only common design flaw with all of these fighters is the placement of the main landing gear, which I think is way too far aft in all cases except the VF-31, which instead has way too small landing gear.. It makes for very stable models when standing on the table, but it also makes them look like they'd have a bear of a time getting the nose off the ground on take off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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