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Macross YF-19

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Dave Diaz

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Hello once again.

This time I am stepping out of my usual subjects into something less common for me. This is actually a commissioned build so it's going to be very simple.

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The Hasegawa kit is very well done and all the parts are molded with no flash and excellent quality. This promises to be an interesting build.

Getting started I built the pilot seat and cockpit. The kit actually comes with a second seat to make the plane a two seater, but this time I will build the single seat version.

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I assemble to cockpit to the fuselage.

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After a quick masking…

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… I gave it all a coat of Vallejo Panzer Gray.

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Is looking pretty good so far. See you guys on the next update.

dave
 
I've seen you build a lot of stuff over the years, but nothing like this.

At least not that I can remember...

this should be cool!

:ro:
 
Here you go. This will cure the blahs from the other thread. I've stopped and looked at this kit at Hobby Link Japan a few times. It will be good to see how it goes.

Rob.
 
Thanks for the support guys,

So far everything is going smoothly. I finished painting the seat, and about this time I started to feel the urge of scratchbuilding the pilot's harness… I had to whack myself on the head and remind me this is an "out of the box" build… Anyways, here is the seat.

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The rest of the cockpit was done with an oil wash and gradual highlights of lighter grays.

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Added some decals to the control panel.

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Then, I noticed the kit was missing one of the machineguns of the wings, so I had to make them out of brass tubing.

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Thanks for looking. I'll see you in the next update.

dave
 
Very cool. Can't believe how detailed that kit is. So many great anime related kits out there. I still wanna build a Tachikoma (GITS) and Spike Spiegel's Swordfish II. And a Gundam. Cause ya just have to have at least one.

Keep us posted

Matt :)
 
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