Sunday 28 June 2009

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker 2

Latest and greatest of the VF-1's Roy Fockers VF-1S from Do you remember love? The DYRL version has yellow arrow on the head while the TV version has a black arrow but because it yellow you can't really see it.

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker 1

Can't quite remember who this began as either Hikarus or Kakizaki's VF-1A which i swapped the head with one of the VF-1S from the Skull Squadron i making at the moment.

Filled in the seams with the tamiya putty then repainted white and the detail added mostly free hand, notice the little red arrow which took quite a few trys to get right.

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker 3

Panel lines all drawn in using a o.5 mechanical pencil, have to spray a clear cote onto it first otherwise any mistake can't be rubbed. Of course ive forgotten to do that a few times, scratch my head trying to remember what i sprayed the week or even a fortnight before.

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker 4

Gunpod was sanded to remove the seam line then had the nozzle drilled out and give a lick of paint using about 80% Black and 20% Gun bolt metal.

Chara-works 1/144 Macross Valkyrie VF-1S Roy Focker 5

Forgot to take any picks of the 3 Valkyries ive finished to together, gone dark now so i'll do that sometimes during the week.

Ian

4 comments:

LEon said...

Wow. I didn't know o.5 mechanical pencil can do that. maybe I should do that on my Gundam BB later.

Ant Sized Man said...

Have yet to panel up a Gunpla, will give it a go with the pencil but i reckon i'd have to paint it up first.

Dennis aka Katsuden said...

Great idea of using pencil the lines really brings out the effect. Are you thinking of touching up the ones on Macross Frontier by banpresto too?

Ant Sized Man said...

I was hoping to do the same thing wiht the banpresto valks, hoping the plastic thats used will let the pencil stay on the model otherwise a gundam marker or wash.