1/170 Armored Valkyrie

[MrNatural]

While im savin up for a new compressor thought I'd start a little build to keep my mind occupied. So im gonna attempt this old ARII macross kit.

When I say "little build" I mean LITTLE! This is the smallest giant robot I have attempted thus far.

Just looking at the box i thought "What could possibly be in here?" surprisingly a fair amount of parts they all fit on a single sprue and the sprue was then folded in half to fit inside the packaging kind of interesting.








No shortage of seam filling to be done on this little guy definitely going to have to re-scribe some detail too

Seam nightmare

a few hours of careful filing

going to swap out some of the detail with some aftermarket stuff



A lot of tricky seams to be expected 8) I've just been using CA for all the filling thus far


until next time fellow modelers...

 

[Junkie]

Cool! Nasty seams yes, but you're doing a good job of removing them.

 

[Quaralane]

Looking like you're doing some very fine detail work on that tiny little thing

 

[Igard]

Cool! You're already close to vanquishing those seams with the CA glue. Nice one!

Could I ask, is that thick CA glue you're using in the seams, or thin stuff? Does it make a difference?

 

[Grendels]

I have built one of these in the dark distant past. Still have it. That was before I knew about paint and seam filling.

Watching with interest!

 

[SLW45]

Really good looking start

 

[MrNatural]

Thanks guys appreciate it ;D

Igard-I use zap-a-gap medium CA gap filling formula for the bulk of my tiny seam filling in conjunction with CA Activator.

I am really having fun with this little guy. He has virtually no detail at all so i have just been trying to add as much as I can

As you can see on the box art, the arms appear to have cannon laser things which are no where to be found on the kit

kit part

so i drilled some holes

whipped out some evergreen rod and some spare photoetch stuff I had from some 1/72 tanks


trimmed out some of the mesh looking PE parts and attached it to the styrene rod


jammed em' in there

want to add some bolts...

just cut up some more styrene rod and made some bolts

started scribing some more panels just to add something..


well thats all for tonight. getting ever closer to compressor day...

 

[Igard]

Thanks for the CA glue info, Mr Natural.

An excellent work in progress all round!

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Hm, i havent seen that before. Looks like a nice kit ?!

 

[CTspeedshop]

Lovin That Detail!!! Very Nice!!!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

That's kewl! A lot of detail work for a little mecha model.
;D

 

[Quaralane]

Some very nice detail work for such a small model

 

[Grendels]

Nice detail work.

 

[MrNatural]

Thanks again guys. Yall are awesome!

Well im thinking another week maybe two and i'll have enough scratch to order my new air compressor. Its so frustrating not being able to paint

Anyways some more progress on this wee little robot.

I got the arms looking how I want


The legs are glued up and seamed out still working on them


Trying to replicate some of the detail on the box art


so ive just been slowly carving out these holes each one takes forever


catch yall later!!

 

[Solander]

Such tiny pieces, yet so detailed!
Great job!

 

[Quaralane]

More excellent work

 

[nine_d]

wow sweet job I love macross kits nice detail your giving it keep it up just cant wait to see it painted

 

[tetsujin]

Thanks guys appreciate it ;D

Igard-I use zap-a-gap medium CA gap filling formula for the bulk of my tiny seam filling in conjunction with CA Activator.

I am really having fun with this little guy. He has virtually no detail at all so i have just been trying to add as much as I can

As you can see on the box art, the arms appear to have cannon laser things which are no where to be found on the kit

Those are actually (supposed to be) missiles.

Nice work on this. I once saw a nice build of the 1:200 scale version of this subject - modified to have all the missile hatches (shoulders, legs, chest) open. I may attempt that one day...

 

[MrNatural]

tetsujin-thank you for the info. I cant imagine doing a 1/200 valk with all those mods. I was thinking about trying to open up the missile hatches on the upper arms and trying to fab some sort of weapon for him to hold in one of the hands.

just been tinkering away at this thing. been getting a little scribe happy

finished carving in some detail on the legs


these lines are not accurate at all just thought I would take a little artistic license and try something different


wanted to add this little detail


dug out some more kotobukiya spare parts


here was my first try. It was not until I did both legs that I realized I put them in the wrong spot


so I called it a loss and filled them up and did it again


thats all I got for now

later on

 

[Grendels]

Nice, this will be a show piece!