1/170 Armored Valkyrie

[MrNatural]

Grendels-Thanks you good sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Quaralane-Thanks buddy. I fully intend on doing some washes and a little pigment work to bring out some details. Might even do some battle damage.

NecronautDrummer-Appreciate it! It has been a pretty tough paint job so far.

Igard-thanks man. appreciate the support

Ok so this little guy is taking me way longer than I thought it would, but, what else is new right??? The model is just about complete. I just dont want to show it until this base is done with. This base has turned into a major project in and of its own, Im trying to make something that looks similar to one of those kotobukiya chain bases, Here is a pic of one if you're not familiar..


Once I had the basic shape together i filled in all the areas that were still showing wood with some milliput and sanded everything smooth

then went ahead and scribed in some floor paneling, that is dymo tape that I am using as a scribing guide, i've tried all kinds of scribing methods and the drymo tape is the best by far. At this point I was still confident that this was going to be a quick little base build..


starting to think about the basic frame of the back wall, this is some square styrene rod. The shaded area is what will be removed with the dremel.


Here is what I was left with after doing two of those.


filled in the gaps with some sheet styrene, at this point I was beginning to realize that this might take longer than I had originally planned...


Then added some support rods for the next step..


Starting to creat the upper section of the base


then decided to cover everything with styrene. At this point it is taking forever to keep everything even and flush a lot of filling and sanding going on..


puttied up


opposite view


Once I finally had to main outer frame of the base done I started working on the other structures located on the rear wall..


Made this from square tube, strip, and sheet styrene


workin it out with some more square styrene


thanks for checking it out. more to come soon

 

[Grendels]

Nice! I like what you are doing for the base. There was once a Robotech factory kit made and this reminds me of that kit.

 

[YOULI]

I was thinking about the same thing, Robotech Factory 1/100 and 1/170. It's the Macross Factory at ARII, basic shapes taken from another line, still from ARII, with "normal" planes (1/170 ? 1/144 ? DOnt know) back in 1982. Nishimo had almost the same thing, with the robots (even the Zentraedi battle pods) in 1/200. This pictures are from my collection. I built it in 1987/89






It's worth taking it, if you find it, even though, as the Armored Valkyrie, each Macross kits need a lot of attention.

Well done on this one. Do you intend to scratchbuild a Gunpod ?

 

[MrNatural]

Grendels-Yeah im familiar with that robotech base kit. Youli is correct it was an old kit from ARII in 1/170 scale

got some more done on the base. its getting close to paint ;D

been hacking away at this thing with the scriber just trying add as much detail as I can




attaching some of the other bits



more beams, piping, and scribing


more to come..

laterz

 

[Grendels]

That is looking sharp! Nice work on it, it will show off the model well.

 

[Igard]

Superb work Mr Natural. Really enjoyed watching you put that together.

 

[fubar]

Thanks for all the detailed pics of the base construction, i need to make something for my project and had absoultely no idea how to go about it.......now i do. ;D

Keep up the great work mate.

 

[Quaralane]

Very nice work

 

[MrNatural]

Alright. So. Its finally done. A little project I really thought would only take me a week or two has ended at nearly three months. Always the case. thank all you guys for watching this build it was good fun, here we go, last update...

Primered up the base with some tamiya matte black. then fixed any last cracks or seams.


then airbrushed tamiya sky grey


dark wash


Fin










Rock on!

 

[Igard]

*Applause* ;D

Great job with the base. Love the weathering, chipping and battle damage. Nice work on the mods. Looks like a really fun build you've had here.

 

[NecronautDrummer]

I think you've perfectly captured the look of Studio Nue's concept art and design:
http://ghostlightning.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/robotech-illustration-veritech-battroid.jpg

 

[MrT]

Now that is very nice!!! I love the base.

T

 

[Quaralane]

Excellent finish work on this

 

[Grendels]

Nice finish to her. It might have taken 3 months, but it looks good!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

She's a beauty. A one in a million girl....Now why would I lie?