VF-11b lineart

Everytime I decide to do a custom paint or a colour scheme modification, lineart have been a great help, but sometimes finding it is hard and time consuming, so I decided to post lineart that I have done or found over the internet. First, the VF-11b, and followed shortly will be the SV-51, along with some pics of my work so far on that plastic model.

VF-11b Thunderbolt

It's finally here, my gallery/review for the 1/72 VF-11b thunderbolt by hasegawa:

Like allways with hasegawa kits the detail is excelent, but you'll have to take alot of extra time to paint and fix some details. 

As you can see clearly on the picture bellow a drop of superglue fell inside the canopy, and I didn´t knew this untill I removed the masking tape from the plastic, wich in my case is allways the last thing I do.

To be honest, for me this model lacks exitement, mainly because of the limited options you will have in personalizing it, I think it should include high visibility and low visibility waterslides, it only has half of the high visibility decals, for example, the "no step" it only comes in black, so by default you can´t paint this plane in a dark colour (like I was planning to do) 

Speaking of decals, I found alot of people complaining on the quiality of the ones included with this kit, mainly they complain about decals that don't bend even with alot of setting liquid, but I on the other hand think they are almost as good as the ones that come with the VF-19A, yes they require a little more setting solution, but the details are amazing and they are cut almost on the edge of the print, so youll have very little of "extra decal".

There are some pieces (like the biceps of the arms) that the manual tell's you to paint, but you won't see them at all. 

  

 Some clear parts dont fit, you'll need to do alot of sanding if yu want them to fit perfectly

Also, it feels like alot of unecesary extra parts are included, shure you see some of those but they come separated from a piece that could come in one piece.

I over didi it with the weathering... 

 
As you can see here, it is a small kit, it even feels like a 1/100 scale plane compared to almost every other 1/72 Valkire 

My overall thoughts are: this kit could be alot more simple, and more fun with the adition of a few decals, it feels tiny, this is by far teh worst hasegawa kit I have builded, but as allways with that brand, once you finish the kit you'll have a fine looking plane

6/10

VF-11b (work in progress)

I've done some advances on this kit, but it's taking too long to complete, mainly because of work and the fact that I need to re-suply some of my modeling materials, and to do that I need time, also, I wanted to do something diferent with the strpe pattern, but I never came up with any nice idea for this model, oh, by the way, lineart has been very helpfull when I do custom colour scheemes, so I'll try to post some as soon as I get my hands on the images, so here it is, my progress on two (maybe three?) months of work on the hasegawa 1/72 VF-11b

so far I dont have any complaint about this kit with the exeption of having too many "extra parts" small pieces that could be part of the biger piece where its assembled, this kit has lots of those.

when I ran out of cement I tried to but another bottle of it, but the store ran out, so I bought the tamiuyas extra thin cement, and I must say it works like a charm, but sometimes you will still want to use the normal cement on some parts.

I'm hoping my next post about this kit will be when it's completed, if work keeps 

I saw red ( Work in progress for the EVA 02 and the VF-11b(

It may seen that I havent done much on the EVA02 and VF-11b but i decided to take it slow and get rid off the seamlines.

As you can see fist i applyed cement let it cure and after that i sanded the part, and that is why this is taking so much time, every part needs at least 1 hour after the cement is set, after that I need to sand the piece three times before its ready and that takes alot of time.

A close up of the leg the upper part and knee joint are done, the lower part only has been sanded once

here itt is all sanded and ready

I have to paint this little jaw, and it needs 4 diferent colours... this might be fun (NOT)

 

The "finished" legs

This is all I've been able to do for the VF-11b, Im not good at multytasking so I wont be trying it again, Ill finish the gun and after that ill concentrate on the EVA

Dual Building

Next I will try to do two totaly diferent kits at the same time, so this might take longer then my usual moth and a half per build.