Kit Info
Manufacturer: Hasegawa
Scale: Non-scale
Media: Injection Plastic
Plamo is also hosting a Supa Difomu FIGHT! groupbuild. I couldn’t resist starting this as soon as it arrived at my doorstep. I plan to do this in Hikaru Ichijo’s white and red colored VF-1J. It looks good OOB but there are some details here and there that I fixed or added.
I began with the exhaust, which required them to be installed before the exhaust trunks wrap around them. That would have required some masking which I want to avoid.
First I cut off the sides of the attachment points.
Test fit. Still fits fine. Even holds in place without cementing.
There’s a fan in the exhaust but the intakes are really obviously blank.
I cut some plaplate into triangles and stacked them in a semi circle.
Voila! Instant (almost) intake fans!
Next up, the really bare cockpit. Pilot’s nice and detailed, but everything else is blank.
So out with the plaplates to detail it up. I just randomly added buttons and panels. Looks busy enough.
The area in between the exhaust is also quite plain.
Again, out with the plaplate!
There’s a gap due to the swing wing feature. I cemented the wings in place and covered up the gap with more plaplate.
Strangely, there’s a gap inside the vent on the upper fuselage.
I proceeded to cover the particular ‘hole’.
No more weird hole!
There is a gap around the tailfin base.
I covered the huge space in the base with Milliput. Going to take 24 hours to dry.
And lastly for tonight (yeah, I’m on a rare roll here 
), I decided to do the Egg Valkyrie in flight. The kit comes with the option to easily close the gear doors. Geez, if only Hasegawa does this for ALL their releases.
The base is actually the cap from my Gillette shaving cream. I used a plastic rod instead of (the usual) brass since the kit is really small and light. Milliput is used to stick the 3 things together.
. I’m using a pair of RMS-1 nuclear missiles from the 1/72 Macross Weapons Set instead.
