Written by 11:44 pm On the Bench

WIP : Hasegawa 1/72 VF-1S Super Strike Valkyrie Pt.3 – Painting

After a few stages of gap filling, I’m ready for painting! I’ll be painting the kit in subassemblies which will make everything easier to handle.

Color scheme-wise, I’ll be going for the one below. It’s not Milia’s usual color scheme except for the red highlights.

Time for the colors. For the VF-1 first, a black base.

Then the usual marble coat with white.

All the paints for the main colors are all acrylic paints cut with thinner and given a few drops of Vallejo Glaze Medium to reduce the opacity. The marble coat will show through and give a more interesting look to the finish.

I first went with Vallejo Mecha Color Grey White as the main color, but I think the result was too gray.

So I re-sprayed everything with Vallejo Game Color Dead White. I think the results are better.

Once the main colors are on, it’s time for (a lot of) masking tape for the additional colors.

I decided to paint the vernier housings on the FAST packs a different color, so I first used 2.5mm masking tape to ring around the housings then filled the rest with wider masking tape.

For the splinter pattern on the VF-1, 2 shades of red will be used.

After the first shade of red has cured, the splinter camouflage is carefully done with (a lot) more masking tape.

To darken the Vallejo Model Air Red, I added a few drops of Vallejo Model Color Burnt Umber.

I checked the splinter camouflage before removing the rest of the masking tape.

I then masked some more and painted the vents on the top of the fuselage. Once I feel that it looks alright, I carefully removed all the masking tape.

All in all, the masking turned out well enough. There were only some minor bleeding.

The FAST packs were given the same treatment as the VF-1: a base coat of black.

Then a marble coat of white.

The main color is Vallejo Model Air USN Sea Grey. Checking the color chits online, it’s supposed to be bluer than the result I got. However, I took a look at the vintage Bandai VF-1S Strike Valkyrie toy, the colors of the FAST Packs are quite similar and looked good so I’m going ahead with it. The missiles were also quickly painted up in white while the underbelly gun was Vallejo Model Color Dark Seagreen.

There are some black bands all over the kit that Hasegawa provides as decals. I decided to just mask and spray these.

This includes the black bands on the missiles and FAST packs.

I am quite happy with the results. Mistakes like bleeding were thankfully minor. These will be cleaned up and I can move on to decaling then finishing this kit.

Build Log
Part 1 – Construction | Part 2 – Construction | Part 3 – Painting |
Part 4 – Finishing | Part 5 – Final Assembly

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