Valkyrie VF-1A UPDATE!

[Red Two]

On July 3. 2007, the Valkyrie and I were hit in a head-on collision with an asteroid. The Valkyrie is dead, I got 50 stitches.
See her at www.twinlitworlds.com/vf1a/html/index.html

Hey folks, the name's Tom. I recently came across RS again after forgetting about it for many years (Katie was just finishing Red 5 and contemplating this site at the time I was painting my old car).

I saw Obishawns fighter in a parking lot here in LA a few months back and that kick started me into looking for other oddball car folks such as ourselves.

While I had my old Corsica painted up as an XWing/Falcon hybrid way back when, I now own a bike. I didn't go SW on the bike as 1. there are so many SW veh's around nowadays done so well; and 2. nothing SW really fit the bike's design (a Speeder Bike, while obvious, was far too plain and dark for my needs.)

So I racked my brains and remembered good ol' Robotech. And, as RS is not exclusive to SW vehs, I figured I'd plug in.

Here is a direct link to my bird's current status and history:
www.twinlitworlds.com/vf1a/html/index.html

There' still more work to be done over the coming months, but it is approaching 'finished' and I figured I'd share her with you all.

I'd post a pic here, but I don't see any 'add picture' commands anywhere. Next time. I'll try and dig up some old shots of my tragic Corsica as well.

take care, see you on the road!
(I'll be the one flying past all of you stuck in traffic!)
-t

[Darth Marmalade]

The photos look great! I don't know if I'd worry about the thickness of the panel lines; any narrower and they might be invisible from a few feet away. Thanks for the detailed write-up of your experience -- in the future, I'll try to avoid the temptation to re-use stencils.

[Red Two]

I just posted 2 doz new pix done today of all touchups. The bike is now 'complete' (excepting for a bath and a quick gloss coat on the touchups) until the next full phase of work.

You can see where using the diamond stencil twice skewed the stbd Macross logo.

Check the 'Phase 2' link for complete pix and the 'Gallery' link for a few full body master shots.
MtFbwY. (Robotech didn't have rally cry that I can think of)

www.twinlitworlds.com/vf1a/html/index.html

[Darth Marmalade]

That looks awesome! And the panel lines look great -- don't pay any attention to me.

The other day I remembered the existence of paint marker pens, and did a little touching-up to Meerkat Six. It looks like it was touched-up with a paint marker pen -- I'll see how long I can put up with that.

I thought I remembered an "All Hail Culture" or some such in Robotech, but I can't find a reference.

[Red Two]

I did final touchups with testors paint and a small brush. It looked very touched up. A quick gloss overcoat and that 'touched up look' disappeared.

[Red Two]

Funny that I shouldn't have mentioned the fatal collision which destroyed the Valkyrie on its' own page, but you can look around for other tellings of that unfortunate day.

Got the new wheels and things are going well enough.

Galactic Underwriter's still has yet to get all the red tape settled, but soon enough.

The new thread is in News/ Design My Craft.

Feel free to post posthumous praise. However, to misquote Butch Coolidge, 'Thread's dead, baby. Thread's dead'.