{"id":263,"date":"2008-10-21T21:39:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:09:22","slug":"1144-queadluun-rau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?page_id=263","title":{"rendered":"1:144 Queadluun Rau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBack in 2003 or so I made my first forays into ordering models through Yahoo! Japan. At the time, with the recent release of the Hasegawa VF-1 Battroid I was very interested in other Macross models – I bought a couple Destroid Monsters, a Regult, and this kit, the Imai 1:144 Queadluun Rau. I don’t remember why I wanted this kit at the time – whether I really loved the design at that point or if this was just something I threw in to some purchase as a kind of bonus… But this was also not too long after AnimEigo’s DVD release of Macross in the US, so it’s possible the Rau was something I was genuinely interested in building. I do remember that at the time I felt the kit would require some significant modifications to look presentable – resculpting the forearms and chest were two of the prime items on the “to-do” list, I think… At various points I gave some thought to converting it to the movie version, as well. But anyway, years went by without any work being done on this kit.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, on MMC we held a “Female Mecha Contest” – and so I decided to finally build up the Rau and enter it. There would be no extensive modifications, no resculpting or anything – just a simple build of an old kit. I missed the dealine, unfortunately, but I managed to get the model close<\/em> to finished at least – by the time I gave up on meeting the deadline, the model already had all its basic colors on, including detail paint like the black stripes and the red camera eye… But I didn’t want to enter it in the MMC in this state, it didn’t seem really “finished”.<\/p>\n

Later on I resumed work on the kit – glossing it up, adding the kit decals (I wasn’t initially sure if I wanted to clutter up the model with all those markings – but after having applied them I think it was the right decision), and reglossing several times to erase any trace of the decal edges. I had been considering doing a weathering step but at the time I also had two other projects I was trying to finish for Granitecon, so I put it on a base and declared it “done”. I have mixed feelings about the idea of weathering it: on the one hand it would add some depth to the model, but on the other hand I like it how it is… So most likely it will stay the way it is, and I’ll move on to other things now.<\/p>\n

When I first started modeling I always approached old kits as if they were fundamentally in need of correction. These days, I’m more comfortable building old kits OOB, like I did this one, and appreciating them for their own qualities. I think this kit is one that I vastly underrated back in the day. Once you paint it up, this kit looks pretty damn nice, I’d say.<\/p>\n

The kit’s basically a straight build. I didn’t paint the missile unit (in part ’cause the detail is wrong, in part ’cause there’s only one of them) or the pilot figure. I built the cockpit sealed closed in order to simplify construction and also because the cockpit interior is completely undetailed. I think the bit that gave me the most trouble was the backpack – it’s a large, hollow space in there, and I found it hard to bond the two halves of it together sufficiently to keep them from cracking apart again.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2003 or so I made my first forays into ordering models through Yahoo! Japan. At the time, with the recent release of the Hasegawa VF-1 Battroid I was very interested in other Macross models – I bought a couple Destroid Monsters, a Regult, and this kit, the Imai 1:144 Queadluun Rau. I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/684"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}