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During a landing exercise with heavy equipment, U.N.S. Marines' SVMF-40 Valkyries provide close air support and secure the beach area from hardened targets with thier precision bombs, and mark hidden targets and hazardous areas with unguided smoke rockets.


Another Valkyrie which was inspired by the "Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie" sourcebook, published 2009 by SoftBank Creative. This book is HIGHLY recommended to anyone who is into the VF-1 - it is pure robot porn! ;)

Well, the book contains a vast gallery of color variants - and this U.N.S. Marines Valkyrie was among them. I immediately got caught by the 2 tone camouflage, which is not a "copy" of something in existence,but very original and... cool (even though US Air Force F-15 and Chile F-16 influences cannot be denied?).

The kit is a standard vintage 1:100 scale ARII Valkyrie Fighter, built right out of the box. As usual, it underwent standard "pimping" procedures with a pilot figure and cockpit details, plus some typical antennae.
As special extras, though, flaps and wing leading edges were slightly extended and the air brake behind the cockpit opened (the red inside is a great color contrast), as if the machine was slowing down and stabilizing for a ground attack.

Another personal detail which I deemed appropriate is a small sensor "turret" under the nose, containing a laser designator and an IR camera. It was inspired by the TRAM system which had been installed on A-6E "Intruder" bombers in order to enhance this aircraft's all-weather capabilities.

Furthermore, this rather beefy Valkyrie received custom underwing ordnance. It consists of two slim rocket launchers (for target marking purposes) which come from an old Kovazavody MiG-17 kit, and a pair of scratch-built gliding bombs - inspired by GBU-8 "HOBOS" and GBU-10 "Paveway" glide bombs, but more or less a fictional mix of both of these weapons in style.

Since the paint scheme is an original design, I decided to go for the source book's look, not sticking to US/FS tones. Therefore, the basic tones are Humbrol 106 (Ocean Grey) and 64 (Light Grey). The white trims on fins and legs were painted in White, the blue stripes at the cockpit and on the fins are all decals from the scrap box, just like the numbers and letters.
After basic painting, the kit received a black ink wash. This toned down the greys considerably, reducing contrast a lot! Instead of adding dry paint, which would make the small scale kit look rather dirty, I decided to try a different technique: I used a fine sand paper to wet sand some larger areas and "expose" clean paint. The effect is interesting: now the Valkyrie looks rather weathered and sun-bleached. After a coat of matte varnish, the kit additionally received some rubbing with grinded soft pencil mine (which yields a nice metallic/oily shine) and dry painting with Humbrol 53 (Gun Metal) in certain areas.

With its special equipment, here's a ground attack Valkyrie which is capable of all-weather CAS with precision weapons - a hard job which matches the gritty and weathered look!

This Picture is taken Yesterday in Marine-Platz, Munich

Date: 8th January 2009

it was so so so so cold and people just walk and enjoy a cup of coffee in this cold weather. the temperature was around (9-) C.


Taken & Edited by: Shwaaheen

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