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  • Birthday 03/08/1979

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  1. Skull Leader
    Jesus, I can just imagine what the 30 day inspections would be like on a variable fighter... i bet they had "daily" doors in really inconvenient places. It's a swing-wing... I wonder if the brown shirts feared the dreaded flap/slat lockout that the tomcat guys did when their pilot was too hot of a hand. Chief: "Don't make any plans... Lt. Hotshot over-Ged and now the flaps won't retract." Petty Officer Hardworker: "God @#$it..." Chief: "Better shag it. ATO says this one sorties at 0800." (Petty Officer hardworker cancels his date with the 2-10-2 down in egress and spends the evening working on the slats and flaps...Then the bird canxd the next morning anyway for a down radar... Petty Officer Hardworker wonders if its too late to take that transfer to ordnance) One of the single most frustrating things about Macross II is the lack of really good, clear footage of all the designs either static OR in action... so no footage of any of the valkyries in a parked fashion on the ground.
  2. Skull Leader
    I've got three strike valkyries, 2 in the box, that I now want to pull out and inspect. I feel like at least one of them had a takatoku marking on the back that I initially put down to possibly just being frankensteined. One of mine also has fairly wicked overspray, I'm wondering if this was one of the repaints?
  3. Skull Leader
    If I had an STL file for this, I would 100% print it and light the cannons with LEDs.
  4. Skull Leader
    Where the hell were you guys back in 2014 when I was working on making an HD remaster for this game???
  5. Skull Leader
    how did I never know this???
  6. Skull Leader
    holy thread resurrection, batman!
  7. Skull Leader
    A while back i was going to provide both a scan of original 1/55 decal sheets in addition to a custom drawn decal set for all four major DYRL valkyries, with more to follow on later, to the guys at reprolabels (responsible for transformers reproduction sticker sheets) but they weren't interested on two grounds: first, they didn't think there was enough interest (they print on demand... not sure how thats a concern), and second, they were sure Harmony Gold would completely sue them out of existence if they offered them... wonder when they changed their minds. With the advent of the 1/60 and 1/48 scale markets, the days of the 1/55 collectors/customs have largely gone down in the west. You'll find a very tiny niche market probably, but if you're wanting to make money, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
  8. Skull Leader
    I was mostly concerned about the valkyries and tomahawks... so that works for me!
  9. Skull Leader
    Deploying my thread resurrection card... Don't suppose anyone has any images of these mounted on standard battletech hex bases do they? Considering a few to use for "unseen" designs along side more modern sculpts. Also, who's ugly sister do I have to sleep with for them to do a strike valkyrie variant?
  10. Skull Leader
    I hope there is transparency and this all gets sorted out soon. Very few fandoms really get to be so close to such an iconic part of their franchise as Macross fans/Mari Ijima do. I'd hate to see that relationship ruined.
  11. Skull Leader
    Nice to see this one finished at last! (and I didn't need a proxy to watch)
  12. Skull Leader
    unless it was franken-valked (which is always a possibility), this is indeed a legit matsushiro. It's missing the ridged head lasers and the higher-up autobot symbol on the nose, but it's got the backpack, wing, canopy, and manufacturer's plate of a matsu.... interestingly enough, unless it was peeled off and cleaned up VERY well (the part has yellowed uniformly on top), this jetfire was also pre-rub symbol.... fun fact, evidently one of my jetfires is a "transition" variant... huh, I didn't know that was a thing (I just thought someone frankenvalked it)
  13. Skull Leader
    I've seen Matsushiros unboxed that had the fat head lasers, so there are legit ones out there. Pretty sure they just used up the remaining matsushiro stock and went to the other ones. Thanks again, guys!
  14. Skull Leader
    So... either my search-fu has failed me, or else I'm imagining things... Wasn't there a definitive list of all the different micro-variations of Matsushiro Jetfires and their progression from the originals in 84 to when Bandai took them over? Am I smoking crack? Maybe it was on the old Valkyrie-Exchange website? I've got a loose one enroute to me, and I'd like to be able to date it in the progression if I can.
  15. Skull Leader
    the original revell kit is not the same as the revell-monogram kit which ruled the mid-late 1980s (before Hasegawa put theirs out), but it was the basis for the kit. I wouldve picked a better kit for the basis for Shin Kudo's jet (an F-14B or D kit for a start.... since the Macross F-14A+ Kai was a mix of the two), but you certainly turned out a nice result. A models and refit B models had them locked shut and bonded over. New-build Bs (and for some reason, both refit and new-build Ds) had blanking panels put in place instead. Having said all of this, a surprising number of A models made it through Desert storm with their glove vanes still functioning (I've seen photos of VF-1 and VF-154 jets deployed to the gulf with their vanes out), though upon return from desert storm, a *lot* of jets were cycled through NADEP and had them deactivated then.
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