VF-7000 THUNDERHAWK Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the Garage Resin Kit company Studio Half Eye makers of Macross Variable resin model kits. I'm wondering what happened to them? In my opinion they made the best Macross Variable Resin VF Mecha models on the market. Those models looked as realistic as the VF mecha that are seen on Macross Plus, Macross 7 and the Macross VF-X/X2 games. Even though they are fully functional models and not toys the design quality and the way they are built are alot better then the Variable mecha toys designed by Yamato. I know they were one of the few companies that produced the VA-3 Invader and the VF-5000 StarMirage. But out of all of the models that they produced my favorites are the VF-11 Thunderbolt, VF-22 Sturmvoge II and the VF-5000 StarMirage. All comments and gripes on this topic are welcome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwmwww Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 They are still around. Here is their home page. http://halfeye.m78.com/ They just aren't making Macross kits these days. Carl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Shame.... but maybe just maybe they may do some Macross F stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valk009 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Besides not releasing any new Macross resin kits or even re-issues, I believe they have now gone to make completed kits. What they sell are still resin kits but just completed and with an even heftier price tag! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arbit Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 (edited) They are still around. Here is their home page. http://halfeye.m78.com/ They just aren't making Macross kits these days. Carl Hi Carl, You seem to be the authority on this. Do you know if Half Eye or Yamato were doing VF-1 garage kits as back as 1990? Im trying to figure out a mysterious kit I bought in New York at that time of a VF-1 TV Max kit that was surprisingly similar to the 2001 Yamato V1. i.e. similar in terms of being a parts-swapper with legs that pin on the nose cone. I no longer have the kit, but I have always wondered what the hell it was. Edited September 30, 2015 by arbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 No, Studio Half-Eye never made any VF-1 kits. Do you have pics of that kit? I'm not familiar with any resin transformable VF-1s that are specifically Max types. But your description reminds me of Yellow Submarine's 1/100 VF-1 parts-former Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arbit Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 No, Studio Half-Eye never made any VF-1 kits. Do you have pics of that kit? I'm not familiar with any resin transformable VF-1s that are specifically Max types. But your description reminds me of Yellow Submarine's 1/100 VF-1 parts-former Hi there Valk. No I do not have a picture of it. I am beginning to think the kit I got around 1990 could only have been a Bandai 1/60 model kit, because it was easy to put together even for a complete beginner. The Bandai variable kit was available in 1990 right, with legs that peg on the nose cone? That's the key question. For some reason for the years around the release of Yamato's version 1 1/60, I always assumed that kit from 1990 was also by Yamato. I don't know why I thought this, since apparantly Yamato never made a 1/60 kit. I think its some kind of mind trick: Perhaps it was distributed by Toycom, and then when Yamato was distributed by Toycom and had the same parts swapping gimmick, I made a mental connection in my mind and thought my kit was also by Yamato. In 1990 I would not have known Bandai from Band Aid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmkjr Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Maybe it's the Bandai 1/72 VF-1J Max type variable kit? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/bandai/30498i.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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