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  1. Nice ladders, and wow-nice shot!!! How many other custom accessories have you created there?
  2. Wow-great information as always! I did not know in the backstory they had discovered battle pods on the ship
  3. This pic got me thinking When ASS-1 crashed we figured out we were going to potentially fighting giants, hence the VF-1 design for Battroid mode (which is still a really neat reason to have transforming jets after all these years) But did anyone at the time think 'So....we've matched the giants size for size with our VF-1, but what if THEY use mecha themselves? Seeing the size difference of the battroid vs the regult or quead or glaug is crazy enough, but what if they (Zentradi) used machinery proportionally sized to them? i.e. imagine if this F-14 was Zentradi sized and what they piloted, we'd be in an awful lot of trouble with our puny little VF-1s 😛 I wonder if Kawamori/Miyatake dialed back the Zentradi mech sizes because the UN forces would be extremely overwhelmed...plus I guess they'd be hard to animate in the same cel frame. The Zentradi mecha seem to be quite compact and space efficient
  4. Shawn

    1/55's revisited

    Ok-where is the deeper breakdown of those 2 valks? They look amazing. How many customized areas can we identify?
  5. It was YOU who outbid me on the fan after all these years I should have known
  6. oh that us weird...what are the odds of that!
  7. Shawn

    1/55's revisited

    I picked up a couple of those loose DX 1/48 VF-1 Gunpods on Yahoo Japan, to see if they could be used with some of my loose 1/55s that don't have gunpods I think it looks ok. Its not perfect, but in a pinch it could work on the shelf Size comparison Original. Do I dare criticize the Legacy 1/55 crowd and say it might be a tad undersized? Blasphemy!! The Real Big Kahuna...ok this angle is LONG This works better!
  8. does a promotional poster count? (Game boy for size there on the right)
  9. I have one of those "Phenix" versions! Will add in a 1/48 and a 1/60 flyer And a hi metal? The the OG Plus units
  10. I did purchase that painted set-will upload some pics when they arrive in a few weeks
  11. Shawn

    Macross Books

    Soooooo no early release info yet on the postponed Tenjin book? https://www.amazon.com/Hidetaka-Tenjins-Artistry-Macross-frontier/dp/1772942502 Dec 12th is next week. Usually those things ship out a little bit early
  12. Sorry-I'll take this over to the 1/55 thread and not de-rail the 1/48 DX thread if I have further questions! All good for now
  13. I'll be the first to admit I am a model kit guy-only dabble in the toys, but could you be more specific about "specific box packaging" This looks like a generic 1/55 Bandai Strike Valkyrie box, please tell me what is different so I can learn, and we can document the info in the 1/55 thread? I know the boxes came in Smooth and Textured cardboard. We've seen Big West/Tatsunoku stickered variants. We've seen Italian versions with half the box cut away, and regularly sized ones from France or Taiwan with different text or missing Bandai logos. What indicators are there that this is considered a possible Vendor Sample? I see it has the back plate Bandai stickers covering the Takatoku logos, but that all early versions. Is the box 80% of the size of a normal strike valk or something extraordinary like that? I feel like an idiot asking again, but I'm asking again LOL The Strikes were initially released in 1984, with 90,000 shipped by the end that year. https://tamashiiweb.com/t_kokkaku/64/?wovn=en#
  14. What are we talking about in packaging? Smooth vs Textured box? Or something else? What am I not seeing?
  15. Sorry...whut...?? Can you please elaborate more details on the "ultra rare 1984 Pre-Production Strike Valkyrie" ?
  16. VB-6 vs 2 DX 1/48s for size comparison...GEEEEZ!
  17. Earlier this year there was a lottery for Tamashi-Nations club members and others. You would register you'd want a Mechanic Edition and get put into a lottery, then names were announced and toys shipped 11/17 for this years show. Now we are after-show and they put up another lottery type system which just closed Those winners get announced next week I'm not sure how other companies got this, as it says 1 per person everywhere I look I picked up mine using a proxy buyer from Yahoo Japan auctions from a private seller. We'll see a bunch of these getting listed in April 2024 so if you missed out on this one (prices too high) just wait a bit longer for more to hit the market
  18. I swear we are all in the Matrix just popped up...PAINTED these look awesome https://jp.mercari.com/item/m85903524585
  19. Thanks for posting the link-now I can clearly see just how the arms detach. Such a crazy option they need to include to be accurate to the anime. So in 10 years will we see these on the collectors market as 'Loose YF-21/2024 release, missing right arm' 😛
  20. Shawn

    1/72 F-203

    Wow-this is a super rare build, thanks for sharing the pics! This is the true "Macross Zero" for me. Moscato is king. Look at all the wonderful detailing, excellent work!!
  21. Has anyone actually PAINTED one of these sets? I wonder if you could got down the hobby store and get some paints
  22. The DX articles are from Hobby Japan. I suspect in a couple weeks we'll see this new updated posted too. https://hjweb.jp/article/tag/title_19/
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