Skull Leader

Not sayin they don't exist, I've just never seen 'em... Gerwalk was always part of the appeal to me

For the most part I actually enjoyed Macross 7... but I had a few issues: 1. Canned combat footage (I really felt that by the time M7 came around, the animation community should've been beyond this) 2. Basara was a complete douche (right for the character or not, if I had known the guy in real life, I would've punched him in the throat) and WAY too John Lennon-ish 3. "anima spiritia". 'nuff said. 4. Totsugeki Love Heart, and Planet Dance... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overused 5. Your average UN Spacy pilot couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a handful of corn, or dodge even the slowest of projectiles. Congratulations Battle Seven, your airwing is the Special Olympics of the entire UN Fleet. and while we're on the subject.... 6. For a New Macross-class battlefortress, Battle Seven went down like my ex-fiance' in a bar full of sailors after only a couple of shots against Gelpernitch. ... and while we're on THAT subject... 7. It's a MAN, baby! Yeah! (despite both looking and sounding like a woman.... probably the joke of the survey team before the protodevilin possessed him, and probably got beat up a lot as a kid) Some of my personal highlights: 1. Max is old, but can still cook a few fools 2. Macross IIs soundtrack getting used in Mac 7 3. Milia rocking the VF-1J, if only for a few episodes 4. Pretty much the entire Fire Bomber soundtrack, including the Dynamite stuff 5. Basara's belief that his song could move mountains... I actually found this touching somehow, despite how much I hated the character 6. Definitely a Rex guy... dem boobies... 7. Veffidas and her IDGAF attitude, always drumming away Still one of the two weakest entries in the series to me (next to Zero), but I'll watch the series every other year or so.

People hate gerwalk mode? This is news to me. Gerwalk is badass.

Nail polish... less chance of accidentally gluing it in place and you can always reapply later if it wears down again

I know *nothing* about macs or mac programing, but if I can, or if someone who is mac savvy gets on board with this, I'd certainly like to see a port for everyone, Linux included

Well, if you find more than one, shoot me a message!

Now I REALLY wanna repair my storm attacker kit!

those destroids.... gotta see up close!

Thanks guys!

Thanks, Micky!

Just finished up a commission build Tomcat. Kit is the 1/48 scale Academy F-14. Robbed the GE engines off of an old F-14B kit I built back in 2004 that got junked Decals are from the fightertown decals sheet. Used putty to create the GE engine fairings. I didn't modify the tops of the engine barrels (shouldn't be any panel lines on F-14B/D engine barrels), but I did fill in the ones on the bottom.

modelglue: that's the revell kit, Aeromaster decals. Mechtech: I definitely want some valkyries and battlepods... any pics of the valkyries?

No, it's a C model I just built for a customer

I still don't see links for ordering... must have!

Never heard of them... got a link?

I have one of those 1/18 scale tomcats. It's nearly 4 feet long. Trust me, if you wanted any reasonable level of detail and sturdiness in a 1/18 valkyrie, the price would start clocking in at around $1000 once you consider shipping that behemoth from Japan. That would be a total waste of an intellectual property. Bandai's licensing should still extend to anything from SDF or DYRL... they rereleased 1/55s until not long ago, making a VF-1 of any variety should be well within their rights. Bandai is a hard bird to classify, and their business methods sometimes mystify me. Hard to say if they'd do it or not.

how about a price point that won't make us break the bank?

The Tomcat variant shown was the "F-14A Plus Kai" if I recall the compendium's terminology, basically an F-14 that was enhanced with overtechnology. (the one shown in the beginning of Macross Zero was modeled after a fujimi 1/72 F-14D tomcat, right down to the inaccuracies). Basically an F-14D on the outside, with an F-14A cockpit.

It's a shame you don't remember who you got them from... I'd love to get a few more!

Found my initial review of it.... and I mention getting them from Valkyrie then too http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=7801#entry141893

I believe you got them from someone else when they were recasting some stuff, I don't recall the exact circumstances, but I DID get them from you... sometime around 2002-2003

I may have shown this before.... I actually bought this kit way back in the day from Valkyrie. I actually bought two from him but I haven't built the other yet. This little guy is unscaled, but it's very close to the old imai 1/170 battroids, so it's probably a similar scale.. maybe 3 inches tall. It's a fixed-pose resin statue. You've got some latitude about the angle of rotation in the shoulders before you glue them down, but that's it. You can build the kit either as a VF-1A or a 1S (my second one will be a hikaru strike, if I ever get around to it) It's not super detailed but it turns out a nice desk statue. I brush painted this years before I learned how to airbrush.

Actually my first time using illustrator was to make my own 17 squadron decals for a 1/48 Jaguar I know a little about it!

LOL it always seems like "too many hobbies and not enough time" honestly... and this is a completely new adventure for me... I used to know a decent amount of HTML, but beyond that I've never coded anything in my life, and my wife has literally had to take my hand and teach me how to use illustrator (she lives in it at work, so she can do it blindfolded). hopefully the results justify the effort!

Lol thanks Micky.... I'll have photos up soon