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  1. It takes lots and lots of time and patience to scratch build. Its not perfect to the anime but I have to design it around Yamato's design (stupid shoulder sliders) other wise it would match the anime much more closely. The other picture is of the IHP kit I have not finished it, I bought it to use as a reference for building the Yamato full armor. Once I finish that I will build the IHP kit. I think I will have mine finished years before Yamato would seriously get around to building one of their own full armor for the VF-11.
  2. Graham, How many times do you think I might have to post pics of my scratch build of my VF-11 Full Armor kit for yamato to notice it and pick up the pace and release theirs like they did when I built my 1/60 VF-1D?!? I had my VF-1D out and all of a sudden Yamato announces their VF-1D, after I sent them my parts kit to study, some coinsidence there eh! I will send them this kit as well but damnit I want some RECOGNITION this time! JK More pics HERE
  3. How about a Yamato 1/60 scale? They have the VF just need to make some add on parts and FAST packs and they could sell em for not much extra cost on their part.
  4. Spiff

    Q-Rau Review Now Up

    I see chicken little has been here, again! Shakespear: "To buy or not to buy" that is the question only you can/should answer QUIETLY TO YOURSELVES!! 8 1/2 pages of crap! Good review Graham as always, Thanks for all your trouble.
  5. I knew people would want the files I just didnt expect the rush to begin so soon! I will put the files up on a server for download later tonight and edit this post and add the links. I will offer two downloads one for the JPGs and one for the PSDs. The PSDs will be a much larger file. Stay tuned, and Southcross I appologize for the minor threadjacking.
  6. We all have Solscud to thank for the original scans. I am glad to see my Photoshoped version of this Monster has gotten around. I spent alot of time cleaning up all the graphics and adding some extra details. I also cut out all the color around the parts so you wouldnt have to print a full color sheet just color on the parts. The originals were full color sheets and I didnt want to waste all that extra laser toner. Before you get to far into your project since you seem to have the resources, I still have all my original photoshop files for anyone that wants to scale this up and retain details and not have it get so grainy. You could also easily change the colors. A trick I used on mine was to use markers to color the folded edges of the parts, so when the paper splits at the folds you dont have abunch of white showing. Something else I would do if I do another is to print black on the on the back side of the four barrels. If you dont want to print the black make sure you at least use black marker on the barrels so you dont have yucky white showing inside. Another area to watch is where the cannons mount, that houseing needs to be printed or black markered also. When your two weeks into the project and still not half done (assuming you have work and family getting in the way), dont get discouraged its worth all the effort. I love mine and would never consider parting with it out of all Macross Mecha Its about my favorite.
  7. I think the only difference is they are painted in DYRL colors and this time they included Ben Dixon (Robotech name) instead of the YF-1R.
  8. If I remember correctly at hobby shops you can get a glue solvent. I dont remeber what the details of how exactly it works or its use, but I know it exists
  9. Dont mess with Snagit, If your on a pc do this. Get the player up on your desktop and on the frames you want then press Ctrl+Print Screen. Then open up a photo edit prog and paste, its that easy. When you press Ctrl+Print Screen it takes a image of what is displayed on the current program if you do Alt+Print Screen it does your whole desktop.
  10. So if 1/100 is the small cheap scale, what is the BIG BAD BOY scale going to be? 1/60! By the sound of everyone it cant possibly be 1/48 cause that just "too big" It just seems really silly to throw in another scale unless like said before they are gonna make others in this new scale but whats the point? Low price valk line like MSIA? Why not 1/144 then! If they were to make a 1/48 VF-0 I would buy it for sure even if it was (dare I say it) $200 or more Once again proving Macross fans will sell thier souls to pay Yamato their blood money for the toys they want in a scale they want.
  11. Thats what I was trying to say! I am not complaining at all about the size so much as it just makes no sense to me to have a 4th scale. Am I super anal that I want the Yamato VF-0 to match my other Yamato valks. Something else to consider is that over there they license toys by the scale! Perhaps somebody got to that scale before Yamato!?
  12. I really dont get all this super secrecy when it comes to these toys. If they would be more direct with the fans they wont end up with a flop and Yamato and Fans get what they want. We get the toy of our dreams, and they get an ass load of cash. Whats the big deal!
  13. Send them a email and complain, tell them you will never order again, basically BS. You have nothing else to lose.
  14. 5% I wouldnt loose sleep over that. Just leave your order in and consider it the price you pay for being the first kid on your block to have one.
  15. I couldn't vote for any of the choices. I really dont see any need to buy this valk. If it was 1/60 I would be all over it. But I really dont see any reason to get this scale. I am not a perfectionist but I do like uniformity when possible. Why not scale this toy up to 1/60, why not make it compatible with the rest of their valks? I wouldnt even mind the all plastic construction at 1/60 scale because with the 1/48 series Yamato has proven that they can make a quality sturdy toy in plastic. And we as a fan base have proven to Yamato that we will pay pretty pennies for said toys. I did the math and the sizes are not all that horrible especially considering the material they are going to use for the VF-0. So if they do a 1/100 for a small scale what will be the large "Perfect Transformation" valk going to be 1/35? Do us a favor Yamato and give us standardized sizes, you should know by now we will pay any amount! Attached size comparison chart: Chart shows sizes of over all length of planes
  16. We've had this discussion before. F-14's are slightly larger than a VF-1, longer mostly. VF's are quite short as far as a fighter design goes but the wing span is fairly close between the two. It's cool to have the two displayed next to each other. I am dying for Yamato to make a 1/48 VF-0 to throw in the display....... MMMMM VF-0!! The Walmart F-14 is not a super detailed collector piece, it is however a pretty cool toy for display that I didn't have to paint or detail. So for $18.00 you cant bitch too much, $18.00 to get a fully painted and decaled mostly (b)diecast(/b) toy, however inaccurate, is still a good deal IMO.
  17. Spiff

    Hi, I am new here

    Welcome aboard, Welcome to your newest and bestest addiction called Valkaholism! It's all consuming and will push all your other collections to the way side as Macross swells and stiffles them out on your shelves. Your wallet will soon be screaming for mercy as you plunder it for cash at a frenzied pace to make your collection complete! As for what to collect, you really cant go wrong with the Yamato line or really any of the Japan made toys. There are some USA made ones but your better off without them, IMO. Of course there are junk asian knock off's but there pretty easy to spot and you just end up buying those anyhow out of curiosity and completeism. It's a beautifull thing!
  18. Can't say right now how much it might cost, simply because its not done yet and no molds have been made for it. I will get together with the others and we will come up with a price when its done some time next year. I am not making this piece to make a profit, I am making the cause its fun to work on and I love the design. Plus I highly doubt Yamato will make one. So whatever the price ends up to be it will be based on what it takes to recast it and the time involved in that. And thanks for all the praise, it's been lots of fun to build so far. And considering this is the first time I have tried to build something like this, it has come out pretty darn good if I do say so myself! Not perfect but I feel that is only due to the limitations presented by the Yamato design.
  19. Its been real hard to work around the shoulder sliders. The chest missile pods sit only slightly above the top of the sliders. So there really is no room to bring them down more. The pods are also slightly narrower than I would like but that is due to the height they have to go to to clear the sliders. Damn things. The head on the Yamato is very recessed compared to any model version of the VF-11. So that is a limitation of the toy design as well. There are several variations of look even between model kits and I chose to model this kit after the IHP kit. It is my favorite version of the armor, it to me looks more real world as where the others look more cartoonish. IHP KIT:
  20. Well it's been a long time since I have been able to post an update on this project. It has been slow going but I am still inching forward. Almost all components are complete. Just need to finish some of the chest, sheild and booster. Then start adding some more detail, then start casting to get resin parts to do clean up work on. Then it will be ready for casting to mass produce. Should only be another year at this rate! But some progress is better than none. So please enjoy this update for nowl Some day when it is done, myself, Myersjesse and Rob will produce kits for sale. Price UNKNOWN at this point. I would really like some feedback, if you see something you like or dislike, something I am missing or what ever let me know. Specs: Model: Full armor kit for Yamato VF-11's Material: Resin All missle hatchs open exposing missles. Missle hatchs snap open and closed. Super shield snaps onto original VF's sheild. Armor is easily taken apart for dressing or undressing the Valk. No modification of VF-11 is needed for armor to fit. Gun fits original VF's hand. This is a composite picture of what it will look like after I cast all the pieces. For more detailed pics CLICK HERE These are some profile pics:
  21. LOL, Not so much evil but defiantly a bastard in the truest sense!
  22. Jack is from the RT novels and the VF yada yada is from RT, from a animation mistake that HG used to create a new valk out of. Most believe it was supposed to be a vf-1a head but the animators accidentally added VF-1s smaller antenas to the head also.
  23. I dont aspire to sell toys, but I do aspire to sell more resin parts and kits. When I have more time, but I would probly sell them through Valk-Exchange rather than doing all that stuff meself.
  24. I dont really mind waiting either. But if all bail then I guess there is no point in hanging on. But I would like the rest of my order completed even if it takes till Feb. I will just wait and see what the consensus is.
  25. I first want to thank MJ and Rob and the others that have done their best to help and we all appreciate it very much! MJ are the items in Italics the items yet to be sent by Tanmen? As to Tanmen, I would be in favor of collaborating to compose another email to Tanmen. In the email I think we should be courteous and ask him to reply soon. I think this is the better approach for now. If he cant do the right thing after this then all bets are off, in my book! We go on a smear campaign! I dont want to have to do such a thing but I dont want others to get taken like we have! We may also consider adding Tanmen to the Blackball seller list. Sad its come to this I really wanted those other models. [FIRST DRAFT] Dear Tanmen, We feel we have been very patient with you and we have asked for nothing more than to be kept up to date on the orders status. We have had to go to great lengths to get any type of response from you as to the status of the order for over (?6 months?)! You agreed to take the order and we expect you to complete the order. If you will be able to complete the order, just give us updates about the order in a timely manner or upon request. If you cannot complete the order, that is understandable, and we will expect you to refund the balance of the money from the order to Myers Jesse. Again correspondence with us is key and despite language differneces it's still easy to do the right thing. We would like to receive the balance of our order in a timely manner if this is not possible then please refund our money. Thank you, Macross World members. Feel free to contribute or edit.
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