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Original art for classic Arii kits


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me and ARII MACROSS kits go way back.

i cut my teeth as a MACROSS fan with an ARII kit, a GERWALK mode 1/100 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. to be exact.

too bad those old ARII kits sucked so much, because they were the only VF-1 valks available to me

for my first several years as a MACROSS fan, and i had so ravenous an appetite for VF-1 valks

that i bought a bunch of those awful ARII kits.

hell, i even tried to kitbash a variable VF-1S once from a pair of GERWALK and BATTROID kits,

to no small ultimate failure.

anyway, i feel it rather poetically elegant that my first YAMATO 1/60v.II,

the first ever VF-1 replica in three dimensions to actually live up to my

vision of the perfect variable VF-1, to be the VF-1J Hikaru T.V.,

my original gateway valk. good wistful memories...

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I'm not so sure if that's original. It looks too big for that size.

They must be upsized digital reproduction.

I wonder how much those pieces went for.

That link was sent to me by someone at the auction... he said they were originals. 2 pieces snapped up by some other Macross Box artist...

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me and ARII MACROSS kits go way back.

i cut my teeth as a MACROSS fan with an ARII kit, a GERWALK mode 1/100 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. to be exact.

too bad those old ARII kits sucked so much, because they were the only VF-1 valks available to me

for my first several years as a MACROSS fan, and i had so ravenous an appetite for VF-1 valks

that i bought a bunch of those awful ARII kits.

hell, i even tried to kitbash a variable VF-1S once from a pair of GERWALK and BATTROID kits,

to no small ultimate failure.

anyway, i feel it rather poetically elegant that my first YAMATO 1/60v.II,

the first ever VF-1 replica in three dimensions to actually live up to my

vision of the perfect variable VF-1, to be the VF-1J Hikaru T.V.,

my original gateway valk. good wistful memories...

LOL you have lived my life :) subsitute the 1/60 V.II for the V. I and it is all there.:)

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Yeah, I think I would build a new room just to decorate it with these and my other goodies. Then I would officially open it up as a museum, seek tax shelter, and charge entry fees (one old Arii kit each ;^) for building up the display cases. An additional fee would be charged for those that drool on the floor! - MT

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