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  2. MKT
    Some pics of the SDCC MoShow / Toynami Cyclone by Teddy Gorospe on FB:
  3. MKT
    What I like about this variant is that it's not a straight color swap of the red bits to yellow. There's a sepia-like tint applied to all the colored bits of the armor which works quite well to my eyes. What I don't like - it's another one of those BS lottery schemes to obtain one. Not sure if I wanna pay the almost certain hiked up secondary prices for it.
  4. Ignacio Ocamica
    Easy pass for me. Already have Roys 1S and the GBP.
  5. MaxSterlingWallace started following Upscaling a classic: yet another massive 3D-printed SDF-1
  6. MaxSterlingWallace
    After reading through your entire thread here I agree with you that Michael Ryan could have taken some extra time to detail it out some more but he is open to making improvements. He did try to make it different enough that he avoided legal issues. He was selling the prints in 1/3000 scale and I also upsized mine to twice that size. The part I felt needed the most improvement was that conning tower. I replaced the entire bridge with an alternate bridge design. He is frequently on Macross Fan Central on facebook but I subscribe to his Patreon as well. He just released that model recently so I am sure he would be open to making those changes. He also on his Patreon asks for inputs as he is designing each month as his goal is to release one model for download each month. I emailed you back about the destroids but not sure it got through. You are definitely making me want to acquire a resin 3d printer as mine can only go so small in detail.
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  8. gabuyan started following MacrossWorld's PO Thread - POST LINKS TO AVAILABLE PO's and KEEP DISCUSSIONS ON POs HERE and DX VF-1S Roy Armored Valkyrie
  9. Bolt
    Must've been from a Macross The First release we never saw..
  10. Big s
    Yeah, this one definitely fits in the fan fiction area
  11. Big s
    Looks fun, but getting tired of plant based zombies
  12. MikeRoz
    Everything I was thinking of is a recolor too: RVF-25 Revival All the unreleased VF-31 supers VF-1A Hikaru VF-1J M&M Difference being all the above were actually shown on screen.
  13. nightmareB4macross
    Cool release but, talk about being late to the game. This should have been released right after the first GBP-1J release as interest was hot for this custom scheme. Not sure I even care for this release. Oh well.
  14. nightmareB4macross
    These figures are of good quality, down to the PF style tampo. During transformation you can feel it is not as smooth as the original. Overall they are decent figures. Just my two cents.
  15. Old_Nash_II
    So, If Androneda Strain and The Last of Us have a baby... With our "arroz de festa"
  16. Big s
    Nice to see the updates in this one, especially due to scarcity of an actual build for this kit
  17. Big s
    Yup. Basically just take the preexisting thing and recolor it and call it new
  18. MikeRoz
    Bandai has several canon Macross DX product lines unfinished, and they go with this instead...
  19. TangledThorns
    Yeah, 32Gb is the new minimum for a new system or laptop. I'd recommend 32Gb even for casual users too.
  20. seti88
    Last seen during the pandemic..which in macross years...not too long ago! Should be in the same bundled box configuration with valk and armor facing each other on different sides..
  21. Hiriyu
    Found a forgotten pic of my Valkyrie Factory 1S with the clear covers installed. What's the consensus on the quality of these versus the Fugu? Anyone have both?
  22. lechuck
    Has there ever been an interview with the original people behind the scarmble city Bruticus to ask why they chose his combiner layout like that? It surprises me that a Japanese toy company didn't ground themselves with a bit of sense for scale and realism, even in an outlandish setting like Transformers.
  23. lechuck
    The good news, you have a second change at getting MB Providence if you missed out the first time. The bad news, it's a Club Tamashii Members release – so difficult to source. The only difference between this and the OG release is a new stand support for the Dragoons. Would have liked to have this option the first time around.
  24. lechuck
    It's a Club Tamashii Memebers release, so it's probably going to be difficult and pricey to get one.
  25. pengbuzz
  26. dtwn started following DX VF-1S Roy Armored Valkyrie
  27. dtwn
    Ooh, tempting. Just a reskin, but at least it's pretty different. Wonder if this means the Max version will be released as well. Is there any information on pricing? Did some Googling but couldn't find anything.
  28. sh9000
    https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15546/
  29. Papa Rat
    Theater-scout primed in mahogany and ready for some painting. Going to brush lacquers on this kit since I had so much fun with that Ma.k. Most of the parts need to be relatively “finished” before the main body can be assembled, puttied, sanded, painted etc…
  30. mikeszekely
    I mean, we're talking about a franchise where a space shuttle orbiter becomes the arm of a robot that uses a Jeep Willys for a leg (in the cartoon, I am aware that the toy was actually based on larger the XR311). Trying to reconcile alt mode scale in G1 is a pathway to madness. But like I keep saying, the real problem is the relatively thinness. A car just of room underneath and inside to stuff robot parts, or chunkier parts that are easier to translate directly as robot parts. As big as an F-15 is (and comparatively thick for a fighter), it's roughly 40% thinner than a Datsun 280ZX (which is pretty sleek, as cars go) when you compare their relative length or width to their height. A lot of Kawamori's designs end up with large intakes and engine nacelles that are a thicker than a lot of modern fighters, and Macross series since they started using more CGI have featured Valks that are a lot skinnier, especially in the arms. And like I said, Kawamori has the luxury of working backward from Fighter, and from VF-1 to VF-11 to VF-19 to VF-25 to VF-31 a lot of the transformation elements are pretty similar, with the big evolution seeming to be how they scrunch up the cockpit and nose. I'm not saying this as a critique of Kawamori's work, I'm saying that Takara was first constrained by using real-world aircraft then double-whammied by Sunbow replacing the Diaclone mecha designs with Floro Dery's character models, which (especially in the first season) often deviated wildly from the original designs. When you start with a toy that had kind of weird proportions and arms that were half part of the fuselage and half add-on fists, turn it into a cartoon with more humanoid proportions and normal, blocky arms, then turn it back into a toy that has to be faithful to that cartoon, something's bound to give. And, I mean, yeah, I think it's definitely possible, with enough parts and engineering, to have a totally accurate F-15 turn into a totally Sunbow robot. I agree that designers could make better use of what the plane actually has and translating that into what the robot needs. But at even a $50 Leader price? On a toy that still has to meet US safety standards to be sold in Walmarts, and very likely doesn't have a license from Boeing even be all that accurate in the first place? Last I checked even Newage charges more for a toy that's half the size. And it gets even worse when they have to do it as a Deluxe that also has to be a part of a Combiner. Like I ultimately said, Has/Tak's jet Transformers are far from perfect, and I do get how that can be frustrating for someone so into aircraft... but I gotta be realistic about what they can and can't do with a $20/$35/$50 trying to capture the nuances of an often poorly-animated 40-plus year-old cartoon. ...newer Transformers media, though, doesn't quite have the same excuse. The guys who worked on the Bay films could have worked backward from an F-22 the way Touch Toys did with the J-35 and given us a cool Starscream, instead of the mess of scrap that we actually got. But they didn't. But even then, there's the matter of budgets... SS Starscream? Best they could do on the budget at the time (was that release all the way back when Voyagers were $25?). The MPM, though, that was proportionally thicker and far messier? No excuse. So... like Bumblebee and Cliffjumper? 😄 Shifting gears a bit, I know you're a big fan of the tapes in general and Dr. Wu's specifically. Make sure you check out the 3P thread.😉
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