Thom

Just received mine too. I have to commend you on some great work. I really appreciate the level of craftsmanship you put into it. Though I will have to agree on packaging. Don't place too much trust on the post carrier to not bend it to make it fit! And I say that not to be offensive in any way to any postal workers on this august site!

That's really nice! I love the cool mods.

The upgrades to the VF-25 look incredible! Can't wait for the molds to come out for that addition!! And if they do change the Quarter does that mean they'll be another model coming our for that too? And I wouldn't mind at all if they gave Alto a sex change! He looks hot as a chick! If they're changing so much, or at least key sequences, I would like for Michel to survive and the triangle to be resolved!! Revenge Klan is awesome, but sad. And I didn't like how the triangle left me hanging... Still would have liked a continuation rather than a redo, but I'll watch this with just as much anticipation!

Have to agree on using the gray. It offsets the red just right. I plan on doing a Milia and Max versions someday, placing them on the same base. I also have a D version that'll become the Virgin Road.

Sweet! Real cool effect there.

Yes, thanks for passing that on. Too bad there weren't any more of the ship...

Hearing good reviews, I am once more anxious for my order. They look great, but until they arrive they're just one dimensional!

Beautiful work!

Just to toss in the benefits of a lifting body... Keeping in mind that it was never intended that way! http://tailslide.firelightsoftware.com/f15wing.asp I think we can agree that with a large enough wing surface, the benefit of a lifting body, thrust vectoring that can make a Mig dance on a pin and the FBW that all high tech aircraft now - or will - employ, that the VF-1 would be able to fly.

A well-known nic of the F-117 (which is still a bomber!!!) is the 'Wobbly Goblin,' just for that inherit instability. Though I just had a thought... dangerous - yes... Since we know the vertical stabilizers are hinged for the inward swing and transformation, could they not also be canted outward during flight to act as elevons?

I have voted and Misa has won!! Robotech - don't shudder like that - was my favorite 'cartoon' as a kid, and I would say that 'Lisa Hayes' was my first crush. Yes... I was young... She's a hard ass with a tender heart, and though I like Ranka a whole lot, there's just no beating the original. As for Sheryl, she is a pale imitation for a go-getter heroine. Yes, Misa crashed the plane - I actually havn't seen DYRL yet... - but after if there would be anyone I would rather have covering my back it would be her.

I don't have the funds... but I bought three anyway! I couldn't resist!

Very cool. I just ordered three sets...

Did I already say that I'm interested too...

I'd say it's looking really good. As for tearing off the sprue, I've taken to cutting it just short of the piece, leaving some sprue on which is then gently sanded down. And have you seen this thread yet? - http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=30923 My Valk has been on hold for a while, and now I'm glad. I can't wait to add that to mine!

No wonder I stopped building my Valk so long ago!! You are my Fracking God!! Give me my fix.

Just as the tag line says! They slashed the price by forty percent, so now its just about thirty bucks! I just ordered two... http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN958497

That's inspiring. I just started doing mine, airbrushing mostly on the sprue right now before assembly. Seeing how she'll look is a great help. Thanks. Thom

Okay, I don't have a girlfriend. I must live vicariously through all of you - for now. Post some pics - with said girlfriends permission mind you - beside those whom they most resemble. Either in looks or personality. Then we can vote on who is the most similar. Dressed in similar attire would be most helpful - and in the case of those Nanase or Klan lookalikes, most anticipated!!

Interested...

Despite his dying, his death scene was pretty great - and Klan (or Klang?) going vengeful was absolutely awesome! Having him die earlier, like at Gallia 4 might have been too Kakizaki-like... which oddly enough would also have been another homage...

That sounds like a cool idea. If you get it going post a link. I've been thinking about one off and on, having to do with a fleet leaving Earth just before the Zentradi attack. There were two great projects being done at the same time, the Grand Canon and the very first emigration fleet, seen more as a last ditch effort to try and save some people... It's main cast would be decedents from original Macross characters - or their extended families for the most part. It would use familiar aspects from Macross, Macross II and Robotech, and entail these people running from their new home and stumbling across an abandoned Macross Long Rang Colonization fleet. Of course, that's just the beginning...

I don't know if it's because I'm American and do to too many 'happy ending' scenarios, but I would like to know what really happened to Misa and Hikaru and Minmay. I don't like have endings just dangling like that. But seeing as the voice actor for Hikaru is deceased, and this was apparently a good friend of Kowomori, I doubt we would see the actual characters themselves in anything but flashbacks or pictures on a mantle. If Kowomori however did continue with the original story, I would think it would best be done through Misa and Hikaru's daughter Miku Ichijyo. In the Macross universe, the possibilities are truly endless...

That is a beautiful job!! Kudos. I like the armor piece over the nose, as I had thought about something similar. Can the armor be removed from it, and was it the 'Reactive Raiders' under all the armor? WOW! I could picture you carrying this into Mac Aus Con and saying, 'Easy biotch's, I got this!!'

Thanks to the link to E2046 http://www.e2046.com/product.php?products_id=2078 I just got mine!! Quick delivery too, SIX DAYS from payment sent, from Honk Kong to my door! Lovely little kit too, great detail and very little flash. Haven't pieced it together yet, someday soon hopefully. I did it on pre-order when they were out of stock, so it was a little less than sixty. Here are some pics. http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z156/Th...S%20with%20SAP/ Now I just need some canopies....