Graham

I've had all 5 of my Hasegawa kits (YF-19, VF-22, VF-0S, VF-0D & SV-51) built for me wheels up. The guys who built them for me said it was pretty easy to build them that way and didn't take much extra work. I just think the kits look so much more graceful, elegant and alive when displayed wheels up, especially if using either the Hasegawa Macross stand or the tripod stand that many of us use. Graham

The box art for the VF-0A/s with Ghost looks fantastic, as does the completed mode. They should have built it wheels up though, would have looked much better IMO. So are Hasegawa going to be selling those clear plastic batroid mode stands then? Graham

Only AC3 had fictional designs. Graham

Looks really nice. Wish I could paint that well. Heck, wish I could paint at all. Graham

For those of you that are having trouble with the link in the first post, here's the Wave kit: And the Hasegawa ad: Graham

Tentacles eh! In that case may I suggest Urotsukidoji Graham

Errr......that's supposed to be Lick Hunter . Move along folks, nothing to see here. Graham

I don't judge anime on whether it's new or old. There's both good & bad old anime, just as there is good & bad new anime. As long as an anime is of a genre I'm interested in, has decent animation, a well written story, good action scenes, nice mecha designs and well developed characters, some T&A and no whiny angst-ridden teenage boys in it , then I'll give it a chance. Graham

Never really thought of Reinhart's sister as power hungry. Seemed to me like she just wanted to be left alone for most of the series. Graham

That's the upcoming Hasegawa 1/72 scale injection kit. Graham

That's two seperate VF-0S battroids, one by Wave and one by Hasegawa. Graham

Putting the chunky back in the monkey Graham

My guess would be non-transforming resin kit. Graham

IIRC, on these new forums every member has a terribly small limit of only 1.95mb for posting pics. If you reach that limit you either need to delete pics you have already posted to free up some space or have no choice but to use an image hosting service. Graham

IIRC, I thought 33cm was the length given for the figher mode of the 1/60 VF-0S, not the height of the battroid mode. Anyway, whether it's fighter or battroid, 33cm is still bigger than the 1/48 VF-1. I'm not at home now so can't measure my Hasegawa kits, but the Macross Compendium gives the full size measurements of the VF-0 and SV-51 as follows (VF-1 length thrown in for comparison). VF-0 length in fighter mode = 18.69 m SV-51 length in fighter mode = 22.77 m VF-1 length in fighter mode = 14.23 m, So we can see that the SV-51 is slightly more than 4 meters longer than the VF-0 and a whopping 8.5 meters longer than the VF-1. Graham

Got mine today. Pretty good, no complaints. The packaging went straight in the bin. Only buying one this time. Not a huge fan of the VF-1A CF. Graham

NOooooooooooo! You're joking right? My vote would go to Clint Eastwood as Caine "Go ahead Cylons, make my day". Graham

If the price is too cheap to be true, it's probably a bootleg . If the price is ultra-expensive, it's probably an original...............and the manufacturers (especially US manufacturers) wonder why so many people buy bootlegs....sigh! Graham

The November issues of Dengeki Hobby magazine and Hobby Japan magazine should be out in the next 3 or 4 days (usually released here in Hong Kong on the 25th of each month), so hopefully there will be some new pics in them. Of course, I'll scan and post any new pics as soon as I pick up the magazines. Graham

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more. I keep trying to persuade my wife to try a bit of the old multiplayer, together with her cute elder and younger sister and preferably with a video camera to film it all, but no luck so far . Oh I see you are talking about video games........oh well never mind then . Graham

Of course, Roslin will turn out to be a Cylon, so even if she does die, there will be more copies. Graham

OK, if we're just talking epic sci-fi books (not movies), my choice is: - Iain M. Bank's Culture novels. Harry Turtledove's Worldwar & Colonization series. David Wingrove's Chung Kuo books. Ian Douglas's Heritage Trilogy Pattrick Tilley's Amtrack Wars. John Ringo's Posleen War books. Frank Herberts Dune series. (none of the books written by others after his death though). Graham

Any pics of the 'Stealth Viper'. Very curious. Graham

Just want to see if Renato or any of our other Japan based members are going to be at the Tokyo game Show 2005, which is being held from 16th to 18th September? Of course if anybody does go, please make sure to check for news on any new upcoming Macross games. It would be great if we could finally have a sequel to the Sega/AM2 DYRL PS2 game. Graham

Why do I think if Yamato were to come out with a SV-51, they will stuff it up? 327955[/snapback] If they get someone like Nishikawa (the guy who designed the 1/48) to do the sculpt, everything should be good and dandy. I've got confidence that they won't screw up the SV-51. But do you realize that a 1/60 SV-51 is going to be huge. I've got the Hasegawa 1/72 SV-51 and VF-0S and the SV-51 absolutely dwarfs the VF-0. Graham