Boggs6ft7

Oh, you'll never find Jetfire in the store again, that figure came out two years ago. Treadbolt is the only one that is still available and those are quickly going away to be replaced with the new movie toys. That is what they were trying to do. The original Jetfire toy was made by Takatoku Toys, who made all the original Macross stuff, but distributed by Takara/Hasbro. Takatoku was eventually bought out by Bandai, Takara's compeititor. So neither Takara or Hasbro could use that mold again, and Bandai couldn't release that figure because they didn't own the rights to Jetfire. Just a big legal mess. This was the best that could be done without infringing on Bandai's rights. It's not as nice as actual Valks, but then if it was too nice, I wouldn't have as much fun customizing them. Just trying to take Jetfire back to his roots, but I can understand your disapproval. Don't think of it as a downgrade to a Valk, just think of it as an upgrade to a Transformer.

At the time, around 20 bucks or so, but I think that class of transformer is up to 22 now.

Pretty good. I took some time to sand down the problems areas that I learned about from my first custom I did from this mold (Evil Jetfire) That in combination of coating him in future and then dullcoat has given him a fairly strong skin. That doesn't mean that care shoudln't be taken during transformation, but I usally transform something like this once, and then leave him in bot mode.

Nope, its actually Jetfire. Treadbolt is the same mold, just a different color. I didn't use him because I didn't care for hte canopy color, it was more of a read. Plus since Jetfire's base color is white, should there be any rubbing problems, it won't be as noticable. Here is what he originally looked like. http://www.tfw2005.com/resources/attachmen...tachmentid=3099 http://www.tfw2005.com/resources/attachmen...tachmentid=3098

Mostly Tamiya acrylics. Kinda. Hasbro/Takara wanted a Jetfire that resembled the old Bandai one but also had elements of how he appeared in the original Transformers cartoon. Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Hi, someone suggested that I post this over here for you guys to see. I've always like the Fokker VF-1S color scheme and wanted to put that on Hasbro's latest version of Jetfire since it had some throwbacs to the original design. This was my first project after getting a real air brush, IWATA HP-CS. I had to get two other kits as well to get all of the decals. I was going for a more worn down look, but I tried not to overdo it. I molded a second canopy so that I could have an appropriate canopy for bot mode or jet. I would prefer a more narrow head, but I this figure doesn't allow for that as a jet. Hope you all like him and its not seen too much as blasphemy.