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Ahead of it's time!

Variable Fighter booklet from IMAI...

Thanks, will check those out.

Thanks! I will try it out. But I think I have to work on resizing some of the right shoulder covers before I do because some are bigger than they should be.

Yes, to think that behind every single cel are some intricate pencil illustrations. It is mind blowing how many pieces of fantastic art are probably gone forever.

So playing around with Paint 3D since I do not have Photoshop.... I have a series of dougas of Milia getting ready to deliver the Zentradi spies from Episode 12....I wanted to create some tranparent sheets with the appropriate douga images on them so I could then layer them together like you would a painted cel.....anyway, I do not have the materials to do that at the moment so just decided to do it digitally.... I tried to get them to match the correct angles and such, but I am getting used to the software and what it can do and it's limitations...I am sure all of this is way easier using photoshop... Anyways.....here is what I came up with.... First....I took the main Q-Rau image that would be the background.... Second, I created "stickers", which is what Paint 3D calls what you cutout from one image to layer it onto another....I did this for both of the Q-rau's Left and Right shoulder covers..... Right.... Left.... Then, I "stickered" the Left Shoulder onto the main Q-Rau cockpit image, followed by the "stickered" Milia..... ...and finally add the Right Shoulder cover to compose the final image..... It was difficult to get everything just right becuase when I layer a "sticker" onto the image, it is placed a a small image that I need to resize to what is needed, so I basically had to eyeball each layered sticker......my goal was to try and match this cel sequence..... I would need to play around more with it to get it just right, but I think it looks pretty good for a first try using Paint 3D..... Incidentally, I have several other dougas illustrated for this scene for the animated sequences of the shoulder covers closing. I think if I were to "sticker" them all in and create the 8 separate "frames" I might be able to create a gif of the animation sequence showing the covers coming down to lock Milia into her cockpit....may try that later... Here is the scene from Episode 12....

Yeah, it can be stressful sometimes if you are in a bidding war, sometimes the temptation to go higher than you'd like is too tempting

BTW...here's how it went down.... So 4 bidders were vying for it at the final minutes of the auction....would seem it went to a local this time. The whole series of events is crazy.....starting from the initial 40K bid and right to the next bidder who probably thought he had it in the bag at 75K max! LOL...that bidder was probably shocked to see he/she had been outbid! Then there were two bidders willing to go into the 1000+ dollar range for it. But those 4 battling it out at the end of the auction were hardcore! Would have been exciting to have seen that 120-bid bidding war in real-time! I completely dropped it from my radar as I thought it would not have even sold for the 40K.....totally misread the interest on this one!

Yep.....pay for a wedding and honeymoon trip....or get the genga?

Zentradi Army booklet from IMAI

More freebie stickers....."nose art"

....and for those who balked at that final auction sale price for the Minmay FB2012 cel in the previous post...... DYRL Minmay and Hikaru "Wedding Scene".....280,000 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c826359458 Mazel tov!!!!

WOW indeed! I don't think I recall an auction that had 120 bids....I seriously did not expect this. I would have liked to have seen how that progressed to the finish. The cel isn't even that impressive. It is unique as how many "wedding" scene do we have in Macross? I wonder if it was bought as a gift to someone who is getting married soon, it would make a thoughtful gift, but wow, not at that price. Looks like it was a 4-way bidding war until the final 2....with the highest bidder winning by 10 bucks! That had to hurt! Hopefully, the seller doesn't have to relist it.

When single Macross small vinyl packs are not enough.... .....and 4-packs are 2 too many.... Only a Takatoku Macross small vinyl 2-pack will do!

I wouldn't make shipping a reason not to buy as long as you can afford it and you really like something....YOLO! Mandarake, Buyee, and several other proxies and stores have switched to FedEx and DHL which, in theory , should add another layer to secured shipping outcomes. To be honest, FB2012 is not that long of a "movie" and when you really think about it, the actual "new" footage is very little, so it makes sense that books would be able to easily select the best scenes, since the pool of available sequences and cels within those sequences are low to begin with. A publisher would really need to go out of their way to select "bad" cel scenes from FB2012.

Yes. Actually, I haven't really seen to much activity from the usual cel scalpers on eBay.

I think it was a local japanese buyer, so it'll probably never see the light of day again...

Bet whoever lost this one.... https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x674700194 Picked up the one from today.... I think that other auction actually sold for that amount instead of having a set price....looks like apple symphony played his cards right

If you are dropping close to 2000 dollars on a "cel" during the first worldwide pandemic in over 100 years....what's an extra 200 or so bucks!

Flashback 2012 Minmay cel.........180,000 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h474310158

Looks like the VF-1J OP cel didn't sell again. Not relisted, but I'm sure it will be.

Takatoku Toys Small Vinyl 2-pack This is the first and only addition to Takatoku's small vinyl collection that was a multipack, window boxset of two! The set consists of a VF-1J and a Regult. It is the exact same pieces that Takatoku included in a few of their 4-pack window box sets and also as individually bagged singles. This particular piece is the hardest one to get in the small vinyl collection. Besides the small vinyl VF-1J and Regult, Takatoku tossed in a small baggie containing three small keshigomu figurines. Incidentally, a similar baggies was also included with their "Battroid Variation" Hekei 3-pack. Takatoku Toys Small Vinyl 2-pack top cover Takatoku Toys Small Vinyl 2-pack bottom cover Tactical Pod Regult VF-1J Battroid Valkyrie

The last piece from the first set of Morinaga Macross mini kits (1/200).....Set one completed! Armored VF-1A

Looks like the "edited" version that took out or blurred out the "gore"....