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German Macross IMAI Model Kit catalog....

I assume on simpler sequences, it is one main image with just a few "moving parts".... So, for example....in this scene, you have the main non-moving Milia image, while the shoulders drop down and the "blank" area next to her torso is the "animated" arm she is using to plug-in her Q-Rau controls.....sadly those individual douga sheets were not in the set I bought...just the shoulder dougas.... Sadly, this is a disappearing artform...certainly it has disappeared from Macross completely since Macross 7 I believe....it's all done via computers now

Here is another Milia douga I put together using three separate dougas..... It starts with the right image consisting of a partial engine image of a "parked" Q-Rau next to Milia's ride....... ....then the next image contains the main image of Milia inside her Q-Rau..... The final image is of the animated Q-Rau "arm"..... I put them all together and tried to get it to match the onscreen cel for the sequence, but again.....it's not perfect and it would take me some time to try and get good at these photo editing software apps.....I need to find a tutorial on youtube...I still need to resize the right-hand image a bit to match better what is seen onscreen.....here goes.... ...and here is a screencap..... ...and the actual sequence from the same episode as the previous douga I put together...Episode 12 "Big Escape".....

LOL.... Do You Remember Alimony? Good....now forget Macross cels forever!

I am pretty sure that apple symphony is just pricing it based on the latest sales trend in Macross wedding cels....lol

The cel was clearly drawn out by the massive amount of chum tossed into the waters from that last "wedding" cel.....this one is much nicer, but not sure if it is 4K+ USD nice.

At close to 4000 USD.....you may need to stay single! Nice cel though...

IMAI - SF Animation Plastic Model promo pencil board featuring the kits lines for Macross, Orguss and Mospeada

ARII Macross TV promo pencil board......watch the TV show, then buy the kits!

Thanks! Glad to share....here is another pencil case from Seika Note....

Bandai Hi-Metal 1/55 VT-1 Super Ostrich lot - 1 boxed, complete and 1 loose with armor - both yellowed - 73,880 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w390863946

Wonder how many of his customers will just start buying directly from places like Mandarake....and save on "finders" fees?

Macross 7 hanky....

Well, not like any mask can keep you 100% safe....

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!