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Kotobukiya Mechanical Chain Bases....I think they are now discontinued. There are also some Chinese bootlegs out there.

That's awesome! Nailed it!

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=34685&st=0&p=897985

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=42369

All had different colors... Some even had alternate colors.... Hope to get this one as an exclusive...

^ +4

"I'll show you who the superior culture is you wretched miclone!!! As soon as...I....can get...out of this...blasted....cockpit...curse you tiny regult cockpit!!!!!!!"

Yes....if I post a price...you can be assured it's a SOLD price....not a listing price....not an asking price....not a "my cousin's friend's brother-in-law just bought one for some unverifiable amount" price... . In short....the membership fee to the elite "Yamato VF-1D Virgin Road Owners Club" just shot up to about 500 dollars! Entry fee to the "Yamato VF-1D assemby kit Roadhouse" should be considerably less...

Yamato VF-1D "Virgin Road".....50,000 JPY http://page23.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o127630704

Nice find....went ahead and ordered at set to see if they work out with the HMR line...they remind me of the Macross flight deck crew when it's in space... Yeah...many of the 1/72 accessories also scale well with 1/60 Macross toys...

The only ones that I know of are found in the 1/100 Macross Factory kit.... I recently purchased a set of 1/100 Gunpla builders 1/100 figurines, but there are no "pilot" figures...at least not seated...plus they are probably "Gundam" based...but still look good in Macross 1/100 dioramas.... https://www.hlj.com/product/BAN976505/Gun

Macross: Remember Me by Family Soft Data Book

Macross: Remember Me from Family Soft operation manual...

Yeah...the top of the Destroid leg should be level to the top of the VF-1's kneecap...so still too short..... We have no other choice than to hope Bandai gets it right or close enough....so far I'm satisfied with Bandai's handling of the HMR line....just the right amount of give and take in their scaling decisions so far....

I have no idea where my Power Armor is at the moment...but I have the Spartan handy....unfortunately, it is too big...probably closer to 1/72 in scale.... Never! plus...it works for the HMR thread because it has been kept as a "line" thread rather than breaking out each release with it's own thread....unlike the various Frontier DX and Yamato/Arcadia VF threads.....thus you just can get away with posting the release list at the top of the one and only available thread for the HMR line....

Good point....I also have the 1/100 kits but I have never built them....I wonder if they run bigger than the 1/100 Takatoku Destroid in my group shot? Does anyone have both to compare their sizes?

yes...kinda odd since the variation among the Zentran/Meltran is so diverse and apparent...and not just "human" type of diversity.....it is pretty exaggerated among the different ranks......it deserves an official explanation....but I'm OK without it...seems pretty obvious to me....barring the use of cloning technology to "reproduce"...they probably would have homogonized to more human-like size ranges.....but the great disparity in sizes, to me, indicates that the original intent was to serve a specialized role....continuation of cloning to reproduce has kept their sizes the same as originally engineered....just a theory at the moment I suppose..

I thought that is what this thread was for? http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=29393

The Takatoku Destroid Conversion set was listed as 1/100...but I hope Bandai upscales theirs a bit to match the above line art...the top of the Destroid should come up to about the midddle of the chest of the VF-1.....

Is there any new book associated with the event?

The Zentrans and Meltrans were biologically engineered to do whatever job the Protoculture needed from them....thus the wide range of sizes, colors, and flavors... You don't modify the mecha to fit the soldier...you modify the soldier to fit the mecha.... With that said, we would just need a figure that fits the cockpit of the HMR Regult and it would have worked if Bandai had not built the details inside of it in a scale that doesn't match the rest of the Regult... it's like the Regult is 1/100 but the cockpit details are 1/72....in a way it is Bandai's nod to anime magic!

Did this get posted? Had not seen it before....

I like the images that give you a better sense of the scale between them....it's amazing how much bigger the newer capital ships are compared to the original SDF-1