Wasabi-san
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Got the 1:72 Glaug yesterday. B.I.G. kit. Way too big for the 1:100 factory (but looked good compared to the valk's). I laid the parts out last night and started comparing sizes of all the kits and figs. In the end, the decision was made to use the 1/144 Rau pilot in the 1:100 Glaug for the "captured" portion, and use 1:100 for everything else on the Micron side. Even the 1:100 Kamjin space suit kit was "off" in size for the same-scale Glaug, but looked good in the 1:72...go figure. At this point...just roll with it I guess. "Him sad, brain broken." PS: If you're trying to add figures to the factory, HO and N scale figs are either too big or too small.
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Just got back from Seattle and saw a few nice rides, including a newer "A S T O N" in silver by the airport. Don't know which one, but it had the little chrome piece by the front guard/door line and smooth quarters. Refined is the first word I think of. Also saw a newer, white Lambo vert (Gallardo, I think) rocket around a corner and get on I-405 in Bellevue, winding it up pretty good. Saw some stuuuupid homebrew ricer crap too. I forgot about the Cali influence on cars in the North-West. Here in Detroit, it's more classic iron with other stuff mixed in...whatever doesn't rust away.
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1:100 Defender please...$50.ooUS (ebay) is too much for an $8.ooUS kit.
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OK. Just bought the 1:72 Glaug kit off Evilbay...Ouch! Expensive. I'm thinking of putting two factory sets face-to-face with a large bay door at the end of the diorama, to make it look like a hanger bay door on the Macross, that they could have pulled the Glaug in through. I appreciate the opinions and suggestions.
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Thanks for posting the size comparison pic. If only someone made the Glaug in HO/1:87 scale...haha. I don't even know if the 1:72 scale would fit, if the diorama's ceiling was at the top of the original factory wall. It might even be too wide to fit through the bay doors as well. Curse animation scaling! How rare are the 1:72 Glaug kits? Kamjin, Milia and Exodol are leg height to a valk. "Breetai" is equal to a valk, as are his guards on the "flying turd" ship, hence the lavatory uniform exchange, and maybe the soldier in the VF-1D incident on Macross Island...right assumptions? Has this info been posted in another thread?
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Image from Mr.March's Mecha Manual. Going off of this image, The armored Kamjin model is "1:100" and is almost as tall as the 1:100 valk, and looks too big to fit in the Glaug, but the pilot from the "1:144" Q-Rau is as tall as the valk's leg like in the pic above, and looks like it'll fit in the 1:100 Glaug. The "1:100" Glaug model is slightly taller than the Tomahawk provided in the factory, making it smaller than it should be. How much size difference is there between the 1:72 Glaug and the 1:100 kits? I have never seen (in person) the 1:72 scale Glaug kit for comparison. This is driving me nuts...
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@kelsain: I have both of the 1:5000 injection kits (original and Robotech labels), and you're right about the Storm Attacker version, very poor styling/molding. In the Super Plastic Model Manual No.1 ('85?), they show a Storm Attacker version with the carriers from the cruiser kits and other detail parts like the guns. It looks a lot better. I'd like to have an accurate 1:3000 TV version.
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Since I'm not collecting all of the re-issue "Option Part" VF-1 releases, I figured, the heck with it, and ordered six of them. One will go to my buddy who lost his in a move, a couple to just sit on for collectability, and I'll use the others to make a 18"x30" Factory/Macross hanger diorama, since there's a box full of 1:100 destroids, Wave Valks and older models to add to it. LED light strips will be good for the ceiling, and make the floor lights work this time. Question: Going by the awesome 1:48 scratch-built Glaug model being built bymslz22, and comparing it to the Hikaru valk, would a 1:72 Glaug be closer in scale, than the 1:100 kit, and would the 1:100 Kamjin figure, or the pilot from the Rau kit be closer to "correct" scale? I'd like to put a Glaug in it, surrounded by valks, while the crew gets the dead pilot out with cranes.
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Has anyone ever thought of, or taken a Matchbox SDF-1 and modified the proportions, to maybe make it into a resin kit? Is it close to 1:3000 scale? I have only seen/have the resin kits of the DYRL version in Cruiser and Storm Attacker, and they're maybe 1:5000-ish. A proportional TV version would be nice.
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HLJ.com is taking 20% off pre-orders for about 5,440 Yen, or $69.06US. There's no picture yet, but it's listed as "1/100 Macross Armado Factory" for a July release. http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN977905
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Never got lag, but never got more than 20 minutes of sleep going either way. It was 6.5hrs from Toronto to LAX, Customs was over an hour, then 17hrs from LAX to Melbourne. Coming back, the flight was only 12.5hrs due to altitude, winds, rotation of the "Erf" to LAX, two hours in Customs, then another 5 to Toronto, with a 5.5 hour drive home, plus stopping for almost three hours at the US border..."US/CA/OZ/CA/US." They pulled me over for "inspection." Not fun. I did however wake up one morning, looking around thinking "Where in the world am I...literally" when in Horsham, Victoria, OZ.
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Mailman jokes..."After all, it IS the fastest postal vehicle on the planet." "Nice Charger/Chevelle/Torino/AMX/Javelin/Mustang/Marlin/Montego/Trans Am/Camaro...etc." "Look Honey, he's on the wrong side." "No, I'm on the RIGHT side." Mouthing "WTF" as the maroon almost sideswipes me. "It's a shame what they did to that poor Trans Am." "Is that legal to drive in the US?" "Postal vehicles...USPS/Mad Max." If you're going to be a jerk about it, its going to be a "Canadian Camaro, a Mexican Mustang, or a British Trans Am." "OMG! Oh WOW!!! Is that what I think it is?! IT's a XB Falcon! I never thought I'd see one in real life!" That was cool. Notching the shock towers...no. But with the Pacemaker tri-Y extractors, I will have to lay them in the bottom first, then bolt them on once the engine is in the mounts. Holes w/ plugs will be drilled in the side to get to the plugs. Clearance...about an inch and a half per side. "End of the Commadore line." Was that before the VE Commadores new platform design? Some of our engineers/designers were in "Mel'bn" a few years ago working on the 511 Camaro...wish they needed modelers. I would've jumped in a heartbeat, but 17hrs in the air in a coach/steerage seat = OUCH! I managed to see ONE, repeat, ONE, E49 in "Sublime" green with the black stripes that had the "4" on the front guards. Cool cars and look deceptively small. Never saw under the bonnet or boot lid...bummer.
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@pfunk: Noticed you're in MI. Did you go to the Ford 100yr celebration in '03, or the Woodward Dream Cruise? Challenger? It wasn't the E38 or E49 Chrysler Charger Valiant with the 265 HEMI straight 6 w/ triple carbs was it? Usually you didn't see ANY Chrysler products outside of the major metro areas, and dealers are even more rare. When in OZ, I drove a sweet, Ford BAXR6 Falcon wagon from Horsham to Adelaide, then to Broken Hill/Silverton and back when we went to see the filming sites for The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2 TCC. By the end, I was getting used to right-hand drive cars on left-hand roads, and round-a-bouts, but got thrown for a loop on East/West directions during mid-day. It's an North/South hemisphere thing. Now the right-hand turn where you have to be on the left side of the road in downtown Melbourne, just, plain, c0nFuSeD me.
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Ever drive right-hand cars in a left-hand world? It's bad enough getting used to driving on the right, and not being able to see to pass, or make unprotected left turns, turning like a MACK truck. The pedals are the same position, as is the ignition, but the signal stalk is on the right. The shift pattern is still the US pattern in the XABC's running top loaders, meaning shifting with the left hand, and First, is far and away. I'll stick to the "dumb" automatic that's paid for for right now. The "mildly-built" 460+.030" over=467ci came with the rebuilt C6 that had only 500 miles on the combo. They came out of a '82 F250 tow truck that I paid $1000.ooUS, and had a friend pull it and deliver it to me from Canada (Doug). The exchange back then was $1000USto$1400CA. Sweet deal. I would like to put an overdrive in it sometime, but the push is to get it done (drivable) by the wedding...fiancee' wants to ride away in it, complete with Dinki-Di cans and dog bones trailing. Go figure.
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Thanks Beltane70. Doug from Canada (madmaxcar.com) has IMHO the most accurate replica that I have seen, touched or ridden in...going as far as getting the rego sticker and putting black electrical tape over it, putting in the fifth screw on the left perspex cover, the correct pinstripe around the front under the headlight, rusting the pulley bolts, vintage 265 BFG's...etc. He has the issues of the glass bubbling/lifting off of the greenhouse metal and boot lid as well. I've been to OZ, seeing quite a few of them at Sandown Raceway during the 30th Anniversary of MM, and my opinion stands. Contact with Gordon was lost when he bailed on MMM.com a few years ago (as did I) after his JGS/BoB build was ripped apart and slammed. More than a few of us did (including Adrian Bennet of the MMMuseum), especially after "Suckpuppet" and one persons multiple identities reared their ugly heads in October of '08. The last straw were the huge arguments over who's car was more accurate and who used the "correct" parts from "original" molds, or got "top secret" info from this or that person, with the new "Incorrector" tag used on anyone who didn't. Grow up. Even their cars were wrong...(Scott). I decided to go off of the movie and the description of the "Breaker Squad" cars out of the books..."Big engine, big fuel tank, over-the-top horsepower, flat black, with crude armour plating." I actually don't care for the Arcadipane Concorde nose that much anymore, so I went with more of the "Ironman/Neanderthal" styled front clip that will eventually have the roo bars, also in part to peoples quality and bragging issues with others parts. The nose, flares, spoilers and bonnet scoop are of my own design, and are one-off concepts to avoid the "Incorrector" tag/pi$$ing match since it's not Maxs' BoB. If people don't like it, they can bugger off and go build me what they think I should have. Phil Newell from Aussiecoupes.com imported my car in '03, and am looking for a crate of parts right now. Reddsun1, you wouldn't happen to be REDD4 on MMM.com would you?
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Here's my ride (Work in Progress). I'm dumping in a 467/C6 with a posi/3.55/9" combo. The nosecone, "Bathurst-88" bonnet scoop, and flares are ABS/Bond-O mockups. The spoilers will be welded. Roush will be laying up the parts this Summer. The paint is Caterpillar semi-gloss black with the striping in flat black. All of the lettering is 911 reflective silver-on-black vinyl. (Reddsun1 should know the base car pretty easily)
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The price is a little high, but with the attention to detail, the fit and finish with little seam work, the tough-looking proportions (destroids), and the interchangeability of the valk parts, I think they're among the best kits available. Hopefully they'll do some enemy mecha next...both Macross and Mospeada.