AcroRay

Oooh... sweet! I'd absolutely buy it if I hadn't committed to preorders on the Koto plastic kits!

Hobby Search has some detailed scans of the Regult's instructions. Some seriously nice articulation on the legs and cannons. The chin guns are not articulated, but it wouldn't be impossible to do so. Nice! Can't wait for mine, or for the opportunity to build it someday...

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10129343z/70/1

I can say I'm looking forward to building the one I've got stored away, after seeing a couple of Japanese sites with excellent buildups. It's a nice machine, for all the bad rap MacII seems to get.

I've got a fair population of 1/100 Macross plamo from the 80s, and Toynami's 1/100 Valk and Regult toys. So this fits nicely in the fleet.

And the Ishtar poster is worth a few bucks alone...

Just noticed this... Talos suggests that it may be intended to be read as "Caliburn".

Or "Caliban"?

ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD!

Hobby Search says the first quartet of kits is in, and they're sending out invoices.

ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD!

I'm offering a reissue of Takara's massive, massive Dougram TEQUILA-GUNNER 1/48 scale kit. Not only is this kit huge, this beast features about a dozen small crew figures, sandbags & emplacement gear, and chrome parts. This kit was also released as part of Revell's ROBOTECH line as the rare, oversized "Commando" kit. It was also adapted into the early BATTLETECH game.

This is a killer piece of classic 80's mecha plamo. There is a red 12-inch ruler in the box-top and open box shots to give an idea of the size of the kit. 1/48th was the largest of the Dougram scale range. It's a real treasure, but I'm parting with it primarily because I just will not have the space or time to devote to a kit this size. (Saving that shelf real-estate for my 1/100 Macross Factory set.) This reissue cost about Y5000 when it was released in Japan several years ago, and sells for well over $50 when it appears at eBay in this or the Robotech kit edition. ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD!

P-M me if interested! Payment by Paypal or money order. I have to add a 4% Paypal fee, however. Shipping by USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation, or FedEx ground. Shipping costs can be provided based on buyer's address and shipping method. Personally, I hate getting my wallet raided on shipping costs when I buy something mail order , so I'd rather just work out whatever method best suits the buyer's needs and budget especially since this is a large kit, but it has to have delivery confirmation of some sort for buyer & seller protection.

Very telling that a video game has become a mode of comparison here. Videogames have absolutely become as powerful and absorbing a storytelling medium as film or print.

I'm hoping the shots with Urban was just a stereography test, or a shot blocking test.

Honestly, the design of the whole earlier Stallone Dredd film was fine by me. What bugged me were the liberties taken with key characters like Dredd, Fergie and Hershey. Diane Lane is nice and hot & all, but she not Hershey on any day. And no smoochies for Dredd and Hershey. No way.

How the hell did you get to see IQ9? Did I miss some pics??

Industry friend...

IQ9/Analyzer looks amazing, too. And kicks some ass...

JUDGE MINTY...

Fans can make something that looks like the Dredd we know & love, why can't the big studios?

judgeminty.com

Already up for pre-order on BBTS.com

Robot Vinyl Collection Vol. 07 - 1/100 Scale Zentraedi Light Artillery Battlepod

Thanks for the link! Just put in my preorder!

Pre-ordered the Regult, can't beat that price.

Does anyone have pics of the Imai 1/100 'Amored Space Suit' (zent officer) next to a Imai 1/72 Regult or Glaug?

(wondering if it looks like that 1/100th officer could squeeze into that 1/72 glaug)

The "Armored Space Suit" figure is actually pretty close to John Moscato's Kamjin resin kit in size.

The Graphics build has some modifications to the leg articulation, and they've made the shoulder missile launchers loaded, with opening hatches. The stock kit has the shoulder launchers sealed and molded into the shoulder halves.

Both kits SOLD.

In short: Due out next month. Limited Bandai reissue of 1980's kit by Imai. Nice detail, some accuracy issues. 2000 Yen SRP. Vintage kit could accommodate lighting elements for the monoeye.

Bumpy-Trot!

No one interested? No offers? Shall I send 'em off to eBay?

Wow, Acroray, did you do that? Love it!

Nope! It is by the owner of a website who is a MUV LUV fan, but also a fan of the classics. He did a Q-Rau girl http://jilpoong17.egloos.com/3699157 featured in one of the threads a long way back, as part of his "Robot Girl Sayaka" series http://jilpoong17.egloos.com/category/GIRL%20ROBOT-SAYAKA . For every one of the ML girls' birthdays he does a picture http://jilpoong17.egloos.com/category/MUV-LUV%20FAN%20ART . Michiru is the 'sempai' of the "Isumi Valkyries" unit from MUV LUV ALTERNATIVE, so the Macross/Roy image suits her.

The Isumi Valkyries' motto:

Do not dispair even unto your last breath.

Fight with all your strength.

Do not die in vain.

My pleasure! As you can see, there's just no way that these ultra-fine antennae could have been cast successfully, and the procedure involved in doing them yourself is pretty easy and actually rather fun.

I'll have to keep that on file for my old Imai kits as well. I've got some sprue left over from them, but have lost a couple of antennae over the years. Thanks, John!

I'll note that according to a friend of mine who built and still owns a vintage Imai 1/72 Regult kit the eye is made to accept a grain-of-wheat bulb so it can light up, and the back hatch opens to allow access for a battery and electronics! No electronic elements were included with the kit, but the structural elements are there, and there's no detail inside of the pod's hull for the hatch to reveal.

Apparently lighting wasn't noted in the instructions as he recalls, but there's a light pipe in the inside portion of the red plastic eye that fits a bulb (similar to Bandai's light-up SPACE CRUISER YAMATO EDF Andromeda kit). The effect is that the eye seems to follow you as you walk around it.

So, I hope this feature is still part of Bandai's re-issue of the kit, and that they might expand on the directions for the feature, or even included some parts.

Bump, Price-reduction and heads-up to buyers outside the US.

The Takatoku/Matchbox/Playmates 1/144 Destroids are rather small, but the detail is nice and you could just rescale them for inclusion with 1/100 pieces. Of the larger plastic Robotech/Exo-Squad Destroids, only the Phalanx is at all nice, with the Spartan also kind-of OK. Again, you'd have to rescale them, or shoot with some forced perspective.

Yamato's 1/100 Konig Monster is nice, though...

It's a great shirt - very nicely made and the graphic is absolutely great! I'm very happy with mine.

SOLD! THANKS TO MY BUYER, AND SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO OFFERED THE EXCELLENT COMMENTS!

Prices and combo-offer price reduced. Also, I will ship to buyers outside the US.

I'm parting with a few items I don't think I'll ever get around to building. Among them are these two rare kits from YELLOW SUBMARINE. Both are unassembled in their original boxes. Both are very, very nicely made. Neither are recasts, to the best of my knowledge.

The DYRL-style Nousjadeul-Ger includes a fixed-pose Zentran soldier figure with a hand weapon. Really a great looking kit! The Nousjadeul Ger itself is non-posable once assembled, but is wonderfully loaded with ball-n-socket joints so you can manage a huge number of potential custom poses. A really impressive feature that should allow whoever builds this with some really great results. Maybe even build it with revoltech or wave option joints? 3 bags of lots of parts make up the full kit. I'm asking $75 USD + postage.

The Destroid Defender is crisp and detailed. It doesn't have quite the pose options or number of parts the Nousjadeul Ger has, but it should still work out quite nicely. Buy it with the Nousjadeul Ger and make a nice diorama! (That was my plan, at least.) Note that this kit didn't include decals, but I can provide high-resolution scans of the 1/72 plastic Imai Defender kit's decal upon request. I'm asking $35 USD + postage.

SOLD

P-M me if interested. Payment by Paypal or money order. I have to add a 4% Paypal fee, however. Shipping by USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation, or FedEx ground. Shipping costs can be provided based on buyer's address and shipping method. Personally, I hate getting my wallet raided on shipping costs when I buy something mail order , so I'd rather just work out whatever method best suits the buyer's needs and budget, but it has to have delivery confirmation for buyer & seller protection. The kits are relatively small and light, so they shouldn't cost much to ship.