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I'm looking for this box variant. PM me if you have one available. Thx

It's a custom on the Gakken toy by some Japanese collector. There are links to his website over on ToyboxDX in the Vintage Chogokin BBS.

While all this is true, amazingly the #3 MPC Skull Leader valks proved to be the best investment vehicle of all the modern valkyrie releases according to ebay. They sell for more than a 1/48 Yamato Low Viz or Yamato YF-19 1st issue and cost less than either at retail. Go figure.

There is a second version I have of the Taiwan Super where the valk is grey instead of white. Everything else is the same.

The 'Robotec' bootlegs were made by a company called Popeye, oddly enough, and had really nice boxes. They made the Hikaru 1J and also the green 1J I have made several custom armors for my HCM valks, all you need is a Hasegawa 1/72 super,strike, ostrich, or elintseeker kit.

I'd say those were the US toys by Joyride Studios, not the Japanese ones. Joyride's set of three is teh colonial viper, cylon raider, and cylon centurion. The ships are about the size of a star wars action fleet.

He's done a mix & match, no Takatoku came that way. The canopy is from another Takatoku issue and the heatshield is from the 1990 Bandai Super issue, or a recast. So really it's missing the original skull black canopy.

Did he do full painted work or lineart or cel art or what? Can you post examples? I have a robotech mospeada poster that may have been him I guess.

This jackass thinks yellowing is a rare color variant from the manufacturer. And some stupid bastard will probably believe it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

Hey, post pics of your Alex custom. It's my favorite MSIA and I have a small army of them, one of which I customed up.

You should cast it in Soft vinyl rather than resin so that it can be kitbashed into a full action figure. Now that would be something.

Very nice. I'm surprised that the Testors paint worked on the PVC material without either staying permanently tacky or melting it. Did it dry completely?

I see the GTR distinction now. Actaully they do make an all-wheel drive version of the G35 branded the G35x. I also saw an article in Road and Track about nissan's next supercar to replace the GTR which looked exactly like the G35 with a big ass spoiler added - which I thought was goofy.

I thought the Skyline was now the same car as the Infinity G35 sold here.

These monsters were selling for under 10,000 yen at Superfest according to Matt Alt over on ToyboxDX. That's like half price. If I had already paid full retail for one I'd feel raped right now. These may be available at heavy discount soon if that is any indication.

Thanks, Zeo-mare, that site is great!

I would like some made for my Metal Material Strike Gundam.

No way the real Tony Twist lost $15 million in personal income because they used his name in the comic. It's McFarlane's own fault, though, for being an arrogant ass and not paying the guy some reasonable amount in a settlement. Plus now that it's clear that all those homerun record items he bought were from players jacked up on steroids, it will probably drive down any value they would historicly achieve.

Updated original pic with tailfins and decals on.

Thanks, here's Battroid:

Yeah, it would probably look better white but I have a bad time trying to get white paint to come out well, especially on such a large amount of the plane. Also, it's still transformable and the white areas would just get chipped up badly. All the areas I made black are 'transform-friendly'. Plus the original Takatoku skull was grey too!

I picked up a few of these on discount due to their bad hipjoint press. None of mine have busted yet and they're good customs fodder. Here's my Skull type, still have to do the tail fins though. *updated with tail fins done*

OK, sign me up.

Thanks for trying.

Please do, I need an Amuro Rey and Char Aznable if they have them!