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Custom Strike:

When my old site went down I thought I lost all my pictures. Lucky me, I was diggin through old CDs and found my long-lost archives! Ahh, those were the days.

Gotta give my custom 1990 reissue some love:

Check out the custom pilot from the master Jung Chao:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t188/Bl...rbandaiALL2.jpg

Gotta love (or hate) that 1990 VF-1S head. Me likey!

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t188/Bl...rbandaiALL3.jpg

Prelaunch Deck Shots:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t188/Bl...rbandaiALL4.jpg

Enjoy. I'll post more once in a while. Later, MW.

Much Luv.

-Rolo

Oh, and Happy New Year!

well at least I know it wasn't just me. For a minute there I thought I was being a bad daddy to my little valk babies.

I wonder now, though, if the 1/48's will ever yellow. Obviously different grade plastic, but still I wonder. (hope not!)

Here's are some from episode 15.

I LOVE that episode. Especially later (I think the same episode) when Milia flies in with her beautiful red VF-1J.

I may be wrong, but I think that may be the only post SDFMacross series that feature old skool mecha (besides the VF-1 victim in MacPlus). I could be wrong though. (and I'm not counting the modified space whaling Ostrich and other VF's in Mac7 Dynamite.

Lol, Valkyrie sidecar.

also,

Valkyrie Chaperone Seat.

Valkyrie Backseat Driver Seat.

or,

Valkyrie Mother-in-law Seat.

And when you run out of missiles to fire, you learn the true meaning of "Kamekaze" lol.

The only difference I know of between Roy's DYRL VF-1S and the one seen in SDF:M is the color of the arrows on the head unit. Still, it might be worth it if they included a Roy figure in his SDF:M flightsuit. It would also be nice to have another valk packaged with the standard TV-style FAST packs for those who didn't buy the Super Hikaru set.

IF they release Roy's VF-1S as a TV scheme, they should not only include a tv Purple Roy figure, but also, if they release TV fast packs, the fast packs should come with a TV Hikaru (since he's the one that actually flies the fast pack version).

Wouldn't that be cool to be able to display the original Skull Leader with purple roy at it's command? And then later replace pilot with TV Hikaru and TV fastpacks? That'd look so cool. I haven't done a search, but I wonder if anyone has customized their 1/48 Roy with TV packs and a TV Hikaru? (hint: pics pls, anyone).

Custom Uses for the 1/144 Popy Valks:

You can hang these off your christmas tree as christmas ornaments!

They'd also make cute earings.

You can also sprinkle them on top of salad.

Your wife can use them to play a trick on you by hiding your 1/48's one day when you're asleep and replace them with the Popy's so you wake up and wonder if your valks shrunk or did you just get bigger. Then you can sell the rights to an original movie starring Rick Moranis titled, "Honey, I Shrunk the Valkyries."

Also, if you are left home alone you can spread them accross the floor to deter would-be home invaders from entering your domice successfully as they slip and fall flat on their backs when they accidentally step on them.

If you have a cold or viral infection, you can inject them into your bloodstream so they can make internal repairs to your immune system and give you secret super powers by tapping into your muscular, endrocine, and central nervous systems.

You can put them on a hook and catch fish with them.

You can go to your local restaurant and order some soup, and when no one's looking drop one of these in your bowl and flag down a waiter to complain, "excuse me, but there's a valk in my soup," and you'll get your meal for free!

Also, if you sprinkle some on yourself and think of happy thoughts, you can fly!

My apologies. I just think these valks are too cute. And I'm bored.

That looks so awesome. I want one! How'd you make the head?

I still have an original Chris Barreta 1/55 VF-1D head I've never used from like 1998 or so. I'm old.

and calling me a procrastinator is rhetorical on MW.

huh, can you tell us more about the conditions they were kept? avg humidity, temperature, that sort of thing? Oooh, and pictures please.

Well, when I first bought the 1A at the early part of this decade, I displayed it for about 2 years in battroid mode atop my piano. Average room temperature (not hot at all, nor cold). Average indoor humidity. No where near a sunlit window. After 2 years the valk went into a plastic storage bin that was closed. I was rummaging through stuff looking for phatslappy's missle pod when I came across my old valk in the bin. That's when I noticed the yellowing.

Was looking at the remains of my macross junk. My Hikaru 1/60 VF-1A (which has been in dark storage since I bought it long long time ago) has severe yellowing now on certain parts of it.

Oddly, on the head, only the right half of the head is yellowed (evenly), while the left half looks bone stock white. Other various pieces here and there are yellow, while the other pieces remain white. Almost as if two different plastics were used.

Didn't think yammie plastic would yellow this "early" (I think it's been 7 years now, though. Wow, time goes so fast.)

Found this on youtube, really cool to watch:

VF-0S part 1

VF-0S part 2

I will greatly miss your site. It was one of the very first sites I crossed paths with and always inspired me to create custom 1/55 and 1/100 valkyries.

I am at a loss for words and feel a bit saddened to see such a wonderful site leave the www. Hopefully, someone who has the resources and space, will archive this fantastic site. There are so many great customs and tid bits on this site. It would be a tremendous loss for all when it\\\'s gone.

I for one will miss this site.

Don\\\'t be a stranger.

And to all who have never seen the site, do yourself a favor a, see it before it\\\'s gone forever.

Sorry I never got back to you guys, and to ya'll who wanted to help host the site. It's all gone now, with the exception of my original ostrich pics that were hosted on a non-pay geocities account. You can view what's left of it here:

http://geocities.com/woxiangjia/superostrich.html

I lost all those images of every valk and even nonvalk mechs, and even my own pictoral compositions. All gone.

Sorry I'm not online much these days. Much like my site, most of my real life has been erased, so to speak, and exists now only in broken fragments. I'm but a whisper of an echo. Hope life has treated ya'll well these past years.

My best to you all.

Not much smaller, plastic, loads of fun, only $5 back in the day. Somehow this chogokin reminds me of this little plastic thing:

Greetings all, I'll make this as brief and painless as it needs be. If any of you old-time 1/55 custom fans still care, now's the chance to view the old Valkyrie Dream Flight site while you still can. The site will most likely be shut down this month.

Valkyrie Dream Flight

I don't really want to delete it, especially since I never archived the site on disk (it's all online, 100%, including the pics). I MIGHT be able to slowly cut and paste html and download pics offline from the site before it shuts down, but knowing me, I won't get to it in time. So when it goes offline, if I haven't backed it up by then, all those images and info are gone.....forever!

Hopefully I'll have it backed up in time to start a new archive site at a later time though at least.

Despite my human mistakes here on MW, I'd like to think I was, at some point, a positive contributor to the MW culture, and I've been honoured to rub elbows (or rather keystrokes) with the best of you. Thanks MW for all the great times. I still come on here and browse once in a while, so it's never truly "goodbye."

Man, so much I've missed out on over the years......never seen a yamato q-rau, monster, or vf-0s. I'm getting old.

Cheers, MW, for now.

-RL

There are also bootleg issues of this toy, they pop up on ebay from time to time.  I have never handled one to see what, if anything, is printed on the foot, but they have the spring loaded arms like the Takatoku release.

At one point in time I had some really good pics of that "bootleg" SDF and had ICQed with the owner (who won it off of ebay) a bit, and even chatted with Shawn, Nam, and Eric over email (back before our modern forums...i wonder if they remember) about these "bootlegs."

From what I remember, they are genuine Takatoku 1/3000 SDF-1 Parts, just stolen by shady factory workers/associates that decided to sell them and package them as their own. They even went so far as to make new box art and such. I wish I still had those pics. But they're not bootlegs in the sense that we are used to; they are not remoulds of an existing cast, or a copycat sculpt. They are real Taka parts. For some reason, though, I remember it being stamped "BANDAI" on it, not Takatoku, though they did have the launching arms and missile bays.

I always wondered how that went though....were they reject parts that factory workers saved and pieced together to make whole ones? Or did some shady workers slowly pocket entire SDF-1's piece by piece little by little each day until they had all the parts to make a whole one without the company knowing? Or did some workers sneak in at night when no one was around and turn on the manufacturing equipment to produce their own SDF's all at once? hmmm.....

I admit, when I was a kid, I always wished I had the inside track on a toy manufacturing company, and I used to have dreams that I got to keep all the test samples....

OH wait a minute, that really DID happen; just that it wasn't me; it was Graham! Darn you Graham, you stole my dream! I want it back please...

Could you recast the VF-1J shown here? I`d be willing to loan you mine provided I could get a couple.

ooo, that'd be neato. I was never an expert at casting, but I think it might be a little hard for someone to cast that VF-1J in one piece, especially with the slanted stablizers--as one piece anyway. That's why the taka 1/3000 valks have no legs and feature parallel tailfins, for ease of casting and moulding.

While we're on the subject, would any of the little valks from the Valhalla kit work any better for our 1/3000 SDF?

Hey Redemption,

Are you still casting conversion parts for 1/55's?

Havn't touched the world of customizing/casting (let alone macross) for like two years at least (whenever it was that shtuff went south for me). I'm staring at my big pile o' 1/55 parts, supplies, and tools everyday, wondering what the heck I'm gonna do with it now. Thought about shipping it all to Valkyrie (Ken) in Chi-town, or let KidKorrupt (Jason, btw, is he still alive?) go crazy with 'em. (Only problem is the stuff weighs a ton, and would cost a bundle to ship it all. I gave some reject parts to Jason once, but somehow it ended up on the boards for sale by someone else attesting to the "crappiness" of my workmanship. Those were reject parts though, which is why).

The only thing I like to look at now and then as a souvenir of the old days is my Prototype 1/55 Custom Feet, Custom Chest/Airbrake, and corresponding moulds that go with 'em. The rest I'm leaving behind in my past life, only to exist now as an echo, a memory, a distant whisper..... Hehehe

lol, oh boy, I made it TOO easy for ya guys! What's wrong with me? I shoulda seen that one comin.....why can't MY mind be in the gutter? lol

Damn HG. I wish they'd just die (the company). Can you imagine, creating something only to have someone else claim it as their own, and then every FUTURE creations you come up with end up being claimed by them too? The whole HG RT thing is literally just so perverted.

What I would say to the HG owners, In the words of Shaka Zulu:

"You are a man of no nation. You are a Shadow."

Yeah this post was directed to only people who have 1/3000 SDF-1s. i was thinking of recasting the launcher parts but i didnt want to press my luck and ask CID to take apart his Takatoku SDF-1 so we call all have launching arms.

Who needs launching arms for those little buggers? You'll get the exact same effect by using your fingers to flick the tiny valks off the carrier ships with your eyes blind folded; they'll be sent hurling through the air just as fast and get lost somewhere behind your couch either way. As fun as this gimmick seems, I find it useless because it flicks it off so fast you can't even see it in flight, let alone where it happens to land and bounce out of sight, especially the missiles. If you fire them, you might as well kiss them goodbye.

And actually, the Bandai/Matchbox SDF looks BETTER without those huge ugly launching mechanisms sticking out of the Carrier Ships, IMO. though I have to admit, I own the Taka instead of the Bandai BECAUSE having the little valks and the launchers make it "cooler" to me than the Bandai (plus I LOVE the Taka Box, and the fact that it is the original NON-RT version). But if you already have a Bandai, and not a real Taka, it's better the way it is than to try to mod it into a launchable Taka.

Buy the little valks though, if you want, and use them to sit on deck the Prometheus and Daedalus (I usually use the Lancer and the Ghost on the Daedalus). Out of scale though, but still fun. Oh yeah, and you can also store them in an open rear hanger behind the Bridge tower.

oooo, I just realize this may be the only rendition of the Lancer and Ghost as TOYS (if they count as toys). Nick, Rhobby, if you're gonna cast the VF-1's, maybe you can sculpt some legs onto them first and make 'em look right. That'd be REALLY cool.

BTW, I've never been able to figure this out: what mech is that plane with only one vertical stablizer suppossed to be? Anyone know?

for as much as i love the 1/60 and 1/48, the 1/55 will always hold a very special place in my heart

Yeap, the 1/55 will always be my beloved toy.

Hey, those are really old pictures; don't remember the year(perhaps 1998) Thanks Nam for keeping those. I remember that I used a cheap digicam for the Max (that's why it looks so blurry) but for the Super Hikaru I put the valk on my scanner and the pictures came up neat

Eric, I must say, you were my initial inspiration for customizing 1/55's. You and then Jung. I had always hoped to be up there with you "big guys." I tried, but I make a better wannabe. I miss those old days. Ironically, I did manage to make a name for myself, finally, but it wasn't the kind I was looking for. As soon as I get a chance to, I'm gonna download all my pics (cause I never backed em up on hard drive) from my site and finally close that sucker down....it's just draining my wallet to keep it open for nuthin.

Eric, you gotta keep customizing alive man! You're the pioneer!

yeah, 1/48 are poseable, but not THAT poseable. The 1/60 is more poseable than the 1/48. 1/48 waist can turn, but it really can't. I do wish gerwalk mode feet could go one more "click" past where it does now, then gerwalk would be perfect.

cool pics guys.

Oh man, I can hear the fanboys coming!

huh? whahapan?

the site is in Spanish so I can't tell where it's from.

hmm, i think that's portuguese. but if ya know spanish, you can probably figure it out.

ATENÇÃO: os modelos apresentados aqui no site NÃO ESTÃO A VENDA.

I don't know portuguese, but that seems so close to spanish that I'm guessing it says none of his models are for sale.