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Very helpful, thanks.

Where did you hear this news exactly? I tried looking out on MAHQ and pretty much found nothing. M0 can't exactly come over without HG tryna get their little grubby hands on it. Saddly enough, if we really want to see M0 come over to the states we might be forced to it being a Robotech prequel... I really hope that's not the case, though. This might be wishful thinking, but HG might even just sub it and be nice enough to give it to us as a SDF Macross prequel...or maybe have Manga or Bandai Visual to bring it over here now sort-of back to topic....I still want my VF-0S and VF-0D!!! If HG will make a rt prequel out of M0 you can be sure it will become pure trash, anyway I really doubt they will make another robotech show out of an original anime animation. hopefully

Ok, I should go to the artist supply store in the week, may you suggest me the basic colors i should get for aircraft wash and wheatering?

March? It should be the miyatake book. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=12849

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/vf-1d/_vf1d.htm http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/y...21fp_sample.htm For old things the old main site is very helpful

I found something about lifecolor acrylics, the document is in Italian so I just tell you what is important. Lifecolor acrylics are different from normal acrylics cause they CANNOT be thinned with alchol, you must use water or better it's thinner(or water with some thinner). the color quality is very high and they can be used both in airbrushing and brushing.(they are better then tamiya or model master to brush) If you are interested in how use propely the lifecolor acrilics I can translate a step by step guide to how use them with the airbrush.

Mr. surfacer must be thinned with lacquer colors thinner.

Heh... the "fin" looking thing is actually a large laser gun. I just didnt draw in the details. Hmm... maybe I should draw it from a different angle. Anyways... I was thinking of making the top canon laser moveable like the YF-19 so I dont think it'll look TOO bad. Just lots of pointy things at the bottom of the plane. Keep it up with new heads anyway I was thinking, if you want inspiration, you should watch in the macross zero direction, kawamori did very cool looking heads and the vf-0 has the same head position of the vf-1. However if you want to create a Macross 7 fire bomber Vf-1 custom head.... just don't do it

Nice figures i'm not a getter fan but they are very cool, the getter 2 looks a lot evangelion like.

Those alphaX head looks like a mix of the vf-1s head and the vf-19 kai head, not to be negative about your work but I think it wil looks like ass in fighter/gerwalk mode.

Uhm, waterslide decal must be use on on a gloss surface a need a layer of calear coat for protection, I think they just should tampoo print the marks or provide good stickers ala takatoys at least, Yamato stickers are pure trash. However you can find aftermarket waterslide decals for yamato valks made by the MW member Anasazi or stickers made by takatoys.

Thanks to all for the hints

I think is an Harmony Gold copyright issue, Bandai don't care about Macross anymore. HG cause a lot of problem when a Macross product must be realesed outside Japan, but there is surely someone who can explain you far better then me here.

Wm Cheng, I have to admit that this is my first foray into the Macross world, so please be gentle... Do these things "transform" into some kind of techno-robot thing, which is why you folks refer to "heads" and "legs"? Is that what battroid mode is? Is there a movie based on this, maybe with English sub-titles? Thanks again for any help (and by the way, I still have to procure one of these...tomorrow, if I can get out of the house). Jim The vf-0S is from Macross zero (5 episodes home video anime). It can transform in Gerwalk and Battorid modes Gerwalk is basically a fighter with legs and arms This is the battroid You can find all the pics here keep in mind that the cg model of the 0S in the site is old, watch the others version too.

There is Mr. surfacer 1200 too http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist.cgi

the vf-1sr head is pretty cool

I didn't watched robotech when I was a child, but some years ago and I disliked it, i didn't even know about the actual original 3 animes, robotech TMS may have the Macross animations but is really "different"(worse), same thing for robotech NG and Mospeada. Stay away from the RT DVDs.

Minamay looks awesome can you show us more pics?

DYRL works well as a tv series addition, I don't think it says too much to who hasn't watched SDF Macross(not robotech), but as you said you watched it, it's rare that someone who like SDF Macross dislike DYRL, maybe you got wrong Macross and thinked it was just a war a cool mecha anime, love story and songs are very important in each Macross anime, it's an anime about love and against war in the end, not about aliens kicks human butts. Maybe of all Macross you would like better Macross zero. I appreciate that you told us your thought about dyrl even if negative

I thought of that, but didn't think people would go fot the idea since you have to unglue part of the 1/48 to get the canopy on and off... if it was just a screw it'd be better. If the canopy isn't possible, I will suggest aftermarket detailed cockpit, exhaust feets and canon size weapon set. drool...

Who saw the latest episode? Man...they are killing Xenosaga episode I, they cutted some great scene on the vector ship and before, and filled them with a lot of things that have nothing to do to the original story, maybe that scene were too much for a tv series? I loved them, especially when KOSMOS kill Virgil, now Virgil is safe and go on the Elsa instead of cherekov...OMG Stupid cheap animation ps the vector ships main cannon.... they remind me of something Macross.

DO 1/48 custom canopies

I'm Italian but i have to try them yet cause they are not sell in my city. http://www.mailmodel.com/catalogo/Colori_Lifecolor.htm

Yes low budget, is what come in my mind when i watched it, the quality is real bad, I don't like even the changes in the story, there is only one word for this series: CRAP, the games original movies are 10 times and more better, play the game and stop. This is my opinion as Xenogears, Xenosaga and general anime fan.

To my knowledge, the VB-6 does not have landing gear. There's no lineart for it in the Design Works book, and every single instance of it being on the ground has it in Gerwalk or Battroid mode. Does anyone have any information to the contrary? Never seen VB-6 landing gears.