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Wow....after that, I wonder if there's anything LEFT of the fighter to MODIFY?

Don't like the name, design, paint job....

Tell you what: I'll burn the model, scrap the design, and start over. VF-? BRICK. That has a nice ring to it.

At first you like it and say that the paint needs to be dull, THEN you load all of this? Starting to wonder who i offended in a previous life...

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Keanu as Spkie Speigel?

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Robocrap is what got me into Macross; I learned later (much to my delight) that Macross was a far more interesting world, and not as depressing as robocrap. Plus, i like the DRYL version of the SDF-1 far better! JMO.

PLUS, Macross Plus, Macross 7 and Frontier continue the story on FAR better. I LOVE the soundtrack to Macross Plus!

Robocrap: well.... bastard children will be bastard children. I do like the opening theme song, but that's about it now.

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Not to totally derail the thread - but who has the authority or jurisdiction to grant HG "international" rights outside of Japan? I understand US courts granting these rights within the United States, but what if someone in a third country wanted to promote the specifically Japanese part of Macross, which of course includes things from SDFM TV?

Is the whole world expected to put on blinders and pretend that Macross doesn't exist because some court in theUS ruled it? I know that there are international treatises which govern copyright law - however to my knowledge, each country or multi-country legal entity prefers to judge such matters within its' own specific legal system. Barring that, there is also something called the international Arbitrage court which is an extra-legal institution, a gentleman's agreement of sorts where big companies agree to go to iron out such cases which is a much less threatening and more businesslike way of doing things. If HG went through this second route, then I could see how they could claim international distribution rights - but if it's just a US court which says so...then I don't see it.

And last point/question: There is such a thing in law - at least in Europe - as a cultural good which is the common property of all people. For example - if I want to put on a play about Biblical figures, I don't need to buy a license from the Vatican to do so. If I want to make a garage kit of a World War II B-52 bomber, I don't need to call Lockheed Martin and get their permission. If I want to put on a musical interpretation of Winnie The Pooh, I don't need to consult the script with Disney. If I want to write a theatrical interpreation of Hamlet and then have it performed, I don't need to find the heirs of Shakespeare's estate to put on my personal interpretation of his play. etc.

I do understand that this view has its' limits - but copyright law is actually not as cut and dry as it sometimes seems (and I'm speaking as someone who owns the copyright to a bunch of published works - ergo who has a seemingly vested interest in a more conservative interpretation of copyright than the one I presented above) - yet even I recognize that in this world, once you mass market and mass produce something - of course you CAN claim copyright infringement whenever someone starts using the thing in a way that you don't like - but there is also the issue of other people's rights to enjoy the thing that you have put out there for them - that has gotten into their consciousness.

Are we criminals for liking Macross? Should everything fly the Robotech banner? Do we all have to move to Japan because we prefer the original Macross?

I think that if HG were smart, they would focus on expanding their property and doing something creative with Robotech. Yamato could have whined and complained and said "boo hoo we won't make any Macross figures because we can't sell them outside of Japan and that limits our market and it's too risky and yaddee yaddee yadee da" - but instead they just went ahead and did it. Meanwhile all HG seems to have done is litigate and try to secure their market not through the quality of their product, but using the law.

They might be within their rights, but they aren't doing what's right - in my opinion.

If anything, this is just a good example of why people need to sit down and re-think copyright laws and reconsider them because we live in a global society (sorry to be so cliche).

This isn't 1982. It's not like only 4 people and their Japanese cousin are going to know about Macross while everyone else will just eat up Robotech even if it' s garbage, and it's not like you can litigate away people's right to watch youtube, to borrow films, to hold open discussions and to trade information about art works (I think Yammies are art).

So - from a practical business level I think this is bad business for HG (proven by the dismal performance of Robotech over the years), and also, in theory - it doesn't hold water.

And it's truly greedy - unlike what Yamato does.

you have a point. Robotech is garbage, and I like the storyline from macross better.

I think what's really at issue here is how hard it is for us in the states and other places to get honest-to -goodness macross stuff. i still think yamato could improve it's QC though.

If you lived in Japan you would have access to free replacement parts.

That would be wonderful! I need a heat shield, cockpit landing gear doors, and alerons for my mech, which is a vf-1s Roy .

Now, to convince Yamato I live in Japan.....

domo arigato mr roboto...

Put it to ya this way: Most of the CURRENT properties are external. Outdated and expired properties don't count. For example, what happened to Bandai's Macross properties between 7 and Frontier?

Similarly sized Yamato Components... Did you just say that? That's my entire point. Yamato parts break far more easily than legos of similar size. Some pieces aren't good enough to handle the strain, but overall... Overall, I keep hearing bad things about Yamatos breaking and I have over 16,000 Legos, 5 of which have broken over the last 12 years of collecting them.

And if all of this talk of components is moot, how about the pricing of QC? I mean, one would think Yamato's valks show how QC's been pushed aside for profit...

I know all about them breaking: I'm curently trying to repair my vf-1s 1/48!!!

I'm not impressed with yamato's quality, and with the price they are charging, I think their product should be better than that. So I'm going to have to go with greed. JMHO.

Thanks. I really appreciate the compliments ans support everyone. I was a little nervous putting this one up on here.

I'm refining it as I go. So far, there is only the prototype, and I don't have the resources to cast it in resin.

As far as the matte coat, I'm trying to find a good one. The last one i used clouded the hull and i had to repaint.

They should have done it as a period piece, set in the 1950's. Perhaps as sort of a "documentary" of "real events" that happened at that time, only coming to light now.

That would open the door to a sequel in which man hasn't lived up to it's responsibilities, and a new emmisary had to be sent.

Kitbash? Why kitbash when you have the 1/72 model kit?

The plastic on a DX is heavier, and can stand more modifications.

Wow it looks great! And kitbashing a transforming valk is a feat in itself. Hats off to you! I would have liked a lighter paint scheme though, just so I could see all the details and identify the parts you used!

It's supposed to be stealth, so that's why i used darker colors. But the base frame was a Gundam zeta plus model. Most of the outer armor is very heavilly kitbashed,; only the joints are still noticeable.

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You'll need something that dissolves graphite. You might go ok with the eraser, but finding a solvent that will remove the pencil but not the paint will be the trick.

Good news is that you can experiment on a spare piece of plastic and see what works nicely.

Try rubbing alcohol, 70 percent grade. Any stronger and it will remove paint.

I used it along with a q-tip to remove panel lines previously, and it seems to do a good job with graphite.

This DX screams one thing to me: KITBASH!!! :lol

I voted for battroid; it can do hand to hand.

Although Mr. March came up with a good point: The tranformation itself is the best feature! Keep your enemy guessing by constanly changing the rules of the fight!

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Definitely. I think we may see a pattern of assigned fighter types to specific branches of the Unity forces.

recently, my yamato 1/48 scale valkyrie met with some trouble, as it got knocked off it's display by a very clumsy and idiodic former friend of mine. The two metal doors on the cockpit landing gear are broken, as well as one of the square plastic pins in the nose that hold the leg bar in place in battroid mode. If anyone has spares of the lower nose or cockpit landing gear doors, please let me know. You can also email me at:

http://wraithverge2003@yahoo.com

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I have a question (And i've been a fan for a number of years now),

Does anyone know what type of metal the Alien Star Ship One was made of? And what metal did they utilize to rebuild it into the macross during it's decade-long refurbishment?

Hi everyone!

For my first post here at MW Forums, ley me tell you about something I've found to be pretty useful. it's called plastic welder, manufactured by devcon. It's an epoxy-like adhesive that isn't as brittle as normal epoxy, and is a lot stronger. I use it to make my own parts for my custom projects, and the stuff can't be beat when you need to fix a part that requires both strength and durability. (it's as strong and resilient as the original plastic, if not more so) It cures in 15 minutes, and reaches full strength overnight, not to mention it can be machined with a rotary tool, and accepts paint quite easily. You can find it for about $2.50 at Wal-mart or your local hardware store. I hope to post some of my stuff here soon. Until then, konichiwa!!