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There were many greats, back in the day. Jung Chao - Beautiful custom 1/55 repaints. Rob Beers - Recasted Super, Strike, VE-1, VT-1, and a full 1/55 VF-1. Fulcy - The legendary 1/55 hip mods. Rosario Love - 1/55 Super Ostrich customs ad kits. Jason Pi (KidKorrupt) - An Arsenal of amazing. custom 1/55 VF-1. Tony Yao (xstoys) - Just insane engineering of the 1/55 Vf-1D. There were also a ton of great sites back in the days. Do You Remember...Valkyrie Hangar, VF1X, geocities sites. Valkyrie Dream Flight, and much more.

Cool. The first set has the old white decals you would wrap around the red nosecone of Jetfire so you wouldn’t have to repaint. I think the decal makers of that time circa 2000 were, Jung Chao (aka: Jung), Jerry Tsai (aka: vf1x), Eric Mabrich (aka: Takatoys), and IIRC Jeremy (?) (aka: Skull Leader). Skull Leader was the creator of many incredible customs like the Max & Milia Marriage Set, Max & Kakyzky Vermillion Set, And Evil Jetfire. It was a group called AlphaTeam11. He would even provide signed COAs to guarantee the work and origin of the custom. I wonder how many are still out there to this day? Also there was another member, Rosario Love (aka: Rosario and then Redemption), I believe he made stickers as well. But only for an amazing Super Ostrich resin kit he used to provide. He was the creator of Valkyrie Dream Flight.

Would you be interested in selling it as displayed in your picture?

He did. He produced the SDF-1, Destroid Coversion Kit, and several other custom stickers. I wish I new who started the original decal sets for the VF-1S Super Valkyrie. It is a set of decals that captured the look of the blackout panel on the cockpit just like the custom found on the Takatoku VF-1S Super Valkyrie box panel on the back. Anyone know?

It was in a baggie just like these.

I think the was Erik Mabrich, aka: Takatoys. He was also responsible for the highly detailed VF-1 Nosecone with hinged canopy.

VF-1D head was Chris Barretta. VF-1A DYRL type head came from Rob Beers. Wasn’t the originally reinforced GBP made by Rob Beers as well? I need a copy of this armor for my museum.

There is a great KO from the 90’ based off the 1984 StrikeValkyrie VF-1S with 1990 SuperValkyrie VF-1S (the ugly one) and makes a pretty damn good stand in for the Movie color Strike Parts. There is a white and grey (pictured here) version of this available.

Looking good!

Not at all. I could be off on timing and might be a year ago or so. I appreciate you looking for it. Let me just continue to kick myself.

I wouldn’t put past that perm-banned mod. If he didn’t plagerize or figure it out first then he feels it’s not real. Interesting. I will have to try this and if it works great if not we’ll then you got pretty lucky with some assemblyman being a bit stingy with glue.

Same here. But I just can’t justify it for all the real estate play space it would eat up. Who knows maybe I’ll change my mind later on.

One of my favorites. I am so happy to be a proud owner of this fantastic VTOL Jet. GI Joe from 1982 thru 1986 had some of the best vehicles, playsets, and figures. Now Inhave to break out the Terrordrome and GI Joe HQ so my son and I can war!! Yo Joe! Cobra!!!!!

Wow! Great custom work!

Well due to my trial and error method and OCD to get the perfect color I have two 48 x 30 inch shelves of rattle cans for any occasion set up as “Wh, Gr, Mtl, Blk, R, O, Y, G, B, I, V, Clr, Ntrl, and Misc” for tack sprays and other finishes. Here are my “Reds” Or “R.” Nice Strike packs on that low viz.

I usually go to the auto parts store for paint matching first. Usually the cheaper selection of rattle cans may have the color that matches the M&Ms pretty well. If you want take your valk to a parts store and look for cheaper paints. They newer better paints have a brighter hue that just doesn’t work. Buy a few colors that could match and then spray them on a primed plastic card to get an idea of the final color. Don’t forget to buy a satin top coat to protect and preserve your work. Spray light. And always remember prep is key if you start right your results will be top notch and last for years to come.

It could be that previous owners pulled the back plate away and wore out the two teeth that hold the chest and back plate together. You could rebuild the teeth by layering “Crazy Glue.” It takes time but it will increase the size of the teeth and hold better. Remember when transforming these 1/55, you always have to open the trap door on the back plate and press the retainer down to free it. Forcing it open always wears out the teeth prematurely. Hope this helps.

Thank you. Here are a few other I have picked up along the way. The stripped Jetfires are froM ravishingrick, not sure if he is still a member here. The heads and heat shields are from Rob Beers. Weapons are modified and from various KOs like Joons, Clover, and blister packed Valkyries. The VE-1 Armor set with head is from Mike Salzo.

Pretty hazy. I do know it was a non-scale resin kit as there was no scale shown anywhere on the box. The sprites were thick as would be on any garage kit of it’s time. Also the box was white with black font. I am so kicking myself right now.

Have any of you ever kept track of your incoming custom parts from various craftsmen of the Valkyrie trade? Here’s a little something I put together three years ago as I was sifting through parts and stashes. I have plenty more to share but I would invite others to show their custom parts and create a log on this thread for these elusive goodies. Resin, decals, stickers, custom parts, all are welcome and encouraged.

It’s amazing how quickly we all banded and collaborated together to get the facts and provide great information to share with the community. The way we worked together made me think of taking this picture. That’s what makes this site so great!

Even random photographs are a great way to archive.

Great set of photographs!

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Sorry Shawn. This would have been at least 8 months ago. I’m still kicking myself for not being able to acquire the promo kit.