olivers

I have a brand new unopened Ingram 2 (moved house just after I got it). They go for £275 on ebay ($430) and shipping to the US would be about £25 ($40) so would be looking for approx $470 with signed shipping.

Am starting to sell off a load of model kits I will never build, such as Gundam, general Sci-Fi and quite a few Macross kits once I sort them out. The listings are here is anyone is interested.

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/oliver_1412000

One item I want to sell is a resin 1/72 VF-4/4G kit. It is a ltd edition from Hobby Expro and contains decals, clear canopy and metal details.

The downside is I don't know how rare it is or any idea of cost. I think I paid about £50 for it about 10 years ago so would be looking to at least get this back.

Nice car, where did you get it? Goes perfectly with the figures.

No longer on sale

Looked before I went to bed and was on sale, back from work and ready to order and back to full price. Grrrr

Seen this:

http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00077

HLJ have Macross 1/200 scale toys on sale 1/3 normal cost

Patlabor 3 is more of a detective story rather than a labor story like the 2 other films.

The artwork is different too as well as the director (not Mamoru Oshii).

Is worth watching but th original OVA, TV series, new TV series, movie 1 and 2 are all far better.

Take a look at:

http://www.makerbot.com/

HLJ have the 2 other Taisyo variants for sale, not the OVa version however.

Am still very tempted by the 1/24 Ingram. But can't justify the cost and customs charges I will get hit with.

The 1/24 command car is another matter, need at least 1 of those

I have the CM Brocken and really like it. There are 3? layers to the box, you have extra hands, the extra armour kit and a choice of guns.

Is worth the money as you get loads of extras. I just hope the more expensive 'Economy Ingrams' have loads of extras too.

The moulding is quite good, no visable screws and its pretty posable. The only downside is the shoulders and knee polycaps could be a little tighter as 1 of the legs tends to fall off when I lift it up and 1 shoulder tends to pop out if I play with it too much.

Have a look on ebay for 12CH RF remote, these give either latching or momentary switches. I have loads of these for various projects and they are superb. The ones with the blue faceplate give a lot longer range and are worth the extra money.

The only downside is you can only use 1 button per remote at a time but you can have different remotes on different channels. I have a mounting bracket on my Spektrum that the remote sits on so I can easily get to the buttons.

Sp is this a model, boat or ship? Not sure what 6ft of scale model counts as

Got my 2*1/72 Hannibals this morning. WOW, Kotobukiya have really outdone themselves and I am really going to enjoy making these models. For the scale the detail is incredible.

Was also thinking it would be fairly easy to scale up to 1/35 so it matches the Master Grade kits. Will have to take a proper look once I start making one of them. White NATO colours I think for the first one.

I like some of the non-mech eps. The one when the chief goes on a rampage and bans all the mechanics stuff is classic, with Shige becoming a dictator like figure is awesome.

Prefer Patlabor 1 to 2. 2 is just a remake of SV2's Longest Day part 1 and 2 done better. WXIII is really bad.

Think part of the attraction of Patlabor is that it isn't a 100% mecha show but does have lots of character stuff and character growth. Some eps such as the onsen and Ohta Blade Runner ep are a bit pointless.

So what is the best bit of the Patlabor series then?

I like the Griffon fights, you kow bothtimes it will end up with Alphonse vs Griffon but is worth it. Favorite bit has to be the Tokyo heleport Ingrams vs the Phantom backed up by the Brockens, then the Helldivers turn up to help.

Need an Ingram Mark 1, may even be tempted by the Mark 2 as well.

On a slightly different note didn't see this coming: http://www.hlj.com/product/CMS65154

Pre-ordered it straight away.

Think I will have to invest in the Helldiver and Economy. Got enough Ingrams around.

Superb work, coming along really nicely. Would love to come along for the 'grand floating', not sure how the ducks will handle it.

Do you have a home made vac form machine? I have always looked at making one but never got round to it, any details would be great.

I'll only be getting 2 of the above (well 3 as 2 Hannibals). Not sure why anyone would buy the live action Ingram, it looks nasty.

I thought the only difference was the colour. Blue vs Red. Am I missing something?

Knew I saw something I meant to post:

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1547/Akihabara.html

Looks like 2 versions can be made, a normal and WW2 version.

Prefer the normal version. Glad they are doing a removable head.

http://www.antweight.co.uk/temp/2008japan/...es/DSCF1616.htm

http://www.antweight.co.uk/temp/2008japan/...es/DSCF1617.htm

Was really hard to get photos as you weren't supposed to take them so had to use my small camera and not look too suspicious.

On the Japanese modellling site mentioned way above the HAL-X10 is from a kit, these are really rare now and I've only ever seen 1 on ebay. Even then it was pulled as the bids didn't go high enough. They might show up on Yahoo Japan Auctions but never check them out. I think it is unlikely that anyone will ever do a model of this.

I would love the Roadrunner from Patlabor 2, just the traffic police car with extendable legs.

Just ordered 2 of the Hannibals from HLJ

I never managed to see my friend from Kotobukiya, he was at San Diego Comic Con rather than Star Wars Celebration Japan.

Got some nice goodies though:

http://www.antweight.co.uk/temp/2008japan/...es/DSCF4895.htm

New 1/48 Snowspeeder from Fine Molds. Yes I know it's OT

Sorry about the low res pics:

http://www.antweight.co.uk/temp/2008japan/...es/DSCF1612.htm

through to

http://www.antweight.co.uk/temp/2008japan/...es/DSCF1622.htm

In the window of the Kaiyodo store in Akihabara. The Brocken must have been about 1/35.

All the models apart from the Revoltech line looked fan built rather than being mass produced. Yes, I was tempted to run off with the HAL X-10

I got a box of the CM Patlabor series 2 and didn't get any rares.

The Hanibal is crying out for a 1/35 version. The front of it doesn't look sloped enough compared with the movie.

Should see someone I know at Kotobukiya in a few weeks, will try and see if I can get any details of anymoer Patlabor models coming out. Would love a type-0 and HAL-X10.

Count me in for both of them.

I have a 1/48 Grau Bear and phantom unmade in the loft. Hopefully they will do a few more of other labors.

In London I can think of Forbidden Planet (as above never seen any Macross there, and is too commercial now it has moved).

There is also Comet Miniatures near Clapham. Last time I went must have been 12 years ago.

http://www.cometminiatures.co.uk/

I just buy my stuff online now as places like FP/Comet seem to rip you off. Even with import duty I have found it cheaper to use hlj.com or ebay.