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I have updated the review for all the 2nd Edition Yamato 1/48s on my site. You should check it out for some more pics including photographic evidence of the changes Yamato has made to the product since their first go at it. Here's a sample pic of some of the gallery-type work.

Glad you guys liked it. A little note on the Stealth GBPII, I have a really crappy lighting system so it was hard for me to get good pics with the Stealth. I think the Stealth GBPII combo could be nice but I would highly recommend buying the recast hands off of one of our other board members and painting them black. If you did that, I think it'd really look much better... i found the green hands very odd with the Steatlh. Also, the GBP casts a lot of shadows over the valk so if you're going to be using it for a display make sure you have it in a well-lit area or else you won't even notice the Valk inside all that armor (other than its black head popping out).

Nice, I'm especially jealous of the Orguss stuff. I don't own anything Orguss but I love the show and think it'd be fun.

Hey everybody, if you've been on the fence about purchasing a GBP kit I recommend you take a trip over here for a ton of pictures and comments. If you own a GBP and have wondered what it would look like on some of the other valks there's a gallery where I kinda went nuts with all the different combinations. Check it out.

Looks like the shadows could be helped by having a second light, one more directly over-head. Yes, the pics are also a bit bright and the white balance is off on Voltron. Here are some samples from my site: My system is HORRIBLE. I have one direct overhead light, nothing else. I also do not own any photo-editing software. I do own a pretty sweet camera though, a Cannon a620 that is chock full of manual settings and a pretty sweet macro function.

so you're saying it's not vaporware Oooh I like it a lot... although I do find some of the gimmicks pretty... gimmicky but I'd much rather have it that way then sitting there thinking "couldn't they have just added x?"

Yeah Haterist, I made that same observation... doesn't look like a "toy" in that sense.

TSINC on ebay had a few not too long ago. If you're in CA you're gonna get Taxed though

Yeah, I don't think I ever once put the red armor on my first Jetfire. It took a long time but eventually his right arm fell off. Then I bought a buddy's Jetfire and eventually both of its arms fell off

That's a ton of 1/60s! Man, I definitely envy your storage space in the meantime

Well that's about as unfair as it gets. Who pays $80 for an MPC... even RT.com has them for sale at $59.99. Neova does not sell 1/48s for $100 and he's in Hong Kong (IIRC). You can get a 1/48 for $125 new pretty easily, and you can get an MPC for half that pretty easily. There isn't a huge price similarity... nor is there a huge quality similarity to be sure.

I don't know if anyone else pointed this out but I just disassembled both my GBPI and GBPII and both feature the SAME fragile center piece. I call it fragile because others have broken theres. I installed the missiles in mine without any problems.

A Toynami Max MPC. Boy... if that didn't light a little fire.

If I dug my old Optimus out of the box he's in I'd probably be ashamed by how absolutely thrashed he is from all the playing I did. It was a similar thought the last time I saw my first Jetfire. Yellow as could be with only one arm still attached. I don't think "photogenic" would really describe them. If you need pics of anything Macross though I'm there for ya

Cool, but you meant "1/72" as the 1/60 isn't out. Hopefully a mod could fix that for you.

Where are the new pics??? That's it, this thing is Vaporware. Yamato just loves to drag out the YF-19 to get people psyched and then doesn't actually build the toy. It's the 1/72 Fast Pack version all over again. Nah, I'm not really serious.

While in some ways I agree with Haterist there is more to it. If you're in college DON'T BUY TOYS. Seriously, it'll just get broken in a drunken stupor by you or one of your friends and that money could be much better used to get yourself or a freshman girl drunk. If you absolutely must get a valk just to feed the festering valcoholism (something I clearly suffer from) just pick up a 1/100. Then, when you're through with school and have a job that pays nice, pick up a 1/48 like it ain't no thang.

Those Alphas on a Card Glad you dig the site, it needs some major improving but it's getting there.

Those arms look like they might be a bit fragile.

See my review of the first edition on my website (it's on the front page, one of the last two most recent posts). I've had that toy for a couple years and as you can see in the pics, it's been used and abused and hasn't yellowed at all. It's also very white, not really grey-ish. There were a couple members here who did see some versions of the 1/48 yellow a bit but I think most admitted to having them in sunlight for displays of some sort.

LOL, everything except the 0S & 0A!!! Sorry, I haven't gotten around to those yet. I'm waiting on a reissue of the 0S because the first one apparently had some QC issues (although, even with those QC issues I'd wager it'd blow the Toynami out of the water... and I'm one of the people less hateful toward Toynami in these parts). I definitely recommend you check out my site to see the wealth of other options you have. There's a link to it in my signature if you wanna get there quick. I'm also in the midsts of a pretty exhaustive write-up to finally show people just how significant the differences are between the MPC, Yamato's 1/60, and Yamato's 1/48... that'll probably take another week or two to finish... but won't help you with the decision to buy a 0S though.

I posted a bunch more pics in an updated review of Yamato's 1/48 Super/Strike Parts (including Stealth). Check it out here. Here's a teaser:

Man, you pick some very odd combinations! I know black is supposed to go with everything but I gotta expect the Stealth in either GBP is going to be pretty hideous. I can do all of your requests (it's going to take some time) except for the 4th item. I don't collect DYRL color schemes. Closest I could do is Focker wearing the green GBP. In other news, more AngelBirds and pics of lots of other valks in the standard and stealth parts are up in my newest post (or "updated post" to be more precise): Just follow this white rabbit.

Was there some big video game event near SFO today? I saw a bunch of younger people dressed very oddly walking around the Marriot. There seemed to be an inordinate amount of people dressed as cats... There were also what appeared to be girls dressed in traditional Dutch attire (Okay, I have no idea what country the attire was from, but it was definitely traditional). I figured it might have been a comic or video game convention and lots of people were dressed up like stuff i was totally not familiar with.

I don't really get it (as far as the Neutron S missiles are being used and how they're ordered and when) from the brief write-up presented there. Rick ordered them, then had a change of heart after it was too late? Did I misread it or is that what it said?