jenius

A Perfect Cicle. Tool, NIN, White Zombie, Static X, Filter, Slipknot, Jawbreaker, At the Drive-in, Operation Ivy, old Bad Religion, and Rage Against the Machine. If I'm feeling more social it's more like Incubus, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Grand Funk Railroad, BTO, Beasties, God Lives Underwater... Eclectic... kinda. Funny that... a bunch of people who love 80s bands on a Macross website

Well... thank you for that. I still see some potential here and would like to clean it up. I'm trying to find some sort of compound I can apply to plastic and then mold to clean up all the hacked off edges. Something like plaster for plastic. I think I'll try to do that to all the areas I've hacked and then give it the Fusion/Plasti treatment as shown in another thread to try to make the Millia valk suggested earlier.

Sorry, i think I caused the confusion by discussing the modification of the "hip" area. Yes, the stock toy can move it's leg forward with no bending any where along the leg (except the knee which can bend the wrong direction). I've added two places for bending along the leg. The first is obviously the knee. The second is below the hip where the thigh meets the hip. Just about every VF-1 has this upper thigh joint but the stock VF-17 lacked it. It doesn't really need this secondary leg joint but I find it makes Gerwalk look a whole heck of a lot better.

me likey Any clue which episode that was (number or title)?

oooh, that custom looks perty! I fidgeted with the knee hacking quite a bit and may have over-done it. At the time though it seemed to need to be hacked down that far. Maybe if there is some sort of resin I can apply I can smooth out the square cuts a bit to make it not look so obvious... I'm definitely hungry for ways to make this thing look better. Hey, if I do have to repaint the whole darn thing, were there any other alternate color schemes to the VF-17? The Miriya paintjob was suggested but did Miriya ever fly one? No, I'm not painting it green and giving it a sound booster of any kind.

2 questions: 1) If you had a plastic part with resin attached would the product look the same color on both the plastic and the resin? (if it adheres to resin at all) 2) I'm thinking about trying this on that VF-17 I just modded, do you think it's possible to use it on a plastic that starts that dark??

Doing this was actually a piece of cake. This has to be the easiest valk to disassemble. Everything just unscrews right apart. After it was all apart it was time to do some serious hacking. Cut away the excess plastic around the knees (it's a lot more plastic than you probably suspect) and you get a functioning knee. Gerwalk is my favorite though, that's why I continued up and hacked the large V out where it connects to the hip. This lets the joint go much further forward and actually obtain that classic Gerwalk stance. Unfortunately, there's no room for the thigh to bend in that direction so some extensive hip modification must be done. That part was exhausting. You have to hack a way a curved bottom but retain (or replace) enough plastic to hold the joints in place. That part is NOT fun. A more capable customizer would have replaced the stock joints with naturally more poseable ones (metal ball joints or something), I retained all the original parts and just modified their positioning and housing.

Here's a better pic that shows exactly the damage I'm trying to make look better. If I could just put a nice smooth edge around everything I modified I think this could be a really good-looking (and much more poseable) custom.

Gamlin is all that is man!!! (uh... right... I gave him a non-alcoholic beer for his pose on purpose)

Gerwalk is where it really shines (since it hides all the slashing and hacking)

Hey everybody, I was fortunate enough to get the original Mac7 toys at a great price. Once they arrived I looked at my reproduction VF-17S and decided to let my hatred of Mac7 bubble out onto it. It always seemed to me to be a toy on the verge of something pretty cool, so I was ready to beat some coolness into it (too bad no one ever did that to Basara...) Anyway, those of you who have the toy will probably figure out what has happened to it. I'm really thrilled with the results but since I was never thinking about the cosmetic finish I have seriously marred it and would love to hear some suggestions on how to get a nice finish on the plastic. All suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Maybe some resin product I could paint?

Here's a YF-19 for half the price of this shop... still seems steep to me.. YF-19 on Ebay

use the search feature, you'll have instant access to lots of opinions.

well, just in case i bought a "robotech.com exclusive" toy now rather than waiting and hoping to see it on Ebay at some point. God that website's prices are insane. I think I'm gonna head over there and blow every TOU now...

I won an auction from that guy and never received the item. His Email address also doesn't work so whoever bid that might be in for a great surprise. Also, everything he was selling went for INSANE prices. I got an MISB SDF-1 for $140 a few months back and someone bought his for like $400... I think this is just a case of a few people who have tax return money and want the exact same things (except for international people as was explained earlier). You gotta figure demand for Southern Cross toys is intense among a small number of people. If you have one toy and ten people want to buy it you can sell it for a nice price but that doesn't justify then making nineteen more toys- you'd just end up with ten sitting on the shelves.

1) Whoa, I didn't know they let you sell that kind of toy on Ebay... 2) Isn't that Clinton's cigar holder? 3) but are the batteries and lubricant sold separately? Seriously though, how do you determine the starting auction price should be $30? Anyone know what exactly this is?

Man, I just got my standard YF-19 and now I can't decide which of the two I like more! Such sweet dilemmas. The beige one sure seems a lot shinier. My big problem with these is that neither looks agressive enough in Gerwalk mode.

Please tell me Orbit in Walnut is some crazy hipster slang for some country where $1 is worth roughly 20 american cents.

it's one of my favorites but i never touch it. I've never transformed it. It doesn't seem very durable. Still, it's on par with the other Mac+ toys and an improvement over the original YF-19. I recommend it.

uh, if you tinted your display case wouldn't you effectively just be creating a closet/cabinet?

okay, here's a diddy from Cancer Research UK: SO, if you drive with one arm out the window that'll get burned to a crisp while the rest of you could potentially get tanned. I also imagine most car glass has more of a UV protection than standard glass since some windows have anti-shatter measures. You jeep owners are doomed. From a toy perspective, I stand by my placing cardboard behind and to the side of my display case. That means the only time my toys are exposed to sunlight its ambient and generally that's once in a blue moon. Now, folding the boxes to toys does seem like an excellent background device but it would lead to the conundrum of what to do with all the stuff that was formerly in the box...

Look at the crotch region. The legs should slide back over the two tabs coming down. If you haven't managed this you're not transforming it correctly. I don't know why but there are couple things that seem to help me manage this. 1) Make sure the kneecaps are back all the way forward. There are tiny little slots indicating where the full forward position is. 2) Open the feet up a little bit. If you bring the feet tight in the center it can screw up the clearance for the collapsing mechanism. Open them up and then collapse the legs. Then push them together slowly and if you feel the legs about to pull back out by moving the feet STOP.

You have the taka super vf-1s that alludes me to this day. it pains me to see it. Otherwise I love what you've done. What's wrong with the comics for a backdrop? if you took them down what would you replace them with?

how can anyone complain about Toynami's boxes in a Toynami vs Yamato thread. I'm pretty neutral but Yamato boxes blow balls. If we're saying one vs the other, i'll take the toynami box any day. Wait... am I seriously complaining about packaging.. i need a new hobby.

Godzilla... there's a mirror back there???? As someone stated, the mirrors make photography pretty darn difficult. That's why I was hoping to go with some sort of artwork. Then again, maybe just a flat back or similar background is the way to go? On the UV thing, not only does the UV hurt but I also hate the idea of how hot my guys would get if the sunlight were directly on them. I can't imagine that being good for anyone. I have my old Jetfire somewhere and that thing is super yellow and I doubt it ever made it outside but i know it spent many many hours in a very well-lit room. On another note, I'm also of the opinion you can't get sunburnt through a window. I've believed that since like the 7th grade. Isn't your normal window something like an SPF50 sunblock?