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Graham, Thank you for the information. Your mention of the cannon length is precisely the same response that I gave in the very beginning as to why they were a certain length. Several others have said the same after I initially mentioned it, and it makes perfect sense. I have to disagree with you on the panel lines, and if you are going to mention Hasegawa as an example, then surely Yamato is equally culpable, because the panel line similarities are easy to see. Kawamori's lack of inclusion of panel lines may or may not have been deliberate. He might have intentionally not included them, or they could have been an oversight. Hand drawn animation in and off itself does not necessarily lend itself to the inclusion of a high level of detail because the task becomes more onerous, especially when dealing with a task that is by virtue, highly repetitive. Since neither you or I know Kawamori's intentions, I see no harm in companies (Hasegawa/Yamato) taking the time, expense and initiative to provide something that Kawamori neglected for one reason or another. All of this may be moot if Yamato continues to thankfully provide "non-canon" realistic detail/panel lines; however, citing the lineart in and of itself as a basis not to, does not justify in my mind the creation of a VB-6 lacking in detail. I hope Hasegawa and Yamato continue as before, and provide realistic detail regardless of (20) year old line art. Sincerely, Christopher

Actually, camouflage in space does make sense in certain instances. Let me give you a couple of examples, I'm sure there are more. Operating as "close in support" around the Macross. If the valkyrie and fastpacks are painted a color similar to the SDF1 to blend in, they could hide and attack in-coming enemies. Just blend in, pop out and eliminate the threat, and then melt away again. A Low Viz. scheme would be perfect for this. I'm no expert, but as big as space is, there must be millions/thousands of planets with little, to no atmosphere. As such, the fastpacks can and should be utilized. Take for example the moon. The moon is light grey, dark grey, with black craters and so forth. A moon base would be the perfect place to deploy a camouflage valkyrie. And one more example for arguments sake. When Minmei and Hikaru are flying the VT-1 around the rings of Saturn. At least that's where I think they were. But anyway, the VT-1 had their fastpacks on, and if painted to blend in with the planet/rings, they might have had a better chance. It's all speculative, but certainly feasible.

Good luck to all involved, and Rob's assistance is greatly appreciated.

Carl, Wow, I never knew about the even only version. Besides the clear version, has Hasegawa released any other "event" only kits or box variants that you or anyone else know of? Yet another Hasegawa item I'm missing. Sincerely, Christopher

Love it! That baby is going to look sweet on someone's shelf. Great job Kurt, I'm sure the new owner will be very happy.

Obviously, the first line of defense against such actions is ourselves. We need to be adults, and use a little common sense. If you just use a little intuition and logic, the rules become self explanatory. If we were to do a better job of policing ourselves, the moderators would have a lot less work to do. In addition, it's easy to subscribe the off topic posts in the "For Sale" thread to the recent fiasco; however, it occured prior to, and it will continue long after "Mechafreak" is forgotten about unless we moderate ourselves, so let's not presume that it is merely situational. It has of course flared up, but it has always been there. Just my two cents, that may not make a lot of sense, but since I already posted it, I hope does not appear too sensational.

Great job! I can't wait to order one. Since someone jokingly claimed the #1 spot on the future order list, please put me down in position #0.99, which technically makes me first now. Sincerely, Christopher

I think it was "Cobywan," but I'm not sure. I'm good, but not that good. A scratchbuilt 1/32 valkyrie is definitely out of my league.

Hello Ever, Welcome to MW! I'm sure some members will take you up on your offer to "do" them, but I'm not like that, and besides, we just met. All kidding aside, I've been following your 1/32 scratchbuild project, and I am very excited about it. Don't worry too much about being able to sell copies once you are finished, because where there is a will, there is a way. I'm sure you'll have plenty of interested customers who will line up to get a kit from you, as long as the price is reasonable. I also noticed that you plan to sell painted versions, which I think is great. Good luck and I'm glad you haven't not given up. All of your hardwork will be worth it in the end. I'm not sure where you live in Mexico, but I spent a week in Alcapulco, and it was absolutely beautiful, not to mention all of the Coronas I drank in Tijuana, and lobsters I ate in Rosarita. Please consider me to be an interested customer. Sincerely, Christopher

Screw the custom contest at the MW Con., let's just kick each others ass. Last man standing gets the CMS chase figure of their choice.

Without realizing what was bothering me aesthetically regarding the VB-6, and now that you have mentioned it, I completely agree with your observation. The level of detail definitely seems lacking. Of course I'm happy as hell to get a VB-6, but I would love to see more attention to panel lines, hatches and so forth.

Damn, that was one of the funniest things I've read in a long time next to the "Hurin" versus "Haterist" debacle. I'm cool with Agent One, but all I've got to say is: Mayor Gavin Newsom I'm not sure how this thread turned to gays and politics, but it is off topic, and I anticipate that their designated "MW Defense Champion" might show up at any time and post this: "Section III: Never Allowed #1. No religious or political debates. If you want to talk politics go to the proper outside forum. Not everyone shares your beliefs. Nothing starts more arguments then these kinds of debates. They have value but they have no value here."

no crap, apparently she didn't last long. I remember calling her out for posting comments like, "that picture made my panties get moist" or something similar. Now I know where the "hizzoe" portion came from.

Mike, Damn! Great job. I hope you are doing well. I just got my sprue snipper/cutters from HLJ, and I'm going to use them on some Hasegawa VF-1S Strike kits. Sincerely, Christopher

Definitely at the very top of my "must have" list. Yamato is looking to sell hundreds if not thousands of the VB-6, and I doubt their pricing will have anything to do with the amount that this redneck from Texas is willing/able to pay. The drama that occurs over assumptions is amazing, and we all know what happens when we assume. Until Yamato posts that they base their prices on what "Minmay on Crack" posts, I won't worry about it. All of the modes look good to me, and I'll be looking forward to comparing the Yamato version to the upcoming Valkyrie IHP VB-6 recast. I would imagine that they will be quite similar.

It's moot, but a model kit is a toy. No use in discussing semantics, but millions of people take their model airplanes/valkyries and fly them around the room, have battles with their Tiger 1 and Sherman, and see if their Tamiya BB-62 really floats by putting it in the bathtub, so lets not be so haughty as to call someone out, because they called them "toys." So the thread is not derailed, please PM me if you want to debate something so trivial as this. This thread should be in the model section of this "toy" forum anyway. Anyway, I own one of each of these toys, but I only opened one box, and I do not have a digital camera. Each kit is basically made in translucent plastic, which is either blue, pink or green. I only purchased them for the cool decals they come with. I don't own the clear version, but would really like to. Edit: By the way, welcome to MW, Synch. Hopefully, you'll be around for a while. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Nice pictures, thank you for posting them. The cannon length looks good to me. The last thing I want is a weak joint where each one attaches, droopy cannon barrel due to the length, and the length of the barrels directly influences the length in shuttle mode. They have to compromise, or people will complain that shuttle mode is too long. Looking at the second picture from the top, you can see what appears to be the 30mm cannon Graham mentioned, but I'm not sure. Edit: Damn, just noticed that the cannon barrels looked like they are rifled. Rifling is used to put spin on ballistic rounds to increase accuracy/range, but I was never sure what type of ammo the VB-6 uses, because rifling would be moot with regard to non-ballistic ammo.

Graham, Best wishes to you, your wife and son! I'm very happy for you. Sincerely, Christopher

Just curious, but who are we talking about here? Initially, I suspected "Mechafreak," but all his title says is "banned." So, what's the story?

Ditto It's a fun game, which is not necessarily indicative of intelligence. I'll admit that I definitely over analyzed the puzzle, which is characteristic of geniuses such as myself and Bill Gates.

David Hingtgen, One on hand, it would be cool to have the F-14 kit from a collector's point of view, but I would rather take the decals out and use them on an accurate F-14 kit. So the question becomes, which 1/72 F-14 kit do you recommend as being accurate to the anime? The same applies to the Mig-29. Is it accurate, or do I also need to obtain a better representation? If so, what is your recommendation? If anyone else has any advice, please let me know. Sincerely, Christopher

Hello, I agree that the prices I was quoted correspond with what has now been posted, and are completely fair. Keeping in mind the salient points Hurin made, I know from experience that there are some people who like to haggle, regardless of how reasonable the price might seem to everyone else. Sure $10 times (14) equals $140, but one has to take into account time, and that is a valuable commodity. The person selling the parts has to take the time to carefully disassemble an entire valkyrie, package it and make multiple trips to the post office. That in turn saves the buyer time, and it's hard to put a price tag on that. Fulcy, Still waiting for my PM response from you... Sincerely, Christopher

True, the box and decals are very nice, but that does not excuse the exclusion of the PE parts in my opinion. One does not justify the other. Ken, Interesting observation. Are you referring to the two pieces identified as "Part #5" from the picture above? Sincerely, Christopher

Rob, Thank you for the update! Did you make him a nice pair of cement boots? He's taking a swim with the fishes now. Sincerely, Christopher

Yes, thank you for the picture. Do you want to sell them? Without getting out a set of the standard photo-etched parts, I don't really see too much of a difference, besides the lack of parts for the armor.