Majestic

1/48 SDP-1 Stampede Valkyrie Complete! Pictures on page 2! I have been working on this for a couple of years now off and on, finally ramping up the process as of late. It's a project that has to compete for my time along with a family of four (including a 4-year old and a 4-month old) a full time job, and 8 units of real estate classes! This is my first ever scratch built project so it lacks the polished, precise engineering of some of this message board's much more talented scratchbuilders, who I hope might be convinced to build a better version. While I use a precision ruler and studied all the available and limited drawings/pictures, the proportions and armor measurements are both my best guesstimate along with design accomodations made for transformation, etc. There is a lot of "anime magic" going on with the dorsal missle launcher pods - I had to build a complicated folding mechanism for the pods to fold up and over the shoulder in Battroid mode...a design that took me weeks to get right. The build makes use of what seems like a million magnets, including: 64 removable missles, each held on by a magnet. Handmaking 64 missles is about as fun as it sounds. Magnets to hold the dorsal missle pods in place in fighter mode. Magnets embedded in the chest for removable chest armor. Magnets to hold the inner and front-leg armor in place (not pictured. Magnets to hold the nose cone assembly together. The bottom/back "quarter panel" of the nose assembly is removable to allow for transformation. I still have a great deal of sanding and detail work that needs to be done (i.e. some panel lining, detail work at the hinge joint for the vernier "fins") along with the obvious weapons systems that mount on the sides of the fast packs. You can see I've started on the triple-barrel gatling gun. I apologize for the terrible pictures. More as the project develops.

Is there anywhere with a decent price on the Yamato Proto-Garland?

I'm having trouble discerning the differences on the new Combattler versus the old. From what I can tell: Increased poseability Clear cockpits Parts on the back of the shoulders stay on after transformation Different placement of tank treads on back Wider upper arms? Stand up without falling over?

Recently I got a new Samsung LCD, but can't get the Comcast remote to recognize the new TV...thus requiring me to use the Comcast remote to change channels and the Samsung remote to adjust volume. Any suggestions for this? Will I be required to spend $90+ on a universal remote? Or should I see if I can update my Comcast set top box and remote (seeing as how my current one is a few years old anyway)?

Anybody know where I can find Engrish robot transformation instructions from either recent or old releases. A friend of mine were laughing about some of the terrible translations/engrish on old boxes from the 70s and 80s. I've searched around but haven't found anything...

Sorry if I missed something here... Are the -G and RVF- variants above going to be actual 1/60 DX releases? Or are those just customs?

A 1/18 Takara Fatty would sell like hotcakes. I think both Yamato and Takara may have done themselves in by releasing the same basic scopedog over and over with only slight variation.