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I think it was kid how gave me a link to making the colapable gunpod. Lots of mods... You guys seem to think inside the box though. All I can really say is...

"You want a piece of this?

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I do add to my collection on a weekly basis. I could say money, but lack of money doen't prevent me from aquiring stuff... it just makes me search harder for better deals.

Storage, or lack there-of, should hold me back but I find boxes stack nicely all the way to the ceiling

My wife puts up with it as better refurbishing old toys for hours than spending the time at strip clubs... it's all how you make the argument

Priorities do shift though, so while nothing prevents me per-say, I sometimes elect to waste money on other things like a third car so I can fix up my camaro proper... or at least not die in a heap of seat-beltless metal and flame before I get around to fixing the brakes on the camaro

I'll take a set.  That is excellent work!  Now hurry up and finish your Elint Armor!

Rob

elint armour ??uhm im not redoing that one for now

ill have to get cracking on the SDP project after this one so no time for that.

"sniff" I'm never going to get my 1/55 Elint.....The quest will never end....

But I am happy to get the Armor! Just LMK when you need the payment!

Rob MN

Sorry monkey... you don't want to know what it took to swing this. There are so many small pieces I understand why few are willing to undertake the project, especially at robs level of perfection. The future is a wonderous thing however, so there might be a seeker recast in your and jwinges future sometime next year.

Oh yeah... for anyone not yet familier with robs skill and level of beauty...

Keep in mind he considered the molds worn out before he did this, if that gives a hint of what he expects from himself

3. The thing that got me about the re-issue bandai 19 and 17 was that they were packaged with the original style instructions that started off in batroid mode so you had to work backwards

The most I ever spent on a Macross item was split in two.  I spent $500.00 for a resin kit of the 1/72 Destroid Monster.  But the number one was $2400.00 on a Takatoku / BANDAI Valkyrie Lot. ( 2 VF-1S, 2 sets of GPB Armor MINTy MINT and , a couple of Conversion kits and 1/44 destroids...a total of 6 VF-1S 1/72 HCM and 5 VF-1J 1/72 HCM, and VF-1S Strike 1:55)

And I am never going to do that again!

Rob  

Holy cow rob! nice catch on that collection! Do you still have any of those? Or did you ebay them off already? Nice, really nice.

all loose [and some of it glued] complete collection recently aquired by me, so I can talk about it now that it's in hand and I won't jinx anything... the old "don't count your chickens till they marry a striper in vegas" expression, or something like that:

2 destroid monsters

8 JM's with most armor, but time consuming restoration

5 officers pods [4 mint, one good for spawn custom ]

10 7" tomahawks in good shape

17 7" defenders in decent shape [1 missing head antenna thing]

9 7" gladiators [6 in decent shape... now]

1 invid scout

8 7" zen power armor

all of the 3" destoids but one in my pic in the "army builders post" [80+]

an original 12 1/2" gozilla figure

2 very abused 18" alien figures

A gi joe 3 3/4" soldier tank that takes batteries [wombat?] in good shape

a couple die-cast air planes of no particular interest to me

a battle star galactica fighter with swapable noses [seemed a silly idea to me]

All sorts of assorted bits for my bits box ranging from joe weapons to warhammer parts to who knows what.

I wish I was as spoiled as the kids of the guy I got it from

I knew about the macross stuff, the rest were an added bonus.

Probably my single most expensive macross purchase to date, still not counting trade value with rob. I won't say just how much though as people would start hating me, lets just say it's nice to buy stuff besides precious metals [i was tempted to say drugs but some might get the wrong impression] based on weight . On a side note, look for lots of stuff in my trade post as soon as I take pics

Incidentally, do you have to remove the legs on any of the Yamato non-VF-1 1/60 toys (like, say, the VF-11 or the YF-21) to transform them?

my 19 and 21 both feature attached legs and nice engineering. The vf-11b wasn't designed o have removable legs... it just kinda worked out that way for many

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I guess the only problem I have with some collector's is when they show off their collections as if they are superior because they went out and spent five thousand dollars on rare toys. They have three MIB strike valks which makes them better than a guy who only has one. Stock valks are great to look at and display, however I try not to take personal pride in a toy I just buy since it is kind of silly. Big whoopy, I filled out an order form and sent it in. About a million other people can do the same thing. I can see taking pride in having an extremely rare toy that you had to seek out and find, but other than that....

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I am dang proud of my collection, though it's not like any material possesion makes me better than another. I don't take pride in my re-issues but I do like having them around. While I have many valks boxed and complete, I am not so lucky as to have enough disposable income to get what ever I want when I want it. I spend much time searching for stuff that I can actually afford, and I do take pride in some things I got ridiculously cheap. I take more pride in the knowledge that 80% of my boxed and complete stuff was incomplete when I got it. Out of, lets just say a few, jetfires... I only aquired one complete with all accessories, and it still needed a box and all the inserts which it now does. It brings me a sense of satisfaction evertime I got that last part I needed and put the toy away. Then there is the pride I take evertime I fix an old abused toy such as a glued together JM, a tail-less super o', broken main gun on a SDF, loose legged destroid monster, etc.

I do have to agree that the pieces in my collection that are not replacable are not the common toys, with the exception of one for sentimental reasons, but the customs I created myself. Where the heck would I go to buy a violator valk??? It has a lot to do with the creation process and knowing that it comes from within. I am willing to bet that many of those who draw would rather watch all thier comics burn than their sketchpads. As a writer I know I would watch my library perish to save my notebooks, at least till I get everything put on PC and stored in a remote location .

I would also agree that every collection should have at least one custom. Doesn't matter what, or how nice, but something enhanced post production. Obviously don't custom a pristine boxed specimine unless you really want to, but do make a custom. Mount a GI joe gun on a 3" destroid, paint an abused 7" destroid, rip the leg off a MPC and name it "gimpy", color a super posable with marker, drill out the left hand of an old bandai 1/55 so it can have a weapon in each hand, swap legs between yammie 1/60's for fun, get recast armor for something that shouldn't have it, bury an sdf-1 in the ground up to it's shoulders... whack it with a shovel... and call it a diorama, do something.

Why do I still love 1/55's??? because I can gets more parts cheaper, which is the same reason I like old chevy's which were also "chunky". I just need to get more bits for my bit's box and some non-spawn related ideas . Wonder how a 7" power armor would look with a barbie head...

spiders... most poisonous spider in the world is the north american daddy long legs. It's also never killed a man as it's fangs are to small to pierce the skin. Well, maybe it has killed but somebody would have to be pretty stupid to be rubbing spiders in an open wound

It thought this was about ants though. Listenin to you guys I realize I watched way to much tv as a kid. Them has been mentioned. Empire of the ants has been as well, though it was not radio-active sugar that made them big, it was dumped radioactive waste that made them take over a conviniently placed sugar plant. "it came from the desert" anyone??? Nothing like going into a giant ant hill armed with flame throwers. I know I saw at least two other "B-film"s about ant's, though the names escape me... perhaps due to a poor memory or perhaps because they weren't worth remembering.

Giant ants also made appearences in a lot of different movies that weren't about only ants. I know they battled a giant crab and I think they had to deal with some ants in whatever the clasic film about some civil war type folk in a hot air ballon drifting to a mesterious island where captain nemo is trying to repair his ship. Probably called "mysterious island" and possible written by vern, but don't quote me on either. I know hercules had to fight some in one of the hundreds of movies about him. I remember some really weird movie set it the heart of africa involving a sacrifice to a giant ant like insect... ant or a termite and done poorly so I couldn't distinguish when I saw it.

they store easy in tupperware as well

Yeah, Thats an army allright.

So who do ya plan on going to war against, 10 Glaugs would get um, destroid, hehe

it's just way to funny you said that as my slow as connection was loading

FYI... the army is original bandai/matchbox die-cast 1/144... just like the taka's. Far superior to the all plastic exo-squad ones. The sad part, besides the right most column of half-wits, is that every single gladiator is missing one hand?!?! I can't complain as I got them in a lot, but every friggin one?!?!?

Not my entire collection for those who don't know about my insanity, just the 1/144 stuff I had in the living room when I decided to take pics at 3 in the morning. Many know about my jetfire fetish. As it was my first valk I can't help but love it. I know my obsessive nature and will allow myself no more than ten complete. Right now I am only at 7, though I have just a few partials that will either get repaired as I get parts or made into customs.

How many know what my second favorite toy of all time is though?!?!? Again my limit is ten, though I have two boxed not in the picture, one that I will either fix the head gun or make a custom, and one worth of nothing else but being a spawn custom. So the question is... Got glaug?

they store easy in tupperware as well

1/144 wasn't that hard. All of them but the one tomahawk I painted gunmetal up front are original die-cast no less Granted... the right most column is the abused destroid squad that can still walk

SO what do you guys think...? Does this count as an army?

Thankfully the second one I took on was glued a lot less securely and I had little problems having already learned why not to use acetone. I will check around for dry ice as I am rapidly losing patience and I have a long way to go...

that resulted in more hours which left me with this...

As I mentioned earlier... after many hours working with an exacto knife before I was able to seperate the pieces I decided to speed up cleaning the individual parts by diping them in acetone

I unburied my computer and was able to do productive stuff with my camera, including taking pics of my computer when it was buried... but thats for another post.

Here is what I have been going through... First off I diss-assembled what I could and put all the parts in a bag so I didn't lose them [real smart idea I should do more often ]

Three of them had their arms glued together in fighter mode, one still does as I haven't gotten to it yet but thats easy. I believe all of them with armor [the first milla I worked on had no leg armor] had the armor glued on with the exception of the boosters... thank god. All of them also had the back plate glued to the chest plate which prevents transformation. This last hurdle is wha you all have been helping me with. Here is a pic of the problem area removed from the rest of the parts...

SWEET! Can't wait to get mine. Great work Rob. If you do experiment with pigments and get it as close as Jesse's were (especially with that marbleing he had in the grey armor parts) it would be cool.

rob might be more inclined to experiment knowing I will happily take anything and everything that doesn't work out quite right

I guess not many people are talking about the 1/55's mainly because Bandai isn't doing anything with them. They have put no effort whatsoever into Macross as of late and there's nothing new Macross-related coming from them, whereas Yamato is churning out Macross goodness at a dizzying pace and even re-issuing some 1/60 valks.

yep.

If there were new 1/55's on the way you can bet that there would be talk about them. As is, us monkey lovers have to put up with all the yammie threads until...

the clear coat ou use makes all the difference bsu legato...

Oh definitely. I always spray on some kind of clear onto my models. I just wanted to point out that my experience with Tamiya on toys only extended to my pre-teen days. But even with a clear coat, I still don't know if I'd trust Tamiya on a Yamato.

I always go for over kill. I try to make my customs able to withstand my stupid friends as well as a factory toy would... if not better. Maybe I should'a been an engineer, but making a toy strong enough to get dropped is important to me. One of my first recast projects will be a bullet-proof ve-1... Though I need to invest in some industrial wax as I'm gonna have to burn the molds off the "deck sealent" I plan on using .

the clear coat ou use makes all the difference bsu legato... spray silicon bio-degrades in something like 500,000 years. Don't spray indoors but I put water based acrylic painted mini's in a snow globe, clear coated, assembled it, and filled it with water and I had no problems with paint loss for the years I knew the girl who it was given to. Than again I use the same clear coat on my car

well.. tis no longer hypothetical... I have four max, three milla, and one roy. All suffered the same fate back in the day with one of two types of glue it appears. Some were held tight in place while glued and others were not so tight making them more likely to be my early attempts. I managed to make a max transformable in far less time than the first one took, but a assembly line or all at once meathod would be prefered. Just where does one buy dri-ice??? Lord knows I get some odd chems here and there... wich makes me wonder... muriatic acid is stored in a plastic jug... a JM is plastic... would just the glue dissolve? I know chlorine would stain it. Pics as soon as I unbury my computer

I like brush painting. It gives your model a more realistic look. Most military paint schemes look like absolute crap up close. They're NEVER even; hence brush painting is a little more realistic. That's just me though, I'm old school.

amen brotha

If you use a cheap brush you get what you deserve... Sable at a minimum.

I like the old citadel with a nice chem since outlawed because you can adjust the consistence so it actually "flows" and leaves no lines with a nice brush. After a wash and sealer it often gives more detail than spraying can achieve. Though I have seen some airbrushing masters do amazing things, which I can't... so I don't try...

Oh yeah... it's not just that the paint on a real aircraft is sprayed for function rather than beauty, but on military craft the scheme is rarely uniform up close. Many a f/a 18 I fell off while washing had suffered various discoloration from normal operation as well as mass paint removal by overzealous linemen using improper scrub pads . Lets just say when you scrub the numbers off a bird, it leads to some confusion . But hey... I was only in the navy, what do I know

decals cheap on top of your order... http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HSG65757

minmay guard strike looks real sweet http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HSG65768

photo etched decals... http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HSGQG3

I wish I had the money and skill... http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?SHE007

I should check them more often

I spray primer and sealer, but do everything else with good brushes by hand. I Highly recommend the "citadel colour" line in flip top jars, unfortunately they stopped making it over a decade ago and I have a bugger of a time tracking down jars . The new citadel paint isn't bad, but it just doesn't feel the same to me, or have some of the colors I know and love.

britiny spears???

perhaps the chick who played dark angel?