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    What's the most you've spent on a VF?

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    I paid $110 for the re-issue super when it first came out but sold it a week later for $100 and a bass amp I sold for another $150.

    $90 for a loose complete matshu jetfire with all acessories shipped in a re-issue super box is the most for a toy I still have.

    $67 for an incomplete jetfire in box is second.

    As for trade value... lets just say I'll probably be into the thousands with rob beers over the next few years :lol:

    Toy ID

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    you beat my max bid of $5.01 LOL. Here is what you got for your extra money...

    As for the legless valk. That was actually the reason I wanted the auction. I was thinking something might be done with a 1/100 model kit in this case which is why I thought about getting it till it went up in price.

    To give you an idea of what they look like with legs, here is a pic from the auction the one I won came from. It's next to a 1/55 joons for size comparison and cause I got both in the deal. As it's the only 1/100 I have loose it now serves as the test dummy for removable 1/100 fast packs.

    Woohoo, Want to trade something worth about $5 for the valk? I thought it might have been some weird 1/55 bootleg I could rebuild but all I really wanted was the Legioss.

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    it's a possablility...

    I have a few 1/100 kits I've been using for parts to make removable super armor for the 1/100's, and plan on doing the strike armor after I work out the glitches on my first attempt. Looting legs from a kit wouldn't be as hard as figuring out how to mount them LOL. Kidkorrupt did all three armors a while back, and plans on doing them again better at some point in the future.

    I am practicing my skills so that when I decide to kitbash one with my 1/100 seeker resin I don't waste a rare kit ;) Shoot me a PM when you recieve it and I'm sure we could work something out.

    Toy ID

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    Yes, it does look like the 1/55 three-mode. Note the way the legfins stick out diagonally. (Why did they make it that way?) The arms on the 1/55 trimode appear to have very limited articulation, which makes it look goofy in diver mode. Good news for HG/Toynami, I suppose, since their Alpha will also be a trimode 1/55.

    Edit: My question was addressed to Hiriyu and Kanata67, both of whom spotted the 1/100 in the auction as a bootleg.

    The only three mode alpha's I was aware of were the really big one and the small cheap one. I had the two mode die-cast one and I couldn't get it into the pose in the pic. Maybe I didn't try hard enough or maybe it's different. Every die-cast one I ever saw also said "mars base" on it.

    as for the 1/100...

    I went through my small collection of 1/100's consisting of a bandai 1a, a taka lisa hayes cannon 1a, a joons style 1j, and to my surprise a joons style 1s in a joons style 1j box?!, plus the die-cast feet one I have loose. The die-cast feet one is the one that came with the really odd gun to my knowledge.

    anyways... as for how I made my educated guess about it. For starters, it looks just like the one I am holding in my hands at the moment. What distinguishes this one from the other ones I have is...

    1. the ruddy brownish canopy as all the ones besides the die-cast feet KO I have seen are either red or black with the exception of the takatoku cannon fodder which is a brown valk so this obviously isn't it.

    2. the lack of eye-piece sticker or paint on the head.

    3. the notches on the head antennas

    4. the fact that it says vf-1j on the wing [i don't think ANY of the 1/100's had the vf-? on the wing except this particular bootleg, though I would need more 1/100's to be sure]

    5. how the macross symbol on the other wing looks kinda squished

    6. stickers rather than paint on the chest plate

    All this is in hind sight mind you. My original comment was based entirely on the fact that it looked identical to the one I have but for the missing legs ;)

    does that help?

    Toy ID

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    you beat my max bid of $5.01 LOL. Here is what you got for your extra money...

    go-bot small version leader one

    a helicopter I assume is also go-bot

    the alpha is the smaller three mode non-diecast one. The one that supposedly was designed to atach to the never made beta. Jwinges can tell you more but you probably don't want to hear it. Fun in a poorly made sort of way.

    As for the legless valk. That was actually the reason I wanted the auction. Like the bandai and takatoku 1/100's, this one featured die-cast. Unfortunately, all the die cast was in the legs except for the chest plate. This version is, in my opinion, the best of the bootleg 1/100's. The shoulders weren't prone to breakage as much as the plastic one and the die-cast feet were kinda cool. The main problem was the non-secure hip bar that is prone to working itself loose and disappearing, as you can tell.

    The poorly designed hip bar means that the bar from a bandai or taka won't work, nor will the joons style plastic 1/100's. I was thinking something might be done with a 1/100 model kit in this case which is why I thought about getting it till it went up in price.

    To give you an idea of what they look like with legs, here is a pic from the auction the one I won came from. It's next to a 1/55 joons for size comparison and cause I got both in the deal. As it's the only 1/100 I have loose it now serves as the test dummy for removable 1/100 fast packs.

    A not so scientific poll

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    the MPC is better than the 1/48 because.....

    it's funner to watch the box mely around the batroid form in the fireplace

    you don't mind when the dog chews it.

    you save money making a valk really fly by gluing rockets to it

    hey... free watch batteries... :lol:

    what do the toys mean for/to you?

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    Bastardized as it was, Robotech was a far cry from insta-parachute G.I. Joe and/or Transformers where kids are treated like idiots and wars that go on for years never produce even one death.

    Macross was my very favorite story as a kid (possibly second only to Star Wars before Lucas trashed it).

    Seeing these toys now. . . they just feel like. . . home.

    H

    thats another part of it. I lived in the sticks during the mid eighties and the nearest KB toys was over an hour drive away. Malls were magical places to my toy deprived hick ass. I got jetfire and some cool g1 transformers while we lived in cape cod but in the sticks all I could find was the occasional GI Joe toy at k-mart that somebody else hadn't snagged.

    Living in the boons also made me severly deprived of quality tv. Cable didn't exist and only one broadcast channel did cartoons any day besides saturday. After years of joe inspired playing with explosives, I was flipping stations one day and the one that was kinda pbs like, and fuzzy, was playing cartoons. Robotech was on but at seemed like a soap opera cartoon so I flipped back to thundercats or whatever on the other channel. Eventually I flipped again and saw giant robots and blood. I was hooked. I got to watch a number of episodes from all three series, but never got to see them all in sequence or the final episodes of any of them.

    I managed to get some robotech toys at the local k-mart type store including a tactical pod, a hover tank, a bioroid hovercraft, a non-transforming cyclone, and a few of the 3" destroids. Action figures were way lame. I was jaded at the time and though everything pretty lame but the 3". Come to think of it, I still think the stuff pretty lame compared to all the other really cool stuff availible.

    Anyhow... The channel that was playing the cartoons got sold to some religious network and there went my exposure to anime for a while. I called the station and managed to get transfered to the vault operator who informed me that the unfortunately couldn't see me the tapes as they had all been recorded over already. But I tried damn'it. So I read the books. All of them including the sentinals saga were my primary introduction to the world of macross, although not quite a proper one. The toys are literally things I dreamed about as a child now easily shipped to my door, how could I not get them? :lol:

    auctions of great absurdity

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    what do the toys mean for/to you?

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    My childhood toys, like my childhood, faded away in the journey we call life.

    When I stopped traveling the world with all I owned on my back, I found myelf in Florida. A co-worker at radio shack showed me that it was possible to have cool toys [spawn primarily] and still get laid, so I started collecting spawn. Eventually the same friend ended up in a bad spot and "pawned" his jetfire to me. I spent a while searching Ebay for the missing leg clips, arm armor, and gun clip for a while till I saw a jetfire auction use the keyword "macross". I did a macross search and low and behold there was a re-issue out. I did some more research and found this wonderful place. 8 jetfires and a ton of misc macross stuff later I am still here. I plan on making the transition to having my hobby sometimes pay for itself like jesse and rob at some point in the future so I can justify getting the expensive toys ;)

    God Help Me

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    I toned down my drinking to free up some funds :blink:

    My father would be so ashamed :lol:

    not that I don't try to be as high as the valkyries fly... :rolleyes:

    seriously, I need to get another car so I can shop for a home that has a garage so I can fix up my car. It eats into the toy budget badly but jsarclight understands ;)

    Flying somewhere to buy stuff is fine, but you have to remember that if you exceed the alloted luggage size you must pay out the a$$.

    auctions of great absurdity

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    this finally arived... today! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3140197712

    No communication from tehe seller at all while I was waiting. It was mailed 09/08 , after I had the wife threaten fraud charges.

    Even worse is how big of a piece o' crap it was. Non matshu head lasers, touch up paint consisting of the wrong color nail polish and white out. Only usefull things were the wing and matshu back-plate, which is already on a much cleaner looking jetfire <_<

    Oh my! Vintage Taka Vinyl Glaug

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    as much as I love my marauders... ahm, I mean glaugs..., the vinyl four pack is somethingI have passed up numerous times at $20 for all four still in container. If you have to ask why... the glaug was the best looking one of the lot if that says anything. :blink:

    what stuff to customize first

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    one nice thing about toy "merging", rather than just having a box of broken bits, is that you usually end up with two customs at the end rather than one. Even nicer is when the thing used as parts turns out cooler than expected with less effort...

    what would hikaru think when confronted with this in a dark alley.....?!?!

    what stuff to customize first

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    I believe this set of wings came off a series 2 or 3 spawn, but don't feel the need to dig through the closet to see which. Heck, I don't feel like digging through the closet to see which 7 spawn figures I need to have the first 18 series complete :rolleyes: .

    You can see this doesn't even qualify as dry fitting as any choice besides the zoid boosters [which just happened to have posts that fit in screw holes] will require some modification. I refuse to simply glue stuff on as I always disliked models for lack of structurable stability so I make sure my mods can be played with by a five year old. I don't care if they choke as long as the toy doesn't break :lol:

    so which version do you guys think looks best?

    what stuff to customize first

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    I tinkered with the power armor last night. I also took lots of pics as I "planned" what I was going to do. I put "planned" in quotes as my planning basically consists of going through my bits box, primarily spawn refuse, and seeing what would look good. [god how I miss the bitz box I had back in school with all my and my friends broken GI Joe vehicles and other cool stuff]

    In fact... After doing a head swap on the power armor, I am left with a couple choices... what do you guys think looks coolest?

    here it is after the head swap. Like all my work, the head still rotates fully and the toy can be picked up by it.

    what stuff to customize first

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    I'm interested in the Spawn Matchbox Glaug. What kind of plans do you have to give it a Spawn theme???

    hey bigkid...

    I never have any plans when I do anything that isn't something that must meet code enforcement LOL. Basically, I wing it as I go. As such, some things are cool and others are not so cool. Sometimes A thought occurs and I kinda plan, but my kinda is basically going "this would look cool glued on/mounted on ..." and making it work. Familiarity with power tools and owning a dremmel helps. To give you an idea... here is a pic of all the custom worthy stuff I got from canada besides the matchbox vf. I say spawn worthy because what else is this crap good for??? :lol:

    Requests

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    bigkid24  -  The white areas on the Gundam where first Pre-shaded, then the white was painted on.  Then a several washes were applied followed up with drybrushing.  As a final touch I use pastel chalk to obtain a few effects.

    Can you explain pre-shading when you get the time? I've read articles on most of those techniques except for pre-shading. I think Seichii at the MW con mentioned that's what he did too. It looks like a very effect technique.

    pre-shading, as I know it, is basically doing a wash or two after you prime it and then doing repeated thin coats with an airbrush or multiple dry-brushing sessions, depending on your preference, gradually lightening the paint to give it a smooth shade transition. It's how I'm doing the violator valk. I still have a few more painting sessions on it before I'm done but pics aplenty will go up so you can get an idea of how a retard does it :lol:

    Something I would love to see again is a diorama someone posted a long time ago using a super posable in a post war setting where the abandoned battroid was being used as a diving platform in a swimming hole. The detail was amazing. Wish I knew how did it or that I had thought to save the pic. :blink:

    Sticky casts?

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    LOL ... Thats something I've been thinking about for a while. Molds for a jetfire set were estimated at about $5000 including scan from daytona molds. They will give me a direct quote once/if I send them the parts. This still doesn't count getting a place to pour/press the kits from the finished mold. The nice thing is... for a bit more money a mold of ALL five 1/55 armor sets could be done in one mold and sets could be spit out every thirty seconds or so. How much would you pay for all the sets in one nice carded package? Seriously... I'm still thinking about doing this but doubt I would get the money back in a timely fashion. ;)

    Sticky casts?

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    Mix all two part compounds very well. Agitate individual components vigorously before mixing for best results.

    I have another resin question though. I know many of the jetfire armor bits that have come through my hands have had stress marks. I also know that jesse's resin was brittle and prone to breaking rather than stressing. I don't know if this is typical of all resin or only specific mixtures. I know that I broke a tab off one of jesse's strike bosters and a tab off the cannon, though that was due primarily to my own stupidity of not dry fitting the last part I had to assemble. Robs resin on the other hand, which I have a lot more of, ha sonly suffered one break of a medium leg armor post during shipping so I can't be certain of the tensile strength. As all of robs stuff dry fits perfectly and I have no desire to break something just to find out, can anybody tell me if some smooth-on types are more flexible than others when cured?

    I was also wondering if anybody has ever tried using extra metal for strength in their resin? From past concrete experince I know that laying steel down before pouring not only meets DOT standards, but with enough can support a school bus. I'm thinking maybe some copper wire strands might not prefent it from cracking, but might help it not break completely. Has anybody experimented?

    Also... has anybody done any wax/disposable molds? I have a tube of some really nasty, really expensive commercial self leveling epoxy that is almost bullet proff when dried [depends on the calibur and thickness], but I am sure that the mold would have to be burnt off it when dried. Can a one-shot mold be made easily and cheaply, or am I better off waiting till a mold is only good for one more cast and then doing it?

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