big F

I was wondering what to do with mine the other day.... Now I know use both heads and raid the toy shop Thanks for the idea.

Oh such a shame I have friday off and guess what premiers at my local multiplex on friday.

Saw this on ebay got a priddy penny for it too. eBay page

Looking good to me. Never understood why Hasegawa didnt do one.

That they are too. Work well on Binaltechs too

LOL how about the thirtieth iteration of a VF-1. there must have been almost that any how

Oh I didnt mean that way. I meant that the molding techniques like putting joints where seam line are suposed to be. Instead of hard to sand and fill areas. Also the general way in which the snap-together Gundam stuff doesnt seem to have as many line up problems that the Hasegawa kits do. I think I spend as much time with the putty and filler as I do glueing it all together. My few Gundam kits were easy to put together granted but the line issues were only a couple of parts per kit rather than the several that the average Vf1 has in it. Granted the fun of kit building is the filling and sandind and painting. I just wish that I didnt have to spend more time doing it than say painting the average kit. To put in to perspective I spent less time geting rid of the over cast on one of the Capt.'s kits, and they are garage resin. Hasegawa spend more a year on Coffee cups than John probably earns, if a Guy in his home work shop can work out where to put joins and such surely a big plastics firm with over 20 years in the can could too. I am a model guy sure. I know this as everytime I look at one of my Yamies or TF's I think pannel lines and detailing or ohh look at the naasty sprew snap marks on the plastic etc. I then spend time thinking about how best to fix em. Bandai is ultimately good for the hobby because everyone can build snaptogether and sooner or later a good proportion of the snap together crowd jump over to the more demanding stuff, thus giving the likes of Hasegawa and Tamiya a reason to go on. We are the last of the era of scratch built Sci Fi kit bash T.V and film stuff, where modeling skills were a pre requisite of the job. This is what mostly brought us here. Nowadays with the likes of CGI you need to know 3d modeling and textures and finishes, and art in itself but you never actually need to use a paint brush or glue for real, so the olde ways like blacksmithing are going the way of the Dodo to some extent. To be replaced by the new order of CGI and computer designed kits with precision moldings and easy fit assembly. As long as they still do make kits I wont be too unhappy though.

LOL. As nice as Yamies are I wont be buying another one, I much prefer the build it yourself aproach and the Gundam snap it together put sickers on and zoom it round the room doesnt work. If you want a toy buy a toy, if you want model buy a model. Models are static things and as such are usually more delicate and more detailed. Toys have to have compromises in detail and materials just to allow durability and keep cost down. Hasegawa could learn a lot from Bandai. How many times have I spent hours sanding filled seams right in the middle of a two parts glued together and thought. Why in hell didnt they put the seam line 3mm to the right and use the edge of that part to hide it. Also the some times needless gluing of parts to make one bigger part is anoying, especially when you can clearly see it was not needed, the VF1 planes are a prime example of that. Dont get me started on the almost random lets just make that part in off blue plastic even though everything round it is in white, so the user can spend hours trying to get the paint right when if we'd just done it white they could use a quick coat of primer and some white top coat. Yes it would be great to get some bigger scale stuff or even more 1/72's that are not just a new box and different decal sheet, but I think they will be doing a Yamato on us for some time yet.

Hence while I was in Shinjuku I was able to get Binaltechs in the sale for £10. The shop keeper told me that only Engrish or Americans buy them. Now bear in mind in the U.K when they were still out you had to pay £20 for a Alternator, when the build quality of the Binaltechs are much better. Uunless you bought them at Matalan where due to a pricing type I got em for £5, dang they noticed it realy quickly. Yup TF's like Macross pale into insignificance in Japan when compared to the Mighty juganaught that is (all kneel before its might) Gundam.

My god I didnt realise that was his work. Top notch indead.

Renshape is the bomb. Had a go on the stuff years ago where I used to work, they used it for Prototyping tooling as it was easy to mill etc, then once they were happy they'd make it from metal and high desity board.

Bed workbench who cares your work is good eaither way.

Always liked the Detolf cases they are simple and great looking. I was thinking that I could make one that was longer, using the existing one for measurements, and getting the glass made at the local Glaziers the machineing of the wood parts I could do and then use hinges that I can buy from the Glaziers as they stock the ones Ikea use. then I would have one that looks like an ikea one that would be a lot longer 5ft or so.

That actually works. Congrats on that work.

Looks like you need to be a member to see it too.

How long until we get a remake of Gone with the Wind ? This time Bret could be a brooding late twenties fairly sucessfull type living in modern day New York, a stock broker maybe and there would be no hints of white supremacy as this is not politically correct. They could some how wangle a hellicopter chase in and some type of northen Korrean type antagonist, thus snaring the action movie types. Make it a musical and you'll have all the Hi School musical types in the bag too.

LOL that will open it up some what. Im sure that nobody has a mod in which you can do anything like that.

Transformers Crop dusters in in disguise

LOL by the power of the cube all the exhibits come to life, only all the time not just at night.

True by far some of the best of the whole franchise.

10/10

How about the Robotech Masters........ ducks to avoid incoming missiles and furniture. Seriously if they wanted to go the whole different direction how about an all powerful armada like the Zentradei, only not 50 ft tall people. You could blast the crap outta them all day and there'd still be more to blast.

Totally justified in your first place, it would have been a travesty not to get it. Another year another missed BotCon....... One day I will get to one. Sounds like you had fun though. Come on all you scratch builders get building iconic 80's transforming mecha in 24 inch scale.

Wow, you make it look easy.

Like it. Looks exactly the same as my old one from back in the day. I guess thats the ultimate in mold milking.