Pontus

Yesterday, I decided to put a little more lipstick on the pig,and got creative with some sharpies and highlighters. Yes, I know the coloring on the missiles is not cannon, but I just wanted to add some color. I also added the marker lights and whatnot. Why does every valk use blue instead of green for the starboard side? That's just wrong. The standard color world over for starboard side markers is GREEN and it just makes sense since the sky is BLUE. And yes, I realized after painting it that the red band is broken across the air brake, but why is it not so on the VF-1S? I think it looks better this way. I need to put the stickers on too but haven't gotten to it yet.

I came home last night to find my HMR Hikaru VF-1J came in the mail. This completes my HMR collection - all that I desire anyway. Now I have good, high quality toys of all the important characters from the TV show plus some excellent accessories... except Misa, but there doesn't seem to be a decent model of her that's poseable. Maybe Kitzconcepts will come out with one. And Global would be nice (although, I sort of see the SDF-1 as being his machine). Someday I might get Kamjin's glaug, a regult, and a Monster but by the time my account recovers they'll probably be too expensive and/or rare. I'm happy with what I got though. I've already gone down the rabbit hole more than I wanted to. Told myself I only wanted Roy's VF-1S 1/60, then added more than a few lengths of rope to my rappelling rig, but I haven't fallen in yet. It seems like I chose an excellent and very fortuitous time to discover and collect these things considering that most of what I bought came out in the last year or so. It was meant to be! And yes, I've had it open which is why it has the TV hands attached, but my wife has started complaining about edging out her stuff on the shelf, so it's time to start making my own space.

Thanks for the tips! Shock oil tho? You mean like suspension shocks like motorcycle fork oil? Or is this a brand? I need to do the same for my 1/60 VF-1S shoulders. I haven't broken them yet surprisingly. I was going to attempt to take them apart and lightly sand them, but perhaps this shock oil trick will help.

I can't wait to get mine! The seller took 3 weeks to ship the damn thing where it seems to be sitting at the local Japanese post office for the past 8 days. I'm getting more than a bit impatient. I've watched Jenius's videos so many times that a majority of his views are probably from me, and I've got the transformation memorized (I hope). As for difficulty transforming it, I figure if I can learn to love the Yammie 1/72 YF-21, this will be a breeze.

Yeah, I bought the recent Roy and Hikaru Rick releases because they were cheap and I was curious, but they both broke immediately with careful handling. I had to fix one with a metal pin just to keep it together. I don't know how they even assemble them without breaking them. Cheap POS. But, that said... I pose them everyday at work, and for $35 (ok, they're only really worth $20), they aren't totally horrible for a toy you don't care much about, don't mind other people handling (it's funny to watch them freak out when it falls apart on them) and can actually play with. And you don't have to wait for them to ship internationally!

Haha, I knew someone was going to call me out on that one. I suppose I could paint it. But there was no HMR Kakizaki, I didn't want to mix in Toynami with my HMR, and anything else was too expensive and didn't match scale. I'm not picky. It's Kakizaki enough for me. I wish there were more Kakizaki valks, and they should each and every one come with a tiny, very large steak complete with cutting board, even if not to scale, just like an inch long.

I took my Toynami toys to work for displaying on my computer. I forgot to take Roy's hands with me at first, but he made fast friends with Haggis the "hah ree coo" (Scottish hairy cow). Now Roy and Hikaru have decided to take up farming... Hikaru, CATCH! mmmMMMOOOOooooo.... Roy, Hikaru, and Haggis go skipping through the fields. We're under attack!!! Quick, get Haggis into the barn! Time for some valkyrie yoga! Haggis helps load up the missiles. (Just noticed that I put the wheels on the wrong way)

Kakizaki forgot he was wearing his new GBP armor and accidentally hit the G switch. You're doing it wrong Kakizaki!

No like @S... oh, a popup box comes up when you type @something. Nevermind. It didn't work in my original post though. I'll try again.

How do you make proper attributions like that?

Well, I guess it's time to make an introductory post now since it doesn't look like I'm getting the rest of my toys anytime soon (I was hoping to do them all at once). Hello MWF! I've been a Macross fan since being introduced to it by a fellow anime fan back in... '03. And I loved Transformers in the 80's as a boy and had a Jetfire toy that I cherished. Anyway, I've seen the original Macross TV series several times, own it on DVD, and it's one of my all time favorite shows ever. I also loved Macross Plus. So, when Amazon put the original TV eps up on Prime video, I of course had to watch it again with my 4yr old daughter who also loved it. And one day about a month ago, I randomly thought to myself, "I wonder if there were any vintage Macross toys in Japan..." Boy was I surprised to find currently manufactured toys for a 30yr old show. So after a bit of research (thanks @jenius!!!) I bought one... then more... then a few more just to round out the collection. But I did try to be economical and only got the bare essentials . I started with a 1/60 Vf-1S Skull Leader with fast packs cuz Roy Focker is focking awesome and my favorite: I like the price, durability, and detail of the HMR line, so I picked up Max and Milia at first: You'll might notice a box in the background from Kitzconcepts. I'm not into figurines, but if I was going to collect Macross toys, I had to have Lynn Minmei: I then noticed a distinct lack of Kakizaki's valk in the HMR line until I realized that he never had a custom valk in the TV show, just a bog standard brown VF-1A, so I picked up an HMR of that. Edit: I read that wrong somewhere, but the HMR brownie was close enough for me - maybe I'll paint it appropriately someday. I also found out about FEXT which is so much better (and cheaper) than any of the other GBP armor out there (despite being non-cannon), so now Kakizaki is appropriately armed to the teeth: I quickly realized that I needed some organization of extra bits and bobs, so I picked up a Plano tackle box. I didn't even realize it was in sortuva Macross Blue until I got it home: This was all expensive enough to get me in serious trouble with the wife, but after seeing reviews of Bandai's DX YF-19 full set (probably my favorite valk second to Roy's) I had to have one. Unfortunately, the Japanese seller waited 3 weeks to ship it whereupon it has sat at their local post office for another week with no further updates. I hope it gets here one day. Anyway, if I have a YF-19, I had to get a 21 as well... but decent 1/60 21s are WAY too expensive. So, despite bad reviews, I picked up a 1/72 Yamato V2 for a very decent price. I see why the reviews are so bad, it is a major PITA to transform or do anything with! Is this post getting too long? Sorry, I went a little crazy buying these things. I also wanted to have at least 1 enemy, but I didn't wanna spend much on it, so I picked up a Revoltech Regult: I really wanted a large SDF-1 model, but was disappointed with my options,most of which were movie versions. The only one I was interested in was the original Matchbox toy, but they were going for stupid money or broken, badly used, etc. But after seeing some papercraft projects like @Nyankodevice's beautiful models I was inspired to pick up the book. It's also stuck in Japan, so in the meantime, this little guy will have to suffice: I'm still waiting on an HMR VF-1J Hikaru, but I did get some FEXT OWL armor for him: I'm also waiting on a Robot Spirits Queadluun Rare (the gray one) to ship from Japan. I wanted Miria's Q-Rau, but it's a bit hard to find and expensive when you do. And the Q-Rare is better with the shoulder cannon and such, so I figured I'd just fudge it and paint it in the Miria scheme. I'm not picky. And, other than some misc display bases, that's about it for now. I've got big plans for the papercraft project and I'd like to carefully attempt to add some lighting to my VF-1S skull, so look for my posts about those later. Cheers all, and thanks for having me! Now let's see how the site handles this insanely large post...

They contacted me last night, and they're shipping my missing piece today! And I got my 102F in the mail last night. Kakizaki is now properly and characteristically armed. to. the. teeth! And the teeth are missiles! This armor is so much fun because it doesn't hinder articulation much.

Ah, thank you, phew. Good to know how they handled it. I emailed on Jan. 5th and again on the 8th, so I guess I'll wait. I should have had some patience ordering as well. They only had the 101 for sale at the time and all others were out of stock. I figured they probably only had a limited run, and I really wanted the 102F with the gattling guns and shoulder cannons (especially since none of the HMRs I bought had them), so I gave in to the scalper on ebay charging double. Now I see that they have them available again. facepalm (how is there no facepalm emoji?)

Has anyone had any issues contacting Fext? I got a set of 1/100 armor that was missing a piece, but they have refused to reply to my emails. I'm missing the shoulder cover. Has anyone else had issues like this, and if so, how was it resolved?