RedComet
-
Posts
310 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Posts posted by RedComet
-
-
So is 42,000 + shipping just the price for 1Js these days? (2000 less if it's an open box) Mandarake has a few in stock, and they are about 10,000 more on yahoo auctions
When I was finding them at auction for 30,000 (perfect condition open box) 34,000 MISB this past spring/summer I should have just hoarded a few 
https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1133804736&lang=en
-
1 minute ago, lavinrac said:
Anyone else see a picture yesterday of a DYRL strike Max 1S? I saw a link to it on a Facebook page that went to a twitter. It seemed like an odd choice, if it was real. I don't think there WAS a strike Max 1S. Wasn't the last we saw of him in the movie in a non-armored one s before he ended up getting unmicronized and getting his own queadlunn rau? Anyway my memory could be faulty.
Your memory is correct. A strike max would not be canon (despite having a big-ass cannon). There are a number of custom DX Max 1S (repainted Hikaru 1S) running around, some with weathering even, and yeah, I might throw some SSP on mine just for fun
-
37 minutes ago, scand said:
Just bought one from Buyee.jp... that would have saved me 40 bucks.
Don't feel bad, it was gone the second after it was posted
-
I unexpectedly had an order that I thought the seller had long-ago backed out of arrive. So I have an extra TV Roy available for my straight-up cost of $309 shipped DHL (to anywhere in the US, but other countries should be about the same) or $279 by slow boat (takes 2 months). If you are interested, PM me!
-
4 hours ago, mantisfists said:
I can't imagine what Lolicon's, RedComet's and the other resident customizers' work looks like in person.
I can bring along one to show you in person if you like when I hand you your 1D
-
I didn’t make this meme, but it’s too funny not to share
-
22 minutes ago, Lolicon said:
Just DIY for a few bucks.
I made a weathered DX Max. I was gonna do the black DX roundels if I non-canonically posed it with the SSP just so the numbers would match.
-
12 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:
Ok. So after looking at the Roy DX I will have to admit that the color is perfect.
This still has that silly dislocating swing bar and the high on the heatshield Jolly Rogers,but overall just like the releases before. It’s a great figure.
I politely beg to differ on the color. I like the color suggested by the Hasegawa model painting instructions that we did the DYRL Roy customs in, I would call it a “caution yellow” like an old road sign or construction equipment. I would call the DX TV Roy a “lemon yellow”, which isn’t bad but not as close to what we see on screen IMO. Here are the two side by side for comparison.
-
Looking for an opinion on my next non-macross purchase to stand alongside my weathered 1/48 DXs. A professionally painted 1/48 gundam model, going for a more "realistic" color scheme. Obviously I would rather have a red Zaku, but what are everyone's thoughts on this? I only have a few hours to decide too before the auction ends...
Thanks for the feedback!!
-
15 minutes ago, lavinrac said:
This may have been mentioned in previous comments, but it's just a dumb joke so who cares.
Are we taking bets on whether they will tampo Hikaru's name on the cockpit of the VF-1D, igniting a massive continuity war as only Macrossworlders can?
I figured out the the right fonts for name and rank so if you don't like whatever comes on it you could pay Anasazi to work you up some PVT Gomer Pyle, COL Harland Sanders or MAJ Roy Mustang if you really want to make some continuity errors
-
3 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:
With how tight money is right now for folks, I think that glut's not going away anytime soon. I know with my family's current finances, affording one is out of the question big time.
Let me play devil's advocate and say that if you made under $60,000 (and are a US taxpayer) you are about to get $600, so you could easily buy two of them. I am not saying that you should, but hey, you could...
-
I will appear out of nowhere for the first time in a month to say that Zen Market and From Japan failed me as well. We are in good company!
-
11 minutes ago, Corrinald said:
@Kanedas BikeYour Max looks great!
I am fairly sure the post office lost mine in transit
.
Oh man! Well I did insure it and require signature verification to make sure it wasn’t stolen. I hope it arrives though! I am sure you would prefer the Max to a refund
-
So I recently bet a TON of money on sure things on Predict it, i.e. Dems win California, Washington, Oregon etc. + T loses at least one state he won in 2016, T loses the popular vote etc. The return on each was low, but it adds up. Now I have enough money to buy the 1-D( which was actually my secret #2 hope for this VF-1 release after Max and Milia 1Js) and buy the GBP Hikaru and Roy (not feeling the GBP Max, at least not without Milia). Hooray for everyone on there who made silly long shot bets in the other direction
If there had been a "black swan" event and I had lost even one of the bets though, I would have been out of Macross collecting for a long while 
hooray for probability holding up and for me buying more Valks!
-
So, semi related tangent... I watched frontier a while ago I didn’t actually get around to watching the false songstress and wings of goodbye until now. But had to see them before my 29 arrived.
Anyway, I love Isamu and knew because of the DX figure he would make an appearance, but WTF! Talk about a “Blink and you’ll miss it” cameo. That was under 3 seconds! I had to rewind to take a screenshot. Since Bandai made a figure of this, they better give us a DX cannon fodder and a DX VT-1 someday, cause those both have 500 times the screen time this did
-
4 hours ago, sqidd said:
Wait there was a Radioactive Man Arcade Game?!? I played the $#!T out of The Simpsons arcade game and even beat it once when I was 11 (with the help of my brother and a roll of quarters) but I have never seen a Radioactive Man game. Tell me more!
-
35 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:
My "Old Lady" came in.
What's with the alternate hair? just headset/no headset?
-
24 minutes ago, oshanmacross said:
Any advice on getting this tab to insert, don't wanna break this thing.
I have never had an issue with this, maybe try re-extending the leg, then re-collapsing it? Then just gently guide it in. I wouldn't be too worried, that's a pretty beefy tab!
-
30 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:
It's a pretty amazing piece, though getting the gun to attach is a bit stressful with how hard you need to push.
Huh, I didn't find that to be the case with mine. Production issues? Anyway, I think it's funny how no two "1/48" pilots are the same size. Spike in a slim-fitting two piece suit is way bigger than a 1/48 DX figure in a bulky space suit. Maybe Yamato got the scale right and Bandai whiffed it? Don't have a Yammie to compare to Spike but looks a bit closer at least...
-
For my first non-Macross thing since the pandemic started I got a 1/48 weathered Swordfish II to go with all my weathered 1/48 DX Valks
Wasn’t cheap, but I would buy a 1/48 Redtail for the same price if they ever made one.
-
On 10/10/2020 at 8:39 PM, Slave IV said:
x2 for every “outfit” as well...like SSP, GBP or whatever.
Speaking of outfits, I wonder if I could find someone on etsy to make a Zentradi uniform for my Max 1A, would be great to have it with small wires so it can billow out behind him for this pose. Apparently it has been done for the 1/60
-
1 hour ago, nightmareB4macross said:
A DX Custom Jetfire found on FB.
Oh man, well that beats my project to do the same by a good 2-3 months. This guy did a solid job on it! Seeing it though, I like leaving the kites but I don't think I wanna leave the 001. Also, I feel like it would look better with the blast shield, perhaps with an autobot logo where the skull used to be. Best thing about seeing this is it really answers a question in my mind about if all the little "no step" etc. decals would be a distraction on a transformer, and I think the answer to that question is no.
-
2 hours ago, mantisfists said:
This is from the Fukuoka site. Regardless of shipping costs for this one, I'm paying it. I'm just trying to understand it. That's almost three times the amount as the fast packs sent to me last month. I'm not trying to beat a dead horse. Again, just trying to understand.
Yeah, I just got my first thing from Mandarake (not even a Valk) since May and it seems like their DHL rates have definitely gone up since then
it is what it is I guess...
-
By the looks of it, the plate appears to be attached via a single screw. It also appears to be that way in the LEK video (6:19 mark). Are people saying the plate itself differs between 1S and 1A?
Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1
in Toys
Posted
I mean yeah, the buy it now price seems to be above 49,000, would be interesting to see where the actual auctions close at, but they now start at 38,000, which is above where they often ended.