sirhenk

how many people are you guys expecting to show up anyway? that grand ballroom at ackerman could be pretty big for a group like us...

my advice as a former ucla bruin don't underestimate the parking enforcement officers they hide in the shadows like ninjas and will slip you tickets while you're not looking even if you're in a no parking zone or unpaid meter for just 5 minutes. i'm gonna park south of wilshire and take the blue bus i'd do the same if you can't find spots in the nearby apartments! c u at da con

it's the same old original bandai kit. bandai reissued a buncha their kits again earlier this year, they are easy to find. as for kitbashing it was rather minimal: looks like he borrowed Hasegawa wings, tire pockets, head, and decals... as far as i can see

yeah totally, but for some reason it gives the impression that it's been doing more benchpresses than it's hasegawa cousin, thus looking tougher if not more awkward haha

kekeke unless maybe it was that limited edition minmay dim sum (with teaser image)

ok well it didn't cost me an arm and a leg but 4000 yen still ain't cheap in my book, especially if u live in a country with a much weaker exchange rate. then again, i'm talkin with people who are probably willing to blow hundreds of dollars on "toys" lol ^^

please teach me how to love mine it cost me a pretty penny

mr base white from mr hobby is like mr surfacer and will turn that thing white as hell

oh schnapp didn't notice this post. check this out guys, i just posted this a few min ago, they're scans from Hobby Japan some dude built the bandai VF-1S and made it look pretty sweet: 1/72 Bandai VF-1S Focker Special

honestly, i think it's gonna suck, like the minmay guard. hasegawa is seriously playing with our minds... this whole teaser thing is just a marketing strategy. they think i learned after i bought the damned "limited edition" minmay guard kit, so now they're using this other form of trickery to make me make the same mistake again x_x i'd buy some dim sum if it had a sexy minmay on the package and it was called limited edition preceded by a teaser image.

Hey guys more scans from my little library! Here's the old school Bandai VF-1S kit given the modern makeover. I'm sure a number of you own or owned this at one point in time. This modeller (Masaki Tanaka) did a pretty good job making the old sucker worth buying again. Looks like he used Hasegawa wings and decals. Geez this kit looks WAY better than the retarded looking VF-1S pictured in the manual lol. happy building!

sorry i was just wondering where you bought it it looks wonderful! and the small SD alien in the first picture... where did you get that?

sweet~~ did u get this off hobbyfan? and any of u know if any one has ever made the garage kit version without the SAP armor?

isn't anybody curious what it is? Hasegawa only gave us a teaser image... it's listed on all the websites for pre order maybe a minmay guard knock off? any good educated guesses?

go bruins

screw hobby link japan, i shall rant to warn you of their dark side~ they sold me a USED SDF-1 wham model toy that had a damaged shoulder and a booster that i've no idea where it fell off from. the box's tape was slit open and the sdf-1 was all awkwardly placed in the styrofoam, not to mention scratches all over the display stand. i e-mailed them, got a response a week later, then no response till another week later, then a response from the parts manager guy, who never responded to my emails and just sent me two new shoulders 2 weeks later, without ever notifying me that they were intending to just replace the shoulders and nothing else. they're too slow and have poor communication. apparently their staff speaks english but they hardly speak to you at all. just be careful with these bastards ill try hwjapan too

fantastic~ nice touch on the hasegawa decals, i was wondering about that when i looked at the pictures first. good decision on leaving it in fighter mode, even our damned yamato toys get jaxored from transforming them. though i admit wish i could see it transformed but the condition is too precious to compromise!

lol that's true. lol poor gilliam, sucker never even had a chance.. alto even managed to steal his bandai release! did gilliam's have white antennas then? could someone check on that~

here's another scan from hobby japan april 2009 you gotta see... holy @#!@$%@$ this sucker is badass!!!!! a thousand props to the modeller Noriaki Nishibayashi for building this beautiful and brilliant shot-down crash-landed messiah, i'm surprised i couldnt run into pics of this on the internet so please allow me to spread the joy! it's perfect in every way, except the antennas are the wrong color (but i'm sure everyone forgives you noriaki-san!)

probably the only oldschool bandai macross kit with decent proportions (at least imho) here are some scans from a hobby japan i dug up. seems like the modeller (Kouichi Hirai) decided to modify the shoulder and ankle joints for more dramatic poseability, as well as some other aesthetic upgrades to make for even better proportions. you can see the comparisons before and after in the second image. just wanted to share cuz me likes. enjoy

yeah that was defitly a nice touch... he used parts from the fighter and battroid kits.. of which i own both and there are no decals like that in either... i'l translate briefly what he says: "to make this gerwalk mode i combined the valkyrie version and battloid version. was hella expensive... but this is the first vf-0s made in korea. a bold and daring challenge! completed recently so here are the finished pictures!"

maybe someone posted this way back when i dunno but i thought i should share in case anyone's missed it. if someone did post it again ok sorry i've never posted here but i have been enjoying reading your threads. i live in korea atm and came across this browsing some korean modelling sites... anyway i should credit the guy's name (Jung-Gyun Kim) for those of you who can't read korean^^ http://www.fity.kr/27 bitchin aint it?

for now, max and miriya set

any word on hasegawa reissuing their macross kits? i'm frustrated that all the ones i want are sold out everywhere. sorry can someone fill me in on the details i've been outta the game for a while. -henk