valkyrietestpilot

muuuuhaaaa,i now have a TEAM of cute taiwanese girls scouring the SOGO dept.stores from taichung,taipei & hsin-chu city looking for roy & hikaru 1S's.thanks for the tip dude.(rubs hands together) i should have reports coming in any time now of my treasures

hmmm,mine's not here yet from noel(blackaces),but i know andy(mechamaniac) has 1,pm him & ask

yeah,roy's supposed to be like 7 feet tall in real life

oooh,yeah,that's the girl.i definately want her in my set.

what are the prices on these 1/48's in that dept. store in taiwan? my girl is there for another few weeks.maybe i should ask her to go there to get a few for me.what's the price on those dude?

i would hope they'd re-issue both,but i think i'll get a hikaru before i'd buy a roy 1s.

i would hope yamato would powder coat that parts as well.i agree w/ "cambodian tire".i've also had car & boat parts powder coated & it's the way to go for a painted part.that stuff is like painted armour.

i think what alot of people do is use a decal application guide from a hasegawa 1/72 model kit.most people i think consider this to be cannon as far as propper decal location goes.what you should do is,get someone to scan a hasegawa vf-1a decal application sheet for you if you don't already have 1 on hand.good luck my friend. -duane

wow devin, these rock just as all your stickers/decals do.i have a question though.can i get a set w/ the "valk girl" sized to fit were the pin-up girls go on that armour? i really like her design & i thought she'd just make the perfect custom-devin pin-up girl touch to this already awsome set.

yeah,this guy seems to be "hit or miss".i've had no problem dealing w/ him the 2 times i bought stuff from him,but it seems others had alot of problems w/ him soon after i delt w/ him.shrugs,maybe you'll get lucky & have no problem.

oh,i was refering to both ofcoarse jvalk. hehehe,i couldn't resist either

i don't care if hg blocking merchandise coming here to me is a common business practice.that's wrong.you can't deny someone a choice just cause you wanna make money.if they're actions are causing me to have to pay 2x-3x more to get my yamatos & my dyrl? movie.then,they can suck my left nut.i'm not gonna just let it go cause that's what all businesses do.i'd do the same for all other aspects of my consumer life.if i found out i was being denied a superior foreign product for say...my hotrod,i'd never support those responsible again w/ my $. when a company deliberately tries to hide another product from the consumer,it means that they fear it cause it's superior.stop trying to dissavow the superior product.hey,here's a thought...try making a superior product instead!!!!! wow,i must be a genius,uh,i mean jenius

this is the only 1/60 that i can say that i absolutely love. "VE-1 #007 ready tower" "VE-1 #007 you are cleared for launch.good huntin' boys!!!!"

i got my set way back when munkey-nugget first posted that thread.i only had a low-viz back then & no other 1/48's.funniest part is,i sold my low-viz before i got my clear set i'm saving them now for a custom vf-1s maxtype strikevalk i'm planning on doing in the next few months.i really like the fact that yamato packed these individually & not on sprues.they'd really look like crap if you had to trim & sand excess plastic from sprues. recently i attended a bbq at user "mechamaniac's house.he had his set displayed on his vf-1j millia type.this is the coolest display of these clear parts i've seen.something about that bright red that just makes them stand out much better.kinda takes away from that "too much red" the stock pieces on that 1j seem to have too.i think i'd feel the same about the max 1j too.maybe you could post pics of that 1j andy?

dude,that's 1 incredible haul.let's see,you got dude's vf-1s gbp & his little sister.what a wonderfully giving & tolerant man he must be you should have hours & hours of entertainment

i'm 1 of the guys helping mechamaniac at otakon w/ our macross panel.after seeing agent 1's link,it wouldn't surprise me if hg was outside of our panel selling "official" t-shirts & superposables.........sigh

pic of the beauty

my dream gun to own would have to be a sturmgwehr(assault rifle) 44.it was nazi germany's first steps into the assault rifle category.1st assault rifle ever.are these fairly easy to find? someone told me the russians wearhoused alot of surplus nazi arms after the war.are russian sources more common for this particular piece

man,i hope some of the cuties from this thread show up @ otakon this year.had to work to find a cutie there last year.after seeing this thread,i actually WANT to see cosplay now.mental note,ALWAYS check the age on that little cutie your drewling over,she might be a tad too young.sure does spoil it if you find out she's 15

i've gotten lucky w/ my yamato's.the only issue i've had w/ any of the 1's i've had is my 1/60 ve-1 elintseeker.it's flawless,until you get to the sprues containing the fastpack horizontally mounted antenae.mine are gonna need serious trimming & sanding before they'll fit into their mounts on the fastpacks.i wished they'd painted the figures more correct too,instead of just using the roy-looking helmet trim.elint pilots have orange trimmed helmets.not yellow.

yeah,try the for sale section or i've always thought tmpanime.com had the best prices on yamato valks.tam is a board member too,so your getting from family there.keep your $ in the family & we all benifit.

man,the only thing i've seen made especially for us is mr.champange's custom mw dvd boxes.got our logo,user chosen art & your own special id number on the box.

yeah,$60 seems to be the going rate.might get lucky if you find a board memeber willing to part w/ 1 in a trade or bargaining for something they need.i got a great deal on a series 1 mao this way.folks here are awsome about helping you out,just post what your looking for & wait. dude,your avatar rocks.is that little cutie-petutie your girlie?

dude,i think if you buy a copy of the macross gold book,you'll get alot of what your looking for into macross story research.it's pretty much the standard for anything you want to see written about macross.also,the macross compendium,it's a site,but the addy escapes me at this time,do a search in the forums & you should run across it.i think you'll find alot of the stories here are similar.i loved robotech up till macross plus got released in '94.that's when i got turned on to the real core story of this anime masterpiece.it just adds grity,more mature depth that robotech couldn't begin to touch.ready to leave robotech as a fond childhood memory? watch "macross-do you remember love?" the movie & watch the definative vision.valks are dirty,badass pieces of over-technology,not those clean cut veritechs from robo.nothing cooler than seeing a valk w/ dirt & booster scorings on it to add real world feel to them.maximilllian genius takes on much cooler badass points when you see him fight hand-to-hand in the opening sequence of dyrl?.gu-11 still mounted on his arm & flips it around & paints that zentran's helmet w/ his own flesh.ruthless man,max ain't to be triffled w/,even if you are 40-ft tall

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