cobywan

This project has two great aspects that set it apart.

The model would be 19" long.

It the TV version. Which has had NO love in 25 years. It's the one I really want a super detailed model of.

The Yamato toy doesn't look so hot in the photo's I've seen so far. I thought there was more elegance to the TV version as well. It certainly closes up tighter in cruise mode when compared to the motion picture version.

I guess I should make myself a little more clear. If you don't do it, some body else should. It's a project that should be done. And done very well.

Hey Gang!

I'm new to the forums here & have always been into mecha modeling but havent really kept up with MACROSS related kits for some years now. I'm just getting back into it & am looking for a relatively well-done, fully transformable VF-1 kit in 1/72. After thoroughly researching it, I got the new VF-25F Alto from BANDAI & have to say its a gorgeous kit! What I'd love to get is something that has nearly the level of detail as the Static HASEGAWA kits and the transformablilty of the BANDAI '97 reissue of the 1/72 Variable Valkyrie VF-1S.

Has anyone ( other than Yamato toys , personally dont care for 1/60 so much..) made anything like this in 1/72? If not mebbe we could get a petition of some sort together for BANDAI to make a new kit of the VF-1 thats comparable to the design level of the new VF-25F kit.

Thanks in advance for any help folks!

Nope.

I've never seen Hasegawa make a model with retracting landing gear.

You should really put together a package of images to illustrate what it would look like and have a final size figured out. And a good ballpark price as well. I know I was working blind until I figured out exactly what you were proposing.

Eh. It's still $200 I'd have to fork out up front, as opposed to the spread-out paying of the season sets, and I would've had to have waited this long to watch the series on DVD at my leisure. Let the ultra-freaks buy that box set. That thing better come with your own programmable 6 hallucination or something...

Buy it on credit. Spread it out over time. I'm upgrading to Blu Ray on this. I didn't even bother buying the season four DVD's at all this time.

Yes.

I'd be quite interested in a quality BSG 1/18 Viper MKII and MKVII toy.

Graham

I started one at 1/10th scale to match the pilot action figures from Diamond Select.

It's on my short list of personal projects. But you couldn't hope to get one in "garage kit" fashion for less than $700.

I like it. Macross was always cool to me bacause of the standardized mech components.

After finally realizing that you're going to base the kit on my SINGLE FAVORITE SDF-1 mesh ever...

I'm definately interested. To a certain price point.

Or someone could cast ones for sale here.

There's plenty of information to build up the TV version to great detail. There's already too many Movie versions on the market, or coming to market.

I've only ever seen them do that on some 1/32nd scale stuff. Thier old F-16 to be exact.

I would have rather they started with the VF-1 though. They'll get to it when they can I guess...

When you get into scratch building the sky's the limit.

I was bored out of my skull with all the fight scenes. Really. Except the one in the forest. But that one had a purpose and a poignant moment in it. And Sam's parents at the end of the movie were great.

Moebius Models has just got the license and will be releasing a 1/32nd scale MKII at the end of this year or beginning of the next one. They do want to do a Galactica as well. But they haven't any actual plans in motion for that one.

Oh. They're styrene kits like the old ones. They do nice kits too.

Ahhh... I didn't touch it for about 14 months in a row. I'm glad that wasn't my goal. I just need to finish it before I die.

Maiden Japan: Awesome diorama. I love the whole layout you've got going.

Battlestar stuff: Thanks. The scale is 1:2500 and it's 22.5" long. I did use a lasercutter to make my sliced parts and the engine cones were made with a 3D CNC router. There is SOME styrene hand work, but not that much.

I've gotten back to his bucket. I've finally finished the overall massing. I can focus on details now. Woo HOOO!!!

The only model kits are the 1/72nd scale. The others are toys by Bandai.

Hey guys...are you all confusing the "upcoming big new RPG game" to be FF14 rather than FF13? FF13 is what we're waiting for, not 14. Or am i misunderstanding your grouses?

Personally i think they should just seperate their MMOs numbers from the normal JRPG games then people won't be so confused.

The MMO FF game is 14.

I dig how it looks a bit like the Stampede Valkyrie.

Lol really ?

Hasegawa makes kits only for top modelers, but Bandai make kits to a wide audience, amateurs, toy builders and "true" modelers, becouse the fact that the kit is coming with pre coloured parts, no glue and hidden sprue points, not prevents you to use paint, glue and others things.

When Hasegawa makes a true model kit of Valkyrie, that mean fully transformation and not an empty shell, is when I´ll run to buy lots of them, while, Bandai is the only option.

The definition of a model is basically "Something that represnts something else." That includes drawings and mathematical furmulae. (Spelling?)