Valkyrie
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I still remember seeing that Garfish for the first time at Wonderfest (the american one), and being utterly blown away. I was absolutely convinced that it was some insanely rare japanese resin kit, and that I'd be spending the next 5 years tracking one down. Suffice to say, bricks were shat when I met up with Neptune and found out that the Cap'n had sculpted it
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I think I'll be having some fun detailing mine with some parts from the Yellow Submarine resin kits They're all 1/3000, so hopefully they're pretty consistent in size And am I alone in not wanting to see a TV version of this thing? It'd take a hell of a lot more than a paint job and a couple new arms to make a TV SDF-1. They're very different designs.
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Good news and bad news about the second Yukikaze novel. It's coming. But not until next May. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Luck-Yukikaze-Chohei-Kambayashi/dp/1421539012/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284272711&sr=1-1
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There's a few 1/72 VF-4 kits out there. The Club-M kit is pretty ok, the Musasiya kit is very well detailed for its age, and the Retppu soft vinyl kit is ok-ish if vinyl is your thing (but I hate it) The closest thing to a 1/72 VF-5000 is the Studio Half-Eye transformable resin kit. It's technically nin-scale, but it's actually damn close to 1/72. For a time, I was working on turning one into a static fighter mode kit, until I realized that the end product was going to look WAY chunkier than it's supposed to be The only other VF-5000 kits I know of are 1/144 fighter and battroid kits by Yellow Submarine
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Very cool! I'll be all over both of those! The text gives very little info about them. Just that the release date is sometime in 2011, and the prices are to be determined. No scale either, but it'll most likely be 1/100 and pre-painted, like Alter's Super Sylph.
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I was just thinking about that old project a few days ago... I'd love to see it finally completed! You've got me curious though, what's happened to it over the years?
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Neat stuff! Wish I could be there! I was really surprised to see the Lancer and Ghost on the list! I still prefer the look of Cobywan's Lancer kit, but theirs is neat in that it has an opening canopy and cockpit. But Coby's is a lot cheaper anyway And I REALLY want those Megaroad and VF-4 kits!
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The guy casting them is a member on this site also
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Sorry, it doesn't look like it. The text above it just says VF-1 atmospheric escape booster and launch vehicle
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I have to wait til november for my return trip to japan... But I suppose I need the time to learn more Japanese... not to mention save up some money!
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Sweeet Put me down for one
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So is it official that Chronicle is ending at issue 50? (Sorry, I haven't been keeping up. I just recently ordered the 15 or so issues it'll take to get me current again!)
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Yellow Submarine 1/144 - SDR-04 Phalanx Mk XII -
Valkyrie replied to RogueTrooper's topic in Model kits
I just checked my yellow sub Phalanx kit, and yea, it's missing the M decals... I never noticed that. That's pretty shitty. I also checked Wave's Macross decal sets. They had a lot of decals that the resin kits of the era didn't include. But no Ms there either -
I was looking for those too some time ago. There are decals for some of the MG kits, but I never saw any for a PG kit. I went so far as to ask a clerk at the Gundam store in Osaka when I was there a couple years ago. He confirmed it, no PG decals. That info is 2 years old, but looking at HLJ, it looks like it hasn't changed
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That would be the 1/48 Ultimate Detail VF-1S Strike Valkyrie by Club-M.
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I suppose I have to lump myself in with the collectors more so than the builders, but I wish it was the other way around. Like most others here, time is my limiting factor. Most of my hobby time for the past few years has gone into the resin casting end of things. And I've been way behind on even that lately. I have a fairly sizable collection of kits, many of which are rather rare. But I can honestly say that very few of them have I bought with the intent to re-sell for a profit, or with no intention of ever building. There are many that I bought knowing that I wouldn't be building it for quite a while, mainly because my skills weren't good enough to do them justice. But I still would love to build most of them, provided I had the time, and my skills were up to par. And every once in a while, I'll go through my collection and sell off a few that I know I'll never build. Usually it'll because I don't care about the subject nearly as much as I did when I bought it. The Armored Core series was a good example of that. I was all excited about them when they were new, and I bought a bunch of them as they came out. But my modeling tastes changed, and shifted away from most mecha. And so they went to ebay. I doubt I turned a profit on any of them, but oh well. As for selling kits without boxes... when I see a resin kit for sale without a box, I immediately assume it's a recast, until I can prove otherwise. I'm just sayin'
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I have most of those LDs, and I'd be willing to loan them. The only ones on that list I don't have are Mac2 volumes 4 and 6.
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Nope. That kanji is spring, not autumn.
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I couldn't believe this when I saw it... There is now a third Yukikaze novel! It's called Unbroken Arrow. Looks like it just came out last month. I'm still a long way from being able to read it, but I've gotta get a copy! http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language...;language=en_JP
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About the Macross Chronicles
Valkyrie replied to Isamu test pilot's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Yea, I've gotten all mine from HLJ. They're not the fastest, but they're probably the cheapest option out there. -
The Aim for the Top! Gunbuster Thread v2.0
Valkyrie replied to Noriko Takaya's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Yep, there's a lot of real science mixed in with 'wrong' science, along with other crap they just made up And actually, a while back, there was a group who fansubbed Gunbuster, and they got a physics professor to watch the show, and comment on the science aspects. The result is a very interesting read! Physics_Professor_Commentary.txt -
My bad. The Imai kit is indeed 1/5000. I guess I was thinking of the toy. But the fact remains, even if you count the upcoming Yamato, there has been more toys/models of the TV design than DYRL. So whether you like it or not, don't say it's been overdone And of course I didn't mean any offense. But it should go without saying that a TV SDF-1 and a DYRL ARMD just aren't meant to go together. That's all I'm saying.
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What's with everyone saying the DYRL version has been overdone? By my count, there's only been three. The two Yellow Sub resin kits, and the Wave toy. This isn't exactly a VF-1 we're talking about here Granted, the TV version hasn't had a whole lot more, but the Imai 1/3000 SDF-1 cruiser is an excellent kit. I'll definitely agree not to make it a mix n' match hybrid though. TV SDF-1 + DYRL ARMD = bad. If it was a TV ARMD, that'd be less bad. But it'd still just leave me scratchbuilding my own Daedalus and Promethius. So if you're going to do this thing, awesome. Just don't half-ass it by using whatever meshes you have lying around.
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There were two. Amazon isn't listing it as volume 1, but the page count it gives is exactly the same as the japanese volume 1. So I'm assuming it's not both novels combined into one.
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Wow... I have no idea how this slipped under my radar for over a month. Viz is releasing the Yukikaze novels in english. http://www.amazon.com/Yukikaze-Chohei-Kamb...0079&sr=8-2 No firm confirmation, and no mention of it from Viz themselves. But it looks like it's really happening. And actually, a few months ago, Neil Nadelman was interviewed in the Right Stuf anime podcast, and he mentioned that he's doing his first novel translation, but he couldn't say what it was. But he did say that he translated the anime version of it also as a bit of a hint. And so I wondered if it was Yukikaze, although it was a longshot. But it looks like I was right... Honestly, I'm a bit torn... as much as I'd love to be able to read it in english, the Yukikaze novels have been one of my major motivations for learning Japanese! And I've been at it for almost a year now.