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I have 3 1/60 19's. Two without boosters, one with. I got the one with the booster last. As soon as I played with the booster version for a bit I ordered two booster only kits. By all means, get the booster version

I dig ya there. I would also like my lights to be whiter. In my case the light strips had more pro's for me though. You display cabinet looks great the way you have it set up.

Thanks! I need to get off my a$$ and get another set of the same shelves and pack the current ones closer together so I can get all of my stuff up. I have 2 mechs in boxes waiting to be set up and three more in transit right now. Poor little fellas need a home

Yeah, them were the days. I used to sell a ton of suspension stuff (what I do for a living) to AU and now that shipping has gone up it has been cut in half

I'm not trying to "One Up" ya. But I just lit up my shelves and I found these light wands for $10 and they work great. They are "perfectly" bright and they run off of a standard plug. I ran 10 of these into a plug strip and I use the switch on the strip to turn them on/off. That being said the lights are supposed to last 10,000 hours (over a year) and are so small that they have almost no heat and don't use much power. I have left mine on since I got them. The advantage to them is that you don't need to turn them all on when you want to have them on. You can just leave them on all the time. The only disadvantage for me is that I had to run all of the wires. But that was not even that bad. Here is a link to Lowes where I got mine: Lowes Light Wand Link They are made by a company called Portfolio and the model # is GL9410-WH if you want to search somewhere else. This is what they look like in a dark room....kinda. The camera makes them seem brighter than they are by about 30%. In reality I would call them perfect!

WOW! That thing is sweeeeeeeeetttttt!

Is that a VF-2? If not anyone got a pic? It's not in the Macross Mecha Manual.

I screwed with the FP's in fighter mode today and got those dialed in. Then I figured out how to mount the fold booster on the LH arm while in Batroid mode using parts that come with the kit and no extras. It will be secure and look "OEM". I ordered aother set of fp's and I will post pics when I am done. That sucker looks sweet mounted on his arm. I gotta think with som sci-fi rewiring a fold booster cold be used as a weapon. You could point it at the bad guys and "fold" them to somewhere they don't want to be, like in a star

I think I'm going to get another booster for my Batroid YF-19

Thats incredible! And I found one on feeBay. I hope I don't ruin it when I paint it. thanks for the link.

I will open mine the second it gets here. Should me Monday

I want to take a crack at building and painting a YF-19 model. Whats the largest kit out there. Best quality, etc?? thanks Jason

Damn, now I'm going to need two, that looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

I have never seen that episode, I would like to though. It sounds funny. The white stripes reminded me of my snowmobile gear. It's all black and has white reflective stripes so I can be seen by other snowmobiles easier at night. The mind quickly jumped to all the kids I see nowadays that their parents make them go trick or Treating with reflective safety gear on. Poor kids, they could have just dressed up as crossing guards

Thanks for the long write up. I'm going to take another crack at it today.

Thanks for the advice. I am very attracted to this idea If it works it's definitly something I will stick with.

Well, it was bound to happen, I got a Yamato toy I am not exactly happy with. I was reasonably happy with my first two 1/60 YF-19’s and my two 1/72 YF-19A’s. But I just got a Yamato YF19 with a Fold Booster and to be frank…it sucks. In fighter mode it’s about impossible to fit the “Fast packs” which is ironic because there isn’t much too them. I can get them on, but by the time I get the other side done they have shifted a bit, then I try and fix them, then they move again and for fun it all just falls off every once in a while! I don’t know if ay of you have your FP’s mounted in fighter mode SOLID, if so what was your trick? If it were not past midnight I would probably crazy glue them on and make damn sure they were solid. Maybe it’s a good idea it’s late. For the short term I put the FP’s on one of my other 19’s that is I Batroid mode and they popped right on, too bad it won’t do that in fighter mode. I wanted to display it that way, all “Kitted “ out. I mounted the fold booster in fighter mode and it’s pretty damn cool. I am a little bummed out it didn’t come with batteries though. Lucky my digital calipers take the same batterys so I had plenty here to use. I’m sure most people are not so lucky. The only thing that disappoints me about the fold booster is that it can’t be mounted in Gerwalk or Fighter mode. I have not been that far into the TV/Movie/OVA series yet, so I am sure there is a reason the fold booster goes bye, bye after it transforms, but it sure would make a cool backpack for the Batroid or maybe even a way of mounting it off of a arm so it looked like some sort of ridiculous weapon of some sort! That would be cool. I’m not sure what I am going to do I the long run with the FP’s and booster. Part of me says that I should just super glue the FP’s on the fighter, mount the booster and let it be…..forever. Another part of me says to mount the booster to the fighter, put another in Gerwalk and mount the FP’s to the Batroid. I’ll sleep on it. Rant over. J

Doh! The worst part is they probably had no idea what it was an tossed it somewhere. How may theives would hev opened it up and gone "Oh sweet!, a Masterpiece Voltron"? That sucks man, it hasn't happened to me yet but I bet it will.

Thats so he doesn't get hit by a car while Trick or Treating

I agree, I ordered a second one today to show my apreciation

If Yamato didn't make Macross toys I would have 1 Masterpiece Fokker with the Appendix A S&S parts and thats it. I got one off of eBay because I thought it would be neat to have something from tha show I loved as a kid. After getting it I found this damn place and saw picturs of Yamato stuff. It's been downhill since then. I got my Masterpiece Fokker the second week of July. I purchased 21 Yamato Mechs since then Not to mention all the other Macross items like Chara works 1/144's, Doyusha 1/144's Revoltechs (14), Hot Toys figures ( ..........someone stop me!

Where do I get the version where all I see is robots fighting and that hot brunette chick and all the other useless stuff cut out

You should have left Macross out I think this board may be a bit bias And where is BattleStar Galactica at?

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With a healthy fear of offending those of you that are currently celebrating Columbus Day by getting in you car….heading off for work…..and getting lost and ending up at a different job…..and staying and working there ….I'm PO’d its Columbus Day. I took today off (I take most Mondays off because I work most weekends) and I had it devoted to working on a Macross timeline/ available DVD chart and then I was expecting to have my Postal Truck show up about 11am and there is supposed to be at least 5 mechs in there for me. I was going to unbox them, set them up, make swooshing noises, re-arrange all of my shelves, etc. Now I won’t be getting those Mechs until Tuesday and I will be working. I know collectively you all feel very sorry for me. Rant over