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It's done. Took a few crude pics with my primitive pic taking setup. So here's the big payoff after months of working on it here and there whenever I had a little spare time. Amateurish? Sure. Mistakes made? You bet. Learning experience? Of course. All in all, I'm happy with the way it turned out. Certainly much better than I expected than when I first received the kit way back in June (wow has it been that long?). I wish I had gotten those terrific photo-etched parts earlier in the project, but alas I was nearly done by the time I got them. But hey, it still looks better than the DX.

WTF is a "professional anime nerd?"

Dude you painted the entire thing by hand? That's pretty damn sick! In a totally awesome way! Looks more like it was airbrushed!

Damn, HP got here before me. So you're comparing Seto, who I've seen make nothing but articulate, well-thought out posts (that actually have a basis in reality) to the "apeface" garbage posted by Pizza or to Memo and his fascist state? That protoculture must be some primo stuff. Can I have some? People here have been fairly tolerant of your condescending, insulting attitude towards anyone who doesn't agree with you, and they've even taken the time to answer any questions you've had, which is far better treatment than you'll find at robotech.com for trying to post factual information. Yet you still feel the need to fling insults and wild accusations at anyone who doesn't think Robotech is God's gift to mankind and obsessively defend it against any and all perceived threats. Did you forget this is a Macross site again? What an ingrate.

Easy. It's the same answer to all of Robotech's (dis)continuity: protoculture! Komiria obviously smoked way too much protoculture during her teenage years, no doubt because of the distraught caused by her parents abandoning her to the Grant family (because everyone of African descent is related to Claudia in the Robotech universe). So she went from the hot azure-haired ace pilot we once loved to the blond bimbo of Southern Cross.

Gubaba is the "wise man" I quoted in my earlier post.

Even the Robotech narrators says in the very first freaking episode of Robotech that the alien craft measured "nearly three quarters of a mile in length" which is... about 1200 meters.

Robotech is a hack job and deserves to be ridiculed, especially its post-original 85 offerings, along with the psychotic fans who think it's perfect and beyond criticism. If you can't accept that, tough. You're not going to get what you want with the constant complaining about it. If you want a site where Robotech is never criticized as anything less than perfect, I suggest going to a real Robotech site. This is a Macross site devoted to Macross, where even Macross is often criticized (not everyone loves Frontier and don't get me started on Macross 7). And there's nothing "elitist" about it. If you can accept the above and quit whining about it, then you shouldn't have any problems with anyone here. No one really cares that you're a Robotech fan. It's this "Robotech is perfect and you're wrong, wrong, wrong for ridiculing it!" dismissive attitude that's grating. And calling us the "trolls" on our community site is the most hilarious thing I've read in awhile.

Indeed. This is my favorite thread in all of MW. As a wise man said once: Saying nasty things about Robotech is a hell of a lot of fun.

There's little that's "creative" about Robotech. The vaunted "original 85" is just a hack job of three different shows to meet syndication requirements and "westernize" them. Pretty much everything after the "original 85" is been pretty dismal, what little there is. It's been my experience that Robotech fanboys cannot distinguish between farce and fact. "Robotech gives you HPV." If you read something like that and actually take it seriously, then there are much deeper problems to address than the nonsensical musings of a few internet forum posters. I'm not sure where the "entire" fanbase comes in. Why don't you talk to Happy Penguins et al. Rude towards the franchise? Why not? Robotech is a hack job like Turkish Star Wars, and it deserves to be treated like one. Yes because they're accomplices to the eternal shell game that is called Robotech. I'm amazed at how fanboys like to use "in your opinion" to trivialize and dismiss the points made by others. The only real opinion in his remark was pertaining to the quality of the dubbing. Robotech is a hack job and Macek is one deluded mofo. Thanks for once again proving the existence of fanboys who believe Robotech is perfect and beyond the critique of mere mortals. The only fans really being ridiculed are the nutjobs like Memo and others who live in their "Robotech is perfect" world. Wow I actually made a serious post in this thread. It's all over now...

Took out? You mean more victims of the Memo banhammer? For what? Just asking for legal information?

I would love to see others' WIP pics too.

Into the last stages now. Finished off the gunpod finally and corrected the joint piece on the chest flap. Had it red originally, but it's more of a purplish color in the anime. So close, yet so far...

Dude, Force of Arms totally rocked! I loved it when the SDF-1 blew up Dolza's fortress with their Reflex missiles! Sadly, the Variations coffee shop didn't make it.

Short update as I haven't had much chance to sit down and work on the model. Finally got around to painting the gunpod and parts of the wing boosters. Turned out more purple than I would've liked, but overall I'm fine with the anime candy color. For sensors, silver + clear red looks good, but silver + clear green looks terrible, at least when I tried it. It doesn't help that Tamiya acrylic silver has tons of flakes in it. I ended up stripping it and just painting the sensor bright green. Wing boosters are nearly done. Just need to wash and panel line them and they'll be good to go. Nothing special was done for them. The nozzles on the top were painted red because the kit comes with a sticker but no decal for that section. Why does Bandai only provide stickers for some parts?? Both gunpod and boosters are on hold so I can try that new Promodeller wash I ordered. Guess I can finish the reaction missiles while I wait...

Will you be offering the decals separately at some point?

Stuff in my display cases atm (exludes the myriad of things outside and in storage).

The modded EB Saber is probably the best regular armor Saber around, if you're willing to do the mod and sacrifice another figure. Saber figures that actually look like Saber that I've picked up over the years: GSC's Saber Lily figma Saber Alter's Type Moon Saber gashapon (surprising) Kotobukiya's Saber I also have the big Clayz 1/6 Saber and GSC's first Saber... it's more accurate to say they're Saber cosplayers. And for some reason I have the GSC Maid Saber.

With Saber Lily you have to use brute force to get Excalibur into her hand. I hate having to do that, and I was afraid the paint would get scraped off, but everything held together and no PVC was harmed. I have the EB Saber as well, and the armor looks pretty, but the poseability is limited, and the joints get loose real quick as they're not really designed to handle the weight of solid PVC very well. Oh and both heads are fugly. I thought about doing the head mod using the head off Kotobukiya's Saber, but really, if a PVC figure requires that kind of mod, it's anything but the "best." Oh, the Gift Saber also rocks, except for the face too... for some reason, Saber's face is screwed up looking in most of her PVC incarnations. Is it really that hard to sculpt her face properly? http://www.hlj.com/product/GIF82004

I don't really like the design so far, but maybe I'll change my mind once I see it in sweet CG action.

I find it amusing when people say they hated Macross Frontier for being "juvenile" and then say they loved the original SDFM/DYRL, like they were the equal of Citizen Kane or something. Perhaps they're not on exactly the same level maturity level, but we're talking about transforming jets, giant aliens, anthropomorphic starships, and lots of singing. For the record, I love both series. Heck, my handle was taken from the three Zentradi spies.

What are you talking about? HG's given us such awesome shows like Robotech Plus, Robotech Zero, Robotech Frontier, and the totally awesome but non-canon Robotech II. I lol'd IRL when I typed that last part.

Hey Roy's Blues, where did you get the Rei and Asuka motorcycle figures from? Those totally rock. That's probably the best Asuka figure I've ever seen.

Robotech is an awesome American show, not that Japanime crap!

The same way people are sure that Amelia Earhart was abducted by aliens. Or the famous Bigfoot footage is real (despite the person who filmed the footage recanting on his deathbed and admitting it was a hoax).