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Who from MW will be there? It'd be cool to meet up with some members I've never seen in person.

Nice find. I'm missing a few of those, and don't expect to find them all in my lifetime, but that's OK. I'm glad you were at least able to pick these up.

On 5/2/2025 at 2:21 PM, Shawn said:

If you enjoy never before seen pre-production art , pick up the new book ART OF BATTLE – Koichi Ohata Robot Chronicle

https://japanese-creative-books.com/product/illustration/art-of-battle-koichi-ohata-robot-chronicle/

10 pages full of good stuff. I think at least 90% I've never seen before.
And if you like Galvion art, there is stuff in here too which isn't even in that Galvion book released a while ago. 
Go buy this-its cheap and very cool

I had been sitting on buying this book, but thanks to samples of photos you posted, I have it coming in today or tomorrow. I'm excited to get this. 

Wow, now that's an expensive piece of something not many of us are even aware of, or care of to spend that type of money. It's a cool piece, but for that price, well, yeah, no! It's cool that you have a set of them.

I'm hoping to get one of those posters. They are very cool looking. From people I know who went, they were saying that the event went very well.

It's a beautiful figure. Congrats on the find.

In a sense, I'm glad it's a Hi-metal R so that I don't feel the need to buy it. If it was their DX line though, all bets are off. It does look cool though.

It's because of this that I ended up scanning the figures as .stl files so that I can print them in durable plastic and paint them. I really like these figures, and it's a shame that they've gotten to this. Mine are just now at that point where they're starting to get sticky. I keep all my stuff in a very cool lower closet of my collection room, so they've bee pretty well off, but even then, it still is happening.

19 hours ago, lavinrac said:

Well this is quite a book! Its over an inch thick and seems on the first flipthrough to have every 'in color' Mikimoto Macross piece I've ever seen anywhere. Nice to have them in one place I often wish these art books came in a magazine type binding though, so i could flip through them without worrying about breaking the spine. Not a complaint as they all have that type of binding, but it would be a lot easier to do a scan and use something for my phone background without ruining the book. I'm glad this is finally out!

 

Glad you got yours so soon. My two are on the way now. I was able to get the order with the extra additions, and specifically ordered two for one to look through, and one to keep pristine. I'm sure this book will be on the coffee table for quite awhile.

4 hours ago, Urashiman said:

shapeways is basically sunset. I think another company purchased them, but not sure if they'll continue most of the services.

Yeah, pretty sad for Shapeways. I think their service of buying prints was killed by the amount of personal printers available. That said, their nylon prints were done by an SLS (not a personal nylon printer) style printer, which is in the amount of $10K to own. There are other printer services that have these, but you need the file yourself. 

I wasn't sure if I wanted one of these when they first came out the first time, but at some point, well after it was released, wanted one. With this release, and the price being low enough, decided to get one of these. If anything, the stand looks quite cool, so I'm happy about that. 

In having the Japanese Blu ray of MII, that was a really good quality version of the OVA. I always felt that it was the definitive version to come. Being that it looks almost like it was done in the past several years (minus the fact that it's all hand drawn), I was thoroughly impressed with that version. I'm excited to see how this goes. So far, I'm quite impressed and I hope this can truly be the definitive version.

I will have to say though, the biggest joy out of this is the Subtitles, but even more is the English dub. I love the original voices, but the English dub is like the best of bad dubbing, and it carries its own epic seal of approval in that sense. I definitely plan to do a watch party when it's out.

These are really cool. With only a limited amount of Japanese I can understand. I was only getting about 25-30% of what was being said. It's great to finally get it all. Thanks!!!

I've been able to get back to working on this project, and I am pretty happy to say that there's some new parts being done. I still need to sort out what I wanna do with the feet and legs as far as giving them a bit more articulation, but there's definitely enough references and designs out there to pick one. Originally I was going to do this with a 2.25mm thickness, but with the better material I have, I make it thinner, at least in the main body. The legs will probably keep the 2mm, and that should work.

I haven't cared too much about watching these on streaming, but I was a bit happy to see this post, hinting at working again on physical media. Courtesy of Bigwest's Facebook

12 hours ago, kajnrig said:

All previous translations (and even just listening to it) of the Max/Milia "Utsukushii" exchange have been

The official subs instead choose to write those lines out as

Does anyone know if the official subs are reflective of what was actually intended with that scene? Because I do have to say, I prefer the first way more, where they're both struck by each other's beauty.

I never got that Milia was saying that Max was beautiful. As a Zentran, those weren't words they would know, and even if she was able to learn human language of Japanese, I don't think her extremely limited knowledge of culture would have her respond like that. I think she was either just repeating it because she didn't know what that was, or was repeating it more inquisitively.

On 12/11/2024 at 10:10 AM, M'Kyuun said:

I'm playing some serious catch-up. I completely missed this back when it was new and I regret it greatly, as I'm sure I would've been in for a kit. This is on a shortlist of valks that I wish would get official toys. I just started working on a LEGO version, but the shortcomings of that particular medium along with my own as a designer mean that any final product will still fall short of the finesse, craftsmanship, and beauty of yours, Xigfrid. This is brilliant work. 

Being late to a party to enjoy the party favors is better than never coming. I hope you were able to find one.

On 1/22/2025 at 9:26 PM, brouken said:

Don't have any of the Bandai DX VF-1 series. I've kept myself from buying one due to the difference in scale. I'd like to keep my Valk collection at 1/60. If Arcadia does release a PF Super Ostrich, it would be in my to-buy list for sure, as long as its priced reasonably. And by that I mean it should not exceed the price of Bandai's DX VT-1. And it should definitely be much lower than the current market prices for the Yamato version. I can do without the tent. And nuclear fish over fire. Hehe!

Arcadia should still have the mold for the VT-1 correct? Which means the only issue is production cost and marketability.  The Bandai DX VT-1 is currently sold out in Mandarake. So I guess there is still interest among the collectors? Maybe Arcadia should take advantage of the fact that DYRL is coming out again on 4k blu-ray (with proper english subtitles) and ride on the wave of nostalgia that is sure to be generated. Just my two cents.  

That is pretty much me as well. Although, while I do have the Ostrich and 1D, I got the 1D simply for the Fan jet, as it's not in a 1/48 scale, and the Ostrich, well, TBH, I was more interested in the accessories (tent, figures). 1/60 is a great scale. With my collection going on for 20+ years, larger scales now seem to be a bit overwhelming. And while I do have a couple rooms I can display stuff in, I'd simply rather not, and just keep it to 1. 

I guess we'll get reports from WF 2025 Winter if Arcadia shows anything. I'm hoping there's news on the VF-5000 and the Minmay. They showed off re-releases last year, and well, OK fine. I don't need a 5th VF-1S with the same paint scheme.

If I am able to get one, I definitely will. I'd love to work on it, and possibly even use it to work on a larger version with new mechanics. This one looks great, but there seems to be a bit of gap issues. That said, I love it.

Glad someone found one...

If anyone gets the file to print, this is just my advice, but I'd suggest getting it printed on a SLS in a Nylon, something that has very good strength and can withstand movement. Regular resin printers won't cut it, and even the Tough 2000 Resin I have, while just like plastic, might not be enough (although, I should still try to find my file and test it). There are other resins I can use that would be great for it, but their drawback is that they aren't really paintable. For those, nylon is probably best. 

I'm still looking for them. I think my problem is that I didn't name it well, and I'm just not finding it in the library of stuff. I'm going to be opening up each file since the name I thought it was on isn't in there. 

The VF-0A is good news as I do like this design. My only question is.... WHERE IS THE DAMN GHOST FOR THIS!?!?!?

I have a file for this that I can put up on shapeways. I gotta pull out my old external drive. If you don't get working pieces, I'll have them up most likely in a couple days.

Richard Epcar is there every single year. It's his New Year's cash grab. That said, I'm more interested in seeing Aramakisan and Tomonorisan. Those two, are the only reasons I might consider going, being that it's only a 15 minute drive from my house. Then again, getting paid a lot of money for overtime sounds great as well. Tough decisions, LOL

I do like their weirdly named Gnerl. I did back their campaign, but in just looking over the way the Kickstarter is setup, I think anyone with some sense of analytics could tell this is born to fail. Offering a number of different figures, and various larger mecha in one shot is a lot for people to figure out. It's also a bad time to have  something like this, considering people are also buying gifts for family and their significant others and all that. I'd actually buy everything they are releasing, but when some of those have a proposed release date of September of next year, yeah, that's a bit too long. They should've just did it for the figures, and maybe even half of them, and with the amount of money they've raised so far, if we were dividing that money into the amount of products, they'd have enough to at least release 1/3 of it. They need to pull this off, and rethink how they want to do this. Maybe start with the Glaug, and a few of the figures, then the Gnerl with more figures, then then maybe the recon pod with others. Better yet, don't do a damn Kickstarter, as people like me have been burned by them. I only back highly reliable companies now, so I kinda trust this, but even as a backer, if this got funded, I'd be extremely nervous.