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    Recast 1/48 VF-1S Head by Rohby

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    Posted · Edited by valkyrie312

    Hey ya'll -

    I am a little late, but I need to get a Recast VF-1S 1/48 Head that Rohby made. I already PMed him, but I'm not sure if he's still selling them, so if anyone else could help me out, I would appreciate it! :D

    Thanks!

    David

    Houston, TX

    1/48 Yamatos

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    I love the 1/48s (misproportioned cockpit and all) and hope to eventually get more to go with my 1S Roy.  But does anyone else find themselves thinking: eventually, there's going to come a time when we look back and wonder "$200 for a toy?  WTF was I thinking?"

    maybe.. but we probably won't feel anywhere near as bad as the guys that paid over a grand...

    Yeah - I think I'll be ok knowing that I never forked out a thousand bucks for a vintage elint or super o or something like that. I'm not saying they're not worth that amount, I just know that I could never spend that much (and hope to face my wife)! ;)

    About to buy 1st 1/48th - Advice?

    in Toys

    Posted · Edited by valkyrie312

    I agree with the other guys here - you should get it, cause they are great. Highly detalied and very durable (assuming that you won't be dropping one for a crash landing). Just handle with care, and since you are a collector I assume that you will, and everything will turn out fine.

    I have two (including a first edition Hikaru VF-1A) and the QC continues to improve on these things. Watch out for the backpack piece (BP8), as it tends to break if you put too much stress on it. Also, be careful with the heatshield when transforming to battroid mode, as the little plastic tabs could possibly snap off leaving your valk vulnerable in battroid mode. :)

    That being said, mine are not broken and I had to figure out how to transform them with no instructions! :p So you should be just fine!

    Oh, and I almost forgot.............BUY THE 1/48! :D

    Hope this helps!

    auctions of great absurdity

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    Posted

    thoughts? it is opened and still he's asking $200!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5977944128&rd=1

    B))  :lol:

    I know! I would buy it for half the cost and then take the strike armor and put it on my nekked VF-1S Roy! :p

    So you are saying the VF-1J armored plus the DYRL Armor is not worth $200? I thought with $180 plus the $50 but I am not sure that is true according to the description. I asked the guy about clarification and he gave me a run around. <_<

    No, I'm not saying that. :) I'm just saying that I always have a harder time shelling out $200 or more dollars for an itme tha has been opened and altered in some way. Believe me, if I had $200 extra bucks, I'd jump on it anyway! :D

    Transitions in collection?

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    I started out much like the rest of you - with SW figures when they were rereleased in 1996. That was my senior year of High School. Then I graduated and went to college and found eBay. I had a Jetfire and I always wanted the BanDai and Takatoku valkyries, but could not a fford those prices (at the time), so I started trying to do custom valks. I turned old JF into a VF-1S Roy and it all went downhill from there. Fortunately, my wife is very understanding and still loves me in spite of my collecting habit! :D I also collect movie score CDs (I have about 680 soundtrack CDs). Anyway, back to toys - I have since gotten rid of most of the SW stuff (please see my auctions in the auction section) and now have:

    2 1/48 Yamatos

    10 1/60 Yamatos

    4 1/72 Yamatos

    13 1/55 BanDais

    13 Joke Machines

    Now.......to focus on getting more 1/48s!!!! :p

    David

    Transitions in collection?

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    well i've always wanted robotech toys as a kid. All I got was a jetfire. Funny thing is I played with jetfire and watched robotech at the same time and was thinking why does jetfire look soooo much like the robotech jets? And why does jetfire have the robotech symbol on his wing? ;):p:D:lol: I couldn't buy any of those robotech released toys back in the day. So what started me in collecting was baseball cards. My cousin got me into baseball back in 1988 and I started collecting baseball cards till 1993 and jumped over to basketball cards. That only lasted a year. Right after that, my neighbor gave me two old x-men comic books. I remember the xmen when I was kid watching the cartoons and the coloring books, but the comic books were a different story!! So I started collecting comic books like crazy and that lasted from 1993 to 1996. Inbetween that, anything that had to do with marvel toys I bought. Same with spawn. I started transitioning to toys and slowly stopped buying comic books. Then in 1997, I went to my coworker's house because he wanted to get rid of a bunch of old toys he had. In the box were a bunch of Transformers G1!! I was like dood!! I remember these!! That sparked my interest in transformers. I jumped online searched around for some info on transformers and ran into Macrossworld. I was like dood!!! Robotech is Macross in japan!! So I lurked on MW for a while. I signed up with Ebay and won my first auction and it was perceptor. Then it was swoop, and so forth. While I was searching transformers on ebay, I was wondering how much some of the macross toys would be worth and if I can afford it. When the page came up, I was like forget it!! every valk on the page was at least 500+ dollars!! :blink: So I just stuck with transformers for a long time. I finally signed up with MW back on the old boards and just posted here and there. So I've always been a fan, but was never able to afford the macross toys till now. Now I'm trying to limit myself to macross and transformers G1 as I have no more room to store all these toys!!! I still buy other anime toys, which I shouldn't but I can't help it. ;):p:D:lol:

    You still want to buy my Star Wars toys on eBay. (place hypnotic voice here) :p

    VF-11B leg problem

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    I know all about the well-documented hip joint problem, but my VF-11B broke even though I never transformed it and only had it on display in battroid mode!!!! I moved it like 3 inches to rearrange my display shelves (to make more room for 1/48s) and the darned thing just cracked!!!! I was so p.o.ed!!!! Anyway, thanks for listening, as I just needed to vent to people who would actually understand. :(

    Reply here if you are angry too!!! :rolleyes:

    David

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