The Nighthawk

I am so sorely tempted to buy a TV Kaki. I have just enough, but it means I can only spend about $20 on this "last hurrah" weekend before my work gets crazy-busy...

Since the sale appears to still be going, I just bit the bullet and ordered the Kakizaki Super Skull. LOVE that color scheme; I've been wanting one in 1/48 but this is even better!

Man, you won't be disappointed. I think it's easily the best VF-1 in my whole collection; I still have 5 of the original V1(?) planes, 2 1/48's and a 1/100 Toynami. This blows the V1's away! I've been leery of buying a V2 due to the shoulder issue, but this was one I couldn't pass up. I am SO happy with it! Took me 2 days of playing with it before I did my usual ritualistic application of the stickers. Same with the Gamlin. Man, the 22 is one sweet plane! And speaking of stickers, does anyone know of someone offering actual stickers for the OD Tomahawk? Mine only came with waterslide decals, which I just can't stand putting on toys I play with. I don't know if they ever included stickers with the Destroids or not. *Edit--Does anyone know how the shoulders are on the Grey Goggle Hikaru J? Being a late 2010 release I would assume it's safe, but I'd like to know from someone who has one.

Same here. Ordered, acknowledged 3/14, received 3/21.

Just got my order today, EMS is FAST!! I totally LOVE all my stuff. The TV Max is awesome sauce!

I can understand this. Maybe it's selfish justification but I see it as putting some extra money into their economy during a tough time.

Thanks to Uncle Sam's refund I'm picking up Gamlin, the Max TV A and the weathered Tomahawk (been wanting a Tomahawk so freakin' bad!). It eats my ACEN budget but it's more than I could have afforded there anyway, assuming of course I could even find half this stuff....

I'd go for a highly-detailed and articulated Glaug, with a Kamjin figure, in a heartbeat and shell out $150 for it in 1/60 scale. Regults, I wouldn't be so keen on unless they were cheap enough that I could army-build.

Well that bites. Dooku's saber is the only one I really wanted....

My group would be UN Marine Squadron VMFA-6023, the "Outlaws". Plane markings vary according to assignment; usually they would use the different "Low Viz" and "Stealth" color schemes such as Yamato has produced, depending on the main environment where they're fighting. All fighters in the squadron have black-painted heads regardless of the primary camo scheme (to represent the "Black Hats" worn by villains in the classic Westerns). Their insignia is a waist-up black silhouette of a gunfighter, with red eyes, and silver guns in hand crossed over the chest, all inside a dark purple circle. Essentially these guys are an elite UN Marine group who do everything from aerial interception, to scouting out jungle targets for precision strike, to street-fighting in frontier cities, to clearing damaged alien ships of surviving enemies. They're trained in Special Ops, Destroid piloting, and multi-environment survival and are just as dangerous on the ground as they are in a Valkyrie.

Is there any news about a 1/60 YF-21? I've seen a couple people mention such a thing but can find no solid info. Is this something that's actually confirmed to be in the works, just a speculation, what? 'Cuz I'd sure love a larger-scale version with better tooling than the floppy 1/72 FP mess I have now. A 1/60 VF-11 would be nice too (seems to be a good scale for standardization). And has Yamato ever, or are they ever going to, acquire the Macross 7 license? I really, really need a 1/60 VF-17.

I have a Revoltech Griffon, and frankly, I don't care if these don't TF--Revoltech is an awesome line! I hope for a YF-21 and a repaint as Gamlin's VF-22....

I only have 2, the Roy 1S and Hikaru 1A, both opened, stickered, transformed regularly, and proudly displayed; Roy is in Battroid with Strike Packs and Hikaru is currently in Fighter with FPs.

I'm betting it wouldn't be too hard to mod a 1/60 YF-19 into a VF-19P. Much easier than, say, converting to a M7 VF-19S.

Here's a thought: What if something like the Anti-UN, but on a galactic scale, existed? Perhaps recruiting disgruntled Zentraedi, ex-UN soldiers, and other alien races to their cause, like the Confederacy in the Star Wars prequels? There's plenty of potential for variable fighter combat, new designs, re-tooling of old designs, a little something for everyone. And what if, in the end, they turn out to be the good guys?