505thAirborne

2 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

this a good one?

It looks amazing, I've been wanting a VT-1 in 1/48 forever. PO night is going to be nuts! 

The box art is absolutely gorgeous! 

The kits are molded in their respected colors and with a quality paint job, wash & decals... these should look really good. 

The ELTREUM measures just about 14 inches long, so that's pretty cool!

STAYC performing live in London and giving the audience one heck of a show. 

Funny side story, when they performed in Texas someone in wardrobe goofed up by giving Isa & Sumin Ranger Jersey's, one big snafu is they were not for the Texas Rangers but for a Football league in Scotland, The Glasgow Rangers... whoops. The plus side is before the show in London STAYC got a full access tour of the team's stadium, star players, mascot & team owners plus their own personalized jerseys, so in the end that honest mistake in Dallas had a huge reward in the UK. 

3 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Thank you sir. 

I was actually super excited when I saw the music video link last night. Only to find out the 6am PST live time. So the moment I woke up, I went back and watch it. So good to hear a new Beatles song. Felt so privilege to hear it in this lifetime. 

 

Same here, I was going to listen to that new song this morning and then I realized you had it posted, though no longer with us John Lennon still gifts us with an amazing Beatles tune! 

@davidwhangchoi & @no3Ljm You all have excellent taste in music!! 

@Angesdad That custom 0D is looking good, I like the weathering. Keep the progress pics coming! 

As for me, this just arrived. For $113.00 shipped Via DHL from Mandarake, I figured why not & now I have two VF-0D's. As you can see, Mandarake takes packing seriously and my 0D box is spotless! 

Hi all, anyone have one have a KO (Valkyrie Factory) VF-1S Roy with the Premium Finish you'd like to part with? 

I'm really just looking for the Valkyrie, Box missiles & gunpod... pilot of course. 

I plan on making this a custom DYRL Max VF-1S so the Fast Packs aren't required. 

Thank you!! 

RIP Matthew, thank you for so many years of entertainment & all the laughs. 

1 hour ago, treatment said:

 

Arcadia most likely still have their original YF-21 mould, but most likely BigWest is specifically not authorizing them to do a reissue or whatever due to this Bandai DX offering.

 

 

 

If all of the above is true, then that is messed up as I'd much rather get a reissue by Arcadia. 

As someone who was broke as hell during the Yamato 1/60 days and refuses to pay the really high 2nd market prices, I'll try and grab one of these. 

I love the YF-21 with a passion, while the Yamato 21 definitely looks better in Fighter mode all day long the DX Battroid looks ok to me. It will have to do until Arcadia tracks down its old molds for a reissue or builds an all new one... which will most likely never happen.

Looks amazing Captain!! 

However, I spy with my little eye something equally cool in the background. 

I may have to break down and get one of these, that Max & Miria DYRL display... I need that! 

1 hour ago, Saburo said:

Yo @505thAirborne!  Wait the VF-25 doesn't have a hover gimmick? 🤣

It was a limited TWE option. LOL

Hey @Saburo Good to see you again, the clarity of your pics are top notch! Either you edited out the display stand or your VF-25 can actually hover. 

13 hours ago, connor99 said:

Be nice to get a reissue CF instead.

Many, many thank You's to @Corrinald, Miria was wrapped up perfectly in a boat load of bubble wrap and IMHO arrived in better condition than described. I regretted selling my Yamato Q-Rau years ago, so it's really nice to have her back again. Time for Max & Miria to duel!!!  

On 10/11/2023 at 12:58 PM, derex3592 said:

Michael Bay called, wants his motorcycle ride armor design back for the next Bayverse TF movie....🤮

19 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Ooh nice!  I saw that one pop up on the market long ago, is it still being produced?

But yeah, looking like they did markings for a theoretical production model on that one, based in Florida, if I remember my tailcodes correctly.

I'm getting to the point where I can appreciate the smaller kits a lot more.  I grew up loving 1/48th for all the nice details, but 1/72 is a whole lot easier find room for.  

Honestly, I'm not sure if they're still in actual production anymore.

As for 1/72 scale, I kind of miss that scale for these Fighters. This thing dwarfs my 1/60 Yamato VF-0S! 

The skills & talent I am seeing here is impressive, looking good everyone!!! 

I got this beast in yesterday, so far a relatively easy build, the cockpit has the most parts. I'm going to order the White metal landing gear & a decal sheet for this kit. 

The kit overall is of good quality, so far, every test fits correctly. My biggest issue so far are the decals, they are not even remotely correct for what was used during the ATF project, no Northrop/McDonnell/Douglas, ATF or even YF-23 decals... plus NO Pilot, so for the price tag that's a bummer. 

The plus side is the kit actually has some heft to it and she measures just over 17 inches long. 

This Little Lady just arrived! It's going to be a fun project; the kit is 1/48 scale and the main fuselage (Nose cone to engine exhaust) measure's almost 16 inches.  Either I haven't built a 1/48 scale kit in a long time, or this Fighter is big! 

8 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

Finished the main assembly on my moducases. Still need to wire up all the LED lights. I'll get to that over the weekend.

Assembly wasn't too bad, though there were a couple of parts where the holes were not properly sized (poor QC) and I had to drill larger holes through the metal. That's always fun.

A couple of the shelf boards were also slightly warped and bent upwards slightly, so I've placed some weights on them to eventually flatten them out. 

Will probably get another set of 8 as these definitely will not fight all my 1/60 valks even though there's a ton of space.

1/48 Kakizaki for scale.

You're off to a good start!!