Mechmaster

Last one, damn hard to get the camera in there, especially with the light in the way.

There are part in there form Valk kits, Mospeadas, Orguss and Dougram, the forward bulkhead is from Darth Vader's TIE fighter though its barely visible. There bits from a Cylon Basestar too as well as various bits of 1/35 scale machineguns.

The second Regult I built I went to town on the interior. Kit nerds may even recognize some of the part I used.

... the interior.

1 more exterior shot and then...

Is anyone getting bored with this yet?

I went back again the next day and bought another 30 or so.

When my local model shop first started stocking Macross kits I was instantly addicted, I saw some in the window as I passed during my lunch break and went in and bought 7 or 8, as many as I could affords with the money I had with me.

One of these Regults is from the first batch of Macross kits I bought, the second I got some years later.

One day I will have to read the user manual for this camera and find out what all those buttons and switches are for.

When I built these I knew nothing about them other than what I could glean from the few English words on the boxes, it would be another 10 years before I actually got to see any of the Macross anime.

The Imai 1/72 Regult.

1 more.

A slight accident 5 or 6 years ago led to the replacement of the shoulder joints but otherwise it has made it through the years without incurring much wear and tear.

This is the Arii 1/72 Glaug

Its now a good 20 years since I built these kits, they were among the very first Japanese kits I ever bought and were my introduction not only to Macross but to anime in general. While many of my earlier works have deteriorated almost as much as me over the last 2 decades, these battlepods are still in pretty good shape so I decided to take some pictures before anything happened to change that.

Looking really good Rod, great detailing on the hatch.

Mechmaster how about a shot from farther away please?

I'm hoping to get time this weekend to take a few photos of this kit and my Glaug kit too, I'll probably post them in the Model Kit section as that would be more appropriate than this thread.

Edit: photos of my battlepod kits are now posted in the model Kits section...

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=14739

My neighbor blew up his wheelie bin last week after watching Dr WHO. H was drunk and had an extra skybird rocket. Poor brown bin jumped 5 feet off the ground before exploding. Funniest thing ever.

Wow! I hope he didn't get drunk again this weekend, I should certainly hate to be a fat politician canvassing in his neighbourhood if he did.

You've got brown wheelie bins? We get 1 green and 1 blue one around here. I don't think any have been blown up, but there are usually a few floating down the river.

garbage can (sorry - rubbish bin).

Actually old chap we tend to call them wheelie bins these days, though you are quite right in that we put rubbish in them rather than garbage or trash.

Nice to see that its the States suffering alien hostility in next week's episode, Dr Who's villains nearly always seem to pick on us Brits. I suppose that after wrecking Big Ben and causing 10 Downing Street to be blown up in the last couple of episodes, the ETs probably figure there is not much more they could do to us.

Foot...

Rear of pod...

Front of pod...

A few shots of one of my finished Regault kits to clarify details.

Side of pod and hip...

Arii decals, not so useful but maybe someone wants to see them...

Imai decals rear...