fulcy

btw...i was on 4chan earlier and someone had posted a link to toysrus.com and they had the PG Wing Zero Custom for 20 bucks... they're all sold out now tho dammit

Are you serious - $20?!?!?! Dayamn...

wonder how hey did the blue visor

It's rohby's head, and he sold them with the standard green, or blue or red for the max/millia heads...

Yamato may be releasing this similar to the 1/60 cannon fodder - releasing a special one (like the TRU 1/60 CF), and then releasing a regular production run of it, in a slightly different color...

Pardon me if this has already been discussed.... but whats with the language filters? Have we suddenly become too sensitive for curse words?

Uh, there have always been language filters on MW...

Nice - I'm very jealous...

Well, I guess kensei has the chance to order up the extra, what, 20 valks he 'needs'

If everything is selling out Yamato would be crazy not to reissue more valks.

Well, I think we can look at the 1/60's - Yamato flooded the market with them, and their value dropped like a rock (not to mention alot of the 1/60's went back on the market once the 1/48's came out). They probably learned from that experience, that it's better to undersaturate the market, then oversaturate it - it's always better to have a demand, then there be little to no demand. Then, if they decide to say, rerelease the 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru for the GBP armor release, they can justify it, because not only the people who want the valk for the GBP will be happy, but others who want to buy more valks (kensei, spiff) can purchase some more, and justify to Yamato the cost of either fixing the molds, or making new ones (really depends on how many parts they've made from each mold)...

What I'm wondering is how the backpack for the VT-1 and VE-1 will fold up in battroid mode.  Don't forget, the tailfins don't fold away like the regular VF-1.  So how's the backpack supposed to support the weight of the fastpacks without the backpack folded all the way back?  Does anyone here know how the 1/60's managed this?

Personally, if push came to shove, I'd have no problem if John fudged it and went the 1/55 route (just fold the wings away like a regular battroid). 

Just reflecting back on this old post, I think that the tailfins have to be flat. Remember that the 1/48 has a little hinge to secure the backpack when the fighter mounts FAST Packs. How is it going to be secure when we do barrel rolls and stuff like that when the backpack is higher relative to the fighter?

As I said in a previous post - it's up to the captain to make these design decisions, not us. Let the man work his magic, and we'll be surprised by the results

Yeah, the BIN option is available up until the reserve price is met. What I'm impressed with, is the people willing to bid this much on a LV, without seeing pics of it...

...What's my decision? I'm lost

Hi Capt! We're just talking about the structure of the tailfins of the VT and VE and the alignment of the backpack. I was wondering if the current booster sections of the FAST packs could be compatible for the VT and VE custom. I was thinkin that I could still use the booster and put on the new anterior sections (like those round thingys for the VT) . Or do you plan on making a whole new FAST Packs design?

Well, the booster on the VT is completely different than the normal booster, so there would need to be a new one sculpted. For the VE, it's only really a new tip put on the end. But, I was trying to say before that it's up to Capt whether the tailfin is folded up like in the normal super armor configuration, or if the tailfins are fixed open, like in the Hasegawa models.

You just want me to sell them don't ya?

True about what you say though. But we haven't decided whether to go the Bandai way or the Yamato way yet.

I think it's more Capt's decision, not ours.

bastid! stop posting and finish that AG!

Would love to, if my back would stop hurting...

Yeah me too... One of my favorite designs... can't day much for the anime.

Can't day much for the anime? Huh?

http://www.hlj.com/product/KBYFG-26

Original release date - October, 2001

Posable, resin-cast kit

172 parts. 19cm high when completed.

As far as I can tell, 'R's don't exist - looked around, and couldn't find even a listing for it, and did a google search for the kit itself, and couldn't find one hit for it - only listing I found for it was on HLJ... I'm half tempted to make my own, but god, that would take me what, 10 years to finish?!?!

Any info on Airshow schedules involving WWII aircraft?

Ah. I was concerned ordering through them - they seemed to have customer service problems - not completing orders and just generally screwing over their North American distributor...

Dude - where do you get your CoreWorks kits from? Been trying to find someone in the states that imports these...

7.5" - and I want it too!

1/24th - larger than the bandai kit...

Mmmm... Shadow Monkey love...

i don't care what you say, I love the ugly duckling of the Macross world! 

I thought it was Bobe-Patt.

J/K

Cold, so cold in here!

Rob. I see you are a servant of that lady... just like all of us married mans.

Fulcy. Sorry, truth hurts sometimes.

So... What IF you two switch proyects??? So Fulcy can have a supper cool looking proyect like the SPT that is gonna be finished and deleivered in the next 3 years... and Rob can take another 8 years to finish Fulcy's armored gearwalk???

hu? Sounds cool he? hu?

i don't care what you say, I love the ugly duckling of the Macross world!

by the way, your proyect is 1.000.000x cooler than Fulcy's Armored valk, just dont tell him

OMG!

That would be it. I'm still waiting for the Boomerang unit to become available on HLJ - I've got two - a plain LED Mirage, and an LED Mirage with the flame unit - but I'd like to modify the plain one with the boomerang unit...