Nanashi...While I heartily disagree with any statements that use words like shameful and blasphamy particuarly when it comes to plastic models based on a cartoon, I am very respectful of your obvious love of the topic. I always say I can't see the details that many of you do. I look at most Macross, Robotech, Star Wars, etc toys/models and see the intended view into a product that reminds me of my childhood. I don't seem to have the capacity to obsess over whats wrong, but rather I revel in whats right, whats good, and what it reminds me of...a wonderful time...my youth..now lost...but never forgotten. It floods back to me when I look upon a VF1, a Snowspeeder, or a Legioss. Sometimes I wish I could see it the way the fanatics do. I recently read on the RPF how some people are disapointed with the Master Replica's AT-AT. A beautiful piece, which to me seemed the ultimate display piece, is not perfect to the studio model, and thus they are frustrated. I look at the side by side comparisons of the "problems" and I wonder how they could have figured out the differences...so small are they to my better then 20/20 vision. 20/20 vision that doesn't see these flaws, or just naturaly looks past them. And just as I say there are times I wish I could see that detail there are times I'm glad I don't. I respect your devotion, your love your obvious dedication to the perfection of Macross exactly as it was intended, but I feel sorrow that you don't feel the same joy I do when I look at my Hasegawa VF1A...for all appearent flaws a model that reminds me of a day at home, laying on the front yard, wondering skyward why the airforce hadn't build a transforming jet.
Good luck in your quest for perfection, but don't forget to smile at the wonder all around you.