physioguy

19 hours ago, BlueMax said:

Very nice! Did you agonize about having to cover up the majority of the tampo printing though?

totally!

Some custom clothing options for the Roy VF-1S DX

On 2/27/2024 at 3:35 AM, Lolicon said:

The VF-171 Nightmare Plus lived up to its name because fixing this thing up was a plus-sized nightmare. As mentioned in earlier posts, I had two units that has breakages at various points and I decided to disassemble both and Frankenstein the salvageable parts into one working unit. Still, cracks started appearing in the shoulder triangle parts during the reassembly, so this thing is staying in fighter mode forever, as it's almost certain to break if a transformation is attempted.

It is hands down the most shoddily constructed valk I own.

Still, I did what I could to pretty her up, though between the topcoat and bright lights, a lot of the surface detail is lost. 

Here she is before her makeover:

 

And after:

 

Bandai's DX VF-1 doesn't have warped wings, but all their Frontier valks do. Even the Revival version has warped wings.

 

Did you just add a Topcoat to give it the matte finish?  It looks 10 x better!

I sold my last few ages ago but I might want them back if a topcoat could work on it

In the early 90s (Vancouver, BC, Canada) I remember there was a comic, hobby & toy collectors newspaper that was published from time, and some of the stores would list in super fine print what they had in stock.  A store in a neighbouring city (Victoria) had a die-cast destroid monster.  Made my day.

We also used to drive over the border to Washington state and just hit every Toy's R Us, K-Mart etc... to find toys.  The best trips were when the Exosquad/Robotech stuff was out.  So stoked to find Battlepods, Khyron's Battlepod and Invid toys.... Good times

* I use the Robotech terms as they were Robotech branded.  Don't worry, I use Macross, Regult, etc

They owed me $90 for a Figuarts War Machine that I pre-ordered, It came into stock, and was later sold out… but they never sent me one.  The customer support ticket conversation was ridiculous.  It went on for almost 2 years, but the whole last year, they ceased responding.  The funny thing is that they fulfilled another pre-order I had at about the 1 year mark of that other case, but not a word on the Figuarts figure.

I’ll just say I’m glad it was only $90, and I chalk it up to the cost of the lesson: “stick with reputable businesses and don’t worry about saving 5%”

I feel bad for all of you who got ripped off more heavily than me

I wish they made the GBP-1S, but suuuuuper unlikely as we are still waiting for the 4th row 😞, so I had to customize my GBP-1J

I decided to customize my GBP Armor….  Into a GBP-1S! 
 

(Hikaru came home and his uncle Roy stole his suit!)

Box Art sooo bad.... 

Thanks for the info!

The colors on that one work for me.  I may have to try my hand at an expensive custom...

I'm guessing this is old news, or perhaps just someone's custom job, but i took this screen cap from the Tamashi Nations .jp site.  It was from the 2020 show, but I couldn't find any info on this.

Anyone know the story behind this GBP-1S

Thinned out my Macross collection, but still love displaying them!

Just now, Chronocidal said:

Same, I'm expecting that to pop any moment here, and resisting the urge to sleep to see if it happens.

 

Same here, keep resisting going to sleep, just in case it opens up.  NY had executed a different gameplay tonight.

Cart jacked NinNin

No scotch tonight.  Just some good beer.  I have a long drive tomorrow. 

Waiting for big brother

2 hours ago, crackpot said:

I read somewhere that those that were required to change their HLJ passwords were preselected by HLJ to not get through a PO for the DX Roy. I guess you guys have to go with other retailers. 

 

 

 

Nice

I was able to change my password on HLJ but it only worked when I hit

“Forgot Password”      instead of        “Reset password link”

...for whatever reason.  Hopefully the site works well tomorrow night

On 6/5/2020 at 7:13 AM, Grey728 said:

Is that a BESTA Ikea shelf? How does your display look with the glass doors closed?

It is a Besta shelf, but I have the white painted glass doors, so not the best with doors closed... you can only see some shadows on the glass with the lights on.

I don’t have the most extensive collection, but thought I’d share my random collection of hi-metals, DX frontier valks and DX 1s

the little IKEA lights help

Just now, jenius said:

5 minutes and i'm done

Maybe I'll wait 6 then.... JK

bedtime

Scared to refresh at HLJ too, 22 minutes of "adding" to cart

17 min of " adding to cart" at HLJ

expecting an error message if I ever get further

my HLJ page is stuck on "Adding to cart"

I love this valk so much I had to do one in stealthy-colors

I was going to list this on auction, but thought I would offer it to Macross World members first - $420 shipped in the US or Canada

Perfect condition but the box shows some shelf wear