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VOLKS Orient Hero Series - Info Wanted


DarrinG

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I know this is ancient and its unlikely I will get the details I seek, but -

Does anyone have a list of what kits this series included?

I see Devilman and Godzilla and Galient sometimes on eBay - I'm mostly interested in the Panzer World OVA designs that were done and what all mechs they sculpted.

I believe this is where WAVE got their 'non-scale' scale for their newer Panzer World WHAM and resin figs. I have more details on why I think that if anyone cares... (criskets chirp)...

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Google image search for ボークスオリエントヒーローシリーズ

Probably about the best you're going to get. Looks like they did a lot of stuff. And, I believe the Orient Hero series has been discontinued now.

As EXO said, doesn't look like they did anything Macross related.

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Google image search for ボークスオリエントヒーローシリーズ

Probably about the best you're going to get. Looks like they did a lot of stuff. And, I believe the Orient Hero series has been discontinued now.

As EXO said, doesn't look like they did anything Macross related.

This helped a lot actually. I can see here in the images that they did do the Snake God Warrior Guy.

I really believe this is the scale or sculpt that WAVE used for their current Panzer World Stuff - shown here...

I tried to add what I thought was the right Japanese text to that link for Panzer World Galient or Crest of Iron but I don't think I got it and crazy stuff came up.

If you can provide Volks Orient Hero Series Galient maybe that would get even more results?

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Probably this threads last post, but let me TRY to simply state the reason for my interest in the Volks OHS.

I love the Panzer World OVA mech designs. My first purchase was the Wave WHAM red main mecha a few years ago.

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Its by far my favorite collectable, a true masterpiece. They run about $500 now.

So looking around eBay and Yahoo Japan I'd often see older resin kits from that OVA, the centaur guys and a few others.

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Most were either Max Factory vinyl kits or a line of 1/72 kits from Kotobukiya. I never took the plunge and picked one up.

THEN - on evilbay I see a recast of the red centaur figure from a seller in Korea. I questioned the seller and something interesting came up.

He said this is not the same as the Max Factory sculpt, its actually from a famous sculpter who also worked on the VOLKS Orient Hero Series and FFS very high end resin kits way back in the day.

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I bought it and was amazed to see that the scale was exactly the same as the Wave WHAM figure. The hands were virtually identical. Its BEAUTIFUL, I mean the detail is stunning. Its certainly not a cheaper vinyl kit.

SO - I thought huh, maybe Wave was inspired by this sculpter and that's what they based their 'non-scale' Galient line on, which includes some simply spectacular mecha designs. Some are picture here, the Snake God guy, silver Wingal flyer type guy and commander blue centaur.

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Eventually I found this pic online with the Wave Galient, box pictured in the back right next to the red centaur - it must be this kit I just bought! Right? Same scale?

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Then recently I saw this - the standard centaur and I believe it even has the signature on the front on the box from that famous sculpter and I circled it here.

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That got me thinking what other designs might that sculpter have done from Panzer World, which brings us to where this thread is today... (phew, not sure anyone cares...)

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  • 2 years later...

Still looking for these 2 VERY OLD kits.

They only came up once in about 4 or 5 years on Yahoo.

Does anyone know of a vintage resin kit shop in Japan I could e-mail these pics to?

AND - if you're Japanese, can you please type the names of the kits in Japanese so I have them to search under?

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