Valkyrie Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Just thought I'd give you all a little taste of what I'll have available in a week or so. I've been cleaning up and recasting a 1/144 Tect Full Armor VF-11C conversion kit (for the Bandai 1/144 VF-11C injection plastic kit). It's another of those projects I've been wanting to do for quite a while now. And it's a good thing I didn't do it sooner, because it wasn't nearly as simple as I anticipated! Big thanks to Sully for loaning me the kit!! Here's a couple quick pics of one of my VF-11 kits with the parts that I've recast so far slapped onto it. I built the stock kit a few weeks ago, and it's slowly been becoming a Full Armor. It's done quite well in keeping me motivated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valkyrie Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 D'oh!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Looking really good Ken!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macross_Fanboy Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Whoa! Was there ever an official release of the armored VF-11 on the 1/144 scale from Bandai? I love those little guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowlightman Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 (edited) Whoa! Was there ever an official release of the armored VF-11 on the 1/144 scale from Bandai? I love those little guys! Nope. Looks good Valkyrie, any idea when you might begin offering them and for what kidn of price? I'm guess you'll be getting a bunch of orders for these. Keep up the good work and thanks for all these recasts! Edited December 25, 2003 by yellowlightman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robokochan Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Looking EXCELLENTO. Man when you get ready to sell these things mark me down for one. Sweet Job! Rob MN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 I counted up the parts, and I think there's 55 total. The same number of parts as the VF-4G, oddly enough. But I'm trying to keep it cheap. Right now it's looking like it'll be about $35 each. By the way, the pics you might notice some big, nasty seam lines in the boosters. That's because the mold was semi-botched, so I'll be making a new one. No huge flaws like that will be going into any of my kits And also, I've got a few more of the Tect kits lined up for recasting after this one. All of which will be much cheaper than this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noyhauser Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Which kits...? I'm tempted to buy another one of these (Ialready have one) , but I'm a bit short of $$, and if you are making some kits I don't have then I would rather buy some of those instead of the Full armor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristopherB Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Hello, Cool, looks good! Did you ever finish the 1/72 DYRL launch arm project that you were working on for Blackaces? Maybe I missed the thread about it. I remember he obtained an original and then he gave it to someone to be casted and copies sold. Sincerely, Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 Yep, that would be me. I recasted all of the smaller pieces of the launch arm already, but the original arm itself was, frankly speaking, a piece of crap. I'm going to be building a new one from scratch. I tried scratch-building a new one once, and it didn't turn out all that great. I still intend to finish the project sometime in the (hopefully) near future, but I'm not sure when that will be. I get sidetracked easily ;; And Noyhauser, if you mean to ask which kits I've already recast, those would be the Club-M 1/72 VF-4G and the Retpuu 1/100 VF-11MAXL fighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less than Super Ostrich Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 And Noyhauser, if you mean to ask which kits I've already recast, those would be the Club-M 1/72 VF-4G and the Retpuu 1/100 VF-11MAXL fighter. Here is my finished picture of Valkyrie's VF-4 recast. Aside from my poor modeling skillz... the recast is very nice (so nice I bought two!). Valkyrie uses good resin with minimal problem areas. Even the vacuum-formed canopy was nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noyhauser Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 umm I meant which ones do you intend to do in the future.... do you have anymore VF-4s though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007-vf1 Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 LTSO; I dig that stand a lot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax415 Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 I always prefer to buy two (depends on my funds), but count me in on one for sure Valkyrie! It looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Leader Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Hey Ken, you said you were gonna recast a couple of other TECT kits.... is one of those by chance the speaker pod set for the VF-11 MAXL? or the Gerwalk kit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 Sorry, I don't have either of those kits right now. Next up will probably be either the VF-11B fighter with gunpod and booster rockets, or the VF-19F/S Blazer Valkyrie fighter. And while I'm at it, one more progress pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sully Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 It looks great Ken Great to see the kit put to use other than gathering dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007-vf1 Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Looks nice Valk. I have some of the tect as well in case you want to add extras for recasting, the VF-11 rockets and gun pod and the gerwalk convertion, as well as the 1/72 club-M VF-11 and the retpuu battroid with all the extras. The Ebo 1/72 ghost ; the 1/72 Star wars Outrider. I always thought making recast of the YF-19 gunpods and missiles was a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigkid24 Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Very sweet. Even with my meager modeling skills I'll take one when they are done. That's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phadeout Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Are you saying... VF-19S Blazer 1/100 with boosters i.e. SHE kit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 7, 2004 Author Share Posted January 7, 2004 Hahahahahahahahahaha no. Sadly, I don't have $1300 to buy the SHE Blazer. So the Tect kit will have to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 22, 2004 Author Share Posted January 22, 2004 Woohoo! The Bandai 1/144 VF-11C kits are back in stock at HLJ!! http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?BAN46230 For all you who are planning on getting one of my Full Armor recasts, you're gonna need one of these. So get em while you can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 thanks valk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax415 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Hey Valk, How's the armor coming along? ......Me wants!...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 I had hoped to have it done by now, but I'm behind schedule... real life stuff's been getting in the way <_< But most of that is behind me now. So I'm shooting to have it done sometime next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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