Shawn

Found an ad in a recent magazine 80's Magazine win which advertises the July 1st 1984 DYRL preview screening and how to apply to the lottery for it. The follow up to this lottery promo was this letter which was presented to one of the winners. Pretty neat to make the connection of an offer and a redemption from 40 years ago

For the casual browsers here, most of those customs are made with Yamato 1/60 toys as the bases, and are featured in a series of color magazines, I think there are 5 or 6 volumes now https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/29133-macross-books/page/34/#comment-1592289

yeah-maybe they were Macross fans and figured the booster goes on the top like a fast pack

And here is my 'Not going to turn this into an auction post' part 2....did you catch how much the Mospeada show promo kit went for? Most impressive! Adding it here for historical purposes From Google Translate 機甲創世記 モスピーダ タツノコプロ 新番組企画書 設定 セル画 写真 コピーイラスト ロボット ヒーロー 今井 イマイ プラモデル Armored Armor MOSPEADA Tatsunoko Productions New Program Proposal Setting Cel Pictures Copy Illustrations Robot Hero Imai Plastic Model The new program proposal is 29 pages long and has some wrinkles, but no visible tears. 11 cels are hand-drawn. The illustrations on the back seem to be copies, but some have no illustrations. Approximately 26.5cm x 36cm. Most are stuck together. The photos are approximately 12cm x 8cm, There are 41 types, total of 107 sheets.

Recently picked up a doujinshi with a nice Mospeada Art Piece

The video was posted, Fujimi starts at around 20, and after watching this (auto-translate closed captioning!) I feel really positive about this new design, he really seems to care about all the dimensions and balance of the vf-1. I was very surprised at the amount of depth they are considering in the very small design.

Not my book-from an auction, but that thing is thick!!

Anything neat in the included book?

It's like some sort of fever hell dream John Carpenter's Macross The Horror? Does Bodolza knock 3 times on your door with a rusty fishing hook?

Now I need to find where the heck I placed my order from! Can't wait to see a few preview pics.

Wow!!! VF-11 with booster and the Milia kit are very unexpected! The pricing on the Milia kit is surprisingly high, but then I see it is a Resin kit. Very surprising.

Yep-the hosting company was great with the tech support and quick clone. https://www.tier.net/

making sure I can post a pic

Thanks for the patience, we are back! I noticed the server was acting a little funky, did a disk check and the smart alarm said 24hrs before failure So did a fresh backup sync, had the hosting company replace/clone the disk, and now we are back online again. The disk failed after 7 years running with 128TB written, the TBW endurance was listed at 120TB, so that was spot on. I'm quite amazed. Shawn

Just saw IPB 5 is coming for down the road, just a heads up if one day you login and go WTH Will keep my eyes on it as the official release gets closer to us. https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/invision-community-5-a-more-performant-polished-ui-r1295/ https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/introducing-a-fresh-new-vision-for-invision-community-5-r1287/ S

Hey-that Mikimoto book looks like it is printed? Like it is ready to go for real this time?

Not sure what to think, my initial thought was this has been done before-and semi recently with the super details Tomytec 1/44 lineup Maybe this is just putting their toe into the pool to see temperature? I do imagine it would sell more than a Focker themed lobster at least

Found it! They said Shigeru Komatsuzaki Macross Robotech, Valkyrie Science Hangar. Wonder if it is signed on the back? Or if a guess? https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/paintings/shigeru-komatsuzaki-macross-robotech-valkyrie-science-hangar-illustration-peinture-originale-1979-1980-/a/7257-51040.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

That Macross Factory painting was for sale at the crazy expensive Heritage auction, I thought it might have listed the artist? Would be neat if it was Masami. I changed hard drives so my saved off auctions are unavailable. The Macross Package Art doesn't list the artist, says unknown. The 1/170 mini factories are just listed as 'Artmic'. They could not confirm it was Suzuki, so who knows...are they the same style as above?

Fixed, geez! Believe it or not late last night I wondered 'did I say Masato?' then said 'nah, no I did not'

Wow look at that face on the bottom left...this is brutal war. Crazy art!!

and lastly...2 MORE from Imai That Robodatchi Space Shuttle-if you look on the top, the figure is a VF-1S.

And a couple more from Imai!

To carry on with the tradeshow catalogs, here are some additional ones I have in the collection. This one is from Arii in 1984 for the Tokyo & Osaka show.