Shawn

Hi everyone, Sticky subject time.... I've noticed a few recasting threads popping up here and there recently. First off, I cannot be a hypocrite. I have one of Noels 1/48 Ultimate Strike valk recasts(does it matter that I have 2 authentic Club-M 1/48 kits? not sure...LOL). I was excited it came out, and many were sold in public on these boards without the MW hammer coming down. I see a similar Monster thread right now. Ok, its the first major fan recast since the 1/48, and it is rare as hell. Even being done by a very dedicated member here. Maybe once in a while one of these public fan projects is ok...stirs up the creative 'juices' and re-energizes many in the group. Now I see another one for the 1/48 YF-21 saying 20 requests are needed. Who is right? Who is wrong? Is it moral? Does it hurt anyone? If it wasn't for the WF limit to 20 kits...If I already own 2 originals...There are only 10 ever made...It'll never be made again...The original creator's company is defunct...I tried to get an original but the creator wouldn't do it... Not going to get into the arguments above-my own opinions differ a little on each specific reason as do most of yours, but thats not the point, I'm not going to preach, I'm only going to say one thing. Lets just keep being the respectful community we are and not go nuts with this recasting stuff. Thank you! Shawn

Model kits of course Nichimo 1/200 and Imai 1/144 at first and then it ALL went downhill when I found a store in San Diego that had tons of the kits(this was in 83-84). Saved up my lunch money everyday, would play hooky from Friday afternoon classes and jump on the bus to get to the store and drool over what I could not afford. I remember seeing the Imai Focker 1/72 variable kit and almost passing out because the art work was so cool!! Anyone remember 'Military Emporium' in El Cajon, CA? haha S

If I remeber correctly its ....funny thing is I was asked about the origins about a year ago and have now promptly forgotten. Its original Macross art-not original created for Robotech. The sig is at the bottom right in the uncropped version... Have a full blown poster of this pic from one of the old Animage magazines from 83 Its been cropped and used in many forms S

First lets just get this OUT of the way(not sure if this was posted before) http://www.geocities.jp/j02i924/page116.html Other build ups at the bottom links here http://www.geocities.jp/j02i924/page101.html Some cool Hasegawa builds ups here (interesting VF-19 variations) http://member.nifty.ne.jp/akd0070/Tenji1/Tenji1.html Nice stuff here-including the 1/100 Armored Gerwalk and a 1/200 size comp of destroids http://www.geocities.jp/kanseihinmiyako/macross-ind.htm http://www.geocities.jp/kanseihinmiyako/macross-02.htm http://www.geocities.jp/kanseihinmiyako/destroido.htm VERY VERY cool Macross model page! http://www.geocities.jp/j02i924/page058.html Shawn

Its better if you just click the links don't analyze too much-its just fun stuff Zentradi attack: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top47b.htm What would it look like at a valkyrie trade show? http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top62b.htm Trade show part II http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top42b.htm Macross Plus fun http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top45b.htm uhhmm-I HAVE to see what hey combine into http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top43b.htm VF-1 http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/top56b.htm A race with Kenobi??(make sure to hit 'next button' at the bottom of the pages) http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/diary/d20020309.htm Mecha Godzilla (tell me the pic with 6 of them in background with the army trucks wouldn't scare the hell out of you!) http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/topb12b.htm Seagal vs alien http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/topb09b.htm Making of Seagal vs alien http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/tamaki/topb10b.htm The home page http://www.ne.jp/asahi/nob/co/index.htm S

Looks awefully familiar.... http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cyc01/images/ra-cutaway.jpg S

Unbelievable. His response infuriates me-'you cannot sue me'. I cannot believe that attitude! I'm really sorry about this deal. Between Tanmen and Sakuragawa, it appears that dealing directly with the model makers in Japan is a bust. He needs to follow up on his option #3-period. Thanks again for your help Rob

found this http://switchblade.ddo.jp/sb/html/event_di...02W/WF2002W.htm Not sure if it was posted-maybe a couple years ago S

man! I'm really sorry guys. Read all the threads going on here. It took over a year for him to complete the orders I had sent him. He is always very busy, Macross is not the biggest priority in getting complete. Rob-thank you very much for offering the translation services!! You are a great friend to everyone here. If there is anything I can do please let me know. Tanmen and I used to talk on a regular basis (1999-2001)-he was slow, but he didn't ever flake on me. Shawn

ok-so its not canon but its still a fun read! There is a serious lack of stories about the VF-1 development history in Japanese. And how many translated into english??? The MAT books and the Hobby Handbook are good enough for me-its very entertaining stuff. But then again I couldn't quote you a asingle statistical reference about anything in Macross if my life depended on it. Well other than the Strike Valkyrie has 2 cannons...LOL That counts, right? Thanks for the work WJ! And welcome back Egan!! Good to hear you are doing better S

Thought it looked familiar! http://www.drublair.com/porttomcat.html That guy has alot of talent! Lets encourage him to do more S

That picture completely rocks. I NEED it larger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This should be a painting on my office wall Just amazing work!!!!! My jaw is on the floor. thanks Tony S

thanks for the review Graham! and special thanks to those in this thread who took a new toy review and turned it into a battle over what anyone 'SHOULD' spend their OWN money on-you guys rule!! Shawn

http://batman2001.cool.ne.jp/gallery/OTHER...AY/pages/p1.htm http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/1374/gp21.htm http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~h-ninjya/newpage67.htm http://stalin3.web.infoseek.co.jp/2mc/gall...053/index.shtml Fighter Mode: http://g2000.k-server.org/ogiken-VF-1S.html And one hell of a VF-0!! (WM Cheng type quality!) http://batman2001.cool.ne.jp/gallery/OTHERS/macross.htm S

greeeeeeeat noted next time I'm in the server i'll re-sync S

old half-done skin was not migrateable to the new 1.3 version new one is in my mind not sure when we'll implement-hang in there a week or two please!! S

this should be fixed now let me know if you find any other problems! S

Not sure if I've posted this before http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/multimedia/W7MOV_H.zip There is no sound-its an m1v file (mpg with no sound) Its from one of the Macross fan cdroms that a fan group was selling in Japan a couple years ago Kept it full size so you can watch full screen-72MB download. Try not to hammer the server too much...haha If you are wondering why this style looks familiar, Takaken stopped doing these fan works and did the the opening animation for the Macross VO game Shawn

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While scanning and re-scanning all these old anime magazines for our 'Big Update' I came across this again Each pic in the magazine is about 1 inch tall-sorry it doesn't get much bigger I scanned them at the highest resolution I could In the first picture, what are the toys in the foreground? My takatoku knowledge is pretty limited outside of macross Also what is the man grabbing on the table? I think its this Macross gun http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/lasergunf.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/laserguni.jpg In the 2nd picture, what do you think the 1/55 battroid toys are standing on? I'm stumped Shawn

yup they will all be part of the 'Big Update' in December S

Here is my latest inventory (made for the 'Big Update' in December for the site). Its in Excel. http://macrossworld.com/macross/bigUpdate1...ion11292003.xls So where do I rent a semi truck and trailer so I can do the 'Macross plamo' tour like Bandai did with Gundam here? LOL S p.s. I've made a Macross Inventory Database(Microsoft Access) that this excel file was pulled from. It will be made available in December during the 'Big Update' for everyone to use to inventory their collections. Very easy to use with premade drop downs and categories. When I was inputting my collection each entry took less than a minute. As you can see I tried to make it pretty detailed.

The vast majority of us understand very little Japanese. Some of us know elementary Kanji and can read Katakana and can make out SOME info(ie me haha!). Some can read fluently and they are some of our best resources on the site here. I've been looking here and there for a good easy accurate translation program for some time now. Figured most of you know some links so lets post them here. Here is a sample auction-please post your 'english' version of the description text under the picture and the link to the web site you used. (if you see scrambled characters in IE, go to View/Encoding and select shiftJIS) http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d40917330 ‚±‚Ì“xA‘qŒÉ®—‚Åo•i‚µ‚Ü‚·B‚P‚O”N‘OˆÊ‚ÉAƒ}ƒNƒƒXƒRƒŒƒNƒ^[‚©‚ç÷‚Á‚Ä‚à‚ç‚Á‚½‚à‚Ì‚Å‚·B@ƒ^ƒJƒgƒNŽÐ‚Ì1/76ƒXƒP[ƒ‹@ƒ}ƒbƒNƒX‹@ƒoƒ‹ƒLƒŠ\‚ƃA[ƒ}[ƒhƒVƒXƒeƒ€‚̃Zƒbƒg•i‚Å‚·B‰Â•Ï‚Í‚µ‚È‚¢ƒoƒ‹ƒLƒŠ\‚Å‚·‚ªAŽñ‚ª‰º‚ª‚è‘€cÈ‚ªo‚Ä‚­‚éƒMƒ~ƒbƒN‚ª‚ ‚è‚Ü‚·B‰Â•Ï‚Ì1/55‚Ì‚à‚Ì‚æ‚è—õ‰¿”Å‚Æ‚È‚è‚Ü‚·‚ªA‰Â•Ïƒ^ƒCƒv‚æ‚趎Y”‚Í­‚È‚­ƒRƒŒƒNƒVƒ‡ƒ““I‚É‚Í’¿‚µ‚¢‚ÆŽv‚¢‚Ü‚·B‚P“xŽæ‚èo‚µ‚½‚­‚ç‚¢‚Ì’†g‚Íó‘Ԃ悵‚Å‚·‚ªA” ‚Íó‘Ô‚ªˆ«‚¢‚Å‚·B‚²—¹³‰º‚³‚¢B‹X‚µ‚­‚¨Šè‚¢‚µ‚Ü‚·B‘—•t‚É‚ÍA—XƒpƒbƒN‚ð—\’肵‚Ä‚¢‚Ü‚·B ----------------------------------------------- Translingo program: [it] exhibits by the warehouse arrangement this time. The one that it was had to transfer it because of (*makurosukorekutah*) about ten years ago. The set goods of 1/76 (*sukeirumax*) machine (*barukiri*) of Co. of Toku Taka and (*ahmahdoshisutem*). The neck is and there is a gimmick from which the fall control seat comes out though Changeability is (*barukiri*) not done -. I think that the number of production is more unusual in few and collections than that of a changeable type though [it] becomes a low price version from the one of 1/55 of changeabilitys. The state is bad for the box contents of taking out about once are stopping the state. Please acknowledge it. My best regards. The —X(unknown word) packing is scheduled to sending. ----------------------------------------------- Altavista: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr This time, it exhibits with warehouse rearrangement. It is something which it has transferring to the rank of 10 year ago, from ƒ}ƒNƒƒXƒRƒŒƒNƒ^[. 1/76 scale MAX machine ƒoƒ‹ƒLƒŠ of ƒ^ƒJƒgƒN corporation? With it is the set item of ƒA[ƒ}[ƒhƒVƒXƒeƒ€. As for variable ƒoƒ‹ƒLƒŠ which is not done? But the neck goes down and there is a gimmick where the cockpit comes out. It becomes more inexpensive edition than those of variable 1/55, but variable type compared to as for the number of productions you think that it is unusual little collection. 1 time we would like to remove, even if as for content of the leprosy state we are, but the box state is bad, is. Acknowledgement. We ask may. The mail pack is planned in sending. ----------------------------------------------- Excite: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/text/ Lately, it sends by warehouse arrangement. I have ten years before grade yielded from the MACROSS collector. 1/76 scale of TAKATOKU It is the set article of Max machine BARUKIRI - and an AMADO system. Although variable is BARUKIRI - which is not carried out, there is a gimmick to which a head falls and a cockpit comes out. Although it becomes a popular edition from 1/55 of variable things, I think that there is few production and it is newer than a variable type in collection. The state of a box is bad although contents to the extent that it took out once are state means. Please understand the situation. I need your help well. The —X pack is planned in sending. Shawn

Jumped on Yahoo Japan just now (just got home) There are 3 sellers of Macross Hentai/Doujinshi selling all sorts of Macross related items I had NO idea there were this many. Here is one of the sellers http://search3.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search...cale=0jp&mode=1 unbelievable S