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I'm not happy with the original scan I did of the first chapter of the Shonen Ace Macross Frontier manga. I've decided to do a better quality re-scan. However, as chapter 1 is 70+ pages, it will take a while to finish, especially as I have a business trip to Taiwan coming up in the next few days. Without further ado, here's page 1 of chapter 1. Graham Mod Edit: Scanlations RapidShare Megaupload

Personally, I'm not that impressed with Revoltech quality to date. Out of the three Revoltech toys I've bought (VF-1J, VF-1S & VF-1A), two have had problems. My VF-1S was missing the open left hand and my VF-1A had sloppy paint application and a crack on the chest plate, just above the heat shield. Graham

It will be interesting to see the Kaiyodo YF-19 and YF-21 sculpts. I hope they are not too funky and stylized and manage to keep the revoltech ball joints hidden from view as much as possible. I'm sure Kaiyodo will do a good job on the Regult though, as they have experience with that in the old Kaiyodo/Movic line and did an excellent job. I'll probably stick with the GN-U line though for the reasons mentioned above. I like the sculpts and basically I don't mind paying more for a toy with double jointed knees and elbows, full internal skeleton and most importantly ABS construction. I really hate PVC toys. Graham

Don't know where this rumour came from, but it is completely false. Graham

I think you will like the 1/200 Macross VF collection figures. I've seen and handled line 1 and they are pretty nice. They come in 3 modes, with nice display bases and are painted. The line is going to include lots of rare VFs that have never been made as toys before. Very nice accurate sculpts as well. Graham

Here's some 'in-action' poses for you to enjoy. Please bear in mind these are still the rapid prototype samples, not the finished production standard, which is why they appear quite rough. Graham

I'm planning on re-scanning all of chapter one, starting towards the end of next week after I get back from a business trip to Taiwan. Graham

And here's the single color page from this issue. That marks the end of chapter 2 of the manga. Chapter 3 will be released with the next issue of Shonen Ace, on sale in Japan on February 26. As soon as I get my hands on it, I'll start scanning. Unless I'm really lucky and snag one of the early airmail copies, I probably won't get me hands on it until end of the first week of March though. Graham

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Thanks for the translation ackem. Great first post by the way. Now I understand why Michael and Luca are already in SMS and Alto is not. Graham

Part 2, page 36. Only a few more pages to go. Will finish scanning and uploading them tonight. Graham

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