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Thanks for the compliments, folks... yeah, the stands are bent wire hangers with the vinyl (?) coating that you can get almost anywhere. I needed something a lot stronger than the 10 gauge aluminum wire I use for my action figures, and the hangers fit the bill. The pics below show the general shape you're going for to pose valks in battroid mode. Keep in mind that the size of your base will vary based on the height, weight, pose, etc. that you're trying to display. The horizontal bend at the top in the pic is also adjusted as far as length and angle depending on your pose. After you get it shaped right, you just slip the hanger around the side behind the chest plate in battroid, and rest the valk's hinges right on top of the horizontal bend in the hanger. From there, you just mess around with the angle and bend of the hanger to keep things balanced and stable. The higher you try putting the battroid in the air, the trickier it gets; you can see below that I made a new hanger for the VF-1S to set it higher then it originally was. For that, I just widened the circle at the base and messed with the vertical upright part to get it stable. REMEMBER TO NOT CUT THE VINYL OFF THE HANGER COMPLETELY! lol... It's all on you to avoid scratching anything up, so be careful when you make some of your own. You want to leave as much of the vinyl on the hanger as necessary to avoid metal to valk contact and scratches. Also remember to file the tips of the hanger down to remove any burrs and sharp points (I add a small bit of tape or clear polish on the end as well). Battroid is a total cakewalk to do, but fighter (especially with super parts on) and gerwalk is a nightmare; it's obviously possible if you keep messing with things, but it takes a ton of trial and error to get it right. For me, these stands kill the other options out there on almost every level except obviously stability, but my valks haven't budged dangerously at all once they went in the detolf. Smaller footprint in your case, better poses, and almost completely unnoticeable all for 10 cents a pop. =) ... and for any other action figure folks out there:

Recently I've been going nuts making stands for all my action figures, and it occurred to me that it's just too wasteful that Yamato and Bandai design all sorts of articulation into their valks, yet most of us just have them sitting static in our displays (mostly due to space issues). I'm on a mission now to try and get as many dynamic poses as my Detolfs will allow in my 1/60 Yamato section. As far as making them combat valks, the VE-1 just seems natural as a long range support plane, so I slapped some reaction missiles on her (no gun pod though, lol). The VF-1D is posed in a "what if Hikaru actually knew how to fly a valk in the first episode" motif. =)

Spicing up my 1/60 section...

$226 shipped via airmail registered from NY...

At that size, how about using these as an alternative for the 1/48's chicken hands?

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=37426 If all else fails... lol

I recently started experimenting with alternatives to the flightpose stands because on each one I have, the top plate has cracked and is more or less in pieces barely holding on. I've only ever tightened them enough for the arms to hold their position, and noticed that over time the cracks just seemed to form out of nowhere. Just something to look out for... otherwise, they do still look great, but I'm leery of buying them anymore because of this issue.

We'd probably all save on shipping though since at that size it would probably fly itself to us.

It's good to see you're open to using them and acknowledge that they aren't scalping their items across the board. They seem to operate on an "act now or pay later" type system, but ultimately whatever they're doing seems to work reliability wise. When it comes to Bandai Macross products, you can never have enough potential retail sources...

Email them a request for cancellation... I did that for an Alto armored set I had preordered and it worked out fine.

HLJ has retail listed for the VF-25G at $170 and change before shipping. I locked in my pre-order at Nippon Yasan at $192 before shipping. $12 and a full night's sleep every night since. Their pre-orders don't start out at $75-100 above msrp, they apparently get there gradually as pre-orders get harder to come by for retailers. But, whatever, happy hammering to you... more stock for everyone else.