AcroRay

That gun is from the Sasuriger Battrain, BTW.

This was my first toy MACROSS! Its a combination of the Convertors Takatoku release (which I got first) and a multicolored bootleg's spiffy box and decals (which I'd gotten a couple of months later at a discount store). A little extra paint for good measure. When this was all you could find in the US back in the early 80s, it was an absolute treasure - and still is! ...but my first actual Macross toy was one of those Select CONVERTORS editions of the Henkei VF-1S, actual Takatoku production repackaged. Still have it, and I might shoot a pic or two of it tomorrow. I love those little Henkei Valks, and I think I've got about a half dozen or so of them, including the Convertors release of Takatoku's unproduced Super VF-1S. - AcroRay

Priorities! Priorities! You can buy furniture any place or time! How often can you get vintage Takatoku & Ohsato toys...?

I seem to recall the ones I built back in the early 80s had much rounder 'super-robot' styled fists. That one's hands look more squared, like they've been since the VF-1 design was tweaked after DYRL. Perhaps Bandai updated the hand parts a bit when they took possession of the kit's tooling from Imai? Is this an Imai or Bandai edition?

They're why the only furniture you see in the shots is a card board shelf!

Excellent work! Its always nice to see people are still interested in the 'classics'! Nice update on the hands, too.

Completed auctions at eBay would be your best reference for a 'going price'. I was really surprised what a nice toy that one was, especially for the price. Much moreso than the other Destroids from that set.

No problem! I'm always happy with every iota you can eek out!

I'd really like to read a detailed translation or synopsis of that. Britai is my favorite character from SDFM.

Makes me wonder why some people can't seem to get through life without playing elaborate internet games like that. There's some freakazoid haunting my Yahoo group, constantly making sock-puppets masquerading as persons from Italy - never really fomenting trouble, but for some reason he just can't be 'himself' and play normally with others. And my group isn't the first he's done it on. Like there's some sort of new psychological perversion born of the anonimity of the internet. My troll needs some good therapy, or a good solid beating with a 2x4.

I happened across this really cute Sally Ford cel on YahooJP last week, and was tempted to order it via my proxy. Thought I'd re-post it here!

Nice work! I was just talking with Promethum5 about this set the other day, and was going to scan them from my book for him.

People in the hobby do seem to throw that word around like they know what it means, when they obviously don't.

Some more paint & decals would probably help. The lack of elements around the 'face' is making it look rather lifeless. I do love my Revoltech Regult, but I want something a bit bigger. As long as Toynami keeps it at a sensible price point (which I expect they will), I'll be a happy camper - even better if I can just walk into a shop somewhere and buy it off the shelf.

Try "Car Talk" on National Public Radio. All the car shop guys I know listen to it! http://cartalk.com/

As noted in the Scoop thread, Toynami has their 1/100 Battlepod on display - with packaging mockup and prototype 'pending licensor approval'.

Toynami has a painted sample and a packaged hardcopy/sample of their 1/100 "Battlepod" figure at their SDCC '09 booth, pictured at Figures.com: http://sdcc09.figures.com/showphoto.php?photo=1503 I really like the packaging. Its reminiscent of the packaging for Takatoku's large sofubi Macross toys and smaller sofubi sets. As Toynami's Voltron vinyl is similarly packaged, I'm inclined to suspect that the Battlepod may also be a sofubi offering.

Thanks! They're based on the box art colors and instruction guide for Imai's old kit. Some are a mix, and other off the shelf. (Hopefully this can be useful for folks building the Kamjin included in the subject of this thread!) The armor's green is indeed a custom mix: Tamiya Color Acrylic XF-5 Flat Green, XF-70 Dark Green 2 & XF-21 Sky to lighten it. It also has a drybrush of the Sky for highlights. The dark soft under armor is a Testors Model Master flat black with dry-brushings of Testors MM black metallic so it looks like an 'alien' material. Same with the feet, but with an added dry brush of Testors MM Aluminum. The joints in the arms & other spots, as well as the hands, are Testors Model Master flat black, but with some drybrush layers of Tamiya Dark Grey XF-25 and Field Blue XF-50. The hands also got dry brushings of Testors MM Aluminum and Pactra A54 Gunmetal, and another black wash. The light grey armor segments are Tamiya Sky Grey XF-19, with a Testors MM Aluminum dry brushing. The upper arm and upper leg armor are a black base coat with Tamiya XF-50 field blue, a wash of the Tamiya Dark Grey XF-25, and some dry brushing of the Tamiya Sky Grey XF-19 for highlights. His face is a Testors "Acryl 1319 Light Purple" (I bought on clearance at a local hobby shop because I think it was discoutinued) lightened with some flat white, and his hair is Testors 1162 Flat Blue, both in the little traditional square glass jars. His rifle is the usual dark grey and black base coat with gunmetal metallic highlights, but it also has a coat of partially separated/unmixed Testors Model Master 2750 Plum Crazy (which I think was a custom metallic "Boyd" color for model cars) to give it something reminiscent of the purple color the plastic kit's gun had, but more realistic. Everything got a coat of the Mr Resin Surface primer you suggested, which I got from HLJ. What little filling needed to be done was accomplished with Tamiya standard grey putty, and Tamiya 2-part epoxy putty (to rebuild a finger tip and fill a chunk I accidentally took out of the back rim of his helmet). I don't have an airbrush (or at least, one that works), so its all hand-painting & drybrushing, and additional spot washes and coats where needed. I wish the paint on the face had come out a bit better. Here are some other views! And with the helmeted head, connected with the magnetic joint I added: I haven't tried tinting and adding the face panel, though. Not yet, anyway... John, your kit was beautifully done and a breeze to assemble & clean. I think the only problems I had was that the last joint of his trigger had disappeared (might have been my fault) and I noticed that his right & left hands were different. The left has the armor plate on the back of the hand and heavier finger elements & textures (really sweet work!), and the right is a more simplistic unarmored glove - maybe from your earlier Zentran ? I'm happy to have one of your great kits, at a price range I could afford - its like having a piece of art! Equally cool is that this is something you'd expect to see at WanFes in Japan, but comes from a dedicated North American Macross fan. I hope you see fit to do some more 1/72 Zentraedi figures. They're something this hobby subject certainly needs, but which no one else seems to have had the will or vision to endeavor.

Kamjin says he's sick of walking, and is really looking forward to his new ride! (...Unfortunately, this particular Kamjin won't be getting one.)

A thing of beauty!

Have you tried getting a Paypal Debit card?

"Le Sigh...."

I like bootlegs Valks myself. But my preference is for really wild diversions, like the orange ones or weird stuff like that. Nice piece, though!

Damn nice, man. No way anything's going to make this buildup look like the Matchbox Glaug! (Saving pics for reference!)

I've known it as Emann since about 1986, thanks to Takatoku toy boxes...