AcroRay
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Kits "calculated to drive you MAD!"
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From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Some sub-assemblies on the workbench, during my restoration of this vintage buildup. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Instructions from a recent score - 1/72 "Iron" series metalized Imai Battroid kit. These were pretty difficult to get back in the 80s. Even though the kit is missing a tiny joint piece, I'm pretty happy with the acquisition! I do intend to build it. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Small part I'm missing from my Iron VF-1J. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Color 'presskit' photo that Revell used to promote "Vexar", their Robotech kit series redeco/repackage of the Imai 1/72 Variable VF-1S kit. These would be sent to hobby media publishers, provided to sales people and mail-order companies, and used at trade shows. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Two 'presskit' photos that Revell used to promote "Orbot", their Robotech kit series redeco/repackage of the Imai 1/72 Variable VF-1D kit. These would be sent to hobby media publishers, provided to sales people and mail-order companies, and used at trade shows. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
A nice example of the beautiful box art Arii created for their kits. -
Astro Plan stuff I've purchased
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From the album: Astro Plan
My Bandai VF-25S (v1) Valkyrie and my Hyperwiz Astro Plan DX YF-10 Variable Fighter, for comparison! -
From the album: Astro Plan
My two big, beautiful AstroPlan variable fighters. (Hiding behind the grey one is the X-Bots VF-1S knockoff.) -
From the album: Astro Plan
For some reason, TaoBaoRing decided to tape bubble wrap to the pretty boxes, to protect the window. But that left a couple of feet of sticky clear packing tape all over the rest of the boxes. :-( A job for patience, finger nails & GooGone. -
From the album: Astro Plan
The fighters packed in their inner shipping case. No padding or anything. The box is assembled around them. -
From the album: Astro Plan
The big box contained the boxes that my items were shipped to TaoBao ring in. This is the box for the AstroPlan variable fighters -
From the album: Astro Plan
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From the album: Astro Plan
The Happy Well Galaxy Defender VF-1S Knockoff, re-branded as an XBot. -
From the album: Astro Plan
The boxes that my items were shipped TO my shopping proxy, re-boxed into the larger box. -
From the album: Astro Plan
Huge box. Big enough for several cats! Fancy agrees to be my comparison model. She's a good cat. -
From the album: Personal Macross Kits
Parts of the Imai 1/72 VF-1A variable kit, getting their clearcoat. -
Oh, that's a beautiful build! Thanks for sharing. I'm jelly! The classics...
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Mo-Suu-Pii-Dah Inbitoh in 1/48--Part Deux!
AcroRay replied to captain america's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Ganbare! Though it brings me great sadness to see this rare beast that will not invade my personal collection, I rejoice at the astounding craftsmanship! -
Corey's point is right on the mark. It's always risky to show process shots to fans. Some will really love & appreciate the look into the process. Others - usually the more vocal of them - will be just too d4mn dumb to understand what's going on and will wail about every little bug like it was a personal kick in the shin. Been there. It's nuts. I can understand someone disliking one of these if it were off-model or poorly engineered. But these are all on-model from what I've seen. They've got pose options. They've got seams and small challenges for the builder's technique that aren't at all atypical. If anything, people with plamo and gaming mini experience rooted in the most-recent decade might find the building requirements of these to be something of a culture shock. But I'm 45 and I've been building & painting gaming miniatures since the very late 1970s, hobby models since 1976, in all formats and materials. These guys aren't anything unusual, and the subject matter well outweighs any drawbacks (and I see none!) in their medium or engineering. And I don't mind money going to Harmony Gold. What little (and perfectly legal, as much as that stings) skim they get out of the deal is minimal compared to the obvious high degree of love & respect & hard work the game's designers & craftspeople have for Kawamori's & Miyatake's design work and the combat SF of the Macross world. There are no 'protoculture fuel tanks' & other weirdness here. Even most nomenclature have been reverted to their Japanese originals, or developed for new mecha following the same apparent conventions. So, apart from a brand logo and a couple of character names, this all might have just leaped right out of MACROSS PERFECT MEMORY and into a bit game box. I will support that, because it comes from exactly the muse it should, even if the lawyers & accountants dictate one of the pockets a paltry few coins are paid to in the process. In the past I might have. Today I'm wiser, and more appreciative of where the real value in the venture is. The thing that really, really concerns me is what my wife is going to say when a big box game with a bazillion little Macross robots shows up in the mail this fall and I spread it all out on the dining room table. "Oh, gawd. MORE robots..!"
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Personally, I've kind of given up on Yamato/Arcadia & Bandai moden Valks. They're just too expensive for me. I'm not going to say they're not worth it. But only the 'older' Yamato pieces and classic Bandai & Takatoku stuff is in my price range now. So I've gone back to models, 1/55's, vinyl figures & stuff I loved back in the 1980s. I wanted them back then, anyway. So it's not so bad.
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They posted photos of the Missile/Cannon Regult test shot sprues today:
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The community NEEDS you and your ALPS printer!
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Beautiful work. Really classic!
