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Somebody lucked out and got a 1S Roy for 20k on Mandarake. I wonder what was wrong with it. I'd buy one for that price even with a beat up box. They paid maybe $250 after shipping?

Not much to report. I have various builds on the bench. A 1S Gerwalk, f14 tomcat, fighter valk 1A Max, sandrock, and a Legioss fighter.

Mechtech, I'm astounded by your level of technical ability. You always scratchbuild the coolest stuff! Great work, as always. Loved the pun! When I read it, my face lit up.

Thanks, mechtech! I'll check out the biography. I'm a big fan of Miyazaki. You guys got me looking at all my paint. I went through and found only a couple of jars out of over a hundred went bad. Some of them are really old! Like from the 90's.

Wow, lots of cool stuff going on here. Thank you for the tips on the compressors mechtech! I currently have a 1/72 Legioss in the works.

Wow, @TMBounty_Hunter are you a data scientist? That graph looks like it was made in R studio. I guess it's proved now, Hasegawa does nothing but repop kits! Awesome work!

4200 yen for that tiny kit, ouch!!! Only 11cm.

What happened? Was the paint not sticking?

Is that it?

VF-1D Yessssssss!!!!!

I paid a premium for that black aces kit about 5 years back. Oh well.

I had to look up what epistemology is. Awesome drawing!

I think that must be the same mold Hasegawa uses in the Macross Zero F-14. The upcoming reissue will look like that so everyone beware.

@derex3592 A Cat's Eye! What's your plan on the canopy? You mentioned a fit issue earlier. @Convectuoso I like decaling a lot but that kit looks like it has many, many decals. Sometimes, when there are too many, you enter "decal hell". Does that particular kit have lots of decals? Anyway, work started back up for me a few weeks back so no progress on my builds. Right now i have: 1/72 vf-1a max theme 90% done 1/72 vf-1s super gerwalk hik theme 50% done 1/72 f-14 tomcatters theme 90% done 1/72 zentraedi soldier 30% done 1/100 arii vf-1d trainer theme 30% done Massive backlog...

That is epic! It just goes to show, you can never have too many missiles! Seriously, just amazing. That armored vf-1a hangar scene you posted in the beginning would make a great diorama.

I saw a big increase in the number of chunkys for sale recently. Maybe there will be a re-re-release coming up soon? Maybe for the 40th anniversary? Who knows...

Now there's something I've never seen before! Not the best look for the valk but I'm awarding points for originality.

@Chas Here you go. Looks like this kit has now made it to the backlog pile. Once you've opened the bag, you've officially started the kit.

Ok, I'll get on it.

@Chas I guess I can open up the bags and scan them for you. Would it be all three sheets or just a certain one?

I have the green 1/72 Aoshima Legioss repop. The decals are sealed in the bags though.

@MechTech The level of detail on those torpedo tubes is astounding! I pored over those pics appreciating every little detail. However, I'm a bit disappointed that there are only 15 side tube bolts instead of 20. Jk... @derex3592 Your shuttle is coming along nicely. It looks great so far. So many Star Trek fans among us builders here. I never got into it but the shuttle you're building looks really cool. Anyway, I recently won this SDF-1 kit on ebay and it included a complete variable vf-1d kit! Score of all scores! Hopefully I can actually get to building either or both of these soon. My backlog of in progress kits is in the double digits!

It's a cruiser mode kit. I took a pic but i don't wanna derail this decal thread.

@MechTech I saw your post about this kit in another thread and that's why I hunted down the SDF1 kit. I'm glad you talked me into it!

It was a model kit. The 1/5000 ROBO**** version. Funny thing is, it included the complete trees for an old imai 1/72 variable vf-1d. There was even some old ROBO**** coloring book pages and an extra set of decals for the ship. All for under 50 bucks shipped. It was a pretty nice surprise.