SteveTheFish

If I may ask again, where did you buy these? Is "Admiralty Model Works" another one of those "We only sell on Facebook" entities? I did a search on Google and DuckDuckGo but only saw links to Scalemates.com.

Nice! Are those scaled to fit the Moebius Galactica model? Where did you buy those?

Yes, it's the same kit. I sort of lost track of this build last year and I hadn't posted an update on it for a while. I was documenting the build here and there, and I'll probably have another video done soon.

This is my first Hasegawa Valkyrie. I'm building it as Kakizaki's VF-1A. I chose to paint the green stripes, especially after the decals went bad and the replacements I got didn't come with green since Hasegawa no longer makes the VF-1A kit which was their very first kit they released. The decals are still in the process of relaxing. I sprayed the paint job through oven filter sheets to give it a dirty look. I also did the surgery to put the engine nacelles in a straight position.

Oh wow, you must've procured those designs elsewhere. I think I saw those on Thingiverse. All I did was send you the cockpit interior STL files. I can send you the rest if you'd like. As for myself, I think I'll finally get started laying down decals on my Kakizaki green VF-1A from DYRL by Hasegawa. It has a gloss coat now and is ready to go. I've been slowly working on this for a couple of years now, always getting distracted. I can post pictures of it tonight. It would otherwise be a slow evening after work and the perfect opportunity for hobby time tonight, but today is the commemoration of the female spousal unit's manufacture date. She turned 49 today. Which is fine, but I turn 50 on Sunday. Crap.

I assume that Irem made the R-Type license open to everyone and for a good price. I now have the gachapon R-Type set by Toys Cabin. They are rather nice, with good metallic colors on the engine bells.

I'm with you. TOS Galactica is dear to my heart, and as a little boy I wanted a brown suede jacket with all the buckles so badly, way more than Han Solo's vest. Corny as it may be, I appreciate it for its campiness. I tried giving nuGalactica a try, but it didn't sit well with me. They turned Starbucks into a sexy chick, they turned Boomer into a sexy Korean chick, the chrome Cylons were turned into Replicants, and all of Ralph McQuarrie's designs were trashed. The Cylon ships look like hood ornaments. "Oh but Steve, I mean Greg, the original TOS Cylons show up in the 4th season in one episode..." I DON'T CARE. I was hoping that the remake show would capture the look and feel of TOS, and they sort of revive the Viper as an "older model" that remains faithful to the original design, but pretty much everything about it was a disappointment. I have to say that the best design from the reboot show is the Pegasus, as Ted mentioned. Fantastic. I started my TOS Galactica model kit several years ago, but as I was trying to figure out the timer chips to create the runway chase lights for the hangars, I couldn't get them to work right and I shelved it years ago. I really need to get back into doing electronics...

As I posted in the "What will Hasegawa do next" thread, I visited the Winter WonFes event this past weekend. Here are videos and photos of the event. YouTube: The video is mirrored on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@stevethefishdotnet:2/Wonder-Festival-Winter-2026:e And a photo gallery on my website here: https://stevethefish.net/life/life152.htm

Those Macross F ships are GKs. This was the table immediately to the left of Hasegawa's table, so coincidentally it was just the next segment in the sequence. When I was compiling this for the video, I thought that maybe it might confuse people, thinking that these were Hasegawa kits. I just decided to roll with it. The other ships I could't recognize what they were from.

You're welcome! Of course, this was just my bias, focusing on older anime and video game items. I saw some GKs where people were crowding around, taking photos. I couldn't recognize the characters, so I just passed by. Then after hours of walking around, I met up with friends and their friends. They showed me the stuff they bought and it was all sorts of cool stuff I'd passed over without noticing. There was an animation mistake in one episode of Macross where an animator really messed up with Kakizaki's VF-1A head, adding additional cannons on the sides of the head. my friend Adrian found a resin head of that mistake, which can be added to a Hasegawa (or maybe a Plamax) Valkyrie kit. Oh yes, and someone had 3D printed a pilot figure for the Hasegawa Glaug kit, but I was too late and it was sold out by the time I found it. Drat! Although for a 3D printed figure, I think the seller was asking for too much. I'd like to see someone design one for Cults3D or Thingyverse to go with the Hasegawa kit. I took pictures of the event too. I'll make a gallery and put it on my website. Hopefully later this week. There is ONE Windows program I miss in Linux, and it is Photoscape. I really wish there was a Linux version of this program. It can run photos through batches. It can auto enhance, auto contrast, resize, and rename photos in batch processes. Very easy to use. I still have yet to find a program like that for Linux.

He does fine work. I had Ted do that Nadia figure I posted earlier. I also had him redo the K'Tinga parts that another friend of mine did for me that ended up warped because he didn't support the parts properly.

I was at Wonder Festival and saw the N-Ger in-person. I still haven't gone through the photos yet, but last night I uploaded a video.

Thanks, guys! Thom, you've gotta watch Record of Lodoss War. The original OVA by Madhouse is legendary, with incredible vocal opening and ending themes. I normally don't care about anime vocal music, unless it's Macross, Lodoss, and BGC. The OVA was done before the novels were completely written, so its ending is considerably different from how it was meant to be. Later there was a Lodoss TV series that mostly glossed over the events of the first story arch, then it covered the Leylia redemption arc. The second half revolves around Neece's capture, who is the daughter of Leylia and the wizard Slayn from the first story arch, now a teenager. The sorcerer Wagnard captures Neece to sacrifice in an attempt to resurrect the Goddess of Destruction, Kardis. In the OVA version, Wagnard captures Deedlit to sacrifice to Kardis and Parn must rescue her. Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut way to just sit down and take in the entirety of Lodoss and have it make sense. The OVA is all about Parn's hero's journey. But only the TV show features the "next generation" characters. Chas, I'm pretty happy with how Deedlit's hair turned out. I've only temporarily attached her head because her cape needs to go on first, and then her head/hair. I also need to attach her side locks that go on in front of her ears. I'm also working on a 3D-printed Rei figure. I first airbrushed her skintone, then masked it off and airbrushed her hair Mr. Color 34, sky blue. I managed to find the official Rei hair color by Gaia Notes. It's too light, I think, so I just sprayed it from a top-down direction to provide a gradation.

I'm glad to see this finally happening. For a while, Aoshima was going to release this Silent Moebius police spinner. There was one on display at their boot at a hobby show several years back. I asked and this is a completely differently-tooled venture. As for me, here are the two figures I've been working on. The Nadia is a 3D print that Tekering made for me. Deedlit is a sofubi I started on almost 2 years ago and I'm nearly done. I need to heat up her cape so that I can wrap it around her. As it is, it's too stiff.

@Chas The Bronco looks great!