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I agree with you ignacio; basically 1/60 are much better proportioned and sculpted than 1/48; what makes the 1/48 better is the high level of details; actually i don't see any other reason , except yamato's commercial interests on selling more expensive products, why the 1/60 must have a so evident lack of details! Even the little transforming KAIYODO one's are better detailed than 1/60! Nobody have ever thought of detailing a 1/60 with a line engraver set???

Sorry, if i add me to this topic to say that , but maybe this is in some way related to the search function. I just would like to understand what's happening in this forum, against me, as i received a unpleasant message from anasazi about the purchasing of his decals without i did anything against him. In fact i think i didn't anything about anybody here.I just replied to 2 or 3 persons that were harsh with me and everybody now seems to be against me. This seems absurd to me. It seems like here just few understand that for somebody who's not english isn't easy using the search function without experience, and that if you are memer from about a week you can even don't know yet the forum rules. But anyway i don't think this could be intended as a crime. In fact nobody just suggested me kindly(neither administrators) to use the search button or go read rules; they immediately blamed me with a rough tone as if i would have offended direcly somebody just asking something that was already asked before. Nobody have thought that if they would have been kinder with me i'd never been so controversial?? Maybe this is some kind of closed society and you like to be hostile with new people, if so this is not the right place for me ,macross or not, but i'd like to ear the point of view of more people before decide anything. I hope you don't find this post useless cause by my side i think it could interest to any new member in the present and in the future as well. Sorry if my english wasn't clear enough , i wrote it the best i could

Oh really , now a 2 $ spray can should be enough?? Listen: i spent hours reading this forum , and actually i found a lot of interesting things but obviously i damaged enough my real life time, so i was obliged to ask to save some time;i know how to use the web and i did a lot of researches all around, but incredible to believe, the majority of links that i found here were impossible to me to find other way , for example using google. That's why i thought that here you people could help me find what i couldn't find by myself. I waited a day , not 45 minutes, and after i saw hundred of people saw my topic i just was surprised that nobody could know something that could help me; i haven't said: Why the hell no one farting idiot want to help me i just told a kind: Nobody can help me??? So why are you people so rude??Have you eaten some rotten things this morning?? Is it a crime for you to open a new topic just for this??Should i be some kind of v.i.p. to do it?? In fact another boy just today opened another topic asking the same things i asked to you??Are you going to responde to him like you did with me?? We'll see..

Yes, but what i don't understand is: is it a problem for somebody if i ask here??

Hi, thanks for your response, i'd like to see some 800x600 at least images of these decals sets : VF-1J Hikaru - $12 VF-1J Max/Miria - $12 VF-1S Focker - $10 For the 1/60 GBP-1S could you make a 1/60 reduction of the 1/48 sheet?? P.S. if the shipping is included in the price (i'm from italy) there is some discount if i purchase more than one??

What's the problem man??Is it a fatigue for someone passing here who know something writing down some words to me???What could be this forum useful for, otherwise? What's wrong with you pleople here????

Nobody can help me???

Hi , anasazi; are these decals -http://dwhite.netwiz.net/decals/decal_samples.html- purchasable in some ways??Is it possible to see some bigger scansions????I'm interested in 1/60 decals

Thank you very much for the link , but now i got the problem to find a shop that sell KRYLON Fusion at least in europe if not in italy. On the web i ve found just usa shops that don't ship internationally.

Hi, jarrod , in my opinion , you're a genius; Anyway why haven't you used both parts from fighter and battroid hase. kits?How long it took to you to make it?? In your hands, does your model feel so fragile as some people here think?? By the way i think yam. 1/48 are very much expensive and don't have totally perfect proportions; why i don't see any good 1/60 customs here??

thanks, you're so kind... and what exactly should i search please???

Nobody interested to respond me???

But,if i would clean a painted toy with clear coating on it how should i proceed ?sanding? using some alcohol?

thanks, for your help!

In an italian forum somebody tells me that enamels are much more durable than acrylics. Anyway i would like to transform and pose the yam. even after painted. I would like to use also a good clear and primer( i got the tamiya fine primer, is it good??)

Hi , somebody could please tell me if acrylic colors are durable enough to customize yamato's ? If not what colors do you suggest me????

Yes, i understand. But what i think is that fragiles and detailed toys as yamato's macross are not intended to play with , they are not for children but for 'amateurs', they are intended for displaing. The reason for they are not kits is , i think, that they are made for people who are not skilled modeler ( don't want, or haven't time to build one), but want as well some beatiful models to display, spending obviously much more money.

that's the point; hasegawa would make a lot of money selling something like that..

and these

I'm going to repeat this for you a second time, because you aren't getting it. Any amount of transformation MAKES it a toy for Hasegawa. I suspect that Battroid is the limit of what Hasegawa is comfortable with, and the inclusion of polycaps is probably included because its easier for the construction, rather than a fixed pose model. A model is intended to be built and never be touched again, Its a display piece, nothing more. Hasegawa as a company that is dedicated to building these and only these; Its models are not intended to be handled once you complete it. Actually Hasegawa was really the leader in the 80s for making models respectable by putting out hyper realistic models that couldn't be handled because of the level of detail. I would argue that there is a difference between the market hasegawa traditionally targets (the classic airplane enthusiast), and the anime market (which builds bandai models, resins, ect). You have to remember that the VF-1 was Hasegawa's first science fiction model, precisely because the VF-1 was so realistic that it could cater to its traditional market base. Adding transformation to a hasegawa kit makes it less than a model because it is INTENDED that a person will handle the model in its final form at some time. Why have a transformation if you're not going to ever transform the model? Maybe you don't understand, but once most expert modelers are done with a model, it can't be touched or you'll mess up the finish. Thats not what a modeler wants to do. 394059[/snapback] You don't need to behave with me as a teacher cause i don't need it and you are not that. I understand what you mean about the difference between kits and models but you must try to understand that for the same reason models shouldn't at all be movable or posable cause the principle is the same than transformation. You still haven't responded me about the customized yamato ones , that in fact got a painting job as much accurate as a model kit and are however transformable. The grey model in the photos that i put here have perfect proportions and nothing in it is wrong, if you look at it you'll see that it's better proportioned than the 1/48 yamato's that in fact got too long arms and a little too short legs. P.S. I didn't now all this about licence of bandai on 1/72 transf. kits , i thought that if you got rights on a anime serie you got rights on every mecha inside it. All these are variable hand made ones; they look beatiful to me

I really don't understand you people: There are a lot of transforming kits, see bandai's ; and anyway if you want to be more accurate even in this website there are a lot of customized painted yamato valkyries, Do you think they are intended to play with too??Maybe you think that who customize a yamato valk. is idiot?? Personally i don't buy a yamato valk. to play with it (that is in fact a fragile object ) but just because i find it beatiful. Let's play children with toys. If the valkyries on these photos are not perfect, the reason is that they are HAND MADE, and not that the valkyries transformation is impossible. The difference that you see in the anime drawings, between the battroid and fighter version are due just to the style of drawings that is approximate (as every old anime production), the transformation of the valkyries is absolutely possible without any magic or substitution of parts. I didn't mean to be 'condecending' but now , as you are condecending , so i am P.S. Sorry for my english..

Look at this 'magic' then: http://photos.yahoo.co.jp/ph/horton1485/ls...&.src=ph&.view= at this images i lost the link: Anyway if yamato did it hasegawa can do it too

I think is a fact that the hasegawa versions of VF-1 valkyries are the best reproductions ever done; so i really can't understand why they don't make a variable version or at least a modification set to use for the actually existing hasegawa kits, as some private modeler have already done?????