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If you want to get hooked on 1/48s look at ruskiiVFaussie's photos and Swoosh's photos, those will make you crave like a vampire in heat!

Hobby link Japan has one... http://www.hlj.com/product/BLD19510

I can not make it through this guys talk. I cant believe that he thinks Robotech has a better story than Macross! Anyway, not my favorite but I am sure someone will enjoy.

WOW! The ED-209 is Gargantuan Huge Enormous... big.

Hi everyone. I am so sorry that the pics were offensive. I did not realize that this would be a problem. Please forgive me for my lack of awareness on this point. I found out from Toshiyaki that the kit was a limited run of 500 units and at the time cost about $500, that they are only found on auctions now and run about $800. So it is off the morgue for me.

Well here are all the images that I could find of this. I looked all over the web. The ones that I saw were much more impressive but these are cool too (if not too freaky and bizarre)...

Yeah Sqidd, great work and cool angle on the photo too!

That is very interesting. I did not look at your location but now I notice. Very cool. Maybe great lighting techniques are just in your blood! Great stuff.

Also the 1/60 VF-1 series before they came out with the 1/48 scale ones had quite a bit of die-cast on the bodies too.

Wow, That ED-209 is great! Also really nice lighting on everything very reminiscent of Rembrandt with the heavy darkness with sparse lighting.

Oh Sumdumgai, this is just awesome. You have got to see it in person. It is totally creepy which is probably one of the reasons I like it so much. But the one at MOCA has a minmei guard paint scheme! I must be pretty deranged to be so in love with this piece! Oh well, so be it

Thank you so much for this information. Thanks to you I have found this kit available on yahoo auctions Japan. Unfortunately the current price is 99,900 JPY which is about $872.00 USD, which is way out of my price range for now. However if I do sell my kidney and one of my lungs I may be able to swing this and rent for next month. For now I will continue to go to the blood bank to save up for my Nora which is on preorder. In the meantime I am going to ask my buddy Toshiyaki Yokoyama who is living in Tokyo to help find me this kit for less than an organs worth. If he can not find it by February then I will have to also consider limbs. I really want this kit!

That is so great! Very funny. Similar experience. It is so funny what little children pick up.

When I saw this in person this was the first thing I checked out!

I think that he was either already in Boston or going to Boston, not sure.

If anyone anywhere has one of these kits I will sell body parts (not necessarily mine but maybe if the circumstances deem it necessary) to get one of these kits. When I saw this piece I first of all wanted it for my home (small apartment) but then thought that a figure would be be great (takes up less room than a statue).

Holy CRAP!!! How did you get that to balance? I would be scared SH!tle$$ to try that on a flexidisplay stand! Good job!

I just saw Takeshi Murakami's exhibit at the MOCA in Los Angeles. It was very cool. If any of you get the chance it is well worth the visit. Plus you can get excellent sushi in Little Tokyo and you can go to Jungle Anime afterwards too. So the most mind blowing piece in the exhibit is a collection of three life size sculptures. I think it was called Second Mission but I may have remembered incorrectly. What it looked like to me, and I may be wrong, was a woman in a neon genesis evangelion pilot suit, like maybe Askuka but with Rei's hair color but the torso from below the neck to the bottom of the vagina was bare and there were wings coming off. There were three modes too, the second one was like a gerwalk mode and the third was a fighter mode where the woman becomes a fighter jet and looked just like the YF-19 design. Anyway it is just gorgeous. EDIT: By the way the photos here of the second mission project are from a different version. The one at MOCA had light blue metallic colored hair and a Minmay Guard Paint Scheme. If you are anywhere near LA or will be there before February visiting you have got to go to Little Tokyo in Downtown LA and see this exhibit at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). I think there are two MOCAs there and this one used to be called the Temporary Contemporary but is now called the Geffen MOCA, If I remember correctly. The rest of the exhibit is great too. Really cool work. Multimedia. Great stuff. http://www.moca.org/

What is the next Revoltech macross release after the 1A Hikaru? Are they doing a macross December release? Hope so. I hope it is a VF-1D, a VF-4, or a YF-19. Of course I would also love a CF 1A, or any character figure, Milia, Misa, Gloval, Lapamiz, whatever. Is there a release schedule that anyone knows of?

Not long ago, HLJ listed this as discontinued for about a week or so and then listed it in stock again for about a week or two and then back again. I do not think it is really discontinued. Although, on the yamato japan site, it is still there but without shopping cart option so maybe it is discontinued? I wish I had been able to afford one when I had the chance. Beautiful valk for sure. Now I guess I will have to wait for the supernova version.

I love it when we have simultaneous post-gasm...

Wow, so that was listing at about $250 USD equivalent. Yeah, worth a pretty penny now, no doubt!

It looks to be mostly completed! Thanks for the details about where you saw it. I am sure that someone here will see this thread and buy it by tomorrow, regardless of price. I am going to guess that they will either get an amazing deal if the shop does not know what it is and get this at the equivalent of USD$50 OR the shop knows exactly what it is and will sell it for $100, $300, $600 or $900? I am curious about the worth of it. How much would you pay?

ghostryder, That looks like it. The inside box image gives it away. wow 1/24th scale! I want one!!!

What shop was it? If you remember the name maybe one of the HK members here could go check it out. Maybe even Graham Master Flash!