Valkyrie

My recasts are 99.99% bubble-free

There are two 1/72 kits, of the FFR-32MR/D Supersylph Yukikaze, and the FRX-00 Mave. Both are made by Platz and are pretty pricey at Y12800 each. But they're quite large, and the quality is excelent. The detailing is easily on par with Hasegawa's VF-1. I did reviews of them a while back, but they're on the old forum, which is offline

Gah... as if the delay til january wasn't bad enough... now it's late january... I'm dying to get my hands on that thing...

Hehe, sure thing.

Hey, that ain't too bad I just would have gone with smaller UN Spacy logos for the wing and nose. And like Grayson pointed out, you need to work on getting a smoother finish with your airbrushing. But I shouldn't talk... I've been struggling to overcome the same problem :/ Might as well get a shameless plug in while I'm at it. The VF-4 recasts are now available once again, now that I've finally re-made almost all of the molds. And they now come with gunpods PM me for details

LOL, guess you're out, then

Patience... But if you need something to tide you over while you're waiting, my VF-4 recasts are now available once again I finished re-molding pretty much the whole kit yesterday. And just for all you VF-11 lovers, my current recast project is also a VF-11. It's just not a 1/72. But I think a lot of you will like it anyway

Kinda cool to see it's not just a WonderFest kit... But still, it's far from a great likeness of her :/ I'll pass on that one, but I'll definitely buy one of cwmodels', if he makes a kit of his! < edit > And it looks like the G-Taste-esque proportions aren't exactly a coincidence... Check out some of Kurushima's other kits and see if you can spot the trend... http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?KRS455 http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?KRS459 http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?KRS458 It seems one of thier sculptors, 'Over Dard', is responsible for all those ridiculously proportioned kits. And guess who sculpted thier Sara kit...

Interesting... But those PDFs hardly seem like full translations. They look more like summaries to me. Looking at the stories in Perfect Memory, there's a LOT of japanese text in those stories. And the translations are quite sparse in comparison. But in any case, the gist was there. I was pretty disapointed with Plundering Fleet. I too expected it to be the Mars Base story. Some of the events were kinda interesting, but as a story, it was pretty boring.

Ah yes, the commercials for Little Lady Club (a series of dolls), and Ichi Nitto San (a knitting machine... and an AWFUL pun). That's one thing about Gunbuster I always thought was odd. Commercials of any kind in the middle of an OVA, as far as I know, were never done before or after Gunbuster. Eyecatches, sure. Commercials? No. But in the end, I just chalked it up as yet another case of Gainax being weird BTW, on my LDs, only volume 1 has these commercials. And they were taken out for the laserdisc boxed set. Are there any releases that had more of them (either on the bootlegs or the R2 DVDs)?

Cool! I'll definitely be picking up one of them.

I've thought about recasting a set of 1/72 Valkyrie pilots, actually... I've got at least 5 different ones I could include in the set. And more if I include pilots from the YF-19 and 21 Would you guys be interested in something like that?

A VF-XS kit? I'll believe that when I see it http://nanashi.macrossmecha.info/resrc/cat.../vari/vfxs.html

Glad to hear that! And it definitely showed in the finished product. I think we all remember the god-awful AJ subs, done by people who obviously had NO idea what Macross is

10 kits, eh? I doubt that would be much of a problem here

Couldja post the chinese BT links? I'll take it in any form I can get it at the moment

As far as I can tell, it will come with book 9 of the manga as a limited edition set. Due out in april at a price of Y1700.

Awesome! You MUST make a resin kit of that!!

Hasegawa didn't do it to make things easier. It's a clear modification of the VF-1 design. It's still not 100% clear who ordered these changes or why. But the common theory is that it's a case of Kawamori playing the old game of revisionist's history and 'improving' his old design. The same can be said about the three doors of the rear landing gear bays. Until the Hasegawa kit, they only had two.

It's not in Design Works because none of the Macross II mecha were designed by Kawamori. But some of the designs are pretty damn cool anyway

I actually spent a day or so working on mine after I wrote that last post, LOL It's one of those kits I've been working on little by little for years now... and it shows. I can see all the mistakes I used to make in it. I used a ton of Squadron putty < shudder > and over sanded it, eliminating a lot of the original panel lines. And to combat the cracking of the Squadron putty, I had filled the whole upper fuselage with resin to make it solid. And much to my surprise today, it worked rather well So the other day I gouged out all the Squadron putty I had used, and replaced it with MoriMori. And I started re-scribing all the panel lines. It's tedious work, but it's working well. I'm using Dymo label maker tape as sort of a flexible, adhesive-backed ruler. And aside from the occasional slip-up, it's working really well. I'm now awaiting a scribe and template set from HLJ that I'll use to etch the square and circle markings and such. And by the way, this has gotta be the BEST tool for etching panel lines ever! http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HSGTT-10

The Scrambled Valkyrie CG animation (but not the advertisement it came from) can be found on the laserdisc of Macross 7 volume one. It's on the bonus disc, along with the Macross 7 TV special.

I've got that kit too. It's quite nice And you're mostly right in that it would be easy to recast. The only hard part would be the chest piece. It's a very complex shape that would be hard to mold effectively.

LOL, yea. I've got one of them. It actually wouldn't be too bad of a kit if the casting job didn't suck so much. It's got tons of air bubbles.

Arii made the only kits of the Zentradi ships. There were 1/72 plastic kits of the Glaug and Regult, but both are pretty rare. There was a 1/72 Q-Rau garage kit by Club-M (also quite rare), but the only N-Ger kits were 1/144.