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They look great, if only they had them for the 1/60, I'd be able to use them on the unassembled kit. They look great.

With all the 1/60s I've had, I haven't had an issue yet, and I transform them often (not all of them, but some of the older ones). I did loosen the shoulders and the hinge that rotates the arms during transformation. This is probably a key to prevent the catastrophe. I think on my 1J Hikaru, I may need one soon, but there still isn't any cracks.

Maybe in my glancing, I missed where to get these, but is there a site to download them? I'd love to put one of these together for the 1/60 scale.

I love the Sheryl figs and will buy them all, but man, they're getting to be a little hard to catch up with. I'm also a bit bummed out about the no Grace, and no Kathy, heck, even Nanase. And, if they're gonna make anymore large size Klan figures, they should make one posable, playable, and in 1/60 to fit with the Valks, with armor attachments included. Yeah, I know, I'm just dreaming.

It would've gotten 2, one from me as well. I do find it ironic that the one with the least votes is the one that's getting done. However, maybe in Japan, the numbers are different. I know we don't matter as much, but just sayin'. I would rather see a VF-2SS or a VF-4 over the other choices in a heartbeat.

I should probably clarify, I'm not wanting an MP3 player inside the valk. but making the speakers able to have some sort of MP3 player or ipod connection that'd let you play those through it would be cool. I don't wanna spend too much money on it, but all that extra stuff cost. Oh well. Worst case scenario, we still get the Valk. No complaints.

What can you say, not everyone has good tastes in toys. If they do make a working speaker set, I think it'd be cool to have just to display and act as a little sound system. I'd be interested in that, and if it did come with a Syvil figure, I'd be all in.

Thanks for the compliments guys. Still have a lot of touch up to do on it, and still waiting on hlj to ship the other BJ-05 joint set for the other arm. If I get lucky and get another one of these later on, I'm definitely gonna do the purplish or maybe that tan color. I think the colors I used were a good match. I was a bit scared of the green, cause without any background color after primering, it looked too grey. I'll definitely remember these colors.

I'd put up some of a step-by-step, but I'm almost done with mine. Exo maybe more suited for it in regards to the styrene or rubber hose fix for the joints. Here it is so far. Still need some work on him, as well as one part for the other hand.

They had designs of the Ark Angel transformed. I have a pic of that too. It was pretty decent. IMO, anything that could've made RTSC more original and different was trashed out for space hookers and someone else's designs as standby. If asked, I'm sure HG has some lousy excuse as to why they didn't use any new fighters and all, but what I posted earlier is Tommy's real reason.

Just played the game today, and I'm really happy with it. It's a great game to play, and the support character specials are awesome. I love when Sheryl and Ranka sing their songs..."Dynamique" hahaha. Lots of fun.

I thought originally they were going to make an attempt to phase out the Mospeada designs and attempt a new "verytek". Commentary aside on the design of the Gamma fighter, it would've been a great attempt at a soft transition...i.e. getting rid of the past show stuff, and bringing in new stuff. I think George Sohn at Toynami would've been happy to see something different and maybe could've worked with it. Also, from what I remember hearing, Tommy didn't want to "desing". Instead, he wanted to direct and the Gamma fighter was nixed. Well, that shot came and went, and here we are, Robotech and Macross fans alike, bashing the hell out of Shadow Chronicles. If Frank Agrama had any smarts, he'd at most make Tommy a creaive art director, and not creative director overall. Wait, what am I saying. All of Robotech would still be big busty women in club outfits. His mecha art isn't too bad, and he is a pretty good artist. If he worked under an overall creative director who actually cared about this stuff, he maybe able to turn out some decent stuff.

I think most of the consumers here in the U.S. are used to dubs. If dubs were to disappear tomorrow, anime DVDs would probably disappear here as well, or at least be very scarce. The dubs help keep people buying the DVDs more than just being an added feature. Whether the dubs are good or not is strictly opinion, although on some dubs, the general opinions agree on the poor job, i.e. ADV Macross. I don't have a problem with dubs, and I'm not one who needs to get closer to my anime by watching it all in Japanese. If it's good enough dubbed, that's how I'll watch it. I don't think dubs, in general, are bad. I think the larger companies like ADV and Funimation kinda got into the "let's use this actor again for this role" and kinda cookie cutter them, but for the most part, I don't watch a lot of disaster dubs, and I do watch a lot of anime.

I believe that came from the Gold Book, and if I remember correctly, does come folded. It could be that whoever owns that poster made a pricey copy of it with no folds. It's an awesome poster. I have 2.

I'm in the same boat as most here. The ADV dub was one of the worst things to ever come out. Misa sounded like a cracked out teen, Roy like a gay trucker, Hikaru like Vic Mignona (what else do you expect), and I had a hard time understanding Minmay. I bought the set at a super discount, and got it only to preserve my copies of my Animeigo DVDs. I don't even bother with the english version of it. And, I'm one who likes a good dub. They should've kept the Robotech VAs. They did a great job on it.

There's not much to painting this guy (unless you do the ultra realistic look. Being that it's meant to be moved around and all, I'm keeping pretty simple. For the chest, I just need to touch up what I missed from masking with the black chestplate w/ Zentraedi insignia. I'll probably also do another coat over the backpack section. For the white belt and strap pieces, I'm using what's called light camoflauge gry. It's basically a white with a little gry and tan in it. It works well with the green I've selected, which isn't as dark as the original green. For the joints, upper arms, thighs and feet, I'm using panzer gry, which is kinda drk, but stands out just right. I've also done the rifle in a gry primer, then gunmetal metalizer. What's taking more time, is prepping the materials to make the figure sturdy. The drilling, sanding, all that is some time, but not too bad. I found some metal rod that I have put inside the waist so that the figure can actually bend forward from the crotch area. So far, I'm still waiting on another BK-05 set for another socke for the other arm, also more for the arm/leg sockets. At this rate, he'll easily be done by next week, pending no major disasters. Will get pics tomorrow, as I can't find the chord to load them.

At first, I was a little nervous to see if it would work. drilling inside the arm part was done with a drill slight smaller than the socket, and the rest was using an exacto to widen and sandpaper to smooth. It made the socket a bit squished in the area of the hands, so I sanded down those hands so that they'd fit. The end result is a solid hand that won't pop off. I've done the second arm, but need another set of the BJ-05, so I have those on order. Just painted the body with a german military green, and it's got a nice drab, "zentraedi" feel to it. Not sure if I wanna go more vibrant green, but we'll see.

Damn, the one poster I'm missing. I should be looking for it. It does look nice in a frame.

OK, so I know this thread is a little old, but I've started to paint my figure and should have him done in about 1-2 weeks. Primer is now dry, so time to get the airbrush out again. I've worked with Exo and he helped me to get all the joints nice and tight on this guy. He should be pretty sturdy and better than an action figure. For the hands, I bored out the little plug, and inserted one of the sockets from the BJ-05 set in there, the result is a hand that has some posability, and won't fall off. Took some time, but it looks great. Pics will come up later in another thread.

I think Tommy tactfully used the term product in the sentence, so that he could simply say to those not buying the B.S. "I meant as far as merchandise". And for those who prefer to live in lala land (AKA some RT mods and podsters) it gives them a false base to run around and quote all day. I think that if HG really had DYRL, they would've used it. Heck, even making a dub of it would've been more money in the bag, but they've done nothing with the production itself, only a couple toys based off of it. HG can say anything they want in regards to the rights, licensing, and whatnot. However, what is there can be much different.

One of my favorite quotes on rt.com under my signature used to be "Say what you mean, mean what you say..." Apparently, they never got it. I see we're also going back to older debates that have been settled, so I'll wait till there's something a little more "new".

Awesome, man. What stuff are you using to scult it?

I think asking here, you're gonna get tons of different ideas on what someone would like to see made. Any idea on the complexity of the toy you're making? Transformable, posable, etc, and out of what type of material? As for my wish lists, I'd just like to see 1/60 posable Meltrandi figures, with good posablility, sturdy joints, and accessoies. It'd also be cool to have a set of different faces and maybe hair so that there can be a mulititude of different soldiers. That would be great for a manufacturer, because the consumer is gonna want the ability to make different characters, and would help in the double dipping/triple dipping effect. Just my $0.02

yeah, who really collects lots of this stuff. I only have one item. When I want a new item, I trade that old item in, and get the other one.

Got my BD, now downloading the subbed version. I'm gonna play the game with my 2 days off.