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Ok guys, amateur hour again. I literally have no artistic sense whatsoever, and no fabrication skills at all, so go easy, lol! I originally started off with an old cutting board screwed to another board, and the Valks supported on hex keys, and the base just sprayed dark gray. It was barely big enough to support the four members of Skull, but then that loser from Prometheus got lost and is now tagging along. I really wanted a section of the ARMD carrier as a base, but there was no way I could fabricate 5 launcher arms and launch bays, so I settled on trying to replicate a simpler section of the carrier. Wait for it....when you get to the end of this post, you'll be scratching your heads wondering how the end product even resembles that section, hahahaha! Anyway, found another old cutting board. Cut an angle on it to sort of look like part of the ARMD. I even cut a panel line into the board...though if you look closely, it's jagged as $hit and not smooth or straight. I screwed the boards together from the bottom and started hot-gluing bits and bods to it. I'm not only terrible at greebling, I just used whatever I had laying around instead properly cutting styrene to panel-looking shapes . Another blast of spray paint and now I'm just watching paint dry.

Haha, no, I made those when I was like ten or so. I think I can do better now?

Nice! I built a few of those when I was 10 or something. Made a mess of mine, but yours looks good! I feel like it's retro month....I just slapped together a couple of old kits recently.

Thanks guys, I have two more of these kits so I might build one up in Hikaru colors. Interesting history on these kits. Yeah, I don't know what's the deal is with my obsession with gray Valkyries. Looks like I was doing the same thing as a kid too: Not sure what paint I used for my older Vakyries, maybe Testor's brush on paint.

Me too. I went with "Ferry", lol! ¥300 more for the boat. I waited a year, I'm in no hurry

Good to know, thanks thanks :). I almost raided these kits for parts because I didn't have it in mind to build any of them. I made a mess of my original Orbot, lol! Looking back at it then and looking at Valks I build now.....I just realized I have a wierd obsession with gray Valkyries.

Question, what section is Hikaru launching from here? I can't seem to match up the geometry here: I know in the beginning of DYRL, they are launch from sides (not the blue stripe side). What about the end of the movie?

Good point, I think I'll try it, nothing to lose

Dug out the last 1/100 scale Macross kit I built, probably 30 yrs ago. Sculpt is quite different, thought it was Bandai but maybe it was Arii? Next to the last Strike Battroid I built probably 35 years ago. Dug out a few other 1/100 scale kits I built as a kid.

I just realized, I still have to paint the hands....was just test fitting them last night. When deciding on hands, the GFrame hands were a bit small. These ones were actually about the same size as the balloon hands that came with then kit.

Thanks I've been sitting on a mountain of models for decades and I hadn't actually completed a Macross kit for maybe 30 years. I started one 17 years ago and was so put off my it, I stopped building models altogether. Kind of nice to get back into it. Go easy on me, my eyes aren't very good so at this scale, I'm pretty sloppy and miss a lot of things. I forgot to mod the arm armor to more resemble DYRL. Well, I have two more of these kits so I can try next time. Kamjin's POV just before he hulk-smashes Roy. Roy showing up inside an Zentran ship, uninvited and unwelcome.

I mentioned in another thread that I'd been on a model building hiatus for 17 yrs. I was never any good at building models to begin with, but what really put me off building models was the Hasegawa VF-1S Strike Valkyrie. In another thread, I posted that I eventually got back around to it a week or so ago and finally finished it. I also built a few more Hasegawa 1/72s right after. Then I took a step back and built an old Bandai 1/72 Super Fighter, but soon found that was also a pain to build, just a different kind of pain than the Hasegawa kits. Those older Bandai kits are a nightmare compared to their modern offerings. This 1/100 kit was no exception. Glue, sand, putty, mask and repeat. The leg halves are molded in two different colors so you can't even cheat by just sanding and clear coating Bandai's off-white/gray body color. Anyway, onto the build. I bought this thing in HK for dirt cheap ($28HKD) more than 20 years ago and it basically sat in my pile( along with two others) ever since. I liked the sculpt, the proportions, but I didn't like the TV balloon hands on what was supposed to be a DYRL Strike. So I figured I'll build it with swapped hands. Then I thought maybe I could gut it and wrap the skin around a modern Bandai Gundam skeleton. Those Gundam kits practically build themselves, and are super poseable. When I started to look closer, I realized I was in over my head and there was no way I could accomplish what I wanted, based on my lack of skill in fabrication. So I decided screw it, I'll just swap out the hands. I know, I have no idea what I'm doing. The legs on this thing we're a pain....I was in masking hell. I use rattle cans, so a lot less control so I had to do a lot of masking. In that respect, a modern Hasegawa for the win because they provide a decal for almost everything.Speaking of decals, this kit did not come with the arm stripe as a decal. I ended up cutting up a leg stripe decal from another kit: I was just too lazy to measure, mask and paint. I ended up using my Hasegawa Strike/Super kit as a paint and decal guide. The decals that came with the Bandai's are pretty dated, and possibly the wrong scale. Just look at the Hasegawa fin decal compared to the ones that came with the kit. More masking. Anyway, almost done, more to follow.

Looks like the Roy has an off-white/gray tinge to it. The 1D is in that flesh color and the 1A is sort of brown.

Found 'em. Fantastic box art. Look like I have two Roy's, one with a box, one without. Are these worth flipping or should I just keep them for the box art? I don't see myself building them, I think I only bought them for nostalgia. One of my first Macross kits was a Revel Orbot. What's left of it on the right:

Holy crap, I didn't know these things were worth anything. I have a few buried in my stash, I should dig them out.

I'd love to be able to build the side of the ARMD carrier to launch these guys properly. Sadly, I possess neither the skill, ability or patience, hahahaha! Besides, these guys aren't built very well, the slightest breath they fall apart, hahahaha!

That.....is ....amazing, wow!

The VF decal seems to have gone out of fashion

Like my Hasegawa kits, I didn't go with the anime correct bright white. I had some leftover Tamiya Light Gray (IJN) so I sprayed it on this kit. As a color and decal reference, I used Hasegawa and Yamato as a guide. The decals that came with this kit: A lot of the warning decals appeared too big or cartoony for this scale so I didn't use many. Instead, I borrow e heavily on leftover decals from my Hasegawa builds. 

Haha, it feels like it's on the verge of falling apart actually. This thing isn't very poseable, so it may as well be just a static statue. Don't see many examples of this kit built, not very popular I guess.

Thanks guys :). Just have to figure out a better display solution.

Although I gave up in the idea of building this around a flexible Gundam skeleton, I'm still going to skip the balloon hands. To the pros here, this must look completely butchered, hahababaha

This kit is masking hell. For someone like me who hates masking, this kit involves a lot of it. $28hkd for this kit was cheap......for a reason I guess, lol! To be fair though, it's an old kit I bought more than 20 yrs ago and I'm finally getting around to it. I have three more and if this one doesn't turn into a total $hitshoe, I might attempt to build one in Hikaru red.

I decided to bin the idea of wrapping the skin of the 1/100 around a Gundam GFrame. I have neither the skill nor the patience to accomplish this, but I did try to source some non-balloon hands for the DYRL look.

Haha, I might try it one day. For now, my 5 yr old likes to play with them