mechatek Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 GBP= Giant Bulging Parts That's the most menacing looking of all the GBP renditions ever made. I hope you guys are right about the nosecone armor option. Quote
connor99 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 (edited) Hey Guys, I know the 1/48's are pretty sturdy, but do we have any idea how heavy this armor's going to be? I mean, the valk looks like a million bucks with the armor on and all, but I hope it doesn't mean that I'm gonna need to buy a separate stand (like the one on the pic!) just so I can put my 1J on display . Edited April 3, 2005 by connor99 Quote
UN Spacy Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 OMG! Yamato you magnificent BASTARD! It's simply goregous! I just hope they do something about the buldge.......nevertheless. I can live with that. Quote
1 VF-1 2NV Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 (edited) Looking closely at the groin armor it looks like the nosecone cover is a separate piece and not molded as one-piece with the groin armor. You can clearly see the line between the groin armor proper and the additional nosecone cover.I think Yamato have chosen to go both ways with the GBP, you either have the Valk with no nosecone and no nosecone cover, or you keep the nosecone on the Valk and use the nosecone cover. (gawd... is this what life has come to, starring at robots groins ). Graham I could kinda see what your talking about. but it's hard to tell wether it's a raised panel or a separation line. I'll get a couple of these but it looks so big. It looks like a little valk buying from the Big And Tall Valk store. That's great! Yamato satisfies both categories! What a smart sculptor! Did Yamato neglect to add the piece that goes under the valks underarm pits? I can't see it, can any of you? Edited April 3, 2005 by 1 VF-1 2NV Quote
Ido Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Hey Guys, I know the 1/48's are pretty sturdy, but do we have any idea how heavy this armor's going to be? I mean, the valk looks like a million bucks with the armor on and all, but I hope it doesn't mean that I'm gonna need to buy a separate stand (like the one on the pic!) just so I can put my 1J on display . IMO at lest twice the weight of the fastpack set, and the vf-1 with the fps is already pretty heavy and unplayable cause the bad balanced weight, surely is mighter then the Koenig Monster, I just hope It will not tend to fall foward,( we could balance with normal fps anyways ) The shipping cost will kill me. Ps I really hope that the nosecone is optional cause its just ridiculous. Quote
snip312 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Nice, tease over, the waiting game begins..... Quote
wolfx Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 That's awesome IMHO! Did you guys notice on the left leg intake, there seems to be an extra piece of armour covering the intakes? The right leg doesn't have this piece though. Quote
Evanta Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 doesn't look quite anime accurate, probably due to the hanging nose cone and seemingly too thin forearms, and I wonder how it looks in actual colors. Any photoshop wiz here? Quote
柿崎速雄 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 I note that there add a hip joint on the armor , very clever~ that's mean the hip armor combine by outter and inner parts Quote
kensei Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 That's awesome IMHO! Did you guys notice on the left leg intake, there seems to be an extra piece of armour covering the intakes? The right leg doesn't have this piece though. You're right, there is a piece missing. That hip armour design looks good. HK was right, this allows that valk to have some articulation in the legs unlike the 1/60. Quote
mechatek Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Whoa! Toit work there chris, and welcome to MW. Quote
zeo-mare Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 incredible picture i cannot wait for this to come out. chris Quote
Majestic Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Excellent photoshop skills, chris! Love the weathering! Quote
promethuem5 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Woweeeee! I want it I want it I want it I want it! I hope that crotch piece is removable, but I wouldn't mind if it wasn't.... makes it more realistic. This design really makes me wish they had made the neck on the VF-1J a little longer... he's looking over his bust It looks pretty crappy right now with the Chicken hands, but that might just be me hating the Chicken hands.... That's a FANTASTIC photoshop coloring job Chris. maybe we can pray that the paint app on the release will look half as good... Oh man, this is gonna rock. Quote
Mechamaniac Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Oh, sneaky hobbitses at Yamato!! They shows us, pics of arm armor only, and makes us think that GBP preciousss is many years away, then they surprises us, and shows us the preciousss is nearly finished. I agree that is the absolute meanest looking incarnation of the GBP I have seen yet. Before, it just looked oafish, but that thing looks downright menacing! Must have, preciousss. Quote
GRAND CANNON Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 GBP in color. Chris Damn, you get "Best First Post Award" with that show!!! Welcome!!! Quote
chris Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Thanks. I've been lurking on these boards for some time now so I thought I might finally post something... I actually wanted to do only the basic coloring, so that I could see what the GBP would look like when Yamato finishes it. But I had to do some real work today, so of course I started adding more and more detail to the image, as an exscuse to avoid doing it. So I have this really detailed Valkyrie image, and the work is still waiting... ah, well, tomorrow is another day. Here is the finished pic, with some markings and noseart (or is it legart in this case?) added. Chris Quote
Mr March Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Now that's one hell of a way to make a first impression! Welcome to the boards chris! Good gawd this GBP armor looks fantastic. I was worried that the armor would be too thin, since the 1/48 Valkyrie is fairly thin in Battroid mode (comparing it to the anime and lineart). I'm very glad to see that the 1/48 scale GBP armor is every bit as big and bulky as it appears in the anime, even more so. The thing looks menacing to say the least. For certain, at least two of these sets will be mine and I may even purchase a third simply to have one set for every 1/48 Valkyrie I own. Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Some of you have weight and balance concerns for this. See with the legs, at least there is rubber around the balljoints to lessen the friction and looseness of the hips. This is not so for the arms. I kept my hikaru 1S with his arm always aiming at something unsupported, it became loose over time so he had to hold the gun with 2 hands, until I added the paper cushion. Although I do imagine loose shoulder joints will not matter to most of you since it will mainly be posed with 2 hands on the gun rather than jsut one...especially with the big ass shoulder armors. Although a word of advice, if any of you DO in fact want to have your 1/48 posed with 1 hand gun aiming pose high in the air, you might want to find a way to keep the shoulder ball joints from getting loose. I think this toy is AWESOME. I hope we get a giftset with a 1/48 VF-1J. Quote
UN Spacy Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Very very nice job chris! Welcome to the MW Forums. Quote
promethuem5 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Mind telling us how you're doing that Chris? It's gorgeous. Quote
KiriK Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Great coloring Chris..... dayam... all these talented builders/painters/re-casters on MW make me feel sooooooooo unworthy... haha Quote
Majestic Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 That looks just downright real, chris. I hope you get paid for your photoshop skills. That's the most impressive manual coloring job I've ever seen. Quote
Dat Pinche Haro! Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 great....looks like i'm gonna have to buy one of these now...time to save up some cash... Quote
Montarvillois Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Found a slightly different pic. Whoa !!!! This is great news !!! hope they are not teasing us just to let us down later. This thing is georgeous. When is it due out again ??? Quote
kensei Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Thought came to mind that he can no longer hold the gunpod with that bulky arm armour on. Quote
Die, Alien Scum! Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Thought came to mind that he can no longer hold the gunpod with that bulky arm armour on. Quick! Someone cast some "wrist extensions"! LOL! Seriously though, it looks like kensei is correct. And that thing needs to hold a gunpod to hide how small the hands look! Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 mgiht not be true. The wrists can swing to the side at an almost 90 degree angle left and right. YOu MIGHT be able to get it to hold but it has to be at a high angle. Quote
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