1/100 Macross Factory Kit...

[miriya]

I am curious to see what the 1/100 macross factory kit looks like completed. Can someone post pics?

[mojacko]

is it 1/100??? i know i have one but m not sure if its 1/100.....havent started the kit yet!!!

[miriya]

I think so. There may be other versions too though. It seems that there are at least two Macross versions and at least 5 Robotech versions.

[MechTech]

You mean these?

If that's the case, yes, 1/100. All accessories (unlike other kits like this) are 1/100. - MT

[miriya]

You mean these?

If that's the case, yes, 1/100. All accessories (unlike other kits like this) are 1/100. - MT

Thank you !

Those are so sweet! Seems like it would take a year to complete such a kit though!

[misterryno]

Thank you !

Those are so sweet! Seems like it would take a year to complete such a kit though!

But the outcome would be well worth while

[AcroRay]

I had the Robotech edition back in high school, which I got as a chirstmas gift the year it was released. Beautiful, amazing kit which took me a month to build and probably was my all-time favorite MACROSS item ever. I eventually sold it back in the early 90s, but a couple of years ago I picked up an unpainted, mostly-complete buildup. Here it is waiting for restoration some day:

I had to pick up a new 1/100 scale Armored 1J for it (got it for like $10 on eBay, so I'm not upset at the inexpensive upcoming reissues!). It even has all the decals, unused. Just missing a few barrels and I think a wheel or two on the vehicles.

Note that all the trucks and service vehicles come right from official Macross design works seen in Perfect Memory and other sources, and these Armored Factory kits are the only way you can get them. The crew figures include pilots and deck crew in tiny UN Spacy uniforms & helmets (I've still got two from my original done up like Max and Hikaru!)

These go for a couple hundred bucks when you can find them new, and they're worth every penny spent and every moment building.

Edited February 28, 2008 by AcroRay

[MechTech]

I bought the Robotech packaged kit about 20 years ago. I walked into a unique collectors store and it was sitting up on a shelf right above the doorway with tons of dust on it, unopened. This was a couple years after all the kits were sold off the shelves. I got it home and thought, "Thank God, this is like the holy grail of Macross stuff - awesome!." Even when I saw it in the store I played it down. It was an "expensive" $38.00 . - MT

[007-vf1]

I had 3 of those shelved around for a couple of years and never built them. When i realized 1/100 scale wasn't going to do it for me, I started selling them on Evilbay. I just sold the last one a couple of months ago...

Now everything has to be either 1/144 or 1/72...

[AcroRay]

Yeah. 1/100 scale seems to have gone by the wayside these days for anime items. Its my favorite for mecha, though, space- and cost-wise.

[mojacko]

oooohhh.....i have the different version.....abt the scale its 1/170!!! (70 more comapare to the 1/100 scale) heheheheheh:lol:

Edited February 29, 2008 by mojacko

[miriya]

Thanks everyone for your input.

I am really liking this kit.

I just wish that the exact same kit existed in 1/48.

I know that there is a 1/72 resin kit being made here on the forums and I am probably getting at least one of those but I just really want to diorama my 1/48 yamatos in something like this.

I have considered doing a styrene build up from scratch but that would take an eon to do!