Original art for classic Arii kits

[EXO]

http://plixi.com/p/43890163

original kits:

Presently going for 200,000 yen each as of now.

[codam23]

Just gorgeous pieces. I wish i had the money...

[big F]

I have one of the kits now MIB, and had a couple more back in the day, I'd be happy with a nice high quality scan of the art work my self.

[Shaorin]

me and ARII MACROSS kits go way back.

i cut my teeth as a MACROSS fan with an ARII kit, a GERWALK mode 1/100 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. to be exact.

too bad those old ARII kits sucked so much, because they were the only VF-1 valks available to me

for my first several years as a MACROSS fan, and i had so ravenous an appetite for VF-1 valks

that i bought a bunch of those awful ARII kits.

hell, i even tried to kitbash a variable VF-1S once from a pair of GERWALK and BATTROID kits,

to no small ultimate failure.

anyway, i feel it rather poetically elegant that my first YAMATO 1/60v.II,

the first ever VF-1 replica in three dimensions to actually live up to my

vision of the perfect variable VF-1, to be the VF-1J Hikaru T.V.,

my original gateway valk. good wistful memories...

Edited September 8, 2010 by Shaorin

[Maiden Japan]

I'm not so sure if that's original. It looks too big for that size.

They must be upsized digital reproduction.

I wonder how much those pieces went for.

[EXO]

I'm not so sure if that's original. It looks too big for that size.

They must be upsized digital reproduction.

I wonder how much those pieces went for.

That link was sent to me by someone at the auction... he said they were originals. 2 pieces snapped up by some other Macross Box artist...

[big F]

me and ARII MACROSS kits go way back.

i cut my teeth as a MACROSS fan with an ARII kit, a GERWALK mode 1/100 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. to be exact.

too bad those old ARII kits sucked so much, because they were the only VF-1 valks available to me

for my first several years as a MACROSS fan, and i had so ravenous an appetite for VF-1 valks

that i bought a bunch of those awful ARII kits.

hell, i even tried to kitbash a variable VF-1S once from a pair of GERWALK and BATTROID kits,

to no small ultimate failure.

anyway, i feel it rather poetically elegant that my first YAMATO 1/60v.II,

the first ever VF-1 replica in three dimensions to actually live up to my

vision of the perfect variable VF-1, to be the VF-1J Hikaru T.V.,

my original gateway valk. good wistful memories...

LOL you have lived my life subsitute the 1/60 V.II for the V. I and it is all there.

[AcroRay]

Wow... Nice to see that they still exist out there somewhere, though!

[EXO]

I'm glad they're gonna be in a collection and not deteriorating in some warehouse.

[ron5864]

They should at least sell poster size replicas for people who want to hang one or two on the wall next to their Macross collection.

[MechTech]

Yeah, I think I would build a new room just to decorate it with these and my other goodies. Then I would officially open it up as a museum, seek tax shelter, and charge entry fees (one old Arii kit each ;^) for building up the display cases. An additional fee would be charged for those that drool on the floor! - MT