Ever since I was 14 years old and first discovered Macross, the one thing that I've always enjoyed most was the model box art. I never thought of myself as collecting plastic model kits, I always thought of it as collecting ART! I remember going every week to a San Diego hobby store called "Models Emporium", and walking past the jets and the tanks and the soldiers to get to the treasures...the Macross kits! On the back wall there was everything...the Imai 1/72 Variable Valkyrie with its striking