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Sweeeet! Always nice to see some 1/48 love! Don't know why Yamato went for the bubbly canopy instead of keeping the more lineart sleek canopy on the 1/60's.

Paris act, enigma and honeycomb digi camo = awesome!

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Valkyrie Addict, that digi camo is the infamous Blue Rose. That's my favorite of the group. I'll dig out my other 1/48 customs and will post more tomorrow. Think 1/48 line nailed the look.

Macross Junkie, that was Kurt's 1st Enigma custom. Still a solid piece for how old it is. Also one of my favs

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Ahh...Blue Rose, nice, very nice!!. Masking and stencil use for digital camo is an art. Kurt's work is the best, I knew I'd seen that enigma and paris act custom before, what other gems do you have hidden, do post!!

Wish I knew Kurt¿s technique he uses to prevent paint chipping.

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Valkyrie Addict, that digi camo is the infamous Blue Rose. That's my favorite of the group. I'll dig out my other 1/48 customs and will post more tomorrow. Think 1/48 line nailed the look.

Macross Junkie, that was Kurt's 1st Enigma custom. Still a solid piece for how old it is. Also one of my favs

Yeah, I remember those posted back in the day. Kurt, Jung, and others made some great customs with the 1/48's. I wish I knew Kurt's method of getting the graphics for the decals. I don't think they were scanned from the Model Graphix magazine.

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MacrossJunkie, the decals were all custom made by Devin aka Anasazi37. He made some sick water decals that finish these customs. They truly looked painted on. I have a full custom DYRL set too along with a one of a kind Jung Cannon Fodder. Still trying to find it in storage. Will post more when I get them all set up. My son is dying to get his hands on these. He's 7 so he's not to keen on the, we only look.. hahah.

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I specifically have a beat up V.2 1J and 1S I keep around in case my nephew ever wants to play with any of my Valks. The rest are "don't touch" but he's usually pretty happy with just the 1J and 1S. My ex-girlfriend's son too, though he REALLY wanted to play with my 17's.

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Mommar, man my son has gotten his hands on a couple of 1/60's and 1/55's and they are beyond beat up. hahahaha. The 1/48's are all for daddy. LOL


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Could you imagine what it would be like if all the companies decided to stick with Yamatos 1/48 scale and not switch to 1/60. OMG swooshing around a 1/48 Nora or a VF11c would be amazing!!

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Could you imagine what it would be like if all the companies decided to stick with Yamatos 1/48 scale and not switch to 1/60. OMG swooshing around a 1/48 Nora or a VF11c would be amazing!!

I know I would be much poorer and would need a lot more detolfs because the toys would be a lot more expensive and I wouldn't be able to fit as many on each shelf. Heck, a 1/48 SV-51 wouldn't even fit as the 1/60 version in fighter mode already has to be displayed at an angle just to get it to fit.

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Yes. Poorer and smaller collection would pretty much be it for me. I would've tapped out a long time ago. I'm very happy they stuck with the smaller scale since it was perfect for me :)

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these are amazing.

someone should make a custom in the popular street wear patterns like floral or digi floral, that would be awesome. if i could i would.

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Found this custom Kirk made for me. This may have been the last piece he built for me. This is the 1st time i've taken it out of the box to display. Bad ass VF1J Custom

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Finally dug out the Strke Low Vis done by Kurt and Desert Brown Digi Camo Blue Rose Strike done by June. it's been fun finally taking these guys out of the boxes and putting them together. My son is dying to get his hands on them and see if they can fly.... yike! Hope you enjoy MW.

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Thanks Falcon. Going through these brought back a ton of memories. Can't believe what we used to spend on all these 1/55's only to pay more money to the customizers to make them better.

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Thought I would post some recent pics for the new peeps. Man i've missed this place.

wow haven't seen these in a long time welcome back

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Those are all such fantastic customs. You have quite a unique VF-1 collection to be proud of.

I wish Arcadia would make some of those or at least sell some decals and more of those blank VF-1 kits.

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Always feels like home. Finally unpacking everything from my move back in 2006. My son is going nuts over all the VF's

wow haven't seen these in a long time welcome back

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Always feels like home. Finally unpacking everything from my move back in 2006. My son is going nuts over all the VF's

I got nuts too if i found out that my dad got a stash like that .!!. :D

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Always feels like home. Finally unpacking everything from my move back in 2006. My son is going nuts over all the VF's

Now you got something in common with your son. best to start him on the Bandai models, before going to something expensive. :)

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Man, it's great to see those guys again! Makes me want to unpack my collection and fire up the old ALPS printer. All of my valks are still in boxes from my last move.... :)

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Anasazi: you know those decals will always be in demand (hint..hint)

Gene: nice to see the pics of your valks again. It's been a whike

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Man, it's great to see those guys again! Makes me want to unpack my collection and fire up the old ALPS printer. All of my valks are still in boxes from my last move.... :)

Please do. Please, please do. I speak not just for myself but others. I need more of the yin-yang flower decals you made for me 10 years ago. ;)

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