VF-1D Second Custom

[zeke]

Finally finished my second custom VF-1D with strike armor and custom box/styrofoam. Working on the third one with swivelling legs, ball joint arm-shoulder and attached chest heatshield.

[dyowelb]

nice work...btw, how did you print the box (in sections or the whole thing)? i've been meaning to make one for my voltes gashapon...

thanks,

dyowelb

[zeke]

I put the designed each on each side then i put it together. i sent it to the printing shop and printed the whole thing on one sheet.

if you have any questions let me know.

[Mechamaniac]

NICE!

How did you get the nice straight edges on your custom styro?

[zeke]

You can cut it 2 ways using a ruler as a guide. You can use a dremel with really thin bit or a styrofoam cutter. The stryrofoam cutter you can get it at the toy hobby shop store.

[Valkfan]

Hello. Would this happen to be your auction?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

[zeke]

Yes, I posted it for auction. I also have VE-1, Conversion kit and Destroid Monster on auction.

[Valkfan]

Hey Zeke, small world! I'm the guy that you sold the sanded and clear coated Bandai VT-1 Super Ostrich to. I've noticed that your current auction for the VE-1 Elintseeker looks to be clear coated as well. I promised you that I'd warn my friends to avoid your auctions. This includes my friends here at MacrossWorld. Now that I know who you are, I will recommend your name be added to the Blacklist. Sorry, but this is something that I feel needed to be said and done. For anyone wondering about the clear coating practice that I mentioned above, here is the link to a strange highly glossed Bandai VE-1 Elintseeker auction that Zeke had placed on eBay. Keep in mind that even the new Bandai reissues don't carry a shine like this 20 year old item does. Even the armor looks like glass!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

[Grayson72]

Heh, that elint looks like it's been dunked in a vat of Future.

Edited April 8, 2004 by Grayson72

[Culverin]

k, fill me in? what's going on? he modified a toy and he's getting black listed?

or is this some sort of abhored practice...

[Valkfan]

Hey Culverin, how's it going? First of all, I will say that modifying and selling a modified item is okay as long as it is mentioned in the auctions description. In the auction I won, the only thing that was mention about the Super O was that it had a yellowed chest plate. As a collector I decided to bid up to $400.00 for this rare item. However, I never agreed to bid $400.00 to purchase a sanded and clearcoated (damaged) Bandai Super Ostrich. If I'm going to pay that much for something that has been altered, I would have purchased his VF-1D custom w/box. I'm letting everyone here know about this so that they don't get burned like I did.

Rick

[Valkfan]

Heh, that elint looks like it's been dunked in a vat of Future.

LMAO!!!

Thanks for the laugh Grayson72. It was the best one I've had all week. This shows that I am not the only one who can see the obvious clearcoating. Too bad the shine wasn't as obvious in the pictures from the Ostrich auction I won. Maybe your right, it could be Future Floor Finish.

[Grayson72]

Yeah I can't believe people are paying over 800 for that. It's like on the Antiques Roadshow, people have this great piece of Federal era furniture that would have been worth 250,000 dollars but since you had it refinished it's only worth 2,500.

I don't care how stock it is, it's still been modified.

[zeke]

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=6970