The Energon Pub

Hi everyone,

I have been tackling this for a little while, which I finally just finished tonight. This is for my own personal collection and will join the rest of my Binaltech/Alternator/Masterpiece Autobots.

Seeing what has been done before, and there have been some FANTASTIC customs done of this, I wanted to do my own.

Without further ado..........MY MASTERPIECE JETFIRE!!!!!

Enjoy,

-Gregg

suweeeeeeet!!

Thats awsome! Is it a kit? Where can I find one?

its no kit. Its a Macross 1:48.

I am positive that the Macross 1:48 is a kit. I have one of it's predecessors years ago, and it was a kit. Infact, it looks virtually identical to the model I have stored away, just updated some. The big give-away is that the legs have to be dtetached, and the nose-cone/cockpit swapped out to transform it from vehicle/gerwalk mode to robotr mode. Look at how the legs attach to the body in robot mode, compared to the vehicle mode pics, it's a dead give-away.

OVerall it's a well-done repaint though. Good work.

That's a Yamato 1/48 figure. It's no kit, and it doesn't come apart to TF. I believe that only the heat shield has to be removed, and I've seen a mod to make the heatshield permanently attached, and retract into the chest plate. (though I may be thinking of the Yamato 1/60, with that)

The legs come off the Yammy 1/60 to TF, but that's actually more accurate to the orginal Macross line art.

Look at how te legs are connected to the body. They're attached to pegs sticking directly out of the nose-cone. Those same points on the nosecone in vehicle mode are lacking both in those posts, and a way for the legs to rotate into position. It is utterly impossible for it to be the same nose-cone/cockpit section, and for it to transform without taking the legs off and reattaching them given those specific features.

Can we see a size comparison with some official mp transformers?

Tramp wrote:Look at how te legs are connected to the body. They're attached to pegs sticking directly out of the nose-cone. Those same points on the nosecone in vehicle mode are lacking both in those posts, and a way for the legs to rotate into position. It is utterly impossible for it to be the same nose-cone/cockpit section, and for it to transform without taking the legs off and reattaching them given those specific features.

The Yammy 1/48s use a hidden T-bar style swing arm. There's a section on the bottom of the nose cone that opens up, to let the "pelvis" in. You can see the seams for it in the pictures. Those little circles on the sides of the nose cone blisters are seperate pieces that fold out of the way, to let the bars the hips are mounted on poke out of the side of the nose cone.

This is not a kit.....This is a true 1/48 scale MP Valkyrie thats been customized.......legs do not come off for transformation. We'll have to wait until this next week to get pictures of this w/ other MP figures......I will get them done though.....

Happy Thansgiving to all!

-Gregg

That's an excellent custom. Nice edition to your 'Masterpiece' collection. I'm gonna have to see if I can find me one of those.

Ugh, I've got so many Macross/Jetfire toys now--do I honestly need another one?

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...yeah. Heh.

Looks pretty sweet!

I like it a lot.

Can you tell me which figure excactly this is?
If the size is about right i'm attempting to put this guy up as an enemy for the MP Screamer im buying from grimlockprime.

This is what he used. mentioned at TFW2005.com

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... cture=aux1

Well, I checked the listing at bigbadtoystore, the price will keep me from trying this one anytime soon.

Woah,damn!

Nicely done, that man!

Should've used a bigger one, though...

Greyryder wrote:

Tramp wrote:Look at how te legs are connected to the body. They're attached to pegs sticking directly out of the nose-cone. Those same points on the nosecone in vehicle mode are lacking both in those posts, and a way for the legs to rotate into position. It is utterly impossible for it to be the same nose-cone/cockpit section, and for it to transform without taking the legs off and reattaching them given those specific features.

The Yammy 1/48s use a hidden T-bar style swing arm. There's a section on the bottom of the nose cone that opens up, to let the "pelvis" in. You can see the seams for it in the pictures. Those little circles on the sides of the nose cone blisters are seperate pieces that fold out of the way, to let the bars the hips are mounted on poke out of the side of the nose cone.

It's true, my housemate just bought one of these back from Japan - the transformation of these things had me baffled until I was able to examine it, but now I know how, i'm planning to modify my old 1/72 scale Bandai VF-1A kit I bought years ago - I never finished it, because I hated how you had to remove the legs and re-attach them to a different nose-piece altogether like Tramp describes (it was a significantly different shape, the alternative nose, shorter, fatter, and much uglier, heh). Hopefully, I can make it so the legs stay on the figure to transform. The only real problem is the heat-shield - the 1/72 scale is quite small really, and the space for fitting it in is very limited. Still, where there's a will!


By the way, awesome paint-job Sodawilly!

Can anyone take pictures of this system. I would really like to see it.

My housemate is going to make photocopies of the instructions for me (he's a little....protective of his Valkyrie, heh). As soon as he does, i'll scan them and post them for you.

If they're really fragile i admire the courage needed to do this repaint.
So...slagging...expensive.


By the way,is this guy about MP screamers size?

rhinox555 I have a Yamato 1/48 and it is about 11 inches tall to the top of his head, that makes him almost as tall as masterpiece Prime. MP Starscream is 8 or 9 inches tall, so Jetfire would be taller as it should be. Though MP Starscream is 1/60 scale and Jetfire is 1/48.

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