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News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:44 pm

I bought my GPB-01 armor set from Archonia.com though their valkyrie choice is very limited now and the VF-1 selection is depleted except for the 1/60 VF-1J Super Max type.

by **pcsguy88** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:23 pm

I'm not sure how interested you guys are in military aviation, but those pics of the YF-21 made me think of a real plane, the YF-23 Blackwidow:

Hope you enjoy. Such a shame these beauties lost to the F-22 Raptor and will never see active duty. The fact one of them crashed during the competition prolly didn't help.

by **brokendan** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:29 pm

i never knew bout the yf-23... i always liked the raptor tho

by **pcsguy88** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:49 pm

I posted this before completing all 13pgs of this thread. After seeing the upclose shots on pg 4 or 5, I'm not too sure the 1/48's are worth the money when the Toynami's can be had for so much cheaper. I just want a super detailed Valkyrie that matches MP-03's size in both modes. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Maybe some side by side pics with MP-03, 160 & 1/48s?

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:15 pm

pcsguy88 wrote:I posted this before completing all 13pgs of this thread. After seeing the upclose shots on pg 4 or 5, I'm not too sure the 1/48's are worth the money when the Toynami's can be had for so much cheaper. I just want a super detailed Valkyrie that matches MP-03's size in both modes. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Maybe some side by side pics with MP-03, 160 & 1/48s?

The Toynami 1/55th "masterpeice" scale VF-1's are a lot cheaper then the yamato stuff (thoug not always they can go qquite high in price since their are out of production), but for a good reason. The 1/55th VF-1 is ok for its price tag, but other then that it is not very detailed, and has those hideous metal bars near the cockpit for the legs to swing out. If you are looking for a super detailed VF-1 then the yamato 1/48th is the way to go. The Yamato 1/60th is pretty good, but it doesnt have "perfect transformation", meaning it's legs need to be removed as it goes between fighter gerwalk and batroid modes.

Even though I posted this in your other thread, I will psot the comparison shots here as well. This is a comparison between MP-03 Starscream and Yamato 1/48th VF-1's. But they really only match each other in fighter mode, if you wanted a valk to match MP-03 Starscream in bot mode youd be looking at the Yamato 1/60th or Toynami 1/55th "Masterpeice figures".

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:20 pm

pcsguy88 wrote:I'm not sure how interested you guys are in military aviation, but those pics of the YF-21 made me think of a real plane, the YF-23 Blackwidow:

In the old thread before the board whipe (almsot 50 pages long of Macross stuff) I had posted several iamges of the various Macross stuff and how they related to real life aircraft. A lot of the designs for macross are based off of current stuff. The VF-1 is ofcourse based off the F-14, there is even a macross design based off the SR-71 and A-6 Intruder.

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:27 pm

Yamato 1/48th VF-1A Angel Birds

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:29 pm

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:49 pm

Toynami 1/100th VF-1A DYRL Hikaru Ichijo

Comparison with Yamato 1/60th VF-1A DYRL Hikaru Ichijo.

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:51 pm

by **pcsguy88** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:00 pm

Thank you for those pics. After some research, I found the VF-0A to match MP-03 almost perfectly in both modes. I think 1/60 YF-19 will too.

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:30 pm

woohoo! I was just lurking a bit on macrossworld and the preorder for the SV-51 Gumma(that`s apperantly the SV-51`s modelname) is up at HLJ for a fairly decent price too! :grin:

http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00063

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:55 pm

I am defiently getting a SV-51....but I want them to do the chics... Though I have no worries about that, I mean come on were talking about Yamato here!

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:00 pm

Air Commander Starscream wrote:I am defiently getting a SV-51....but I want them to do the chics... Though I have no worries about that, I mean come on were talking about Yamato here!

you mean Nora`s right?yeah, we`ll see hers and some CF type deal too from the SV-51...seems to me almost every type has one or more repaint anyways, the only exception being the Koenig Monster although that can still happen...

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:48 am

woohoo! my copy of Shadow Chronicles and a DYRL 1/60 VF-1A Max type just arrived!oh, and I placed a preorder for my own SV-51.now if only we had some intel on de dang 1/100 FAST/Strike set and the price of the Legioss/Thread set from CMS... :grin:

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:20 pm

What do you think of Cronicles?

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:35 pm

I rather liked it actually.I also watched the extra`s and they mentioned new movies and series...let`s just hope they won`t take ANOTHER 20 years to get those out.also got news my YF-19 arrived at the importstore I ordered it from, just have to wait till next week to pick it up. :grin:

News Credits: 1 · by **spiritofcat** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:13 am

I just ran into a lego VF-1S on eBay.
A while back I saw a Lego Prime probably from the same guy.

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:25 am

spiritofcat wrote:I just ran into a lego VF-1S on eBay.
A while back I saw a Lego Prime probably from the same guy.

seen that on the site of that guy too.he also has a Jetfire version and you can choose for getting a full set or just the instructions on CDrom.I`ll look the link up when I sorted my system out.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:31 am

spiritofcat wrote:I just ran into a lego VF-1S on eBay.
A while back I saw a Lego Prime probably from the same guy.

That's pretty cool!! I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first.

Though, that's what, $200 in LEGO kits to find all the right parts? [/shot at cost of LEGO]

News Credits: 2 · by **Black Arachnis** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:36 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
spiritofcat wrote:I just ran into a lego VF-1S on eBay.
A while back I saw a Lego Prime probably from the same guy.

That's pretty cool!! I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first.

Though, that's what, $200 in LEGO kits to find all the right parts? [/shot at cost of LEGO]

something like that yeah...cool though, no doubt there.

News Credits: 4 · by **the purifyer** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:12 pm

Proof that Flea Markets are still very much worth it.
I found a load of Harmony Gold robotech boxed vehicle figures and MOSC action figures.

What I picked up was:
MIB Red Bioroid figure
2x MIB Zentraedi Power armour figures (blue)
MIB MACII Die-cast Monster

MOSC action figures
-Roy
-Rand
-Zor Prime
-Miriya (Zentraedi flight suit version)
-Bioroid Terminator

all for AUD$20
:grin:

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:57 am

the purifyer wrote:Proof that Flea Markets are still very much worth it.
I found a load of Harmony Gold robotech boxed vehicle figures and MOSC action figures.

What I picked up was:
MIB Red Bioroid figure
2x MIB Zentraedi Power armour figures (blue)
MIB MACII Die-cast Monster

MOSC action figures
-Roy
-Rand
-Zor Prime
-Miriya (Zentraedi flight suit version)
-Bioroid Terminator

all for AUD$20