#2 DONE +++ Macross 1:100 VF-1JS Super Valkyrie (fighter mode), "200" of SVF-124

TheChronicOne · October 23, 2016, 06:19:49 PM

Good job, bro!!! Impressive and I love your picture taking/manip skills, as well. Very nice.

Zombolt · October 23, 2016, 06:23:14 PM

Jaw is on the floor on this one.

how long till one of the Macross sites pick it up?

Dizzyfugu · October 24, 2016, 12:17:44 AM

Thank you very much, glad you like it - anime is a rather exotic topic for this forum, but I could not resist... And this one turned out very well, much better than expected. What I really like about it is the quasi-authentic background, taken from various sources, and how the model comes to life through the surroundings in the beauty pics. With that weird paint scheme this Valkyrie looks very natural between Earth and Moon, and it looks, with all those boosters, very beefy and purposeful. The effort was worthwhile, I think.

Dizzyfugu · October 26, 2016, 09:12:36 AM

1:100 Stonewell/Bellcom VF-1JS 'Super Valkyrie' - Behind the (phote) scenes by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Final addition to this project, with a view at the hanger set.

The Macross Factory is actually built into a glass cabinet, so the foreground base has to be somwhow placed in front of it, on a turret of kit boxes and other stuff...
The benefit of this arrangement was a low perspective, though, underlining the hangar size and the sheer bulk of the Super Valkyrie.

TheChronicOne · October 26, 2016, 09:17:46 AM

Killer, Dizzy!!!

The whole set up is fantastic.

silverwindblade · October 31, 2016, 03:34:26 AM

This is outstanding, I love Macross and it's great to see more of your macross WHIF's making it onto the forum!

zenrat · October 31, 2016, 03:56:43 AM

I've built a few Gundam kits and have some in the stash but this has got me looking at Macross kits.
Not sure if that is a good thing or not...

Dizzyfugu · October 31, 2016, 04:18:37 AM

Mecha stuff can be infectious, because it is "so different" from sound and normal stuff, and a good challenge. Personally, I have built four small Gundam kits many years ago, but the designs never touched me. There's either too much samurai look, or the things are too exagerrated. I actually like the Shoji Kawamori designs a lot (many Macross and also many Patlabor designs), because these have a relatively "realistic" design. Much thought went into these things and their construction, and it's fun either to create truly fictional anime vehicles, or turn them into something realistic. Both things work, IMHO.

zenrat · October 31, 2016, 04:48:50 AM

I'm particularly taken with this.

http://hlj.com/product/HSG11

Dizzyfugu · October 31, 2016, 05:07:45 AM

Ah, the YF-22 prototype from Macross PLUS (highly recommended to watch the four-episode OAV, with some of the greatest flight scenes I know in a "pilot movie, plus a congenial sound track from Yaoko Kanno). I have that one in the stash... and there is/was a limited edition of this kit in the Lunar scheme that I adopted for my VF-1.