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Cyporiean wrote:Nice sculpts, any Valkyries yet?

yes. Ral Partha made them back in 1995. they are in Battletech known as Wasp's (IIRC)

there are the 7 deadly Battletech mini's that make up a large portion of the Macross saga. the Shadow hawk, the Maurauder (Zentradi Officer Pod) Warhammer (Regult), the Wasp (Valkerie aka VF-01 Battroid) and several others.

My buddy has the origionals. let us know if you want to see them, he's out of country at the moment but we have the origionals.

also, check here: http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN959438

Bandai made an entire series of them.

Cyporiean wrote:

Rimmy wrote:

Cyporiean wrote:Nice sculpts, any Valkyries yet?

yes. Ral Partha made them back in 1995. they are in Battletech known as Wasp's (IIRC)

there are the 7 deadly Battletech mini's that make up a large portion of the Macross saga. the Shadow hawk, the Maurauder (Zentradi Officer Pod) Warhammer (Regult), the Wasp (Valkerie aka VF-01 Battroid) and several others.

My buddy has the origionals. let us know if you want to see them, he's out of country at the moment but we have the origionals.

also, check here: http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN959438

Bandai made an entire series of them.

Yeah, I'm firmilar with all of those Out Of Production models, and have a few of them.. none of which are done by Paulson.

so being that the Macross saga and design of them is pretty well cut in stone, and COMPLETELY owned by Bandai outright, (who is very clear on what they consider copyright violation) why would he sculpt ANYTHING and call it a Valkeryie? thats career suicide.

CBT now as run through Catalyst, is much more lenient on sculpts and kitbashing. Bandai is not. they're pretty damn hardcore and sue happy.

and just because they are out of commercial production, does NOT mean they can't be reproduced for personal use. (fair use clause) we have tons of them (now)

Noir wrote: Well Bandai dose own Macross, Harmony Gold is the owner of Robotech and the reason there are still unseen in Battletech. But this has nothing to do with Battletech and he said he contacted HG and hopes to make a deal. So... What your issue with his project?

just the fear that Bandai would somehow stop another good idea from happening, and see another talented and enthusiastic gamer get brow beaten by big money.

Cyporiean wrote:

Rimmy wrote:so being that the Macross saga and design of them is pretty well cut in stone, and COMPLETELY owned by Bandai outright, (who is very clear on what they consider copyright violation) why would he sculpt ANYTHING and call it a Valkeryie? thats career suicide.

Because he is making a bunch of Robotech miniatures, in a line for Robotech, which everyone who has ever seen it knows is based on Macross. A series with an incredibly iconic Mech design. Its only logical that he would be sculpting Valkyries, there is no fething point to making a game based on this series if you only have Zentradi and no one for them to shoot at. Which is why I asked 'Yet?'.

If he was doing this for Gundam and showed a bunch of Zakus in his first post I would have asked about the RX-78.

Anyway...

Paulson, all my money when you get VF-1s.

trust me, i'm a huge Macross fan, and blocking his attempts is NOT my goal. just instilled fear over the Fasa fiasco is all. granted thats the macross/battletech/robotech debate, but still...