As a child of the 80’s I grew up watching Getter Robot. Of course I don’t remember a darn thing anymore about it, only a snippet of an episode. But the image of Go Nagai’s creation of planes merging to form 3 different Getter robots have never left my mind.

I remember having a very tall, cheap, hollow, bootleg, plastic toy of Getter 1 that I carried around with me all the time, even when I had to take a bath I remembered bringing it with me. Maybe it was tall because of my perspective as a child, so I’d assume that in reality it could have been somewhere around 8 ~ 12 inches in height.

Update: Translated manual of this toy could be found here.

Finally got time to make my review of the toy I ordered from Over Drive Inc. When I bought the VF-1S, it was on sale so I got a good price for it. Check out my review of Over Drive Inc here, but basically I had no problems with ordering toys from them and will be more than happy to conduct business with them again.

I chose the VF-1S because I already had two other VF-1S’s in my Macross Toy Collection and wanted to add another on to it. Weird, right?

The VF-1S I bought is just your basic VF-1S without the Strike and Super Parts Armor. It comes in the DYRL color scheme of Red, Black and White used by Hikaru Ichijo in the Macross Movie: “The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?” The VF-1S Valkyrie can be easily differentiated from other VF-1 Variants by the 4 Mauler Laser cannon configuration at its head. VF-1S are usually flown by squadron leaders of an air-wing.

Finally had the time to write my review of Hobby Link Japan. An export company started by American Scott Hards in 1995 to cater to Japanese toy aficionados and hobbyists. They’ve been around for quite a long time and first impression of their online shop is that its convenient because its in English and because they carry a lot of inventory that could help save you some serious money in shipping charges.

A few months back I had ordered during Hobby Link Japan’s sale a Yamato 1/60 Super & Strike pack and some Revoltech Getter toys. Items were requested to be sent by SAL. You have an option to have your items shipped by SAL but in the case of very huge or expensive items, it has to be sent by trackable EMS. If your shipping is by SAL be prepared to wait, mine took more than a month to get to me since I live in SE Asia and I tell you the mail is so slow, you’d think we’re still using steam ships. For payment, you have the option to pay by credit card, paypal or money order.

This is a shot outside of a batch of casted resin in silicone rubber molds that I am working on for the scratch build 1/60 SF-3A Lancer II project. Why is this outside and baking under the sun? well I’m hitting a problem with my resin casting because it seems that the resin sometimes doesn’t want to totally dry inside the mold.