Update: 01/24/2010: HLJ announced a tie up with Yamato Toys which allows them to sell exclusive items such as this. This is selling for 5800 yen at HLJ.
Just posted yesterday at the Yamato Toys site, an unpainted version of the iconic VF-1S from the original Macross tv series in 1/60 toy scale. Its scheduled to be available by December of 2009 and will have a sticker price of 8295 yen (after tax).
Continuing where I left off. In a perfect modelling world, paint is not supposed to come off from a model kit when it lightly scratches off another part from the model. I’m not used to modelling paint coming off my models like it did with the Master Grade Rick Dias that I am working on right now. Then again, my previous model kits never had any moving parts in them that rubbed against each other, because as a young lad I mostly built planes and ships.
Update 04/02/2010:Hobby Search once again announces that their Paypal Service is back up and are offering a sale to go in line with it. I hope that wasn’t an April Fools’ joke *snicker*
Update 11/19/2009:Spoke too soon. Turns out that there is a problem with Hobby Search and Paypal, so they had to cancel all orders that were to be paid via paypal. Of course, since I was in one of the banned countries that Hobby Search will only allow to pay via paypal, shopping is officially stopped for me till their troubles are fixed.
Hobby Search Japan announced that they will soon be accepting payments via Paypal. Because of which also they will also stop selling stuff not suitable to minors starting November 4, 2009. No doubt as a result of the addition of the Paypal service in their site, since Paypal is very strict as to the type of things their merchants can sell using their payment gateway.
I would recommend using Paypal as the means to pay for one’s purchases online. That’s because you don’t have to leave your credit card details with the merchant whenever you transact using Paypal.
In the continuing saga of the Rick Dias build, I decided to tear down what I had accomplished already for the sake of repainting the head and torso to match the color scheme of the Rick Dias in the TV series, Zeta Gundam. The color guide for the Rick Dias says that the chest and head parts are a shade of red brown and black, the series however has it more of a shade of black.
