No Tom Cruise in this Valkyrie
Please excuse the atrocious title but I liked it better than ‘Robotech VF-1A Valkyrie‘ and if I called it Robotech I’d get a bunch of people complaining that I didn’t call it Macross (and vice versa). It’s by Eric Druon (BaronSat), who is one of my favourite ever builders. Oh yeah… it transforms too.
May 4th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Isn’t this Jetfire (Skyfire) from transformers?
Cool model either way though.
May 4th, 2010 at 8:22 am
OMG Where can one find instructions to this wonderful creation? Does Eric ever reveal them?
May 4th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
^^ I’ll take that as a very clever joke and not a very bad missing of the point :)
May 4th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
^ I weep.
May 4th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Hey neat! Not only is it a VF-1A Valkyrie, but it’s Ikaru Ichijoe’s VF-1A Valkyrie from the Macross movie, “Macross: Do You Remember Love”! I used to have the die-cast toy of that, along with just about every toy VF-1 Valkyrie ever made. I had to, sob, sell them all… :(
May 4th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Actually, it’s an inspired title: Tom Cruise also starred in Top Gun, which featured F-14s, which look just like the VF-1A in Valkyrie / Veritech mode.
Jetfire was based on Macross / Robotech Veritech.