Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Defender


Here is an image of Dave Porter's 1/100 scale Defender.

This a mechanized robot weapon from the 1982 Japanimation TV series Macross. It’s supposed to be about 50 feet high. The kit is from Imai and it’s in 1/100 scale (stands about 6” tall). The fit wasn’t so good but the decals were very nice indeed. Dave finished it in Tamiya colors and artist oil paint.

6 comments:

  1. Are those supposed to be chopper blades on it's head?

    Other than that it looks cool. Can't say I have heard of Macross. Robotech yes, but Macross no.

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  2. That's an antenna. Robotech is the American version of Macross. Robotech combined three unrelated Japanese anime series and as it was written for US television a common thread was woven between them. This was necessary because at the time, US syndication, copywrite law etc. required that the shows needed a 65 episode minimun. Macross was only 36. The other series that were included to create Robotech were "Southern Cross" and "Mospeada".

    Dave

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  3. Dave- You sure seem to know a lot about this kind of thing. I'm a little worried:}

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  4. Can you suggest a treatment?

    Dave

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  5. Thanks Dave! That's interesting about the syndication limit.

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