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Re: Lego Valkyrie v2.0 (progress shots)
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:26:10 GMT
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I'd seen your earlier design when you first posted, and was thoroughly
impressed. In fact, I was so impressed that I gave up working on my own
NO MARK!!!!  You should DEFINITELY give it a try.  Doing the valkyrie has
always been my "Holy Grail" project since I was a kid.  If there's more
people taking a stab at the project, the closer we get to a really good
design.  I'm still cringe at the big valk I did.
Heh... well, that's just it... I cringed because mine wasn't that good (and
the bits that were good looked like I was copying yours -- I wanted to go
back and redo it and make it look more original). And it was huge and
unsturdy (I only had the arms and part of the torso done anyway). I haven't
scrapped it altogether though... just got builder's block on how to improve it.

I started working on a couple of other
projects instead. (one of them being the StarScream I did). Now that
StarScream's nearly done (and I've got builder's block again)
The StarScream is awesome!!!  I was thoroughly impressed by it when I saw
it.  With that kind of benchmark in place, I think your attempt at a
valkyrie design will be awesome.
The Starscream was me wanting to be first at something! (Since you'd beaten
me to the punch at a VF-1). Hey, I'll go back and give it another go
eventually, I just wanted something 'easier' to take a break from
(Starscream, being a far less posable toy, is a much easier project to
undertake than your huge VF-1)

Great stuff. Can't wait to see the finished one either.
The valkyrie is actually done.  The white, red, and blue ones are halfway
there and will be finished as soon as I get more pieces.  I'm also been
thinking about doing a Jetfire paint scheme.  The good thing about these
smaller valks is it's easy to make multiples of them.  :)
Well, don't we get to see them in Robot mode?! Pretty please!

As soon as I finish these little valks, I'm definitely gonna take another
stab at the big valk.  I look forward to your design and whoever else is
planning on giving it a try.
Speaking of which: John, very ambitious... I think the newer veritech
fighters are much more complicated than the classic one... I'm impressed you
got the VF-19(? I can't quite remember if that's the designation for the
forward-swept wing one you did) transforming at all! Wish you could've
crammed in a minifig (but then, Joel Kuester's excellent jetfire didn't need
to either).

Sun's right though; the more the merrier! I'd like to see all the different
takes on this as well!

Mark W.



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(...) NO MARK!!!! You should DEFINITELY give it a try. Doing the valkyrie has always been my "Holy Grail" project since I was a kid. If there's more people taking a stab at the project, the closer we get to a really good design. I'm still cringe at (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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