MacrossJunkie

Here's some examples of the sloppy paint applications: Glob of white paint in the circled area. Right shoulder paint is rough and uneven and a bit too thin as you can kind of see the blue plastic underneath. Circled area of booster. Black paint is messily applied. The other booster looked fine. Another thing I found annoying after trying to pose this thing is the rear leg armor attachment pretty much disallowing bending of the knee more than a few degrees. If you try to do more, the circled area will be pushed on and cause the armor to pop off. It's not a clip or anything that serves to hold the piece to the leg. There is absolutely no function for this extra bit and should have been without it to free up movement. Here's another curiosity though hard to see with the lighting I used to take the pic. The hip gun is made of different plastic as the part that has the armor attached is a darker color than the piece without. It's more noticeable in person. I don't know why they couldn't be the same color as they are basically the same piece but one has holes while the other doesn't. Edit: Added extra pic of rear leg armor to clarify what part I'm talking about.

I finally got my 25G today after two days of being held at the local post office. Many of the mentioned problems with loose armor and the locking peg for the crotch don't seem to be a problem on mine. The peg may or may not become a problem. I won't know yet unless I use it for a while. The hip and crotch armor seem to actually clip on for mine and don't fall off while I'm re-adjusting the legs or doing other stuff with it. However, I feel the 5-dot shoulder block is kind of loose for me and doesn't hold its position very well. As for the color, under sunlight and the lighting I have in my house, I can see the differences in texture and color, but it's not as stark as that Luca photo. It's like 3 shades of blue on the plastic parts alone. The paint app is a little messy in areas and uneven in places like the white shoulders. I found it odd that they put a lot of effort into minute detail into the areas that are hidden, obscured, or will rarely see, but the outer surfaces that are prominent lack many of the panel lines and such that you see on the model. Overall, I guess I am satisfied with it. More so than I expected to be. It definitely looks pretty impressive in Battroid mode with the Dragunov sniper rifle and super packs.

Was there any announcement when the new yamato stands were to be released? If so, I think I missed it. I don't think I've seen pre-orders for them yet either. Edit: Nevermind. I re-checked the other thread and saw April.

Yeah, I doubt that thing could stand with the gun and flight deck lifted off the ground. This begs the question... Will they be including a stand? If there's anything that needed a stand, I think this thing surely qualifies.

Ah, thanks. That makes much more sense now.

Wasn't it just the re-issued VF-0S with Ghost that was fixed? I believe people still had broken shoulder problems with the Shin/Ghost combo.

the back plate in battroid doesn't fully cover the canopy of the cockpit when looking at it from the side. What I don't get is how changing the way the shield attached would have allowed the canopy to be covered.

If you really wanted to, you could just make sure the emblem is pressed into any panel lines (using your fingernail or the non-cutting side of a knife) that it is going over and then go over the sticker carefully with the lining. You would probably need custom stickers as the old yamato stickers are just too thick. The ones that come with the V2 1/60 VF-1 and destroids are probably thin enough.

I think he only meant that he got his order confirmation email. It would be nice if they were out already though

Holy crap! The full thing in color looks incredible. That thing is a must buy for my collection.

Do you mean "ink in" as a general term for just panel lining or do you specifically mean doing panel lining with a pen? I panel line all my valks, but I tend to experiment a bit on each valk I get. However, I do find I prefer the results of using a mixture of thinner and enamel paint rather than using a pen type thing like gundam markers. But it really depends on how you apply it and how heavy you make the panel lines. These days I tend to use a mixture of both, though I get really lazy sometimes and just use the gundam marker and say good enough as it is less hassle for me than using paints. Two items I used nothing but thinned paint on were these. As I said, I like the result of the paint the best: I decided to try a black fine tip gundam marker on this next one, but it didn't turn out too well as the contrast was too much and the lines felt too thick: On one of my 19's, I tried again using a gray fine tip and black in certain parts and tried fading the ink by rubbing it down with my fingers until I got the desired result. Some areas needed more than one pass with the marker and rubbing to get what I wanted. I think I like the way it turned out:

I just got an email not too long ago from overdrive regarding my Michael order so it looks like they are working on getting them processed and shipped.

Macross toys are like potato chips... you never can have just one

I wish those leg fixes would have made it to Michael and Luca's valks...

Merely an educated guess on my part, but if you look at the pics earlier in the thread showing the new holes (pg 11 of this thread) and also the cg prototype pics of the super fold booster add-on, it looks like 4 of the 5 new holes (the holes marked 1,2,3, and 4 in the pic) match up to the pegs that the super fold booster will use. The dome looks like it will likely use the 5th hole (which seems to have a cap you can put over it when not in use) and as well as holes 1 and 2 ( or possibly 3 and 4. Hard to tell from the angle). Pic from IXTL's post: Close up pic of the dome attached:

I pre-ordered from Overdrive and there's been no status change on my order either.

I believe the head sculpt has remained the same. The head just looks thinner in the pic because it can angle down now like it's supposed to and still remain a good bit above the chest. In the original 25S release, due to the short neck, most people positioned the head more horizontally giving it a short, squat appearance.

I was afraid that with the much larger boosters that stick even further out from the back of the battroid, that the toy might not be able to stand properly, but the pic shows it standing without anything visibly propping it up so that's a good sign. Can anyone tell if there really is landing gear inside the leg armor? I couldn't tell from the closeup pic a couple pages back (seems like the shin area could be hinged to open up for something), but the fighter mode pic seems to only show the front gear deployed and the rear just resting on the leg armor itself.

I had to look it up because I didn't know either. Here's a wikipedia article explaining it.

Nice, even if that is the only improvement they made to the 25S (so far looks to be as the head lasers are still crooked), that looks so much better. The armor pack looks really awesome.

Man, that sucks that the crotch armor has to be removed for non-battroid modes. I guess the same thing will have to be done on the full armor as well Also, is there nothing other than a slight bit of friction keeping the hip armor from falling off or something? I mean from peoples' description, it doesn't really sound like it clips on. Has anyone experienced any paint rubbing off due to the armor?

In fighter mode, does the rifle require two clips to connect? I see a clip connecting the rifle to the crotch piece and was wondering if that was in addition to the existing clip used for the normal rifle or in place of.

... Who would spend all that money on a valk and then sticker it up with that? Not even considering the cutesy pictures, it just looks too err... busy. Now if it was a Hello Kitty theme on the other hand...

Wow, that's cool. I want one of those Ranka WRXs. I didn't even know that F.T.C.C. line existed until you posted pics of them. Why don't online stores sell stuff like that too?

The store that was mentioned in the 1/60 DX thread, Anime-Export, also has it up for pre-order. They list it for 16920 Yen but will ask for payment upfront like Overdrive does. http://safe.anime-export.com/u_productpage...rodotti_id=4892