MacrossJunkie

That looks so good! I wish I had something larger than a detolf so I could make use of a triple.

Disappointing that no Macross stuff is there, but expected.

Based on the pic in the OP, it looks like it does.

Isn't the nose art still just stickers like the previous releases had though?

True that the wings can't go 90 degrees up. At most, you can twist that section about 35-40 degrees upwards. However, it has no problems facing up in GERWALK mode.

+1 I want a set of V-9's too!

When I get mine and take photos of it in all three modes, it's going in fighter mode and staying there as well. Hmmm, I wonder how my customized armor parts that I painted gray would look on this.

That was brave of you to try that with a normal brush and use turpentine as well. I had a bit of a freak out when I did mine. not so much the light gray borders, but spraying the patterns on mine with subtle color differences. It took me several tries to find the right colors and used rubbing alcohol to clean off the paint after each retry. Unknown to me was that the alcohol had traveled up the panel lines and seeped under the masking tape and spread out despite my best efforts to press in the tape and seal it off. So when I pulled off the tape, thinking I was done, there was a lot of paint that went with it or was all splotchy because the alcohol ruined it. I had to repaint the black and red painted areas and try to fix the SMS logo and "SMS 030" on the wings as best I could by masking and respraying and doing touch ups with a fine paint brush. That was horrifying. I guess after your ordeal, you aren't going to try to do the lighter gray stripes on the tail fins and the canards?

I believe they were still AIF-7S ghosts. I don't recall if they were the same color or not though.

That double stand will be a real space saver. Can you even fit 3 valks side by side on a triple?

Thanks everyone I still have to finish the err... finish as well as add a tiny bit of weathering to it. Feel free to. That's what sharing on these forums are for

I tried to do some cosmetic improvements to the YF-19's gunpod which I felt was lacking in detail. Repainted the red sensor in the front with chrome silver and clear red and added decals.

The color looks a lot more like the ones used on Yamato's version.

Sheesh. You must be one hell of a dad to agree to that. If I didn't have those already, I wouldn't even consider getting them for myself at this point. Just trying to get an Alto YF-29 and the add-on parts for it and Ozma's 25S alone (full armor and super parts) would cost a small fortune...

Everytime they did a cut, it was probably to replace the crumbling triangles I don't like the fact that you need an extra piece that has to be taken on and off for transformation. It's a crucial piece to try to keep track of or lose and it seems a little lazy to me. Can it even be considered PT at that point? I mean it's not extraneous stuff like covers that improve the look or a brace to make something more stable. At least with the RVF-25, the adapter piece for the shield could stay on for fighter mode.

I think the similarity with the 171 with the nose folding under was more an accidental similarity given that the 171 is just a streamlined 17 and the longer nose had to go somewhere. Though the positioning and angle is still remarkably similar. As far as similarites go with the 27, aside from having a Sukhoi Flanker styled long nose that all the designs based on the YF-24 share, the only other things I can really identify is the tridactyl feet and a set of upward pointing canards extending from the LERX. I guess if you want to include the wing nacelles being an integrated version of the wing boosters the SV-51 had, that would be another. I feel that the 27 (and 25 and 29) is really a mish mash of elements from a variety of prior VFs. It's like the 19 in that fuselage points up and the nose folds out of the way and the chest and head come over it. The 27 has an armored canopy and folding outer wings like the YF-21. The back of the hands are exposed with the fingers tucked away in fighter mode similar to the VF-0. One thing I think is interesting about the SV-51 is that it doesn't have the reverse knee/chicken walker joint. The leg is actually just backwards in GERWALK and is using the normal knee joint it uses for battroid mode. The leg just turns around 180 for battroid mode. I think this is the only VF with a design like this, barring some obscure design I'm forgetting.

Wow, if that's all that's missing, that's an insane price for what you're getting. Effectively half off the retail price.

Yup, even with the pylons attached. Fighter mode is a tighter fit and you have to have them displayed diagonally and at an angle because it is longer than the length or width of the enclosure,

Price-wise, that's great! I can't afford to keep buying $300-400 Arcadia toys. Pre-order wise... aarrrrggggh! Maybe if Bandai could be convinced to make everything a web exclusive...

You can see there's a slightly larger gap on the starboard side in your pic as well.

The misalignment is most likely at the hinge somehow. I'm not entirely sure it can be corrected. I hope the 25S reissue has that problem fixed, not that I've been able to secure one yet...

My 25G is like that as well, but it doesn't appear to be an issue in any of my other 25's. The 25F and S released before it doesn't exhibit this and the RVF that was released right after is not like that either. My 25S also seems to have that same gap. Edit: corrected statement.

Even if this weren't a web exclusive, the original release didn't have any pre-order craziness and even sat on the shelves long enough for places like HLJ to give discounts if I recall (or am I recalling incorrectly?).

Holy crap, that thing was pricey!

I think they need to re-issue some VF-1 FAST packs. I wouldn't mind grabbing a few. Not to mention they re-released some DYRL valks sans FP's. What's up with that?