MacrossJunkie

Ep 6 was the first time they showed the RVF-171 with the dual fold boosters.

They should tweak the design of the old mighty block stands a bit so they aren't so floppy and sell those. They had a much smaller footprint. These things pretty much needlessly take up half the space on a detolf shelf.

Dang... that's the first time I've heard of that happening regarding those pieces that fell off. That's also the worst case of paint rub I've seen for the shoulder. I've only seen and had the Yamato made ones so I don't know if there's anything different with the paint or something else on the Arcadia versions. The only thing I could possibly think of to help is after you've fixed it is to try clear coating the shoulder parts. A semi-gloss black and masking tape should do the trick if you want to fully fix the black painted area. I would just be careful pulling the arms out from fighter mode or pushing them back into position for fighter from then on.

Thanks! I agree with you guys. That particular shot came out well. Here are a few more I meant to take but was too tired to set up at the time. Yamato and Arcadia versions: VF and YF-19s: Isamu's valks: Based on the "This Is Animation Special" cover (really wish I had some standing figs of Isamu, Myung, and Guld) Edit: Re-shot the TIAS pic. The port side vertical stabilizer was crooked and it was driving me nuts.

Okay, that "nose art" is just underwhelming. It's essentially photos of the two in the outfits they were wearing at the end of the previous movie posted on the nose...

Oh no! It's a "chocking" hazard! You might find this placed in front of your car wheels preventing you from moving forward!

Man, that would have been perfect for one of my YF-19 + YF-21 pics I just took...

Well, the gunpod is pretty hard to mess up. I say give it a try! Here's my gunpod in use after I finished weathering and clearcoating it. More pics here in another thread.

That nose art isn't even what appeared in the movie, is it?

I took a bunch of pics today after finishing up the gunpod. I guess I have more pics than I'm allowed to have in a single post.

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...