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Me too he he.

Tamiya liquid panel lining is similar i think as i haven't used flory. I don't like washes on my flyers or space mechs. The washes are on my ground mechs for a weathered look.

A red brown ink works good for my browns. The red brown is a little better than brown. Otherwise the lining ink from those gundam markers, there are also the weathering ones look cool.

Awesome diorama tekering

nice

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yeah, 3 set of hands is nice, but 2 of those sets are open hands. Maybe it's trying to salute? But I'd prefer fists.

I see, so they should have included fists as alternate hands for punching Zentraedi.

The spartan torso looks like the prototype for the tomahawk. it has the shoulder missiles/grenades, and the middle cannon looks similar to the tomahawk rib cannons. spartan is cqc but was there a lot of cqc in macross?

Drool. It looks like the 1/72 model kit compared to the stand its on. Bandai sometimes produces stuff from fans though. Eg. bearguy was originally a fan made mod of acguy. Now there's lots of variants of bearguy.

HMR are more durable; so far only Jenius' shoulder broke. Yammy have had many shoulder breaks on the early V2 1/60. See Jenius webpage for the list of broken valks. The plastics and the large (non moving) parts on the Yammies seems higher quality, but the transforming hinges, parts, etc doesn't seem much better than Bandai HMR. If the parts break, you'd have to get them printed. yammies look really good on display because they are more detailed and larger. Like models, fragile but detailed. Also expensive. If you have the cash, this is the best valk currently on the market. Yammies had a couple destroids. Bandai HMR has a softer plastic that feels cheaper. But the softer plastic doesn't break as easily and isn't brittle. I've popped out the shoulders (they can pop out) and put them back on. HMR is simpler to transform and smaller and takes less space. They are like toys. I don't worry about breakage. Also HMR has the enemy mechs, and more destroids so this line has more to collect. This. The partsforming doesn't bother me; it's just the cockpit windshield/heat shield. The landing gear is hardly used by me. The 1/48 Yammies are really loose by now, the V2 60 were not as loose because they tabbed into the other parts (but some V2 were prone to breakage). The Bandai copied the V2 tabs. The Bandai HMR have been getting tigher in the recent releases. My HM (not HMR) from years ago has gotten looser but still pretty poseable.

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Bandai should release color variants of the mechs like the olive green tomahawk and khaki defender

Haha SNL to extreme.

The little rectangles indented on the thighs of the defender looks like the spots for the heat sinks on the Tomahawk. Reusing the mold I suppose. Interchangeable parts?

Thanks for the heads up seti

bandai has all of the mechs in this pic, plus the super vf1.

the monster and glaug were on sale a while back at a few online sites. I don't think they sold out that fast. moster at amiami for 16,800yen, cf 6220 yen. still available

Is this a museum? so nice

Guys I canceled my preorder at hlj. If you're looking for sv262 it should open another.

+1. Masterpiece bumblebee did this. The insignia was rotatable, and there was a tampo on one side, but you could rotate it and a blank painted side for the decal of your choice

that's the kind of preorder that i like. easy and i don't have to stay up. no cart jacking, no 1 minute preorders bandai bring out the tomahawk, defender and phalanx!

Hi guys, is this valk mold substantially improved over the VF25 ver2 mold? Seems the preorder madness is similar. I watched the anymoon review, but not sure if it's my bag, since I'm not into the backward wing aesthetic. I do like the transformation, the improved waist/hip area with the ratchets, but the skinny arms in the wings I don't like. I also don't really like the weird huge gunpod thing at the back that looks like the vf-30. What do you guys think that have it in hand? haven't been collecting these as the 25's were madness to collect thanks