Urashiman

I‘m not the diorama type guy… unfortunately. But you are right, by the time of Macross D7 the VF-1‘s are really old, so heavy weathered VF-1‘s are out there. Here are some screen caps from the intro: and in macross D7 they have the commercial Valkyrie, VT-1C aswell. @Thom yeah, the minmay one is my fav so far.

You‘ll laugh, but I actually considered the Macross The First VF-1 as well. I wanted to either go super clean or heavily weathered with a blue and white scheme. I remembered there to be some VF-1‘s flying in the Macross 7 Dynamite intro, which always intrigued me. Kinda looked like this but with way more white. I‘d do that with heavy weathering and ordinance. I was also thinking about the pink/purple minmay guard scheme, as well as the blue one here which looks pretty awesome: And then, of course the first production rollout model: these would all be clean builds.

I‘m out drinking with some friends for a while but will take pictures as soon as I am back. Edit: here you go

It'll probably be even bigger...

should I get them out of the bags as well, or can I leave them in mint condition?

Got my VF-171 nightmare plus today. The box is bigger. The fun part? The pieces could have fit into the Hasegawa double size box (the one you would find the YF-21 or VF-0 kits in) easily. Instead WAVE decided to use giant boxes… meh. and yes, there are two sets of wings in the box. One with pylons, one without.

New stuff for my never ending stash. The stash must grow. little macross 40th anniversary stickers on the Hase kits now. BTW: Any ideas for the two VF-1's? I bought them like "you need new VF-1's - always... there will be a time they will come in handy", but I have no idea what scheme to use on them... I know what I want to do with them. I want to create 3D printable upgrade parts like better RCS and a better cockpit and so on.

I was fiddling around with the VF-9 and was like "man - these RCS could be 3D and not just panel lines". Just like on the Plamax 1/72 VF-1 or the 1/48 Hasegawa VF-1. So ... I did that... In the process I was unhappy with some parts - so I have a plan to rebuild some. Green = Done Blue = In progress Red = Planned for a redo. I hope I will get this VF-9 thing done some day. hahahaha... The RCS is really delicate, so I would have to print it, to test if is works. If not, I will have to revert back to the panel line RCS.

Hahaha - the guy from Max Factory hahahah

Okay - that solves the discussion. 2024, eh? ... well, let's put back some money for the release.

Mhmm ... that sounds plausible, but I think WAVE will do the full kit. They did that on the VF-4 and the normal VF-4 is discontinued.

well, looks like I can stop working on upgrade parts for the VF-171 to equipt it with heavy armor as it seems. I hope they will sell it as an upgrade pack. But - thinking of how the ordenance is connected on the nightmare plus, that might be wishful thinking. The pylons are molded into the wings, so I guess this will be a full new kit.

well ... not sure if I am going to purchase this, because I don't like the YF-29, or I am going to purchase it just because I want a complete collection of VFs/YFs

wait - is this legit?

I ordered the VF-171 nightmare plus

Well, it is designed for 1/72, but you could always rescale the stl to 1/48.

That is a nice print man I wonder how it'll look in SLA. FDM always has those ridges... I finally managed to motivate myself to finish the nose of the VF-9. Looks a look better and much sleeker now. Constructive feedback welcome.

I've a Bandai Recast of the Quedlun-Rau in my basement

hhahahahahaahahahha oh wow hahahaahahah

Instant pre-order done

OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY! *squeals like a little girl* Get me one for Christmas!

@MechTech I bow to you man!

By that logic we would have a ghost X-9 by now, as it is shown on the YF-21 box art. @SteveTheFish HMR = High Metal R - bandai toy line.

Gunpla is fun. Just add tamiya black panel line stuff and rub excess off with a rubber. Easy results

Digital workbench ... in KSP2 ... Kid wanted to see a YF-19 fly. edit: quick Update from the real world workbench. My kid is obsessed with my Master Grade 1/100 RX-78-2 and he always wants to play with it. So I got him a HG 1/144 RX-78-2 for around ~10€ off ebay. the build took roughly one hour. Articulation of the joints is really impressive for this scale. Nothing to compare to MG or PG, but still impressive. I’d recommend it.