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The cheapest (and only) place I could find this book two months ago was at CDJapan.

Even if it turned out relatively okay that's still a bummer man. My VF-1A Max is one of my absolute favorite valks. I wouldn't be as calm as you if that had happened to me.

I agree, the models themselves are not great. I was mostly appreciating the attempts at all of the different paint jobs. A few were even inspired by the Marine's paint schemes from the VF Master File books. The first one didn't come out all that long ago so I'd say unless this person gave up or is taking a little longer assembling newer model kits they're probably still in the ARII arena for now (he does mention having some 1/72 Hase's in some of the pic descriptions as well.) There were more than a few paint schemes on those models I'd love to see a V2 1/60 painted up as (and photographed in all three modes.) Also, if you click on those pics it takes you to the guys Flicker account where he details his ideas for each scheme/modification and shows off some impressive knowledge of aircraft as well. He has some pretty interesting reads to go with the models.

In an only marginally tangential google search I ran across this guys website with a whole tone of VF-1's in various paint schemes. The earliest works aren't that fantastic but some of the later real world paint schemes are pretty cool to see on the valks, plus there are some modified one's with long wings and with radar dishes. Pretty cool work and I haven't seen this posted anywhere else. Customized VF-1's

I'm sure because of Basara's popularity this thing will sell like gang-busters because it looks like an excellent toy. I hope and pray Yamato makes some color variants however because I still can't bring myself to buy something this color.

It's a really cool idea, and I completely understand the constraints, however it is a bit of a bummer for those of us with little to no skills who still want to see if they can tinker and get something from some of these models.

I am liking that B mode.

While I understand when it was designed and why and it's function within Macross I was only commenting on the picture from the book and my feelings on when something like that could/should have emerged. It obviously was based on the F-117 and while it couldn't exist in the original animation because it wasn't publicly revealed until the late 80's (though it did exist back into the late 70's) those pictures made me think about what might have existed around the time original series occurred.

This isn't necessarily related to the VF-19 but it does have to do with something I saw in the book the other night and started pondering. After looking at the pic of the two VF-17's flying in low-light on page 55 I can't help but feel that particular fighter would have existed at a time far closer to when the original VF's were issued. It makes sense they would attempt to fit the OverTechnology to existing designs, even if they didn't perform quite like the VF-17's in Macross already, it seems to me there would have been an attempt to create a bomber at the same time as the fighter's were being produced.

I got a VF-0A at the last HLJ sale and it was definitely the re-release with the new box a la m0n5t3r's post earlier up. Is it worth it? Well, depends on how much you like the design I suppose. I personally feel it's a little rickety compared to some of the other VF's Yamato has made. It's my second least favorite 1/60 just ahead of the horribly floppy YF-19.

$300? Nope. Not going to buy it. Not for a color scheme I truly despise and I hate to say it but not for any of the others as well. It's too high and I refuse.

Yeah, that's pretty much a line-art problem. I suppose it could be possible to include a mechanism that allows you to push that portion down so it sits flush with the nose however considering the size of the parts you're working with right there it would be a mechanical nightmare to produce and/or would make the thing brittle beyond belief.

...wow. I hope you've got a way to take super high-quality photos because I'm going to be begging for LOTS of them when you're done.

It's impressive however all I can think is if somebody trips there's going to be an awful lot of broken Valks in one place!

That's not yellow, that's canary!!!

Maybe these things aren't quite transformed right for the pics and they're only here for a general idea? Like if they weren't completely finished maybe some of the transforming mechanisms don't exist yet? Super wishful thinking?

I don't know if I'd call it Transformers-esque but I can say that after seeing this toy in Gerwalk I'm not interested in it anymore. Though to be fair all of the Mac F Valks have a bit of the big-ass syndrome, this is pretty ridiculous looking though.

Gerwalk based on the images from the animation looks cool. Gerwalk on this toy looks ginormous and silly.

It's too bad this is all happening now. Flightpose used to be full of praise and I really wanted to get some for my Valks. Now? No way in hell I'd attempt to order these things until I know they won't destroy my toys.

it really wouldn't be accurate to call it that either. There are other differences to the "The First" version aside from just the Prometheus and Daedalus that would make using purely the DYRL version inaccurate as well.

I've never heard of that but I don't do anything related to the US Postal Service. They're incompetent at best. I do everything UPS or Fed Ex, even if it costs me more, because I've never had major problems that haven't been quickly fixed after an angry phone call.

Having a few VF pistols around would be pretty cool actually.

I finally got my copy in the mail today, along with the first VF-1 book and the VF-19 book. I've seen some of the pics in other posts and on the web but I'm honestly disappointed with the quality of all of them. I realize they're renders being put over real world pics and need to fit in but it looks like all of the pictures were "taken" in a haze on a cloudy day. You can't even make out a lot of the details because they're too dark/blurry. I particularly like the VF-19 pic of the fleet with fast packs hovering over the carrier around what looks like earth... or I would, if it weren't so fartING dark. I understand space is actually dark but pretend like you took the photo while they were all facing a light source so we can see more detail. Plus, hardly any Gerwalk/Battroid. The concept for these books is cool however I feel they're lacking in execution. Actually, they should hire our own danbickell or tipatat because their homegrown models of the VF-1's are better than in these books.

I check this thread over and over daily hoping to see any status updates to this project.

Nice full page pic of the VF-29 in Gerwalk. I really do love the way it looks in that mode. Depending on how good the toy is I might be persuaded to buy my first Bandai VF.