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One other thing....the Three Zero VF-1J is heavy....about as much as a 1/55....and no clicking joints anywhere to be found...not sure what that holds for future floppiness....it's the only Three Zero product I own so no idea how these hold up to minimal use, let alone transformation type of wear...

I completely forgot to have mine shipped....but good to know that release was good

So dissapointing to hear of the QC fails for this release...I have some incoming.... Summer of Macross '24 is shaping up to be a bust so far....underwhelmed by Three Zero's first VF-1 release and now potentially getting Bandai'd by the -21....the VT-1 should be good, right?

Maybe on the next issue

So where are the pics?

Nice...calls always look better when framed...congrats!

Well, at least another fool's hope of an eventual release is better than finding out the project has been completely cancelled....

Can you point out the "official" pic from threezero showing what you are alluding to?

Thanks! As for the figs...I have been buying them randomly as I find them over the years...unfortunately I am not that organized when it comes to keeping track of what I have....I want to say they came with some Hobby Master flight deck crew sets...if not...I have also found similar 1/72 scaled figs on ebay...one brand is called rabbit club....oh and all these figs I have were bought pre-painted....If I find the packaging for these I'll post it up....

To be honest, I didn't remember since I hardly have messed with the DX....but you are right...it is the exact same implementation as the DX...so took a look at the larger DX and came up with a simple way to provide just enough 'hold' so it stops from sliding down....I took some floss and wrapped enough of it around the small plastic pin to hold it in place but still having enough room to be able to slide it up and down....at least now it is not a floppy mess......maybe adding some layers of paper cut to the same shape may be a nicer looking solution, want to avoid adding any glue or similar product.... still, now I can't unsee the gap on it on the DX...lol ....but now I found another part that I have no idea what it is used for, but seems to also be so loose that when 'swooshed' around you can hear it move....it is located inside of the front landing gear and does not seem to impede the front landing gear in any way, but just seems odd that it is so loose...guess I'll go take a look at the DX and see if the same part is there too...LOL

So I've had some time to fiddle around with this thing.... Getting back to this piece..... looks like in the short time I have had this VF, I have managed to smudge the tampo for it...anyways....looking at the issue a bit closer...I am at a loss to explain the need of ThreeZero having this piece made to move...the easy solution would have been to have simply molded the piece as one single piece that does not move at all, as the panel that opens/closes does not require this peice to be able to move....it stays closed with or without the moving piece being in the correct or incorrect position.... As to why it is so loose, you need to look underneath the panel.... I think instead of it being a plastic plug, they should have used a tiny screw to provide more for the moving piece to stay put in either closed or opened position...but actually, the piece should just have been molded as a single piece as it does not have any of it's intended function...I can see Three Zero fixing this on the VF-1S....maybe Another issue seems to be some gappiness close to the intake section...as shown here.... To me, it almost seems like perhaps ThreeZero maybe have intended to provide some 'option' piece to plug up that hole.....without it and in combination of the exposed screw holes...it is a very sloppy section...Three Zero definitely dropped the ball in this area.... The same section on a Yamato is done much nicely and minimizes the 'gap' in this area.... Let's move onto the other huge design fail from Three Zero's VF-1....and that would be the beefy arms that cause them to go beyond the height of the legs in Fighter mode... Three Zero VF-1 beefy arms.....I like their use of the red metallic paint...maybe they bought some leftover from Kitzconcept's God of Fire run! Yamato's slender arms.... ...and this is the result of trying to make your toy look more like the way it was drawn in the lineart.....note how it is not flush to the height of the legs.... ...this is how it looks on the Yamato VF-1....nice and flush.... ....and if those beefy arms weren't causing enough problems for fighter mode...Three Zero said...f it...beef up the gunpod too! That's about it for now....I still think that Gerwalk mode is the best mode for the Three Zero VF-1....but even so, the Yamato still has it beat even in Gerwalk....IMO, the Yamato 1/60 V2 remains the best all-round modern day 'DX' PT VF-1.....maybe they have not wasted any time and money on coming up with a V3 because they simply continue to not need to....