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If I understood well from http://www.yamato-toys.com/showroom/201101/?infolnk=index and http://www.yamato-toys.com/dev/cont_093/index.html?infolnk=index, this coming Sunday 23rd of January Yamato will be holding some kind of showroom open event at their offices, where there will probably be some news and exhibition of the VF-19KAI FIRE. Graham, do you know anything about this?

I had been thinking of different possible ways to fix my VF-0S nose drop for a few days and I’m happy to say that, after reading the incredibly clever and straightforward method Chronocidal shared with us at http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33217&view=findpost&p=860058, I was able to fix it in a matter of about 10 minutes! Now the nose stays in place well and level, with almost no gap behind the cockpit shield and a much more sturdy feeling. Thanks again, Chronocidal!!!

I had been thinking of different possible ways to fix my VF-0S nose drop for a few days and I’m happy to say that, after reading the incredibly clever and straightforward method Chronocidal shared with us, I was able to fix it in a matter of about 10 minutes! Now the nose stays in place well ad level, with almost no gap behind the cockpit shield and a much more sturdy feeling. Thanks again, Chronocidal!!!

I agree with nightmareB4macross. And as RyuRoots said, Hikaru uses the Strike parts in the final assault.

Ahhh! That'll be useful for me too, thanks a lot Chronocidal!!!

This is the most amazing job I've ever seen! Congratulations and thank you very much for sharing!

Yeah, I know wat you mean, I'm not very in love with this design either... I'll keep saving for all the Yamatos to come I'm sorry to hear about your DX 25!

Mmmmm, so do I...!

Actually, I hope I’m not right and Bandai doesn’t do what some people are afraid of using some slightly improved VF-25’s legs for its DX line of the YF-29. The problem is that as I’ve mentioned before the shot of the 1/100 kit you’ve posted shows something fairly different legs from the CAD art Graham posted here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=34295&view=findpost&p=889968. The DX toy seems to have some kind of thigh guard than the 1/100 hasn’t. The question is which version is the right one. And then again, the theory of the bent legs is just a guess to explain the horrible gaps we can see in the fighter mode side view as I don’t expect the YF-29 will share the same sculpting flaws of the VF-25 and the legs won’t naturally slung under the body.

Listen, I base my opinions on mere observation and guessing. I’m only saying that to me theYF-29 legs are similar to the VF-25 legs, also that I obtained large gaps around the knees similar to those that Graham pointed out in the CAD art by simply bending it one click down at the thighs (not at the intake hinge) and one click UP at the knees, thus keeping the general direction of the legs as you can see in the following picture. I’m not saying that the gun nacelles are not part of the design (see http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=34295&view=findpost&p=890030), I just think like Chronocidal that Bandai could probably use the same legs for both the YF-29 and a V.2 VF-25, but in the case of the YF-29 the legs should stay lower to leave room to the leg nacelles to rest on top of them. No need to be uncompromising, it’s just an opinion.

I don’t think so. The DX 25 always had the legs slung under the body mainly because the thighs are so fat there’s not room left for the shoulders mechanisms. Bandai did acknowledge this and changed the thighs of the VF-27, making them thinner. You can probably compare them. I think that what we can see here is a toy that uses slightly redesigned DX 25 legs that bend twice -one click down at the thighs and one click up at the knees- to get room for fast packs on the sides and gun nacelles sitting on top of them. I also think that’s why we see those large gaps around the knees in the CAD fighter mode side view. Anyway, there’s nothing sure about this CAD art being the final design. It could happen that it’s an early stage of it and the designers used the DX 25 legs CAD block for rapidness and that’s why we haven’t seen any battroid image yet. On the other side, as in a comparison with the 1/100 kit the designs don’t look the same, it could happen that Bandai had decided to give us some crap again with their DX line and just release a DX 25 with different colour, head, arms (that include a gun near the hands), wings-tail fins block, a back plate including articulated gun nacelles and fast packs masking all the inconsistencies away… Who knows?

It would be great if Yamato included a Zentradi pilot with the plastic toy, but I wouldn’t mind if it didn’t fit inside. After all, the cockpit of the Regult is not like the ones of almost all our VFs where you can see their pilots from outside. Actually the Zentradi soldier would be so tight inside we wouldn’t be able to see the details of the cockpit, let alone the fact that with the actual entry hatch the poor pilot should be either some kind of contortionist or smaller than 1/60 to be capable of getting out. I’d display a Regult toy with a proper 1/60 Zentradi soldier by its side or just sorting out from the cockpit.

It does look interesting...

Wow, with a standing singing Basara? RocknRolla! I guess the idea kind of went through but with a simpler and more feminine version for Milene….

Macross 7 Encore 03 "Which one do you love?"

It looks like the leg is bent twice one click down at the thigh and one click up at the knee to give room for that kind of super pack and the guns on the back of the legs in the usual Macross fashion. If it is actually possible to take these super parts off, the resultant toy will be even more similar to the VF-25.

I think so, I hope so.

I agree.

According to http://www.macross2.net/m3/macross7/vf-19custom.htm the VF-19KAI is 15.48m height (without sensor fin) in battroid mode. If this data is correct and Yamato is planning to respect its size at 1/60 scale, the resultant 25.8cm toy will be massive!!! I edited these two pictures to get the size of the toys to 25.8cm (from the base of the left heel to the top of the head) if you look at them in actual size. I have to say I’m pretty amazed. Graham, you are the lucky guy that has had the opportunity of handling the prototype; it was big, wasn’t it?

I subscribe.

It looks like the guns mounted on the back of the legs in fighter mode will swivel up on the shoulders in battroid mode by turning up the blue bar on the back of the fuselage and down the green part between the guns to get the horizontal in battroid mode as well.

When I was editing the pic from Hyper Hobby magazine it did look to me like it was probably the same resin prototype we had seen before. I was just wondering which path Yamato will follow to choose its definitive colour. I actually started thinking of it when I coloured the photo you’ve probably seen some time ago –the same I use as my avatar.

Hi guys, I’d like to know your opinion about the new Yamato VF-19’s colour. I’ve been watching the show looking for it and I found out there are four red planes in M7: • The Basara’s VF-19Kai. • The Milia’s VF-1J. • The Milia's VF-22S. • The Milia’s VF-17S. They all share the same shade of red. So the possible questions are: • Considering that Yamato has already released a Milia’s VF-1J which is darker than her VF-22S, should we think that the Milia’s VF-1J has been repainted since 2012 in the same red colour which is fashion all around the galaxy by 2045 and then, to be coherent with the show and what Yamato has already done of it, the VF-19Kai (and the VF-17S after that) should be the same pastel pinkish red than the Milia’s VF-22S? • Should we think that even though all the M7 VFs were originally meant to have different shades of red there was some kind of ink variety shortage during the making of the show so they all had to be represented with the same colour? If that’s the case we could have Yamato to choose the darker VF-1J’s red of the SDF Macross show, or the brighter one utilized for the Milia’s Queadluun-Rau of the DYRL film, or any other they want… • None of the above? Any other options? What do you think the VF-19Kai colour should be? Excuse me for some of the snapshots that aren’t very good due to there aren't many scenes where two red VFs are side by side.

First of all, I'm sorry for I forgot to mention one of the pictures I used was taken by you. My mistake. Secondly, please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not saying 27m is correct nor that you are misusing scale calculators nor that the data you’re using isn’t the data we all know. And it´s not that I scale up from the toy (which is something I can do given the fact that the toy actually exists but the real beast doesn’t, anyway), I’m only trying to guess why Yamato did what they did, which is a toy that even being reduced down to make it more manageable at 1/60 represents 27m, making the actual beast even taller. And my conclusion is that Yamato considered more important to be able to fit a properly scaled Zentrady soldier inside it or a 1/60 VF by its side and then they found out the thing was too big and (according to what you’ve been told) resized it down a little without losing its 1/60 spirit. I also think Yamato preferred a more realistic and accurate to some line art approach to the subject over the anime magic 15,12m canon data. And I like it, but that’s just my opinion.

If I understand well what those people told you yesterday, if Yamato reduced down the size of the toy to make it more manageable, it only means that they consider the actual height of the Regult to be taller than the 27m that’s currently been represented at 1/60, which would be consistent with the first snapshot. I’m not really sure but I think you’re not calculating well the scale, 1/60 just means that every cm (or inch, metre, etc) of your toy corresponds to 60cm (or inches, metres, etc) in real life. 45cm at 1/60 = 2700cm (27m). If the toy had been taller as Yamato calculated to be 1/60 accurate it would’ve fitted perfectly the T-REX Zentradis, that in the size comparison with Yamato 1/60 VF-1J (second picture) looks (according to T-REX Inc.) “smaller than expected but made in scale to official sizes”. So the mistake is you shouldn’t consider the Regult to be 15,12m but taller than 27m. He he, scales are part of my life for I’m an architect…