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Looking great Pengbuzz.

now there's a pretty kitty...

Given that the other Destroids are: Monster, Defender, Phalanx, and Spartain, I would carry the Greek theme with Achilles or Ajax... but that's just me 'Tis a gorgeous bit o' work Nyanko, whatever you call it!

very nice.

usually not. If you were going for ultra-gloss like a car or candy finish maybe.

Very nice. your 31 is coming along nicely Derex. Well... a $200 bill for paint and a couple odds-n-sods are on their way... soon my dig to the bottom of Mount 'Look at all these un-built kits!' shall commence

Dance, then, wherever you may be, for I am the Dancing Valkyrie. And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, for I am the dancing Valkyrie

Apparently the place I was going to order my Mr Color paints from no longer ships to glorious Canuckistan... so I'm currently building a list of Vallejo matches... She's Красивый!

It looks like it was developed as a Glaug-killer...

it'd be my D'Agostini Falcon that I could never have afforded either... but I'd sacrifice for one of those!

Wow, amazing work. Hope the maker puts it on shapeways or someplace for the rest of us mere mortals!

not bad ideas you could also give that area a very light fine-grit sanding to get rid of the excess red.

Granted, it's not INSANELY high for an MSRP From what I understand, you get a lot of extra stuff included in a $230 Hot-Toys 1/6th figure...Doesn't sound comparable to the included figure/statue. We could have a discussion for up to $1000 USD... speakers are neither here-nor-there for me, so take them out and save everyone some moolah; 'some assembly required' would likely knock the price-point down some more, and I'd be fine with that in exchange for taking the wallet sting down a bit more. I'm a modeler, not a toy collector; this is my personal opinion, completely uninformed by the toy market or it's trends, so I may well be WAY off-base here Another [personal] gripe: All that raised riveting sticks out like this thing was bolted together in a Soviet Tank [Ex-Tractor] factory circa 1942... for that amount of money that incorrect/absurd detail is unacceptable... no "gritty realism" argument to be had here, this is an unobtanium-technology level, Mach 3+, endo/exo-atmospheric Fighterplane sheathed in "SWAG energy conversion armour"... that transforms into a humanoid combat robot to fight giant humanoid aliens... RIVETS?!? Again, modeler, and I'm not usually a 'Rivet Counter' but this is an egregious case in my opinion... Then there's that shipping estimate... that smacks of certain auction site tactics... in addition to *shudder* HG's cut of this project... And to top it off, there's the currency conversion. for a Canuck like me, that $1820 US[estimated] bill turns into $2320 Canadian... A disappointing pass for myself. all the above said: I'd love to own one... but not this one for that price.

'Best' if you're willing to pay $8Grand+ for it... *mutters about ridiculous/out-of-reach price of VF-1 speaker*

Considering that -in addition to what I'm sure would be horrendous shipping- one would have to repaint the misspelled name on the cockpit... dat be too much moolah.

the F-104 Starfighter Marketed/AKA as "The missile with a man in it" RCAF colloquialism: "The LAWN DART with a man in it" at least the F-106 could land itself...

RVF it is then... what colour(s) are folks using for their 'Luca-green'? the constructions call for CR mixes ... but I can't seem to find anyplace that carries these Mr Color products... at least not in my Beloved Canuckistan. And I don't want to mix 3 things at once if it can be avoided. the Bandai instructions call for a 2-paint mix of white and 'Daytona Green' in various strengths [which is a bonus because the Ghosts call for this colour with a grey, so two-birds etc.]... can anyone verify that Mr color 66 is that same 'Daytona Green' or close enough? [I'm not a car guy, so I have no idea how broad a definition there is of this colour]

My Frontier pile is complete; sans VF-27... still unsure if I want one the Bandai Luca is just for the ghosts... gonna hand her over to a buddy after I pillage them from the kit. From this stash I should be able to build a complete skull platoon and a Super-pack equipped Skull platoon, Ozma's Armoured, and a custom RVF-25 in a more modern AWACS scheme [I love the RVF-25... besides the Armour pack, it's my favorite VF-25 mod] just waiting on my shipment of Mr Color paints [I'm being a stickler for my 'on-screen' builds, and Hasegawa's call-outs sure seem correct to my eyes], and some sanders/washes from Flory models, then the fun begins.. That aught to keep me busy for a bit... so which one do y'all think I should start with? I've found during my warhammer days that I'm most efficient with an assembly-line style approach, so I'm thinking of starting with the non-super platoon, while flitting to the Armoured and/or Ghosts to stave-off monotony... any issues with the Bandai ghosts, or the Armoured VF-25s? I know the regular ones can be a bit floppy in fighter mode, anything to watch for or avoid?

Off to a good start!

oh my! that's outstanding work!!

my pre-order on HS says "After March"... so I don't think there's a firm date yet

I got 3 as well: 1 for Isamu's VF-19EF/A, 1 for the YF-19 with Fastpacks from Macross Plus, and one for a custom Paint scheme VF-19EF/A.

must begin to save money...

I've oredered 2 of each... I'll build them some day too, I swear it

the bottom pic is the Hasegawa 1/72 kit... and their interpretations of the line-art have been oft-criticized, lol the line art is as it appears on-screen, Hasegawa's head is 'out of spec' as it were, so if you're going for on-screen accuracy, then go with the line-art. ***update*** the only shots I've been able to find so far in the anime seem to show no bulge on the back of head unit on the VF-0S: *Scene cited for evidence: Shin vs Roy hand-to hand training, episode 2, 14:13 for a timecode on my copy* ***Further Update*** then there's THIS shot, during the assault on the carrier, where in gerwalk the head DOES seem to have the Hasegawa bulge at the back... so it's up to you I suppose