Nani?!

The wing "roots" are indeed wider in kawamori's lineart but the fighter itself is a tad longer as well. Simply making the "roots" wider would make the valk bulker and that'd be the last thing I'd want. I think the wings are fine... The vertical stabilizers is where I'm iffy.... especially when the 19 has it's shoulder fast packs mounted in fighter mode.... the stabilizers will look TINY... *refer to picture below: now imagine those on yamato's 19.

The only reason the 1/60 vf-1's dropped in price is because of the better 1/48 version... drop in demand eventually leads to drop in either production or price... in the 1/60's case, both happened.... I dont think the 1/48's will ever drop in price... unless another version of the vf-1 (with comparable price) comes out that totally blows it away.... which, I dont forsee happening any time soon...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmm hmmmmmmmm it definitely doesn't look bad... It looks pretty awesome in battroid. thanks for the pics man, I think I'll "waste" my money on this one as well.~

Wow.... that scheme looks awesome... I especially love the white on the inside of the intakes and on the insides of the landing gear compartment...

Sell just one of every multiple dozen you have and viola! you got enough for a couple dozen more.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing two seaters... it'll share a lot of parts with regular one seaters hence share some of the ready made molds... They can milk another dozen variations off of it with people lined up in droves to buy it... I woulda thought it was impossible just 6 months ago but now, lets get crazy, why not?

wow. That, gentlemen, is a reminder that we should all be thankful~

You know I never knew the point of yamato letting Graham in on all this stuff early when either way, we're all limited to knowing when the hobby mags come out and not a day sooner~ He's like a scout that comes back and gives us the heads up when we're already under attack and decimated~ .............. sigh..., it's good to be Graham.

The 1/48 releases are clearly to cash in and make some profit... perhaps to fund new projects. I wish they rerelease the max and millia vf-1j's again... didn't have the money to buy them then... and now I got a plenty~ Heck rerelease all them suckas!

There's also a cm-long slot by the rear of the ankle... Looks like we'll definitely see fast packs for this baby...

yeah, which is why I ultimately thought the wing size was debatable... As far as the shoulder intake... look at the prototype and imagine a big black hole there... meh... I rather take what yamato has rendered.

hmmm... it might not need your pity~ I think it'll do just fine... Nothing will compare to how much the 1/48 molds racked in, but I'm sure this will do aiight~

First it's Vader's small hands, now it's the YF-19's small wings! Sheesh, what is it with you people and size? Graham 419039[/snapback] You know what they say, people desire what people don't have...

Exactly, they already are sticking out. And with any rendition of a perfect variable yf-19, the stabilizers will have to be 1/72 vf-11b tiny for it to not stick out. Given this fact, it wont hurt to add a mm or two to make it look better in fighter mode.

I'm not sure if the wings are indeed too small... All the shots are isometric so there's a whole lot of foreshortening... The only thing that's definitely a bit small are the rear vertical fins. Like I said before, I really want them to take their time with this bird... Given there will be two other must get releases coming out, this bird definitely can use the extra time of refinement...

Just imagine. In a couple of months we'll all have at least one of these on preorder and we'll all be drooling over pics of the YF-21 prototype... btw: Is a YF-19 bigger then a Vf-0? If so, then this is going to be one massive toy. 418885[/snapback] IIRC, Graham said it was just a tad shorter.

Thanks for the pics Graham~ All the gaps and seems we see will probably be a non issue when the production version comes out... it was the case with every resin mold so no sweat~ I wish we can see a good side view of the proto with the landing gear up... just to see how the under belly looks in full solid 3 dimensional form. it may not be a problem at all... One Question Graham, Will the point where the wings attach to the leg (the squarish piece) be diecast or a strong chunk of plastic? I kinda see a draw back for both cases as a plastic piece might be a tad fragile and a big-square-shiny-slightly-off-colored diecast metal piece might make it look off. I guess we'll have to wait and see~

But do you know that the 1/60 VF-0 is about the same size as the 1/48 VF-1. When you get it you'll be floored again! Chris 418680[/snapback] heck yeah, I was tranforming mine back to fighter this morning... I love it more than any 1/48...

I dont think anyone knows yamato's strategy... (wait, maybe graham, but that's about it) They never fail to make things interesting that's for sure... I assume it's a peculiar form of one of their brain academy games~ Either way, they're taking great strides in making this hobby fun and full of anticipation again... and honestly, that makes my head spin~

I know, I pointed them to the pics on the Big West site and the Bandai Visual Zero site, sent screen grabs from the anime and scans of Tenjin's box art and Hasegawa paint guides to make my case. From what I understand, anime accurate samples were shown to HFH for approval, but he nixed the idea and told them to use his color scheme. Graham 418450[/snapback] IIRC, Yamato had a 1:100 vf-0 on display in one of their showcases that had a more correct regular vf-0A color scheme. Is it POSSIBLE that yamato can issue a anime correct vf-0A and call it something else? Frankly, if it's possible, they can call it whatever they want, my money will be there for any VF-0~

Thanks for the clear up Graham. Wow, although I figured that there might be a possibility that the anime has the colors changed a bit, but now there's no separate shin type vf-0A? That's weird... The macross zero main site has a standard vf-0A mecha picture and it DEFINITELY different than the colors yamato was given to use... The shin type has a white stripe across it's chest... and the wings of the standard vf-0A (the official pictures, has no darker stripe on it like the yamato colors do... haha HFH is definitely on something...

You know, looking at that pic, I prefer yamato's color choice. Besides, The environment lighting in the anime changes so often that no one can really tell which is "accurate"... If they're going to change the color of anything, I'd say make the headshield a tad lighter... it still looks great left alone though~ Edit: I gotta say this again... Man, that OA head looks good...... Yamato, Dont forget to Tampo Print markings!

Other than the darker color of the heat shield this looks a lot like Shin's vf-0A. Graham can we get a verification?

wow... yamato is on a roll here. The paint scheme looks great... I never thought I'd get another vf-1, but I gotta get this one. one thing though, the gunpod is the same grey... I wish it were plain white or blue~

That F'ing Rocks. WOW... The color looks good and the Zero-A head looks awesome.... I'm assuming Yamato will follow it's brilliant tampo printing for this release, so the skulls not being painted I'm sure will be fixed... remember the vf-0S didn't have printings either in the mag scans.