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You can remove easily the front gear bays on the 25 series, using screws, no glue. I don’t know for the rear gears though

I think I have used wiping alcohol to completely remove the painting on the canopy, then I had to paint the frame back in dark grey on my Vf-31J

Ho nice!

That's indeed a great looking 31JA now. First thing for me would be to make the canopy clear !

That was a fast painting, and it looks really nice ! Would you mind take a new picture a bit more far away? I don't know for the arm. To be honest I like to have different poses between the male and female pilots. When I tested my male pilot, the hand forward didn't obstruct with the screen panel.

that's a lot of VF-9 love !

Thanks, and I hope you will like them

Hi Duymon, thanks again for the support ! I tried to cut the pilots for the VF31 and that’s a really cramped sit in there... even smaller than the VF25

I won't make a smaller pilot for the 31, but I can try to cut the feet and see if they fit in. But I do think the arms will also obstruct.

Woah @Rogueload, nice display! Are you using two levels in a detolf to acheive this ?

I made a set of 4 different pilots: male / female / TV / DYRL. I hope you will like them. Note that I tried to fix the model again by removing some material on the butts, but you may have to sand a bit more to perfectly fit the Bandai DX VF-1J.

That’s too bad, I was really wanting to get my copies.

I could test the pilots this night and the VF-31 1:60 scale are a no-go. The pilot is almost straight leg and scale as a 1:84 figure... For the VF-1J, there is more room for a 1:48 pilot but somehow, the chair is too high, so I had to sand 2mm of the pilots’ buts so they can fit inside comfortably and have clearance on the top of their helmet.

I had so far no luck finding a good welding glue and living in France doesn't help sourcing the good US/Jap stuff. But I recently came to this thread which contains great tips. In particular the one using super glue to attach the parts together, then use MEK/Acetone to weld the parts together and keeping them together during the 24h curing.

I would grab one for sure !

Really great work, I have to say that I am also curious about the engraving techniques. Btw, I think the main differences with the A are: -of course the head design and delta wings -larger canards -larger carbon crystals on the sides of the head -minor changes of the crystals geometry on the nose

You are right, the elevator has 2 grey VF-0A just before, so it doesn't make sense that a VF-0B is swapped magically, but it really looks like red stripes on the vertical fins and on the tails on the "legs", considering the low saturation of these episodes I was immediately convinced. BTW back to my Zero videos !

I will receive them next week, I will let you know

I was rewatching Macross Zero and finally have proof that the VF-0B SPW is official ! It appears briefly in in the background of episode 3, time stamp 15:34”

That’s looking good indeed, I am in for one or two sets, I will probably put them at the bottom of the detolf!

Hi have a question, does one kit comes with : -18 side tiles -9 bottom tiles -9 top translucent tules -3 mid-height tile? -all the LEGO style connectors

Concerning the pilots, there are male above and femal below... I know this is not that obvious As print material, I prefer to use resin UV cured printer to obtain fully detailed surfaces and smooth finish. But I have also used basic SLS plastic or HP plastic and both were giving good results once painted. I don't know Tamiya plastic sheet, but for the size of a 1:48 pilot hand and fingers they are all fragile and you better avoid these to fall on the floor. No, I am not doing DX VF-31A wings soon, why should it be needed ?

Oh my... messing characters, sure I am tired lately

Haha @valhary, sure the Vf-19 looks great with MDE missiles but I highly doubt that Isamu would ever accept to equip his valk with such destructive weapons. Except if these are modded to turn into giant speakers!

Haha and I just realized that I made left-handed pilots!