Grayson72

I believe there were several version of this type of kit. A Harrier was the other one I can think of.

I love it when I can avoid doing seam lines, it's my least favorite part of modeling.

I have to say, I'm not sure what you're referring to, the details show through just fine if you have an airbrush and know how to do panel lining. I've built about 8 Hasegawa Macross kits and the only scribing I had to do was where I filled and sanded the seam lines.

My feedback on the Club-M version is that the wings are but too overdone and look like bird wings, not that realistic looking.

Wow good memory man, I don't think many people even know there was a WF VF-11 with no fastpacks. I actually have this version and it's partially built. I wish I had the fast pack version. I like the fastpacks on this fighter.

Only two rereleases of the 1/72 kits? Lame

Very impressive, that chopper always reminds me of the movie "Red Dawn".

That's cool looking, what scale is it and where'd you get it?

Monster kits made to date: (to my knowledge) 1/200 Monster - plastic injection (out of production) expensive 1/160 Monster - plastic injection (out of production) expensive 1/144 Monster - Resin (not sure of production status) expensive 1/100 Monster - Resin - I forget who produced this but isn't in production anymore. (this is a very high quality sculpt as well on par with Mike's sculpt) 1/72 Monster - resin wonderfest kit (out of production) very expensive, sux 1/72 Monster - resin Mike Salzo original sculpt (another run may be coming), best price for highest quality. Many including myself consider Mikes sculpt of the monster the best of all the kits produced. For the size of this kit (HUGE!) the price is very resonable although could still be considered quite expensive depending on your situation. The 1/72 scale monsters are huge like lawn art statue huge.

LOL, now that was funny. How do you know about my stash of rare kits?

You might as well use the MIB one, the parts that show the battroid underneath are so aweful, you'd be doing the armor justice by replacing them with the Hasegawa battroid parts.

That's exactly what it is and yes it was a royal pain in the butt to make

I'd kill for one (or more) of these. You're always asking these kinds of questions about potential models Jorawar but I don't think anything has ever come from any of them

Very nice, you're skills have really improved over time, you should go back and panel line some of the older models. Thanks for sharing.

The fastpacks are actually from a wonderfest resin kit, however, the wonderfest kit I'm pretty sure was made from the Bandai super valk fighter. I had to replace one of the front ends of the fastpacks with one from an old Bandai super kit and you can't tell the difference.

They're the same kits, repackaged by Bandai after they bought the molds from Imai.

I buy much and rarely sell anything, but it seems like these should be pretty available still.

I'm still here, I spend more time over at SSM these days since I have every Macross model I want to get my hands on and no time to build any of them.

The Bandai Battroid kits really suck btw, those hands look like they're from the Hasegawa battroid kit. Check out these pics, I they could be the same hands or they could be aftermarket ones.

Oh man those are so awesome looking...somewhat deceiving though since you modified the crap out of them. Be warned Fai this is not what they look like out of the box.

It's an old generic vinyl gaming mat, the polygons were used for movement count, facing and firing arcs.

Glad you like the 1D. Yeah I'm totally in agreement with you on the transformable aspect, they're supposed to be display models not transformable toys. I have like 4 or five transformable kits but this is the last one I'll probably ever build. Man what a walk down memory lane building this sucker, hadn't built one of these since the mid 80's.

None of the transformable Bandai kits were super/strike versions and not all of the Bandai kits are transformable. The Bandai 1/72 super VF kits that you'll find are not transformable and the nose cone on those are ugly in my opinion, however I believe these can be made in gerwalk or fighter mode (non-transformable) The only way to get a transformable Bandai Super VF is to kit bash a transformable kit with the super parts from a non-transformable one. Takes a fair bit of moding so if you're not comfortable with that then I wouldn't attempt it. As far as difficulty is concerned between the two, the Bandai one has a lot of moving parts and is difficult to get all the seams filled in for a perfect build but finishing it (painting & decals) is easier. The Hasegawa has more parts that are much smaller and the finish work on the Hasegawas to make them look really nice like you see on the boards is more difficult in my opinion. For example the canopy has a seem right down the middle of it that has to be removed, which takes a bit of sanding, polishing, and clearcoating to make it go away.

If you take your time you can make the Bandai's look decent. Here's one I did of a modified VF-1D with fastpacks. I threw in a comparison shot of it next to a VT-1 Ostrich from Hasegawa as well. I don't think it was mentioned here but the Bandai's are fully transformable (with the swapout of a few parts) and the Hase's aren't. With Hasegawa if you want to display multiple modes of the same fighter you have to buy separate kits, and they don't make a Gerwalk, that requires the bashing of two kits together (fighter and battroid).

Too bad that release didn't come with decals.