KOG Water Dragon

Never thought of doing a Miria (and Max) armored battroid before, but now it seems like a very interesting idea.

For the Ghost, I'm wondering if a combo pack release with the YF-21 would be most likely. If they were to do the Ghost at all.

Yeah. At least someone's planning one. But I'd still be happy to see Hasegawa do one. I'm very happy about the Wave series of VF-171 kits though. Doesn't seem like Hasegawa is ever going to bother. Hopefully Hasegawa will do at least one new tool this year. And I don't mean more Queadlunn variants.

My 2024 Wishlist (it's long, sorry) 1/72 Super VF-1J Battroid Max 1/72 Queadlunn Max 1/72 VF-27 1/72 YF-29 1/72 YF-30 1/72 YF-19 battroid 1/72 YF-21 battroid 1/72 VF-11 battroid more recolors of 1/72 armored battroid more recolors of 1/48 VF-1 (I'd love it if the Minmay Special came out in 1/48) 1/48 VE-1 1/48 VT-1 1/48 VF-1D Obviously not all in one year. But I'd be happy with any of them.

I don't get it. Is there something about this configuration that blocks the landing gear? I can't imagine they didn't include the sprue that has the landing gear parts.... or would they?

I thought the Bumblebee movie was pretty fun. Not directed by Bay, new more likeable human protagonist, none of the really cringe humor from the Bay movies, and the Transformers designs were more classic and less cluttered. There's a great opening on Cybertron and I wish we could get a whole movie like that part.

I wasn't able to get YF-19, YF-29, or YF-29 max from them. Pre-ordered all 3 as soon as they were added to the site. The only thing I was ever able to get from HLJ was a sheet of the YF-29 max decals. But couldn't get the other 2 decals. All my kits I've bought at various local stores.

No doubt they'll release a Max recolor though? With whatever the appropriate decals are. Waiting on, and expecting, both the Max Queadluun and the Max VF-1J super battroid. Just.... waiting. Sigh.

It does look fantastic, but I have a question: Isn't the canopy framing supposed to be painted black?

Great box, but I'm still waiting for the blue VF-1J super to go with the miria version they released. If they do that and the blue Max queadluun, we'll be good.

They did. Check the photos posted earlier in this thread.

Might be easier to just.... buy the kit with the updated decals. And use the original kit for a custom project.

All I was really getting at is that the big backpack/small legs thing doesn't matter as much if it's a man sized unit. Not as much as if it was a massive destroid. I'm familiar with Ma.K stuff though. Love the one that has P-38 fuselage parts as part of the original build.

Is this build even meant to represent a giant mecha anymore? Looks more like a human in a power armor suit with a bunch of guns strapped on. I have my doubts that it's meant to be a giant destroid anymore.

It's got both EFSF and AEUG markings... aren't they enemies? 😅

Might be an issue with camera angles and lenses and stuff. I think the kit nose looks longer in this image:

I mean... yeah? There's no real life 1:1 version so what else should I compare to? Screenshot? DX? Random art? In all cases it looks similar, especially the DX. If you want the metallic non transparent look, I think you could paint the inside of the canopy silver and get a reasonable result.

It's supposed to be pretty dark isn't it? I feel like the painted up finished photos look pretty good.

I mean... makes sense right? Isn't it just the same plastic as the first release YF-29 and optional add-on parts, but recolored and sold together in one box? If the first release could be built without add-ons, then it follows that the Max version can as well.

Lol. I finally got something from HLJ. They added 1 set of decals for YF-29 Max ver. to my private warehouse. Still no regular YF-29 or its decal sheet in sight. And predictably the YF-29 Max kit itself went right to backorder. I guess I'll be waiting for the Max kit to show up locally, as I did with YF-19 and the first YF-29.

Yeah, hoping for a subtitled bluray release. I'm in the USA region.

I would love one of those. So bummed the movies and series aren't available on bluray.

The Hasegawa 1/48 kit says Vermilion Squadron on the box. But when I ran the display cards through google translate, it did actually come out as 'vermilion platoon'. So I really don't know which is 'correct'. It would make a lot of sense for Vermilion to be a subgroup of Skull Squadron. But I've been seeing it written as Vermilion Squadron for years.

Admittedly my japanese is poor and I know very few kanji, but don't the signs say "Fighter Valkyrie", not "Fire Valkyrie"? I think the signs say: 1/72 VF-1A Fighter Valkyrie Vermilion Squadron (Maximilian Jenius/Hayao Kakizaki) & 1/72 VF-1J Fighter Valkyrie Vermilion Squadron (Ichijo Hikaru)