KOG Water Dragon

We still need Regult Heavy Missile Carrier Type! 😀

I was a kid when the show was on TV, too. Born in '78. And I had a lot of those old kits. I just think this new kit's hands surpass even what was seen on those old box arts. If it looked like the old box art, I'd be happy.

I think the hands are just a tad too big. Nice style, and yes reminiscent of the old box arts, but still... just a fraction too big.

And can we get a YF-29 and YF-30 too, please.

Haha I meant the end of the Regult series. Of course the others you mentioned would be cool too. Especially Glaug!

I'm sure they had em all planned out. I just would have expected them to save the super exciting one that most people want (which I assume is Scout but I could be wrong) for the end.

Surprised they are doing scout before heavy missile pod type.

I think creating big areas of color, be it chest stripes, leg stripes, wing stripes, tail fins, etc... with either stickers or decals just doesn't look great and gives me a toy-like vibe. And it can be hard to color match the decal if there's a bit of color not covered by the decals. And then there's trying to accent panel lines across a decal... If push came to shove I'd probably rob stencil/pilot name/registration and other small markings from a Hasegawa kit. The basic 1/71 VF-1 is pretty cheap.

I feel like anything that's not insignia, warning stencils, numbers, text, etc should just be painted anyway.

Hope there's enough artwork for a 4th Sortie book soon.

Wait, the variants of the original armored VF-1 come with better hands??? So I need to buy a spare copy of one of the new ones to donate hands to my original armored VF-1?

I think that's correct. I'm hoping they'll follow it up with a 1/48 version of the initial rollout scheme.

Lovely art as always. I wonder when Sorties 4 will be coming out.

Yes. Yes please. But I take back what I said. I'd also like the Luca version with dish, and the extra armor/super version.

I just want the cannon fodder types...

Yet there's still no 1/48 VF-1D! I can understand not doing the VE-1 and VT-1 yet, since there's a fair number of new parts needed, but plain old VF-1D shouldn't be that hard... It's a lot easier to do pure decal variant repops though. At this point, the only VF-1 schemes released in 1/72 that aren't available in 1/48 are the Minmay Special, Rollout colors, and 35th anniversary scheme.

Not a SUPER exciting recolor...

Disappointed it's not 1/72 like the rest of the their new transforming kits. I don't own any pre-finished/toy stuff so a 1/72 transforming YF-19 woulda been great. I have plenty of hasegawa 1/72 YF-19 fighters but nothing for the other modes.

Says those are 1/72 though. We're hopin' for a 1/48 version.

If they're gonna keep doing these... I hope they get around to doing a 1/48 version of the Minmay Special. But a 1/48 VE-1 and VT-1 would be better. Kinda surprised they haven't done those yet. I think they've actually done most of the schemes that were released originally in 1/72, aside from the Minmay Special, Rollout colors, and the 25th/35th Anniversary schemes.

Ack. Where is this? Japan? I've been wanting to get that Hasegawa 25th Anniversary VF-1.

So that's all the VF-25s now? I guess we can assume they will complete the VF-31 series as well...

Yes! An alternate scheme armored VF-1A seems pretty cool to me. The ad shows chest insignia pics for a couple other units... does the text clarify whether multiple marking scheme options are included in the kit, or are these teasers for future variant releases?

Oh geez, I would love a 1/48 YF-21. VE-1 and VT-1 in 1/48 would be great too.

The math is pretty easy. Find the published dimensions of the 'real thing' on a wiki or somesuch. Convert that length into measurement style of choice, if needed, using an online conversion tool. Then divide that by the number of the scale. So if it's a 1/72 kit, divide by 72. Etc.