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Honestly it doesn't look that bad to me, but perhaps my standards are too low. The majority of Bandai Models were never meant to be hard-core, but if you gave Bandai-Models hard-core treatment you can make them look amazing. For around 35 bucks new Macross fans or people with no prior knowledge of Macross can get a decent transforming kit of the Iconic VF-1 that is leaps and bounds ahead of the Imai / Arii kits of the 1980's that came out in an Era before snap-together Gunpla arrived on the scene. That in itself is something to be happy for, as more Japanese Macross fans is NEVER a bad thing. This kit should really be compared to the Imai 1/72 variables that it is meant to replace. In that respect, it is a million times better which it should be as it's been 30 years. You really can't compare this kit to the Hase VF-1's. The Hase VF-1's, like Noy said, are traditional kits. That means lots of love to fill the seamlines / etc to make the kit look good. Hell, I'm sure only a small fraction of people here know how much "fun" it is to smooth out the intakes on some traditional aircraft kits, something that you will never have to deal with on the Bandai VF-1. As for Yamato fanboys who keep bashing this kit... why do you care? You have your Yammies......

after getting tinged by overpaying for 6 vf-171's it's MSRP or below or none at all for me now. The Preorder madness really was not madness at all since It seems like I'm on night-shift and totally free to participate whenever the windows open up.

More Relatively cheap Yammy 1/48's. Crazy how they're selling for less than Retail these days.. (except for the chronicles exclusives and weathered versions that I have no interest in) Low Viz 2 with Armored parts - 192.5 shipped http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macross-1-48th-Scale-Low-Visibility-Woodland-VF-1A-Valkyrie-and-Armor-/221248790267?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&nma=true&si=CsXPVNnMygHiOPSC1PJ3HidwtP4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc 1J stealth gift pack - 212.5 shipped http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macross-VF-1J-Stealth-with-Super-and-Strike-Parts-/221248816198?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&nma=true&si=CsXPVNnMygHiOPSC1PJ3HidwtP4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Poor Luca is stuck looking into the Corner. No Love for Metro wussy kid pilots

Sure looks nice when it's all locked together in fighter mode

This is a high-stress area due to the rotation and the small surface area of plastic that was broken off. That is one nasty break. I assume that when you try to remove the screw it just spins the broken off plastic plug as well right? The hardest part of this repair is getting that little plastic extension off the screw without damaging it further. Just glue alone won't be a lasting repair. You'll need to reinforce it with something. Typically what I'd do is after getting the extension off is to glue it on with super glue and then figure out how to reinforce it. Dunno if there's enough clearance, but drilling at least 2 small holes through the extension and into the bottom plastic and gluing in two pins / paperclips cut to size would do the trick. However, I don't have my YF-29 on me to take apart so I don't know how much clearance there would be for that. (it's heavily dependent on the thickness of the plastic that was broken off.

I dunno what's going on with HLJ, but another one of the 25a's I cancelled manually came back from the dead O_o Guess I don't have to look anywhere else to get my 6 25 A's (3 hlj, 1 hobbysearch, 1 ny, 1 cd japan)

Which is really a shame because the 1/48's are awesome The 1/48 VF-1A has the most flush head in fighter mode of all the yammies

Either the 1/48 Low Viz 1 aint what it used to be or I got lucky O_O 197 shipped O_o http://www.ebay.com/itm/221248135393?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 If this is the new norm for Low VIz 1's I may go ahead and get multiples like I always wanted to O_O

Can you provide photos?

I would say go for it as it would most likely be your last chance to grab cheap Altos for a long time.

I am so excited for this. I loooove patlabor. Just wish I coulda gotten the 1/24 yammies *Edit* I saw the "updated Ingram design" *sad face*

Only if they released the tornadoes O_O

Of the 25A. Damn I thought it was the 25F which would have been funny lol

Except yamato had 3 different types of VF-1's, 2 different YF-19 / YF-21 and now they're on their 3rd iteration of the YF-19 Same thing

Jeez october is going to be a crazy month..... I have 6 25As and 2 25G parts on preorder.... going to be prepaying whatever I can now lol

I get the feeling had they made it 1/48 scale they wouldn't have had to make so many compromises

Yup it's 7/20 on the Tamashii web site for a while. Though Otacute will prolly get the much later as usual :0

It was actually around 45 minutes

HLJ didn't stop people from getting an RVF in 1st and 2nd preorder windows, nor did they stop the VF-171 orders either. There are some here who get multiple RVFs or CF-171's from HLJ actually.

HLJ IS CLOSED

Still up as of now http://www.hlj.com/p...t/BAN960616/Sci

no extra orders here lol. I'm just keeping the extra they let me have. Besides, Already have 6 on preorder why would I want more?

Just watching. They still hav a lot of stock if it's up after 20 minutes. http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN960616/Sci

Go for it guys THank god HLJ is getting more stock http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN960616/Sci