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Yeah, I could probably just come up with something work-related that I'd rather do at home to get the program though It probably is about time I got photoshop with all the pictures I take anyway...

if the tiny spots really are diecast then it shouldn't be too much of a concern. Still, I'd rather wait and buy another valk.

Grebo, are you using a particular drawing software? Every now and then I get the urge to jot down doodles on the computer and would like to know if you have any recommendations. Obviously I'm not looking to do ultra cool valks are anything, just something that doesn't look straight MSPaint.

That thing is gray. Look, that back missile boom isn't even the same color gray as the stuff that is now green off to the side. MAYBE the side of the valk was green and it was just the light, that back boom was definitely gray.

This thread needs, nay, DEMANDS pics. Lots of pics. I wanna see VF-4 goodness splattered all over this baby blue pages. Then we can dissect the pics and find out why Kawarmori either loves or hate the design.

I have a gi-normous and relatively expensive monitor that has the colors set a bit on the bright side... you can definitely make out clear differences from Version 1 to Version 2. It's possible that Version 1 does have a touch of green we just can't see because of the lighting but Version 2 definitely has a much more pronounced use of green... especially on that back missile/booster boom I mentioned earlier. It is clearly gray in Version 1 and green in Version 2. I see that too but I don't think we have good enough shots to judge. Ya know, if this were a new product I'd say it was the differences of going from resin to plastic... but I imagine both of these are purely plastic.

No no, the back boom has on the valk's left, our right, has definitely gone from gray to green unless there is some real funky lighting there.

You can tell from the back booms that this is definitely different from the one shown.

Wow, even the Regis has been boobie-fied.

I believe Graham confirmed this.

So which picture is right? The one with or without the green? GRAHAM, inquiring minds want to know... and want to hear NO Green. Honestly though, after getting the GBPII I thought it was entirely too plain looking and that the Lime green everyone complained about in pictures (including myself) actually might have helped.

I'll elaborate here on a post of mine at RT.com Now, if you wanted a 1/100 Alpha it would be about 3.5" tall in battloid

That article just makes it sound to me like the guy who founded HG is a very intelligent, if not unscrupulous, business man. He bought stuff low and sold high... that's the dream isn't it? Either way, doesn't sound like anything that would involve HG (does this guy even have a hand in HG anymore?).

Sagat didn't have the scar! Other than that, great stuff. I really liked the lack of depth perception bit. E Honda was on the napkin, did anyone else catch the other name?

The only way to do an Alpha justice would be to make it in 1/35 scale like Gakken did. The MPC just took a small scale and refused to make any compromises... compromises that really needed to be made. Making it smaller could work but you'd have to give-up on making it poseable. I'd be okay with that, I'd buy a few, but what I want to see is for someone to take the lessons learned from the MPC and make a bigger toy, without diecast, with multiple adjustments to finally make an Alpha that really dominates. If they wanted to follow it up with a 16" tall Beta, yeah, I'd spend some money on that also.

I think we have a pretty decent general atmosphere. Sketch just mastered English via communication with some real arseholes so his take on civility is not berating your mother and race. When you look at things from that point of view, he really was quite gentle in his assessment. - just messin' with ya Sketch.

Graham also has a the only nice and tight VF-0S in existence... Just playin.

This year we got (just what I remember): Reissues: 1) VF-1A Hikaru 2) VF-1A Max New Paint Schemes 1) GBPII 2) VF-1A LVII 3) VF-1J Strike Stealth Special Set (and individual parts) 4) VF-1A Hayao 5) VF-1A Angelbirds New Products 1) VF-0S 2) VF-0A (with improvements over 0S) 3) YF-19 Next year it looks like we'll get: New Paint Schemes 1) VF-0A Shin 2) GBPIII 3) VF-0 Ghost Kit II New Products 1) YF-19 Accessory Kit 2) VF-0 Ghost Kit From what I can gather... there's a lot more left to come next year that we don't know about yet.

Yeah, if we're seeing a 21, I don't think it'll be until this time next year.

Alphas would be... but I think the sentiment is that he'd like to see cheap plastic Alphas of any scale.

The question is, is it a second edition? I'd love to see detailed pics of the fragile parts vs the improved parts. I'd love a lot of things though...

Thanks guys! It all makes sense to me now

Please let me know as I was planning on doing a little Gashapon review thread on my website for Kaiyodo 001, Kaiyodo 002, & Bandai Third. Did Bandai release a First and a Second a while agoo and that's why it just coincedentally seems to me that they picked up where Kaiyodo left off?

The price is definitely cheaper for folks like me. What are other people going to do? You buy the YF-19 now and pay $30 to ship it to you. You buy the Fast Pack later and pay $20 to ship it to you. I buy the giftset later and save $15 on the MSRP of both items packaged separately and have one item shipped to me for $40. Add to that the benefit of a giftset taking up less space in the closet and the potential regularizing of the pricing (some people are paying $150, some people are paying $200, at some point we're all going to know a reasonable price to pay for these things).