Sildani

Nin-nin and HLJ are order stop, PO'd one from AE. Yen to USD is pretty good, so I don't mind ponying up one last time. I AM worried about the QC though. The 31 Siegfried/Kairos mold was great, but it was the assembly that made them the best Valkyries Bandai produced. Ever since COVID, it's been a crapshoot, and more bad than good. Still, this is the one I always wanted, with the LO paint and missiles in the legs. And holy cow, as I was writing this AE has sold out! PO madness, one.. last... time...

Love the last sentence. Utterly pragmatic.

Holy crap! This was unexpected. Itagaki-san provided many hours of quality entertainment for me. Loved his work and his aesthetic. His games treated you like an intelligent human, generally didn't hold your hand, and punished you for failure, but kept success within reach - if you got gud. I also remember he would answer questions in a monthly column in one of the game mags, he did that for a while. He sometimes answered the question straight, sometimes irreverently, but always entertainingly. Wherever you are now, It's more fun and much more awesome now that you're there.

Please make a female version. I'll buy them.

Nifty!

So I got my $180 Amazon YF-21 and it's a good 'un. Straight head laser, whole canopy, and although a wing flap fell off I'm just going to put a drop of super glue on it and call it done. I doubt very much Bandai will make "bent" flaps for this thing. I haven't transformed it yet and don't know if I ever will. Fighter mode is where I leave the majority of my Valkyries. The exceptions were my Yamato VF-1J because it was dirt simple, and my VF-31C Siegfried because the engineering and care of assembly made a complex transformation pleasurable. No other model has come close. Finally, as to the model itself, I'm so glad I got this dirt cheap. It isn't worth anywhere near its retail price, and with the god-awful Super Parts you can see Bandai was phoning this in from 1,000 miles away. We waited 30 years for this? Lord knows they could have kept the idiot Delimiter Mode and included a Fold Pod in its place. Now what may be a surprising sentence: I'm very glad I have this. Macross Plus is my favorite Macross series, now given our current world more than ever, and I had considered my Full Set Pack YF-19 the best 19 available. I had a Yamato VF-22 Gamlin as a fill-in for Guld's 21, and the two just never meshed together. It was more than the different colors, it was the design choices of each as far as shapes, details, plastics, and so on. Plus, unlike many others on this forum, I rather like all the tampoed details and callouts. Reminds me of JASDF F-15s and F-4s with their monstrous amount of stenciled placards. You should see the decal sheets for their models. Ye gods... And so this YF-21, flawed and overpriced it may be, is a great companion piece for the Chogokin YF-19, and it looks like they are indeed from the same place and time, if that makes sense. And I do like that, both perched on the same YetiStand (sniff.) I have a Yamato VF-11 on there too, with a nice decal sheet printed by the great Anasazi37, that I'm going to get to apply and that should bring the "feel" of the 11 up to the 19 and 21. I doubt very much we'll ever see a Chogokin 11, and I have no faith whatsoever that Bandai wouldn't stuff it anyway.

That’s very nice! Some 1/48 Inbit would be nice!

Amazon has this for $180 with two day delivery. I know it’s probably not exciting to a lot of people, but getting a DX Chogokin Valkyrie for less than $200 domestic delivery still feels neat. https://a.co/d/aZ6QzUX

So which Ride Armor has been your favorite from a durability and "coolness" factor?

Many thanks to @jenius and his extraordinary generosity, I have the complete set now. What a model!

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Love the evil crazy Na’vi, Varang.

This was not on my bingo card, but it’s great for fans. I hope it gets the VF-31 Siegfried treatment, not the VF-31AX Kairos Plus treatment.

Friendly reminder I've messaged you back, @jenius

Most kind of you! I'll message you.