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The nose wheel is there...it's just obscuring the left rear wheel at that angle. Yeah...weird seeing wheels on these. In the actual design there is a panel that opens on the ventral fuselage and inside is a joystick. The joystick allows the ground technician to move the craft around via repulsorlift if necessary. Wheels aren't needed. In Rogue One we see one of these being towed...uh...somehow. I guess they put wheels in the landing skids or something.

Great stuff! I always wondered why Wave didn't do 1/100 Destroids to go with their 1/100 Valk line. I assume the 1/72 ones are just re-pops? I missed that YF-29...if that was announced earlier.

Sigh.... I wasn't going to get one of these...but damn if that doesn't look good! Most of this should be a new tooling...except perhaps for the non-limb parts. The original VF-0 kits started coming out 20 years ago and it shows compared to newer releases.

Well...at least they aren't abandoning 1/48. Still hoping for something new in that scale like a VF-0 or VF-11. A VF-25 would be a dream. The YF-19 fast packs are nice...but I've already got 2 of those to build as is.

Now *THAT* is f'ing awesome!!! SDF-1 perhaps?? Zentraedi ship?? Though you'd have to put up with the spikes, but maybe they could be recessed a little.

True statement of the year right there... I am completely out of room in my closet with kits from 20 years ago as well as recent. Some are getting so old I worry about the decal viability.

I always build in sub assemblies and try to paint as much as I can before assembling. Depends on the kit and parts...some are easier than others.. I find this gives the advantage of having a neater build and paint job. It can make masking difficult areas easier as well. For finishing/weathering...same thing depending on the situation.

Those VE's are beautiful. I hope Hasegawa makes those in 1/48 one day.

Can't believe it's the 40th anniversary...and NO PG VF-1 from Bandai. Perhaps if things were better economically... A 1/32 or 1/24 VF-1 in PG form would've been incredible.

YES! Finally they are re-releasing the photo-etch for the VF-1 1/48! Those are going for stupid prices on the auction sites. Need about 3 or 4 of them.

Amazing box art...the art really sells the kits. Got my shipping notice!

Usually you see these kits...once and a while...here and there...like on eBay or some flea market. What an incredible inventory and time capsule! Not only extremely rare kits...but brand new and shrink wrapped in some cases. That name...GTC...jogged my memory and I hadn't seen that in probably 35+ years! Incredible. I miss the 80's quite a bit. What a incredibly creative time that was.

Thanks guys. Taking a break from Macross for now...but I just bought a few Hasegawa VF-25's and VF-31's and my Regult is getting lonely. Still not happy with the photos...so I need to work on that as well.

Very nice job. I especially like the metal pieces like the feet and exhaust back-plane.

I recently completed this. Fantastic kit and I feel they are superior to the 1/72 kits. Can't wait to tackle the Super versions!