I just got this today, I know, really, really late to the party.
However I just had to post to say how much I love it. I'm going to be getting a VF-11C as well, I think, I wish they'd offer another repaint of this. I'd pay a ton for a Skull 1 version of the VF-11.
Anyway, thanks to this thread I got my heat shield transformed correctly and now I think I may like almost as much as the VF-1 V2.
I get to put a VF-22S next to it sometime next week...looking forward to that too.