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Man, I wish I had your fabrication skills.

Lol, I might actually be leaning this way.....looking at just the legs of the battroid kit, they are ridiculously oversized and the back of the leg armor would need to be shaved right down or I need to heavily mod the legs. The varliable kit....ugghhh...I never actually wanted to build it, but it looks like I might have to. It's just a better fit for the strike pack with seemingly less modification. Besides, the current battroid build is kind of a mess, might be quite a bit more flawed than my previous attempt with the low vis 1A

Those look sharp!

Oh, don't look at me for ideas, I'll probably produce a mangled mess. I popped open the armor set, and the construction seems sturdier, but I was expecting Bandai to hide more of the seam lines. They left this one done the middle of the arm armor...... But went to the trouble to hide this one, which isn't visible anyway when it's mounted. Anyway, I'm still humming and hawing over which old Bandai 1/72 to try to use it on, the variable or the fixed Battroid. Dug out a few variables I built as a kid..... Boy did I ever butcher these kits. Might cannibalize these for parts. The Super Ostrich and Elintseeker both come with spare noses and fuselage (chest/back) plates, and even some spare armor pieces. Valkyrie spare parts are growing....always wanted to do a hangar maintenance diorama of some sort, but that's beyond my imagination and abilities. Had the idea of stealing the variable arms from my childhood build for the Battroid kit instead of using the Popeye arms. They're a mess though so they will require heavy weathering and probably a lot of battle damage. Already trying to figure out modding the joints with whatever polycaps and ball joints I have laying around. Not so much for posing, but for easy of paint. Hate captured parts. More Gundam donor parts. I never watched Gundam, never got into it, so I have no idea where all these Gundam kits came from. These arms are totally pooched. Will take a lot of will power to get them working again. Wish I had a few more Hasegawa 1A or 1S Battroid heads, but I guess this build might end up being a 1J. LOL, still haven't 100% committed to adding armor to the Battroid or one of my old variable kits. Have any of you guys done either before?

That's awesome, thanks!

That is brutal. Well, I have a year or so to figure out how to scan the Hasegawa decals and upsize them to 1/20 scale, then I'll just have to paint the rest. That suuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Are you planning on building yours or pretty set on getting rid of them?

Damn....so the Fighter definitely only comes with Stickers....ok, will have to source a set of decals for it sometime in the next year.....probably won't be going to Japan for at least that long by the way things are going, lol!

Wow, nice, thanks for posting pics! Did you open the decal sheet/instructions by any chance?

Are you effin kidding me??? Oh man, that blows. I'm not sure I like the idea of stickers on my model. Crap.

Oh nice! I like the custom eye sensor! I was thinking the same thing, complete repaint, and custom eye sensor. I think the thing needs new joints too, but that is something that is beyond my skill level.

Oh man, I just dug my matchbox versions out of my kids' toybox thinking they didn't look too bad, and I might even take the time to repaint them, but seeing them next to those newer versions......maybe the old ones aren't so hot afterall, lol! Has anybody ever gone to the trouble to mod those old ones, like adding ball joints, repaints, adding details to accuratize them?

Those wrists don't look right at all. Are the forearms upside down somehow?

I know there have been issues with other modes with the backpack (too flat?), and I really don't like the head lasers for the 1S: They're just too squished together. Are there any other blatant inaccuracies we may feel the need to sort out? I also heard about some pretty bad injection marks.

That's a really good price on shipping. I just had it sent to my in-laws in Japan, will pick it up whenever I'm there next. I went with the fighter because I actually don't like the proportions of the super/strike pack. I think the boosters are slightly too big, and it's a bit of an eye sore for me when I've gone through a few Hasegawa super/strikes. So, do we need to get aftermarket decals and pilots for the fighter or does it come with decals (not stickers) and a pilot fig?

Watched it last night, wonder who the kid is a clone of, or grows up to be. Waiting to be mind-blown. I'm happy that the old voice actors are back too, they deserve more work.

Ohhhh....I like that one.....guessing that's a resin kit that goes with the Hasegawa battroid.....do want, but don't want to pay the collector price, which I imagine is high.

That's what the Meltrandi said...... I swear I posted this before, but I guess not? Or was it deleted because it was inappropriate?

I have to do a bit of catch up reading to do, but I was hoping some folks here can help me save time and answer a few questions I have. It looks like some of the earlier kits only came with stickers, no decals? Looks like someone here was making custom decals because of this? Does the fighter come with decals or stickers, or both? Does the fighter come with a pilot or is that sold separately? I know there is a separate weapons pack that I might pass on, we'll see. I didn't see many builds here for the straight fighter, but I've seen some that were very nicely done. I guess I also want to see how does it compare in terms of detail and accuracy compared to the smaller Hasegawa 1/48, which seems to be the benchmark.

Why am I punishing myself..... Haven't I been saying I wanted to do something straight forward and out of the box? Lol! Was thinking about ham-fisting the armor onto one of these two older kits that I didn't want to build in the first place, lol!

Has anyone here built the Bandai Variable 1/72 that goes with this Strike Parts set? I had the kit, but it looked a bit messy and I heard it fell apart easily so I flipped it, but I'm thinking about kit-bashing it into maybe one of my older Bandai kits..... Maybe the fixed Battroid.... Or if I'm feeling super ambitions, maybe one of my older Bandai Variable kits.....

Hahaha, that's what the Meltrandi said

lol!

If anyone is curious for a rattle can color for DYRL parts, I used this last summer: I found it looked pretty close....but I may be a bit color blind, who knows. I thought it looked somewhere in between the DX and Yamato super/strike parts.