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  1. Mechamaniac
    The more I think about it, It's almost Tardis blue. I wish I had my Tardis cookie jar here at home, I'd take a comparison pic.
  2. Mechamaniac
    Got mine, a few impressions: Mine came with an extra pitot tube? Is this the norm? Kinda odd that there are more hard points on the wings than missile pods packaged with the valk. I like the outer hardpoints for the missiles. Very solid and the attachment point is nearly seamless. The ankles on mine were SUPER tight. I had to work to get them to extend. This thing is HUGE compared to the VF-1. Nowhere close to Max blue. See the pic. Sorry for the crap lighting, one of these days I'm going to learn how to take decent pics.
  3. Mechamaniac
    Wife just picked mine up from PO. The long wait until 1500 begins.....
  4. Mechamaniac
    And typically.....the mailman came while my wife was off snagging kids at school....left a note....pickup tomorrow.....sigh.....
  5. Mechamaniac
    Mine's due in today. I don't have a Max 1J but I do have a Virgin Road 1D. I'll snap a pic with that one for comparison.
  6. Mechamaniac
    I'm speechless. After watching this come together for the last ... what has it been, nearly 10 years? .... it's utterly amazing.
  7. Mechamaniac
    Got my shipping notice as well.
  8. Mechamaniac
    So, same (ginormous) size as the original VF-0's.
  9. Mechamaniac
    Son of a bitch is HUGE! Which kind of irks me BTW. I guess we can make an argument that our first ham-fisted attempts at OT were large and bulky and had been much more streamlined and miniaturized by the time we got to the VF-1. But we all know it's just retcon
  10. Mechamaniac
    Anybody dared to transform theirs yet? I'd also be interested to see where this one stacks up size-wise to the Yamato VF-0 which was basically a re-skin of the 1/48.
  11. Mechamaniac
    Just paid for mine through HLJ.
  12. Mechamaniac
    Does that mean that the only way to kill a Valk is to cut it's head off?
  13. Mechamaniac
    True, which is doubly odd since these things can also crash into stuff at high speeds and not even sustain dents or scratches.
  14. Mechamaniac
    I'd imagine it takes less time than you think with the high and supersonic speed causing heat and friction on the paint and pulling various fluids out of every seam and flap and dragging it along the paint job.
  15. Mechamaniac
    Hell, it's a two seater. If nothing else, I'll take the Max and Millia pilots out of my Virgin Road 1D and pretend they got married a few years earlier....
  16. Mechamaniac
    I wonder if you could approximate the weathering by approximating the conditions? Mask off what you don't want weathered (canopy and tampos etc.) then run a saline solution through an airbrush and shoot it straight down the nose and wings while adjusting the mix and pressure etc. That would approximate salt water vapor traveling down the aircraft at (relative) high speed. Might take a while but then so would weathering under actual circumstances. It would be kind of like taking a pressure washer to your paint job. You'd have to be careful of course.
  17. Mechamaniac
    Yeah, I think we can just assume that the color we're getting from Arcadia represents a minty new VF-0D fresh off the showroom floor. I think the salt wash on the darker blue would probably be the best way to approximate that look. Makes sense considering that the VF-0D we see is carrier based.
  18. Mechamaniac
    Agreed. Ol' girl wasn't meant to spread her wings.
  19. Mechamaniac
    I like it! Waiting on payment request from HLJ....
  20. Mechamaniac
    Jebus. How did I miss the boat on this one?
  21. Mechamaniac
    Want it now. NOW!
  22. Mechamaniac
    The inset pic at the bottom right looks like it might come with a protoculture city miniature??
  23. Mechamaniac
    So, it fires nothing? Hell, at least build an airsoft into the thing!
  24. Mechamaniac
    If this is a VF-0D, I'm on it.
  25. Mechamaniac
    It's hard to tell from the pics if they've managed to streamline the fuselage more than the original Yammie model. That was one of the major issues with the original for me anyway. The 19 is so streamlined but the original toy was way chunky. Nice to see they've integrated the neck cover in fighter mode. No more making them out of spray can lids like back in the day . Take my money now! and bring on the SMS variant!!
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