Strike A Pose! revisted...

[no3Ljm]

 

[Mog]

Always knew Minmei was cray-cray!

Poor Misa must have been distracted to be caught in a situation like that. 

[Angesdad]

 

Edited May 23, 2022 by Angesdad

[chriswoo]

Duel VF-25A escorting Skull Leader into mission.

 

 

[pengbuzz]

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Edited June 10, 2022 by pengbuzz
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[chriswoo]

Sharing my collection Frontier VF-25 formation 

Edited June 14, 2022 by chriswoo

[nightmareB4macross]

3 hours ago, chriswoo said:

Sharing my collection Frontier VF-25 formation 

Fantastic!!

[chriswoo]

Recon with super/armor pack set completed

 

Frontier VF-171 nightmare set completed.

 

 

 

[Mog]

It ain't my old "Love and Hate" display, but I found a way to squeeze them all together without the Q-Rau completely blocking out the 1J's:

 

Split the aces and put 'em in opposing banks:

[chriswoo]

 

9 hours ago, Mog said:

It ain't my old "Love and Hate" display, but I found a way to squeeze them all together without the Q-Rau completely blocking out the 1J's:

 

Split the aces and put 'em in opposing banks:

I like the custom color vf-22 and VF-1

Anyway just manage to take picture VF-171EX squadron in battleroid mode

[Mog]

It’s actually a 21.  😉 Moggy prefers the externally mounted gunpods and FAST pack armors that the 21 rocks.

Also, wasn’t feeling the set-up, so I re-did the M&M display:

Better “Love-Hate” theme on display now.

[MKT]

23 hours ago, Mog said:

 

Love these 2 customs, especially the YF-21. 

BTW, for the Yammie 1/60 YF-21 / VF-22, what is the fix for the wings that tend to droop slightly? Yours are really straight.. I tried to search it up in these forums, and I know it was mentioned before, but no luck so far..

[Mog]

I might be mixing this up with the SV-51 (or they have a similar solution), but I believe there’s a screw in the wing root/landing gear area that you either have to tighten or loosen to get the wings to hold straight.

Sounds counter-intuitive to loosen a screw.  But in some cases, it supposedly helped.

Edited June 22, 2022 by Mog

[MKT]

11 minutes ago, Mog said:

I might be mixing this up with the SV-51 (or they have a similar solution), but I believe there’s a screw in the wing root/landing gear area that you either have to tighten or loosen to get the wings to hold straight.

Sounds counter-intuitive to loosen a screw.  But in some cases, it supposedly helped.

Thanks, I'll try that 

[MKT]

 

Opened and fiddled with a VF100 Armored VF-25F. Going over reviews of it, I already lowered my expectations accordingly and intended it to be mostly a statue piece for display. Yet I didn't expect it was this bad as a toy whilst setting it up. 

The hips are loosey goosey, won't support the weight of its legs when posed hanging in the air, and together with the equally loose & rubbish ankles it will not stand at all by itself on a solid surface. The included stand is also very limited in its movement range, such that this is about the only pose I can make it do with valk's feet touching the ground.  

 

 

Edited November 27, 2022 by MKT
Added higher res pics

[Slave IV]

2 hours ago, MKT said:

 

Opened and fiddled with a VF100 Armored VF-25F. Going over reviews of it, I already lowered my expectations accordingly and intended it to be mostly a statue piece for display. Yet I didn't expect it was this bad as a toy whilst setting it up. 

The hips are loosey goosey, won't support the weight of its legs when posed hanging in the air, and together with the equally loose & rubbish ankles it will not stand at all by itself on a solid surface. The included stand is also very limited in its movement range, such that this is about the only pose I can make it do with valk's feet touching the ground.  

Haha, I got a VF100 VF-25 a while back...opened it and tried to mess around with it but gave up pretty quickly and it's been back in the box since.

At least you did a great job of making it look good in that pic! At some point when I get a display area ready, I'll open mine again, set it up and leave it at that.

Edited June 22, 2022 by Slave IV

[MKT]

10 hours ago, Slave IV said:

Haha, I got a VF100 VF-25 a while back...opened it and tried to mess around with it but gave up pretty quickly and it's been back in the box since.

At least you did a great job of making it look good in that pic! At some point when I get a display area ready, I'll open mine again, set it up and leave it at that.

Despite the shortcomings in the joint strength, I actually don’t mind the mega partsforming aspect of the VF100 line so much. It just presents another way to enjoy a toy, somewhat like a simple Lego but with rather accurate sculpt. It’s a good thing the plastics are pretty strong and the parts fit rather well.

Since this line’s initial release, over the years there have been more 1/100 Macross items so I feel they display well against each other.

The Family Mart version is a unique scheme, and I love the metallic fighter-only schemes of the VF-25S & VF-25F. 

[Slave IV]

11 hours ago, MKT said:

Despite the shortcomings in the joint strength, I actually don’t mind the mega partsforming aspect of the VF100 line so much. It just presents another way to enjoy a toy, somewhat like a simple Lego but with rather accurate sculpt. It’s a good thing the plastics are pretty strong and the parts fit rather well.

Since this line’s initial release, over the years there have been more 1/100 Macross items so I feel they display well against each other.

The Family Mart version is a unique scheme, and I love the metallic fighter-only schemes of the VF-25S & VF-25F. 

That's a good way to look at it. I got mine with the intention to display with HMR and other ~1\100 mecha and aircraft.

[sh9000]

54 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

I got mine with the intention to display with HMR and other ~1\100 mecha and aircraft.

I personally like how the VF100 Armored VF-25F looks in Fighter mode with HMR.

[Slave IV]

43 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

I personally like how the VF100 Armored VF-25F looks in Fighter mode with HMR.

Yeah, Maybe I'll try to get some more depending on how it goes after I mess with the one I have.

[MKT]

 

 

Just messing with some pic filtering apps.. At moment its back to the YF-21 / VF-22 being the favorite fighter valk. This time appreciating its high speed mode, with its inward canted stabilizers, and fold-down wings. No doubt the fold-down wings is a concept borrowed from the OG Valkyrie the XB-70:

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by MKT
Higher res pic

[MKT]

 

 

Continuing with collecting older items, and by pure luck scored a Yamato GNU-Dou VF-1A Max not long ago. It scales right in with the HMR, and although it doesn't transform, the chest articulation does add a whole lot of subtlety to posing & is pretty fun to handle. 

 

Edited November 27, 2022 by MKT

[MKT]

Recently noticed that some of Frontier valks (v2 onwards) have started to turn ever so slightly yellow, even though they have been kept MIB in their boxes since day 1 away from the triple bane of sunlight, heat & humidity. Pretty upset at first, but it is what it is. I conclude Bandai plastics for that generation of valks probably only lasts about 9-10 years before they start yellowing. Whereas Yamato / and early Arcadia valks of those years are still pretty pristine white in the same conditions.

So, I gonna start taking some pics of the whiter colored scheme valks to preserve their glorious colors in memory, starting with the YF-29 30th Anniversary (Roy) which is pretty much my top favorite scheme of all the YF-29s..

 

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by MKT

[MacrossJunkie]

12 hours ago, MKT said:

Recently noticed that some of Frontier valks (v2 onwards) have started to turn ever so slightly yellow, even though they have been kept MIB in their boxes since day 1 away from the triple bane of sunlight, heat & humidity. Pretty upset at first, but it is what it is. I conclude Bandai plastics for that generation of valks probably only lasts about 9-10 years before they start yellowing. Whereas Yamato / and early Arcadia valks of those years are still pretty pristine white in the same conditions.

So, I gonna start taking some pics of the whiter colored scheme valks to preserve their glorious colors in memory, starting with the YF-29 30th Anniversary (Roy) which is pretty much my top favorite scheme of all the YF-29s..

I wonder if it's the styrofoam that the Frontier valks were stored in or some other factor.

My v2 Frontier valks like Alto's are still pristine white. One is an original release, the other a re-issue. But then I also have mine covered in layers of clearcoat, so I maybe that's helping in my case? 

[MKT]

3 hours ago, MacrossJunkie said:

I wonder if it's the styrofoam that the Frontier valks were stored in or some other factor.

My v2 Frontier valks like Alto's are still pristine white. One is an original release, the other a re-issue. But then I also have mine covered in layers of clearcoat, so I maybe that's helping in my case? 

Can't disagree there, I guess styrofoam off-gassing is the only possible irritant factor left, as some others have also speculated. Clearcoat likely helps too because I know of other toylines that re-issued with clearcoat in attempt to tackle the yellowing problem of initial release. But base plastic formulation is still has to be the #1 factor.

[MKT]

Having run out of display space some time back, the purchases thereafter inadvertently stayed in their boxes waiting for their day to be out for the indefinitely delayed display expansion. So, decided to dug into storage to bring the Yamato QF-2200 Ghost boosters out for some fiddling.

 

I think of all the Ghost unmanned fighters in Macross universe, these look the best due to their simpler lines.

 

 

It is great that Yamato made both variants the QF-2200-A and QF-2200-B, as individually the colors look realistic, yet contrasts nicely with each other.

 

 

When I first saw it mounted on the VF-0 Phoenix in the final episode of Macross Zero more 20 years or so ago, the series which incidentally was my first re-introduction to the Macross universe, my first thought was that it was such a cool concept to augment the base valk. Although in this pic, it is not fully canon as I did not mount the missile pods. I thought the missile pods tend to break the sculpt overall a bit too much and makes the whole thing look just a bit too busy..

 

 

But it would be the following pic that fires up my imagination the most, and showcases the whole set up's trust vectoring capabilities, as glimpsed in a few shots of Shin vs Nora's final battle. Incidentally, I think there aren't (or I can't recall) any other Yamcadia or Bandai valks that showcase nicely painted details in the booster.

 

 

I hope Bandai follows up the HMR VF-0S with the Ghost booster before they do the armor. It would be fun to army build a few of those. 

 

[MKT]

Salute the usually thankless cannon-fodder...

[ValkAddict]

Great pics @MKT!!

[MKT]

Thanks @ValkAddict. That Yammie VF-1A CF is my first modern VF-1 toy, ever since a KO 1/55 chunky I had as a kid. Pretty blown away how overall well engineered it was, and still is for what is now coming to be a 15 year old mold.

 

The VE-1 Elintseeker really shows how well planned this mold was back in its day, because despite all the extra parts, even more so than the strike / super, everything stays really solidly together:

 

[jvmacross]

Edited July 29, 2022 by jvmacross

[jvmacross]

 

[nightmareB4macross]

Nice work JVMacross.

[Darotower]

My battroid Crowd

[ValkAddict]

Wow, nice collection @Darotower

EDIT: Is that a custom grey low-viz in the middle, 2nd last row? I thought Yamato only released that in 1/48 scale?

Edited September 25, 2022 by ValkAddict

[505thAirborne]

@Darotower Now that is one impressive collection! All you're missing is an Alaska Base VF and you'll be solid. 

The All the grey VF-1A is the VF-X correct?