Strike A Pose! revisted...

[jvmacross]

3 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Looks like a lot of DX VF-1S Super Valkyrie and HM VF-1S poses that I've done will now be recreated with the HMR TV VF-1S.

Plenty of inspiration to be found in the Macross Packaging Art book

[68whiskey]

Some of the creativity in this thread is amazing. That sailor moon parody is solid gold 😆

[jvmacross]

[no3Ljm]

Love this bird.
Hi-Metal R VF-4 Lightning III.

[MKT]

On 2/27/2023 at 11:01 AM, no3Ljm said:

Love this bird.
Hi-Metal R VF-4 Lightning III.

 

VF-4 in fighter is so pretty.   Toy wise, I think it's the best transforming VF in the HMR line.

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Not much of a pose:

[MKT]

Often when handling a VF toy, I find something new or re-discover something I like about it that have been glossed over previously. This time it's the half-Gerwalk mode of the VF-1.

 

 

  

[sh9000]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[MKT]

At moment, it's the closest I can get to having a VF-11C..

 

 

[no3Ljm]

5 hours ago, MKT said:

At moment, it's the closest I can get to having a VF-11C..

 

 

Nice photos, @MKT!   And I want to paint my VF-11C like that in Hikaru's red. Hope you don't mind.  

 

Option 1:

 

Option 2:

[Lolicon]

18 hours ago, MKT said:

At moment, it's the closest I can get to having a VF-11C..

 

 

Looks badass! 

[MKT]

Thanks @Lolicon. I wish the GNU line continued to other valks, but sadly they ended after the Plus ones. 

@no3Ljm always love your recolors. They look as though they are actual releases lol.

[sh9000]

[jvmacross]

39 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

We who are about to die....salute you!

They look like freshly baked cookies straight out of the oven! Yum! 

[sh9000]

On 3/7/2023 at 2:06 PM, jvmacross said:

We who are about to die....salute you!

They look like freshly baked cookies straight out of the oven! Yum! 

Brownies about to get baked.  

[Lolicon]

On 3/7/2023 at 3:16 AM, MKT said:

Thanks @Lolicon. I wish the GNU line continued to other valks, but sadly they ended after the Plus ones. 

@no3Ljm always love your recolors. They look as though they are actual releases lol.

Yeah I regret not getting a YF-19 and YF-21 pair. 

[MKT]

On 6/22/2022 at 11:49 PM, 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.  

 

 

 

I recently got in a 2nd copy of the VF100 Armored VF-25F, to have it as a display piece in Fighter. This would be the first time I'm handling a VF-25 Armored in Fighter of any scale, as I've skipped on the 1/60 versions.

Up till not long ago, I always thought Fighter form didn't suit the 25 Armored, as it looked too bulky and somehow interrupted too much of the base 25's sleek curvy lines. But once I have its actual form in my hands, it didn't appear as ungainly as I remembered in the images and actually looks pretty good. I think this change in perception is due to the VF-31 Armored that we are seeing more of recently, which look like an absolute flying brick in comparison and somehow I've been conflating both the 25 and 31 Armored forms together. 

As to the toy itself, I went in thinking Fighter would be more a pleasure to handle than Battroid, but how wrong I was. Battroid had noodle legs, but at least the pieces plugged in accurately and stayed on reasonably tight. In Fighter, the shoulder missile pods pop off with ever the slightest nudge, and the legs always appear to feel that they can be tucked up higher, but they don't stay and hangs down slightly. Still, these issues are not really out of expectations after already going through reviews.

Pretty happy with both purely as display pieces in the collection.
 

 

Edited March 13, 2023 by MKT

[no3Ljm]

Spreading some YF-21 love.  

[sh9000]

[Lolicon]

On 3/13/2023 at 4:22 AM, MKT said:

 

I recently got in a 2nd copy of the VF100 Armored VF-25F, to have it as a display piece in Fighter. This would be the first time I'm handling a VF-25 Armored in Fighter of any scale, as I've skipped on the 1/60 versions.

Up till not long ago, I always thought Fighter form didn't suit the 25 Armored, as it looked too bulky and somehow interrupted too much of the base 25's sleek curvy lines. But once I have its actual form in my hands, it didn't appear as ungainly as I remembered in the images and actually looks pretty good. I think this change in perception is due to the VF-31 Armored that we are seeing more of recently, which look like an absolute flying brick in comparison and somehow I've been conflating both the 25 and 31 Armored forms together. 

As to the toy itself, I went in thinking Fighter would be more a pleasure to handle than Battroid, but how wrong I was. Battroid had noodle legs, but at least the pieces plugged in accurately and stayed on reasonably tight. In Fighter, the shoulder missile pods pop off with ever the slightest nudge, and the legs always appear to feel that they can be tucked up higher, but they don't stay and hangs down slightly. Still, these issues are not really out of expectations after already going through reviews.

Pretty happy with both purely as display pieces in the collection.
 

 

Oh snap that's a VF100? At first I thought it was the DX before I read your post. Sweet shots! 

[sircastico2]

1/48 Bandai DX and Yamato Stealth. Thanks!

[no3Ljm]

4 hours ago, sircastico2 said:

1/48 Bandai DX and Yamato Stealth. Thanks!

Awesome!   

[no3Ljm]

On 3/18/2023 at 10:47 PM, Lolicon said:

Oh snap that's a VF100? At first I thought it was the DX before I read your post. Sweet shots! 

Agreed. That top shot of the VF-25F does indeed look like the DX version. Great shot, @MKT.   

[sh9000]

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Great pose!!

[MKT]

Yamato's interpretation of VF-17 from some angles reminds me of The Tumbler with Angry Birds face. 

 

 

[takatoys]

Perhaps one of the best pictures I have taken using the latest iphone.

[Pontus]

14 hours ago, MKT said:

Yamato's interpretation of VF-17 from some angles reminds me of The Tumbler with Angry Birds face. 

I'd propose that the tumbler and other such angular designs were in no small part influenced by the same fighter design as the VF-17 was itself based on, the "Stealth Fighter" F-117 Nighthawk (according to this fandom wiki page).  Personally, although it may be good for evading radar, I'm not convinced that it influenced design for the better.   I'm looking at you Cadillac.

Awesome display tho, not casting shade.

Speaking of awesome displays...

[no3Ljm]

12 hours ago, takatoys said:

Perhaps one of the best pictures I have taken using the latest iphone.

[MKT]

Thanks @Pontus

Was about to say I'm seeing hints of Lamborghini too in the VF-17, but yeah some Lambos and Tumbler have all been associated with the F-117 in some way or other in their designs, hence the commonalities between all of them.

[Lolicon]

On 4/25/2023 at 9:13 PM, MKT said:

Yamato's interpretation of VF-17 from some angles reminds me of The Tumbler with Angry Birds face. 

 

 

Looks great. Also like the use of clear parts for the walls to better diffuse light. 

[MKT]

On 5/1/2023 at 12:34 AM, Lolicon said:

Looks great. Also like the use of clear parts for the walls to better diffuse light. 

Thanks @Lolicon I only turned the whole diorama box sideways. 

[MKT]

Chogokin VF-25S is among the early valks in my collection, thought I'll get some shots of it before the inevitable Revival version.. Fighter-only for now though.

 

The VF-25S's insignia / logo appear to be the very first insignia to appear on a VF's back, and IMHO its design still looks the best today after a multitude of them started being used in Delta.

 

The insignia matches nicely with the best color scheme of Frontier VFs, and being on a top favorite VF-25, they collectively make the VF-25S have arguably the best scheme of any VF in the Macross universe...

   

Still amazed at how Macross VFs throughout 40 years always have rather tidy underbellies in Fighter in comparison to other transforming jets, and the VF-25 is no exception. I would have taken off the intake covers for this shot, but the unpainted intake detail bug me more so I left them on.

Edited May 8, 2023 by MKT

[Mog]

So many of the designs from Frontier felt like a natural progression of old Macross designs and symbols: 

• The GBP-1S armor now being integrated to be used in all three Valk modes;
• The missing eye in the VF-25S emblem reminding me of an eyepatch and homaging the pirate roots of the Jolly Rogers.

And yeah, even the YF-21 and the Sv-262 (that don't have that standard "jet engines become the legs" design) have pretty smooth underbellies.

[MKT]

I only appreciated how hard it was to not have kibble underneath jets or flying craft when collecting Macross, when in other ground vehicles these robot bits can just be hidden away in their undercarriages. 

I think the VF-25 itself supposedly take design elements of different VF’s that came before it, in keeping with its homage theme for its 25th Anniversary.

As an aside, when I first watched SW Episode 7, for better or worse I came away from it thinking how similar it was to Frontier in homaging the original show within their respective universes.