DX YF-29 Durandal (Maximillian Jenius Unit) WWM Release

[borgified]

I think Milia’s YF-29 is non existent honestly. Kawamori just made up both M&M’s 29 just to get attention and create disturbance in the Space Fold Continuum like the original Quantium Leap and the new reboot. 🤣 

[Bolt]

Lol. It all depends if Bandai has enough persuasive  powers to corrupt Kawamori  to the dark side..

Meanwhile, Bandai holds out on everything else they've teased.

[kajnrig]

1 hour ago, borgified said:

Kawamori just made up both M&M’s 29 

Both? You mean the YF-29 we saw is actually a husband and wife time-share and they each get to use it every other month out of the year? Or they purposely spent their savings buying the YF-29 so they could fight and bicker over it?

[Bolt]

Milia was on a top secret mission , in her red YF-29, during the events of Delta Zettai. There , i just retconned it for you Bandai. Your welcome. 

[DewPoint]

Like sneaking across the fold....  To.....   Errrr...  Nevermind..... 

[borgified]

Maybe visiting their daughter Emilia (where she resides during the events Macross 7: Galaxy is Mine) or still goes singing with the Space Whales and visits her other daughters as Max is too busy during his Command. 

There’s no doubt that Milia has a YF-29 and hid it somewhere safe while Max was out on his duty and didn’t tell him when she has received a unit for her personal use. 
 

 

[DewPoint]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that YF-29s are NEVER giving out for personal use. They are "issued out" for "testing" and to "gather performance data" for refinement.  Its performance is so far out on the edge that only a very small number of people can handle that role.   So Max and Milia are "doing them a favor" by squeezing in some "testing" sessions during their busy work and personal lives.  Is Alto really good enough to take the YF-29 to its limits and come back alive?   I think we all know what happened there.   And Iasmu is well...   You know...   

[Lolicon]

I broke my Durandal.

[DownIsUp]

2 hours ago, Lolicon said:

I broke my Durandal.

Wow that's a lot of parts. You gonna try putting it back together?

[Anasazi37]

3 hours ago, Lolicon said:

I broke my Durandal.

All of that work just to touch up the canopy paint? 

[Bolt]

4 hours ago, Lolicon said:

I broke my Durandal.

Been waiting for you to do that ! Like every Valkyrie you get 

[Lolicon]

2 hours ago, Anasazi37 said:

All of that work just to touch up the canopy paint? 

LOL yep!

 

1 hour ago, Bolt said:

Been waiting for you to do that ! Like every Valkyrie you get 

It's the easiest way to work on it, after all. 

[Bolt]

Understood. Your the expert on disassembling Valkyries!

[davidwhangchoi]

9 hours ago, Lolicon said:

I broke my Durandal.

y u du dis

[MacrossJunkie]

I finished weathering Max's YF-29.  Worked on it on and off over the past few weeks.

I'll take some more pics with and without the supers later. I need to start deleting more photos from my Flickr account because it's getting near that 1000 photo limit and the price they're charging for pro these days is just not worth it for what I'm using it for. 

Edited October 17, 2022 by MacrossJunkie
added a couple more pics

[Bolt]

Looks really good !

[Lolicon]

3 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

y u du dis

When have I ever not done this? 

2 hours ago, MacrossJunkie said:

I finished weathering Max's YF-29.  Worked on it on and off over the past few weeks.

I'll take some more pics with and without the supers later. I need to start deleting more photos from my Flickr account because it's getting near that 1000 photo limit and the price they're charging for pro these days is just not worth it for what I'm using it for. 

Looking good! 

I'll make the landing gears white on mine, but all other work will have to wait until I come back from Japan. 

[borgified]

Had a feeling that @Lolicon is going to up the game on each valks that he gets. Got to put more details on a regular valk that came from the factory. 

[davidwhangchoi]

2 hours ago, Lolicon said:

When have I ever not done this? 

[orbitalharvest]

9 hours ago, MacrossJunkie said:

I finished weathering Max's YF-29.  Worked on it on and off over the past few weeks.

I'll take some more pics with and without the supers later. I need to start deleting more photos from my Flickr account because it's getting near that 1000 photo limit and the price they're charging for pro these days is just not worth it for what I'm using it for. 

beautiful!  not too heavy handed and calls out all the right details!

 

[MKT]

10 hours ago, MacrossJunkie said:

I finished weathering Max's YF-29.  Worked on it on and off over the past few weeks.

I'll take some more pics with and without the supers later. I need to start deleting more photos from my Flickr account because it's getting near that 1000 photo limit and the price they're charging for pro these days is just not worth it for what I'm using it for. 

Looking great @MacrossJunkie! 

On top of the general colour scheme for Max's, one of the nice standout detail unique to this scheme would be the bronze intake covers that's very visible on battroid. Somehow makes it pop. 

[Mommar]

6 hours ago, MKT said:

Looking great @MacrossJunkie! 

On top of the general colour scheme for Max's, one of the nice standout detail unique to this scheme would be the bronze intake covers that's very visible on battroid. Somehow makes it pop. 

It's bronze?  In photos it looks pink.

[MacrossJunkie]

29 minutes ago, Mommar said:

It's bronze?  In photos it looks pink.

By my judgment, it's more copper than bronze.  I'd say it's about 80%-ish copper and about 20% rose gold mixed in. It's not pink, but not purely copper either. Looks that way to me both in person and in photos on my monitors.

[MKT]

Ok I mixed up copper with bronze lol.. just like whatever color it is on those intakes.

[Sokeijon]

Hope to get mine by next week. 

[Lolicon]

All I have time to do until mid-November. 

[Bolt]

Noice!

[Raptor One]

I've never been a fan of the YF-29 design but God help me I kinda want Max's 

[Sokeijon]

Finally got mine, but very frustrating and hard to adjust closing up those gaps. 

[MKT]

3 hours ago, Sokeijon said:

Finally got mine, but very frustrating and hard to adjust closing up those gaps. 

 

It is kinda par for Bandai's Macross molds of that era though. Which is why Arcadia's molds generally have much better precision with their tighter fit, whilst Bandai's always feel a bit more toylike with slightly more freeplay and gaps here and there..

[Angesdad]

3 hours ago, Sokeijon said:

Finally got mine, but very frustrating and hard to adjust closing up those gaps. 

it don't look too bad, mine was way worse out of the box. Looks like the shoulder hinge joints are not pushed up all the way. transform it to massage & work out the kinks.

[David Hingtgen]

Yeah, the -25/29 diecast shoulder bits are "unintuitive" to get lined up, but you almost always can get them to fit with very little gappage.  But it does tend to require "adjust them to where you think is right, THEN swing arm assembly into place".  Trying to adjust the shoulders after the arms are in fighter mode doesn't tend to work well----have to swing the arms back out, adjust shoulder, swing arms back in.....

[Sokeijon]

7 hours ago, MKT said:

It is kinda par for Bandai's Macross molds of that era though. Which is why Arcadia's molds generally have much better precision with their tighter fit, whilst Bandai's always feel a bit more toylike with slightly more freeplay and gaps here and there..

My Alto does not has such big gaps. Yeah agree, Arcadia have much better precision and alignment. So far, VF-31 is the best among all the DX Chogokin.

[Sokeijon]

7 hours ago, Angesdad said:

it don't look too bad, mine was way worse out of the box. Looks like the shoulder hinge joints are not pushed up all the way. transform it to massage & work out the kinks.

Perhaps and I should try to transform it several times to see if it fits better.

[Sokeijon]

5 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

Yeah, the -25/29 diecast shoulder bits are "unintuitive" to get lined up, but you almost always can get them to fit with very little gappage.  But it does tend to require "adjust them to where you think is right, THEN swing arm assembly into place".  Trying to adjust the shoulders after the arms are in fighter mode doesn't tend to work well----have to swing the arms back out, adjust shoulder, swing arms back in.....

Alright, will re-do again. Thanks for the tips~