Graham Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Picked up mine from the store yesterday. No time to open it yet though. Quote
Sandman Posted January 30 Posted January 30 I got the yf-19 and Yf-21 kits. I've mainly done HG and MG Gundam models. Hoping these are as easy. I'm amazed that the painters in this forum are able to paint the striping on the valks. I can't keep my hand steady enough to paint the lines straight. How do you guys do it? Is there a template i can put over the valk that only exposes the stripes? Quote
KOG Water Dragon Posted January 31 Posted January 31 31 minutes ago, Sandman said: I got the yf-19 and Yf-21 kits. I've mainly done HG and MG Gundam models. Hoping these are as easy. I'm amazed that the painters in this forum are able to paint the striping on the valks. I can't keep my hand steady enough to paint the lines straight. How do you guys do it? Is there a template i can put over the valk that only exposes the stripes? Masking tape. Quote
Big s Posted January 31 Posted January 31 2 hours ago, Sandman said: I got the yf-19 and Yf-21 kits. I've mainly done HG and MG Gundam models. Hoping these are as easy. I'm amazed that the painters in this forum are able to paint the striping on the valks. I can't keep my hand steady enough to paint the lines straight. How do you guys do it? Is there a template i can put over the valk that only exposes the stripes? These kits are pretty easy out of the box. If you’re not into going all out with filling seams or paintwork, these are rather color separated and if you want to go a little further and not use stickers, there are waterslide sets to pretty much color everything properly. Just need to top coat over them and maybe use a simple panel line method and it should look pretty great. They snap up pretty similar to the average hg gundam kit, so if you’re used to those these aren’t much more complicated Quote
Bolt Posted February 16 Posted February 16 18 minutes ago, sh9000 said: Releasing on 2/22. Artwork looks good 👍🏼 Quote
Big s Posted February 16 Posted February 16 20 minutes ago, sh9000 said: Releasing on 2/22. Yay!!! Quote
Big s Posted February 19 Posted February 19 9 minutes ago, Black Valkyrie said: Lets hope they produce VF-19S. They probably will. Might be a web exclusive though Quote
Big s Posted February 20 Posted February 20 Just got the notification that my three Max 22’s are in at hlj Quote
kajnrig Posted February 20 Posted February 20 9 hours ago, Big s said: Just got the notification that my three Max 22’s are in at hlj Musta got the three I canceled . I realized when the Milia preorder didn't go through that I was on pace to have 12!!! kits of this single mold, and as much as I like the design, I don't 12 molds' worth of money like it! (That said, now that I'm going through M7 and Max and Milia are my favorite characters in the entire cast, I may have shot myself in the foot there... Oh well. Gamlin's a fun guy, too.) Quote
Big s Posted February 20 Posted February 20 21 minutes ago, kajnrig said: Musta got the three I canceled . I realized when the Milia preorder didn't go through that I was on pace to have 12!!! kits of this single mold, and as much as I like the design, I don't 12 molds' worth of money like it! (That said, now that I'm going through M7 and Max and Milia are my favorite characters in the entire cast, I may have shot myself in the foot there... Oh well. Gamlin's a fun guy, too.) I figured the M&M variants were coming and I actually skipped the Gamlin version, so yeah, 9 of these for me. I do like Gamlin, but that would have put me at 12 as well. Plus Gamlin was a web exclusive. I’ve seen his restocked a couple times already, so if I change my mind one day, it won’t be too hard to get Quote
KOG Water Dragon Posted February 20 Posted February 20 11 hours ago, Big s said: Just got the notification that my three Max 22’s are in at hlj 0 on my end, as usual. 🤣 Quote
Big s Posted February 21 Posted February 21 2 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said: 0 on my end, as usual. 🤣 Now I gotta wonder what you did to make them so angry. Were you making too much fun of their moms, or worse, did you actually have relations with their moms? Quote
Convectuoso Posted February 21 Author Posted February 21 11 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said: 0 on my end, as usual. 🤣 Same here. Only the decals have entered my Private Warehouse. I'll keep an eye on Mandarake for this kit Quote
KOG Water Dragon Posted February 21 Posted February 21 8 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Same here. Only the decals have entered my Private Warehouse. I'll keep an eye on Mandarake for this kit Hah, I didn't even get the decals. Quote
KOG Water Dragon Posted February 21 Posted February 21 19 minutes ago, KOG Water Dragon said: Hah, I didn't even get the decals. No, wait, I stand corrected. I got 3 decal sets. I've ordered 3 more now, since I hope to have 3 Max and 3 Miria eventually... But I wonder if they'll cancel my order since the other 3 decal sets are still in my private warehouse and the limit is 3 per person... Quote
geck Posted February 22 Posted February 22 Cancelled my order and just said f 'it and ordered off of eBay. Not sure what's going on with HLJ these days...but obviously they didn't order enough or Bandai did not produce/allocate enough of these kits to them. Seems to be a trend with Bandai on producing very limited runs of kits. Plamax seems to be doing this as well. Some of their recent 1/72 Macross kits are already listed as "discontinued" on HLJ! I'll have to try Mandarake at some point...never ordered anything from them before. Quote
Big s Posted February 22 Posted February 22 7 hours ago, geck said: Not sure what's going on with HLJ these days...but obviously they didn't order enough or Bandai did not produce/allocate enough of these kits to them. It’s probably more of a Bandai thing, but they may be just filling extra orders for when the second batch comes along. I still think it’s crazy that hlj seems to be the only site in Japan that sells Bandai model kits to people outside of Japan. Quote
treatment Posted February 24 Posted February 24 (edited) Think he made an error in not compressing the backplate properly and having it hanging further out quite near the heels like a very long cape... This other review seems to have it properly compressed: Edited February 24 by treatment Quote
Cadmus02 Posted February 26 Posted February 26 Hobby Link Japan didn't fulfill my preorders as well (except the decals). I was able to find both Max and Milia in stock at Okini.land. Quote
Convectuoso Posted February 26 Author Posted February 26 In progress pic of my Gamlin in fighter mode Quote
kajnrig Posted February 26 Posted February 26 34 minutes ago, Convectuoso said: In progress pic of my Gamlin in fighter mode Very nice. On a related note, I was so disappointed that his VF-22S was basically just a cameo in the OVA. I was really hoping for some budget to have been thrown his way. Quote
geck Posted Sunday at 05:37 PM Posted Sunday at 05:37 PM Finally got both of mine from eBay. Very nice kits. Gate removal and cleanup has been a breeze so far. I hope Bandai keeps adding Macross. Maybe one day we'll get RG or MG type kits from them. Quote
Big s Posted Sunday at 11:14 PM Posted Sunday at 11:14 PM 5 hours ago, geck said: Finally got both of mine from eBay. Very nice kits. Gate removal and cleanup has been a breeze so far. I hope Bandai keeps adding Macross. Maybe one day we'll get RG or MG type kits from them. The hg ones are great. As far as mg and real grade, I kinda want them to get some more advancements in their tech before trying things too complicated. They’re getting better all the time and I’m sure sometime in the future they’ll do better than their 1/72 offerings as far as stability and sturdiness Quote
Duymon Posted Monday at 12:00 AM Posted Monday at 12:00 AM Gamlin should have been a normal release meanwhile Wright Immelman's VF-22 should have been the P-Bandai change my mind Quote
Chronocidal Posted Monday at 02:36 AM Posted Monday at 02:36 AM 2 hours ago, Duymon said: Gamlin should have been a normal release meanwhile Wright Immelman's VF-22 should have been the P-Bandai change my mind Not going to lie.. I think I willfully blocked the existence of that one from my memory after how it was used in Delta. Wouldn't be a bad scheme though. Quote
Big s Posted Monday at 09:38 AM Posted Monday at 09:38 AM 9 hours ago, Duymon said: Gamlin should have been a normal release meanwhile Wright Immelman's VF-22 should have been the P-Bandai change my mind I think they did that because Gamlin isn’t as popular as the M&M’s. Although I’m a little surprised that even those didn’t end up web exclusive Quote
Cowboy17v2 Posted Monday at 09:19 PM Posted Monday at 09:19 PM US hobby stores have started to receive the VF-22s Max/Milia. My local hobbytown just got them in! Quote
Gabe Q Posted Monday at 11:41 PM Posted Monday at 11:41 PM 2 hours ago, Cowboy17v2 said: US hobby stores have started to receive the VF-22s Max/Milia. My local hobbytown just got them in! About how much are they charging? Quote
Big s Posted yesterday at 12:44 AM Posted yesterday at 12:44 AM 3 hours ago, Cowboy17v2 said: US hobby stores have started to receive the VF-22s Max/Milia. My local hobbytown just got them in! I saw the raspberry, but not the blueberry and some decals Quote
Big s Posted yesterday at 01:14 AM Posted yesterday at 01:14 AM 1 hour ago, Gabe Q said: About how much are they charging? From the Hobby town website. The max version isn’t in stock, but is showing for preorder on the site , but I’d imagine it will be in stock soon. I didn’t see any in person for max but did see the Miria version in store with decals. Quote
geck Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago On 3/9/2025 at 11:14 PM, Big s said: The hg ones are great. As far as mg and real grade, I kinda want them to get some more advancements in their tech before trying things too complicated. They’re getting better all the time and I’m sure sometime in the future they’ll do better than their 1/72 offerings as far as stability and sturdiness Yep. Bandai's new production facility is open and is supposed to be in full production by summer. Can't imagine all the stuff they are going to crank out! Quote
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