MacrossJunkie

Nice job on that. I didn't know Banpresto made a battroid version of the VF-25S... or is that a custom too? OverDrive sent me battroid versions of Alto's and Brera's VFs and the armored gerwalk of Ozma's for free along with one of my purchases. The packaging only showed those three plus a red and a gray Q-Rea so I assumed those were the only ones available.

That annoyed me quite a bit too for Brera's. I wonder how it goes missing when it's on the version they used on the box art. I ended up just painting it myself on mine based on how it looked on the box art. It's not quite right still because the stripes on the chest are too thin compared to the animation art so it doesn't meet up where it should with the hip gun stripe, but it's better than the stripe just suddenly ending at the chest piece.

Well, for me, it is also clearly noticeable in person. The color difference on my Luca annoys me so much that I have to leave the super packs on to make the difference less noticeable. It may not just be lighting and could be attributed to different batches of plastics use which may have left some less noticeable than others. My Brera VF-27 that I got when it first came out was nearly perfect in color matching. The second one I got a month or so later clearly had darker parts on some pieces such as the chest piece on the 2nd being darker than on my 1st.

I got a VT-1 this week. I was afraid one of the shoulder hinges would be cracked and unfortunately one was right out of the box. Hopefully I can get a replacement. It didn't keep me from admiring it though. It's my 2nd 1/60 VF-1 and my first with packs. They're really starting to grow on me. I just finished spraying a matte clear coat on mine after doing some panel lining and weathering.

Did the person just decide to put Brera in there or was that the pilot figure that came with the green VF-27? Seems they are still having issues with mismatched shades of green like Luca's RVF.

The final product looks pretty nice. I'm glad they were able to work in the vulcan cannon turret where the Yamato version just had a cheesy little block. I hope the forward viewport section of the shuttle cockpit will be able to sit flush with the head instead of just badly laying on top like in every one of the shuttle and destroid pics.

Aren't all the VT-1's out there with the knurled pins and thus at risk of the exploding shoulder syndrome or did Yamato go back and fix later batches after they found out? I was considering getting the VT-1 the other day since the price at overdrive was pretty good, but I was afraid I would end up with one with bad shoulders if they all have the knurled pins.

Given the size of the one they have on display, even if it says it's 1/60 scale, it probably is closer to 1/48 - 1/50 scale. A regult is supposed to be 15.12m tall. By comparison, the YF-21 and YF-19 are around 15.5m for battroid mode which would make the regult shorter than them or at least the same height if it was off by a little bit. Up until now, Yamato has done a pretty respectable job in making the relative heights and lengths of the VFs to scale with each other in battroid and fighter modes with the toys just being off by a tiny bit. Mind you, I'm speaking of the VFs and not the pilots. However, that picture of the regult standing next to a 1/60 VF-1S would make it taller than the 19 and 21 as well by a good bit. So there is room for them to backtrack and legitimately say it's a larger scale and then come out with a smaller one later at 1/60.

That sucks, man. I had just decided to transform mine to battroid and display it in that mode the other day to relieve the stress from the wing hinges. After seeing that pic, I had to examine the hinges on mine to see if they were okay. Fortunately they were fine despite transforming it with the armor on... well as much of it on as I could keep from falling off. Amazingly, the arm and leg hinges were still very tight unlike my VF-25G which loosened to completely floppy status from doing nothing but standing there in the display since I got it.

I got excited until I saw web exclusive kit. These web exclusives from both Bandai and Yamato are becoming tiresome and lame.

Sorry if this was already mentioned in this thread. Is this "TV white" whiter or less white than the DYRL versions that are out already?

I'm starting to like this version of the VB-6 more after seeing the newer pictures. In particular the battroid mode looks pretty good and while it doesn't look like the older line art, it looks like how it does in Frontier. Definitely would just go for the regular version. The nose art just looks terrible on it.

Not a single piece of the super nor armored packs would fit on the 27 in the slightest. The surface shapes and contours just don't match. The only thing they share in common are the hands and style of transformation.

I got a second VF-27 from AmiAmi a week or so ago. I'm glad AmiAmi found a better way to package the poster in with the toy so that it didn't require such a huge box half full of nothing. The build quality of this one didn't seem as good as the first one I got when it was initially released. The plastics were more noticeably different in color. Particularly the chest was darker and the color was not mixed well as there were some black swirls in the plastic. There were more paint chips out of the box. Also the leg and arm joints were a lot looser. Where the legs were actually difficult to move in the first one I got, the right leg flops around on the new one.

I'd excuse them if they were already busy secretly working on a DX VF-171. I've held off buying Alto's VF-25 as well as any other releases after the full armored Ozma because I'm expecting them to eventually make an updated version sometime that's at least up to the standard set by the 27.

Nice. The pic is kinda small, but from what I can see, it looks like the decals actually fit pretty well still on the larger scale.

Check back on pages 13 and 14 of this very thread. I had put some pics up of mine stickered, panel lined, and lightly weathered.

I'm curious if Bandai's other toy lines have had as many issues with the paint and errors in the printing as their DX Macross F line. I'm not trying to imply that "zomg, Bandai hates Macross!!!1" I just honestly don't know how their other stuff normally is. The only other products I've bought from Bandai were the original SOC EVAs which required very minimal tampo printing anyway, but the paint was pretty solid. Do their Gundam toys have similar issues that come up? Or the other SOC releases?

It locks in place, sometimes it is hard getting it there though due to it being small and the space being limited. You should feel it click though when it's properly in place. Check in previous threads for the VF-11B to see how some people have done it.

My VF-25G has become extremely floppy despite not doing anything with it nearly since the time I got it. The arms can barely support their own weight and the legs flop around just like the old 1/72 YF-21 toy. I don't know if the same has happened to my RVF-25 or 25S since they have been in fighter mode all this time, but I wouldn't be surprised. I could understand this happening if they were played with a lot and moving the joints around and such, but when just displaying in a fixed position all this time? It's not even like these things are old. I really hope the VF-27 doesn't eventually turn floppy like that.

Not a fluke. Mine got those same cracks within a day of being in fighter mode with the armor packs on.

I don't suppose there's any chance of Yamato selling those new sticker sheets on their own? I really wish they would. The old ones sucked as they didn't hold well sometimes and were sort of thick. A couple came off my 19 during handling and I can't find where they went and there's no way for me to replace them.

Hmmm, I was excited because I thought Bandai had the potential to do a better job with this thing in the other modes since they did very well with the Quarter and VF-27. However I see that the same effort was not applied here. The shuttle mode just looks terrible. Looks like someone strapped on a fake nose to the shuttle. The wings are done better than the old Yamato version, but still, it could have been done better. Battroid looks bleh, I think the Yamato version looks better. The destroid mode looks more or less like equivalent to Yamato's koenig. It benefits from having the markings pre-painted, but the sculpt overall is underwhelming. There's not enough of an improvement over the Yammie for me to want to buy one. I think if the shuttle mode had at least looked good, I would have bought one to display in that mode and kept the Yammie VB-6 in gerwalk/destroid mode.

Technically having a hybrid mode isn't unique only to valkyries. From around the same era, you have the Legioss from Mospeada with its armo diver mode which is basically gerwalk. Also in Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, the Spartas had a hybrid gerwalk like mode as well.

Regarding the stickers... uhh.. they're all over the thing. All the red "NO STEP" and "DANGER" stickers, the red intake "<", the large "UN SPACY" stickers on the legs, ejection seat warnings, etc. I cut the stickers to the very edges with a hobby knife to minimize the sticker look. I didn't use gundam markers for the panel lining. The lines tend to look a lot thicker or harsher and unnatural, particularly on light colored plastics. Ever since I boought some Promodeller weathering wash, I used that to do the panel lining. It takes more patience, but the result is far more agreeable to me. Where I did use gundam markers were to blacken the inside of the maneuvering nozzles below the cockpit and on the FAST packs as well, put additional black paint on the top of the booster packs to make it more like the line art, and metallic red on the tips of the tail fins for "lights". I used Tamiya weathering master kits for the weathering using a combination of gun metal, silver, and oil stain colors in various places. I applied it and then wiped most of it off with a dry paper towel to leave only just the slightest traces on it because I didn't want the weathering to look too heavy.