MacrossJunkie

That looks awesome... but sooo shiny. I'm definitely gonna cover that sucker in a flat or semi-gloss coat when I get mine. Looks way glossier than Bandai's latest VF-25 release.

I'm just curious, has this happened to anyone else? I contacted HLJ. They said they would try to get me a replacement from Yamato. Hopefully they are able to.

D'oh! At least the D variant's head looks awesome.

There was a restock last week, but those already sold out it seems. The only place I can find it in stock is http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0058LT9GC/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=asedaruma-22&camp=1027&creative=7407&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0058LT9GC&adid=05ZSXA16Z4Q562V7J0EW& But it's at close to a 50-60% markup of the pre-order prices that most stores had.

I could still use a set of replacement shoulders for my VT-1 as well.

Yep. That's the renewal version. Couple more pics with the included Alto in Ex-Gear figure.

Yeah, forget Overdrive. I bought my Ostrich from them and saw that the shoulders had cracks so I emailed them and they never replied. They replied to inquiries before the purchase, but after they had my money, they would not respond. I had stopped buying anything from them after that.

Bandai went pretty heavy with the blue on theirs. I'm good with the colors Yamato went with for the overall valk, but it seems to me that the intake covers ought to have at least a subtle tinge of blue to them.

The panel lines? I used a gray enamel paint highly thinned out with enamel paint thinner.

Gave my 25F a semi-gloss/satin finish. Painting the edges also helped the look as well since the white in the gaps annoyed me a bit: versus Other pics:

Wow... I don't even The derp is strong with this one.

So why doesn't the YF-29 have any variant designations? There are clearly different variants already as shown by Ozma's having a different head unit than Alto's. Is it because they are still prototypes?

I personally wouldn't bother to buy one or at least it wouldn't be very high up on the "to buy" list. I still need to buy the Hikaru 1J before I would even consider the low vis version. And even then, the up coming current releases supercedes that and they are pretty expensive so that leaves little money left for yet another VF-1 with another paint scheme.

That is true. The turret is a different shade of red than the other red plastic parts, or at least the back half of it is. I can forgive the painted areas being a different shade. I just think it's dumb when they can't be consistent with the color of the plastic.

I passed on the initial Alto and Ozma releases but ended up buying the Michael and Luca versions and later the slightly improved VF-25S with armor bundle because I also figured these were the only versions we'd get in a long long while if not the only versions ever. Didn't buy any of the Alto releases because I was so dissatisfied with the releases that I figured it just wasn't worth buying yet another ugly release. I decided that the armor pack at least hid enough of the deficiencies of the sculpt to get that and that was the last of the version 1's that I purchased and would one day buy Alto's if it was ever released in an acceptable form. I'm glad I did and have pre-ordered Ozma's as well. I'll wait and see on the 25G and RVF. I particularly want to see if they can finally make the RVF with matching shades of green. I totally regret my purchase of the original because the differing shades of green bother me a lot as they are so completely obvious to my eyes without even having to look for differences, despite some other people saying they can't really see it.

I wouldn't mind an AIF-9V that was used by the Galaxy fleet as long as it wasn't nearly $100 like the accessory pack for the RVF-25.

Oh yes! This was so "MEH", that I forgot I had it!

Possibly, but he knew enough to know that the YF-19 came out in 2006, so I'd have to assume that he knows what the YF-19 toy looks like as well. A cursory glance at pictures of the two show a world of difference. Perhaps I've been on too many Internet sites and forums that I start suspecting people of trying to troll for reactions and responses. If that was a sincere question, I apologize.

I could try but the split in the stickers would be noticable in some areas. I think I may try to contact HLJ to see if they can get a replacement sticker sheet.

Just like picking a favorite, this is hard too. For me, it's a toss up between the following: 1) Yamato 1/72 YF-21 + FP (too purplish, terrible and inaccurate looking in all modes, legs flop around; not a lick of friction to keep them in place in battroid mode, required separate hands to hold gunpods, etc) 2) Bandai v1 DX VF-25's (inaccurate in all modes, molded like it was made for children, floppy floppy floppy loose joints, etc) 3) Yamato VB-6 (terrible looking shuttle mode, floppy joints all around and very little poseability) I guess the VB-6 was the least 'meh' of the three but still 'meh'.

Yes, especially the VE-1. I love the paint scheme on it probably even more than the accessories. Yeah, we don't want to encourage Yamato with higher prices. It's bad enough as it is.

LOL Nice trolling attempt there

Did anyone else who ordered the GBP-1S armor get a sticker sheet where the cut on the entire sheet was shifted about 3 mm to the right so that it cuts through all the numbers and everything else? I looked at the sticker sheet and went WTF. As someone who applies the stickers, I'm not sure what to do now.

Now that you mention it, it does look a lot like the Arbalest's head too.

The head for Ozma's variant reminds me a little of the Metal Siren's from Macross II. Mostly just the large forehead area and having two "eyes".