Graham

When are we going start seeing some VF-0 customs? Kurt? Jung? Graham

Guys, please keep talk of the VF-0A to either the VF-0A thread, or the 'What's wrong with my........" thread. This is the YF-19 thread. Graham

Yes, it should be able to fit on the VF-0S. Graham

Sits quitely twiddlling thumbs and smiling. Graham

But what we really want to know is are the stickers for the tail fins crooked on the sticker sheet or not? Graham

Amended the thread title, so it's not so misleading. Graham

It's not all floppy in battroid mode. That is an extreme exageration. Yes, if you turn it upside down then the torso unlocks, but that hardly qualifies as being all floppy! The limbs and joints are all nice and tight. You can pick it up and fly it around in battroid mode by holding onto the upper legs, the groin or the backpack. Graham

Heh, guilty, multiple times Graham

Interesting, the standalone Ghost in those anime screen caps does seem to have some sort of two or three tone splinter camoflage paint scheme. Graham

I have several I got from Yamato, but need to ask if I can show them. Graham

Actually, if I was selling a DYRL 1/48 on Ebay and it had straight skulls, I would probably mention it in the item description, in the hope that idiots buyers would bid a bit higher. Graham

Anybody feel like writing an indepth review of series 1 & series 2 for the main site? Looking for about 1000 words written in a fair and objective manner. And of course lots of pics of the toys in all three mode, box & instructions. I'd do it myself, but I have no plan to buy the toys as I don't want more VF-1 toys. If Toynami wants to send me some free samples to review I'll be happy to review them........hint, hint. Graham

I'd happily put a VF-19 or VF-22 up against an F91 anyday. I'd feel quite comfortable putting an earlier generation Valk (VF-1, VF-4, VF-11, VF-17) up against any mark of Zeta, which has the aerodynamics of a flying brick! GP02 would have to hit the Valk first. In the original Gundam One Year War TV series, Gundam armour was IMO shown as being overly unrealistic in it's ability to stop the shells's from the Zaku's guns. Later Gundam anime, seemed to revise down the protective ability of Gundam armor to the point where it could be penetrated by cannon shells. And there are cannon shells and there are cannon shells! IIRC, wasn't it once calculated in another thread on these forums that the kinetic energy produced by a shot from the RX-78's beam rifle was actually similar to that of a 55mm round from the VF-1's GU-11? Graham

Non-existant unfortunately! But I seriously doubt we will ever see a PG, MG or SOC Valk. Bandai has never had much love for Macross. Graham

Each to his own I guess. Our tastes definitely differ though. I've always found Gundams and Evas to be very asthetically unappealing mecha designs. I do like some of the Zion designs though. Graham

I disagree. One of the issues I have with many Mobile Suit designs is that despite their huge size, they actually have extremely limited armament and often limited mobility as well, especially the early U.C. era MS. Take the RX-78 for example, it can't fly, only walk, run and jump, so has to have a mother ship or other transport vehicle to transport it from location to location, unlike Valks, which with their high Mach speeds have far more useful stategic mobility. Not to mention far better manuverability. Many MS, the RX-78 included also carry a tiny weapon load for their size. Head Vulcans with limted ammo, a beam rifle with limited ammo that usually has to be discarded after 20 shots or less and no spare ammo! beam sabers that are only useful if the enemy gets within range. While I'm not going to get into a Valk vs MS discussion, I'd take any VF over any pre-Victory (UC153) era MS anytime. Valks generally have the upper hand in armament, speed and manuverabilty. Valk armor and pin point barriers on later VFs is nothing to sneeze at either. Not even going to get into the whole G-Gundam, Wing Gundam, SEED/SEED Destiny thing as they are more super robots than real robots IMO. Graham

So what pistol does Bond use in this movie? The movie posters which have just started going up here in HK, show him with what appears to be a silenced PPK, but what's shown on movie posters often has no relation to what's actually in the movie. Graham

From what I understand from my conversations with Yamato, when the 1/48 was first designed, two-seater versions were not considered and not even taken into consideration. Originally, the line was only supposed to comprise the 3 main DYRL single-seaters (Hikaru 1A, Max 1A & Roy 1S) plus FAST Packs. However, the popularity of the 1/48 surprised even Yamato, so the line was gradually expanded. IIRC, Yamato said that, two-seaters are just about technically possible, but the existing 1/48 design is not an ideal frame for making a two-seater. I've only briefly looked at Capt's 1/48 VF-1D conversion kit and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the heat shield have to be removed during transformation? Also, doesn't the head hang too far down in fighter mode? Graham

Hopefully, the Ghosts won't be late. I mean they don't transform and have a relatively small number of parts (unlike the GBP), so they should be fairly simple to make. Graham

Don't ya know that Roy had a tradition of painting all the skulls himself on the tails of the Skull Squadron Valks. Being that he was usually dunk, he always painted the skulls crooked. Graham

Ah, but the straight Skulls were the special limited edition version and will henceforce triple in price on Ebay! Graham

On this page, you can see a date of May 2007 is mentioned for the Shin & Ghost set. On this page you can see that a date of April 2007 is shown for the Ghost by itself. Remember to check the MW updates! Graham

The top of the head comes off? I didn't know that. It's not supposed to! Never had it come of on my VF-0S. I'll have to try it when I go home tonight. Graham

Maybe Kawamori has said that crooked skulls are official! Did ya think of that huh? Well, did ya? Graham

Never liked Gundam much and always thought the RX-78 is a hideous looking design. Never understood why the anime is so popular also. Give me Macross over Gundam anyday. Graham