AndyLammmm

Thanks for all of your praise pushing me finish this kit.

Clear red lamp on the wing added. I coupled it with Hasegawa 1:72 ground crew set tonight. Is that nice?

After transforming once, the paint on metal parts was scratched even metal primer was used.

Update. Pilot painted. Decal added. Top coat sprayed tonight.

Update

A minor update. Still far from finish, closer than yesterday anyway. The most difficult part is nearly every parts contain 2 to 3 colors which need a lot of masking work before spray.

oh schnapp didn't notice this post.

check this out guys, i just posted this a few min ago, they're scans from Hobby Japan some dude built the bandai VF-1S and made it look pretty sweet:

1/72 Bandai VF-1S Focker Special

Thanks for your scanning. I am glad that I am not the only one working on this ancient model.

Thanks for your scanning. It is very good reference for me. I am building a 1:72 transformable kit Max VF 1J.

Love the leg MOD, I've got to try that on my unbuilt example one of these days; it makes a huge difference in the leg's posability and improves the kit by leaps and bounds.

Another quick and easy MOD to add to these kits is waist rotation. Just saw off the nose cone of the battroid specific fuselage part and add filler plates with scratch-built peg and hole: a peg one on the radome and the matching hole with a polycap behind it on the fuselage side, and voila... a battroid that has dynamic wait rotation. The only tricky part to this mod is aligning the rotation axis just right so that everything lines up when the battroid is facing front, and a thin saw should be used so that you won't need to get extra kits to act as donors.

Hi, thks for your comment. I thought about the waist mod in the beginning. However, when I play with my small revolttech VF 1S, I found the joint is not that helpful in improving the posing. In considering the operation is comparably big and the stability, I abandon the operation. May be I will build it on the next kit.

Recently I bought some 1:72 Bandai VF 1J kits @ ~US $3 during a local mega sale. This old and cheap stuff contain all the thigh joint and waist joint in the original design. Really amazing.

Paint the cockpit tonight. The pilot seems so happy. Almost 3 hours' work. The progress is slow as a snail.

Got one of it on workbench, Fokker's VF-1S. Currently now I am building Arii's Super Gerwalk kit, blue Max's fighter, but after it I'll do this pretty transforming kit. I don't show yet my Macross models to other modellers except my closest friends from Livejournal. I'd like to start showing it from classical Roy's Jolly Roger plane, cause Robotech was shown in Russia in early 1990-s on TV, and except anime-fans, everybody make a puzzled face trying to remember WTF is that "Macuros". But, when I show them kit with Fokker's plane - everyone smiling, while returning to their happy childhood where Rik Hunter with Roy were flying together from TV

I opened this kit firstly from my HLJ's box, and was surprised it's policarps joints, in usual time I built experimental WWII planes from very crude kits like vacuum-formed plates. And - all this tranformings, moving parts... I can't believe that this kit was produced in 1980-s. Like I missed the last train and don't know how to reach proper destination. I think, on next HLJ's sale I'll buy another one of this kit, maybe even two.

My progress is slow as I always stoned by the model as it really recall too much childhood memory during building it. I love the design. You see, even now (30 years later) the Hasagawa type fighter do not provide movable, diecast metal landing gears.

Keep up the good work. I'm also building the same model bought a few months ago from Hobbylink jappan!!!!

In what color are you going to paint it?

I am going to paint it as blue Max 1A and build another 1S later. So this model is my first guinea pig. I want to build Hikaru, Max & Milla 1J also. However, they are not commercially available locally.

Yes, it look much cooler after modification. The idea was come from those Zaku ver 2.0.

Tonight work for another 3 hours but the progress is slow. Having say that the ancient model is not so 'modeller friendly' (compare with those Gundam model).

The official postures are quite frightening to their potential customers. The real model is far better than the picture.

welcome to the forums!

thats good work ur doing there,

cant wait to see the final results

these model kits are really nice,

and they even have the VF-1D in the range

and due to a recent reissue, are not too hard to find.

it'll be great to have some of these to accompany the 1/72 vf-25

IMAI version are dream model when I was young. I was poor at that time and not own it. I only recently noticed that the Bandai reissue model are the same as IMAI one.

It is quite difficult to find them in Hong Kong (1S, 1D, 1A) compare to those XXXX Gundam. All VF-1J (variable model) were gone (because not being reissue?). I am quite strange why no company issue new Macross model. Hasagawa only issue none transformable type. The Yamato versions are great but far too expensive to me.

Hi, I am new to this forum. Now I'm building one variable type model (VF-1A).

BN