I wish people would stop using that funky battroid line art as a gauge of how accurate a VF-1 sculpt is. At no point in the anime is a battroid ever drawn like that. Animators are really good at maintaining consistent proportions while animating character or mecha designs. They drew the VF-1 in battroid mode (in most episodes) much closer to how it would actually look, and it's no coincidence that this is what the 1/48s and 1/60s look like as well. In other words, once the animators got familiar with the design, they drew it more accurately than Kawamori himself did.
The 1/60 v2 does an excellent, almost uncanny, job of capturing how the VF-1 is depicted in the anime. That's much more important (and more attainable) than the line art.
In attached pic, note the slender, long nosecone, the smallish, unexaggerated hands, and the realistic length of the wings. The VF-1 is drawn this way throughout this outstanding episode and in several others, and it is far better than the line art versions.
1/60 comparison:
Bottom line: line art is HUGELY over-rated. And this is coming from an animator, btw