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16 hours ago, peter said:

Gear up....was it as much of a PITA as it was with the 1/72s?  I never want to do a gear up 1/72 Valkyrie again, lol!

 

It is not a PITA, in fact it is a fun build, except for the fact that if you want to build it in flight mode, closing the wheel wells is complicated, Hasegawa should provide these parts. Finding a good display stand is very difficult too.

1/48  VF-1A Super Cannon Fodder continue

10 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Thanks everyone, the RVF-19 & Drones were a fun build and I have more projects on the list to complete. 

@MechTech  What mecha is that from, I like it. 

@Thom I'm not on top of my WWII fighters like I used to be, is that a Spitfire in the works? 

This is what the Drones are escorting. 

 

Nice!!!  We NEED more stands for Macross Valkyries!!!! 1/48 STANDS please!!!

A little update

well, all super parts painted, love de color :), wings painted too and yesterday try to fix some paint problems with the YF-19

1/48 VF-1A  CANNON FODDER Continue

15 minutes ago, arbit said:

What are the ratios? Would that be the same mix for the TV SDF-1?

Gabe's mix

I put aside the 1-48 YF-19, a lot of problems with paint :(, so I started a new project, 1/48 VF-1A Super Cannon Fodder TV version.

Here the pics.

Color test for the "main" color

Color test for the fast packs TV (Love it, GabeQ's mix)

Great news. Love your builds!!!

Gabe's mix test. Looks really nice. Don't have Tamiya blue, I use gaianotes blue.

Really happy with the results.  Thanks a lot

Hi, some time ago (like 8 years lol) some told me to use Model Master RLM24 Dunkelblau, the shade is very similar. Gabe's custom mix looks really nice.

WOW!!! Thanks a lot

In episode 30 the packs are blue .

what color is that in your opinion? blue or green?

What's the color of the super pack for the TV version? I will build the canon fodder, I know the Hikaru (ep27) it is more like a light green , but the canon fodder is more blue. But what blue.  Any idea/help?

Thanks

10 hours ago, Gabe Q said:

The boxart for the low viz has been posted: 

https://twitter.com/hobby_magazine/status/1382838670260989960?s=20

 

 

Nice!!!

15 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

YF-21, VF-25, or VF-31.

For me, YF-21, VF-11 and VF-25 will be nice.  Macross Delta valk not for me, so much colors  to match the girls. Don't like that. 

Nice to see 1-48 again. Hope a new tool soon

NIce!!! Love the 1/48 Valks!!!!

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Boy do I ever wish Hasegawa would get on with it, and make a matching YF-21.

still wainting since 2009

Continue:

Well working on my 1/48 YF-19:

21 hours ago, TMBounty_Hunter said:

Is there really that much profit to be had from Macross models though? Surely Hasegawa has always been doing the math all along. Macross has always been only a tiny fraction of their output and they're still primarily a manufacturer of military and other "traditional" models. If their choice is between making a new mold for some old WWII subject that'll appeal to modelers everywhere vs a Macross design that's only for a bunch of otaku then what's the more financially responsible decision?

Plus the VF-1 is probably like 80-90% of Macross related merch out there and they already have that covered. I'm sure lots of people on this forum would love a 1/48 YF-21 and related VF-22 repops, but that's maybe a few hundred sales at most? Going a bit broader in the west going to model shows there's usually a few 1/72 Macross kits entered, maybe even half a dozen to a dozen per show but since it came out I've seen the 1/48 VF-19 only twice. There's absolutely more demand in Japan but really how much? 10k production run? That's on the far low end of typical model runs and some would claim isn't enough to cover the cost of the molds. With majority of those being bought and sitting in people's closet for years and years because we already got mountains of a backlog? If it was worthwhile for Hasegawa then we'd see way more 1/48 YF-19 and VF-19 decal variants since that requires no new molds but we've only ever got one almost a decade ago.

Any new mold decisions would also be influence by possibility of cross-promotion and right now there's nothing really happening until the new Delta movie some out.

There's really only 3 routes left if you want a company to make a kit:
1. give up and forget about it

2. keep posting about how it's not in any way viable and how it'll never happen to the point where it's a shock and a surprise when it does in half a decade to a decade

3. start a scratch-building project and by the time you're half-way done they'll announce it to spite you personally

:P

I don't know what Hasegawa's marketing strategy is, because if we see it in military model launches there haven't been many in recent years either, for example, in 1/48 the last new molds that I know of are the F-22 in 2009 and the Growler in 2011, after those I think the last military mold is in 1/72, the F-35 in 2018, that's it.

Hasegawa from what I see his new casts are mostly dedicated to Science Fiction, the Creator Works Series came to mind now.

well... another "new" release and no a single 1/48 new mold since 2014 :(

I found that picture of an old Imai kit and some other toys