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I'm just bummed there's still no Hasegawa VF-1D battroid, since the plamax won't look at home with the other Hasegawas.

Yeah. Just won't look at the back too much. 🤣

Wow. The vertical stabilizers on the battroid ARE tiny. Why did I have to see that. 🤣

Do I want each kit to look like a different mode of one singular design? Um... yeah? 😅 This lineart definitely convinces me that I'll want to use the larger heel option. I'm also seeing the overall design is tweaked quite a bit compared to the art, which is fine. I'm mostly just looking for some consistency between the Hasegawa kits. Maybe it's the fighter kits that are goofed. The heel pieces seem absolutely massive on those.

Of course I just meant they were free to make an 'accurate' battroid mode without having to make concessions to the realities of making it transform... Mostly surprised that the pieces look absolutely nothing like the corresponding pieces on their fighter kits.

Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy too. I'm just puzzled, since this is a fixed mode kit where they can make it look however they want, why do the heels not really look like other YF-19s on the market or the heels on their very own fighter mode kit. The Hasegawa 1/72 fighter The Hasegawa 1/48 fighter Other battroids

I'll probably enjoy the Max Factory kits more with a bunch of warning stencils and other decals added on. Now the Hasegawa YF-19 battroid in the other thread... THAT has me excited. I hope Hasegawa stays in the Macross game long enough to bestow us with at least a YF-21 and VF-11 battroid series. If they continue and do battroid versions of the VF-25 and VF-31... that would be amazing. Now see, I love RGs and MG ver Kas, so that probably explains my taste in Macross kits. Further, I got started on scale model kits (jets, wwii prop planes, cars) well before I got near any anime/mecha stuff, so that also informs my preference for complexity and detail. Like... I know what an F-35 looks like. I know it would have to be simplified a lot if it were to appear in an anime. In my head, I understand that difference. And I sort of reverse engineer that thinking when looking at anima mecha, and I think about what they'd look like in real life. And that's how I like my kits, since they are also 3d physical objects and not artwork on a screen or concept art sheet. I only own a few HGUC kits, really only stuff that isn't available any other way (Hathaway's series, the big GP03 dendrobium, AOZ stuff). All that said... the Max Factory kits do hit a fun nostalgia button. Looking forward to seeing if they do supers. I think art indicating they might was floating around before. Also hoping for VF-1A, VF-1S, and Max/Miria VF-1J at minimum.

So uh... which version of the heels are people liking for this one? I find the look of the smaller heels really weird, with it having to rest on the edge of the heel instead of the heel lying flat. I think I'd have to use the bigger heels.

I think it's easier to be OK with the curve in a simple anime style drawing, but it's a bit more obvious in a 3d physical object. It's mostly that the front of the upper leg is SUPER squared off and flat, while the lower leg is super rounded. Kind of a weird incongruity between the 2 sections. Plus the hands don't look like they can fit inside the wrist openings. I grew up on the animation, and yet my adult self prefers the 'real world' style. But I DO like the poses these Max Factory ones can do.

I feel like the front of the lower legs is just a little too rounded for my liking. The thing I like about the Hasegawa kit is that it's believable as a jet that can somehow origami itself into a humanoid shape to find giant aliens. You see a lot of the jet DNA in the battroid. The Max Factory kit is fun and definitely brings back memories of watching the show, but it also feels like something designed to look like a cool robot, without needing to acknowledge realities of the other modes. But I'm not kidding anyone, I will be getting a copy, along with any other variants in the pipeline. I do wonder if these will include a decent amount of decal warning stencils and such. The demo in the photos doesn't even include the U.N. Spacy text from the gunpod and the side of the legs. Or the ID number on the lower stabilizers.

If only Tamiya would join the Macross Modelers group... Imagine a 1/48 VF-1 with really comprehensive internal detail, opening hatches and photoetch detail everywhere...

Maybe they'll do a 1/72 Destroid Spartan since Wave isn't 😆

I think it'd look more natural if the 'knees' were just more separated out from the thighs.

I've got a bunch of the Fujimi 1/24 sports car kits tucked away, but I know they do other things as well. I wish I had their Blade Runner spinner kits. Really not sure what they can add to the mix that the other companies aren't doing. Other than provide stuff in scales the other companies aren't doing, or doing some more obscure subjects.

I see. Partially correct. Partially incorrect. I think they at least changed the most important parts. I'm not too bummed about the rest. I've already bought all 4 Hasegawa SDF-1 kits so it is what it is.