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Just to be safe, mask the blue you don't want removed with masking tape. I normally use a paper towel folded into a little square, at least 3-4 folds thick. Then gently apply some rubbing alcohol to the paper tower (NOT THE TOY) on the thick corner that resulted from the fold. After that gently rub and apply force enough to get some friction on the blighted blue paint but NOT so much that the rubbing alcohol oozes out of the paper towel and all over your YF-25 (which would suck because ALL the paint is vulnerable to rubbing alcohol) With some patience and a few applications you can remove 99% of the unwanted blue.

For Ozzy : Supers near retail because he only wears them in one episode. The Armored set is preferred but goes for a premium For Alto : I've seen the supers go for more than the armored parts at times O_o. If you don't wanna pay a premium you can always grab the upcoming tornados this month For Michael : Supers are still at Retail, tornados coming up soon. Honestly the supers look better on him. Luca : Stuck with Supers only, have to buy at least one set for the drones unless somebody else is willing to sell them 25A : Supers only, still easy to find at retail and totally worth it. Here's some examples of valks in various modes with various armor sets

Splurge this week O_O

ARGH This little set is going to double the price of my Arcadia 19

I don't think anything will stop people from leaving the crotch in fighter position and just bringing the legs down. Dunno how much it will impact movement though.

It's not permanent. I can remove it and put it back on the regular stand whenever I want. I think I'm gonna make more of these mini stands so that I can reduce the clutter on my display shelf lol

On a side note, made a small stand adapter for my YF-25 so that I can have a low fighter mode display without the giant ugly stick. It's thermal form moldmaking material that's been formed around two plastic pegs for support and then molded by the stand slot itself. After cooling off I trimmed off all the extra for re-use elsewhere. Here are the results.

Six is enough. ENOUGh! >_<

At that point you minus well just buy the arcadia release. Even with the cheapest proxy fees at buyee that's around 24000 JPY before shipping

I would settle for a more mature Macross like Macross Plus or Macross Zero. No Moe, a darker feel and a main protagonist like Shin, Isamu or even Leon from Mac30.

Still very widely available near retail on Amazon.co.jp. Prices would end up being a lil higher if you use a proxy, so NY is still "cheaper" :0 http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/offer-listing/B00IP3H7S2/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1403790579&sr=8-1&keywords=yf-25&condition=new

Got three of them panel lined and displayed. Have 3 more in storage O_o. I love 2-seaters too much

Based on the dimensions from the macross mecha manual it's 29.78m x 24.42m x 6.77m, which in 1/60 translates to around : 49.6cm Length, 40.7cm wingspan and 11.2cm height. the length and width aren't really too killer. the footprint won't be different from most modern 1/32 fighter kits from Tamiya / Academy / Trumpeteer. However, with the main fuselage hitting ~11cm in thickness it would be pretty heavy. It could be a deadly weapon even I'd still buy one though the price would be pretty steep. It could easily cost more than 4-5 VF-25's

You can pop the knee cap off the shin armor super easily on the armored parts sets. It's just held on with some blue-tac in that pic

The pilots are not packaged in the plane, they are separate just like in every other VF-25 release. Can't wait till my 2nd and 3rd arrive then I can complete my VF-25 display case. Oh, if only I had some color-matched orange paint and a lance... Also, now the hard choice. Regular blue crotch (Just blue paint over white, i checked by shaving off some of the inside with a knife) VS White crotch from Alto

Mine came in today Looking nice. NO scratches on the lerx, but the blue line in the middle is not super clean on the edges.

if it really bothers you use the matching abs antennae for symmetry. If u use the long one you need to remove the cover on the other side (the extra cover is shown in the toys daily review, it's where the short antenna lies in fighter mode)

The YF-25 is NUNS so it gets the NUNS stand.

Yeah, I also built 6 of them on my own thus far. the only hard part is carrying the box up and down stairs, which is easily solved with a dolly.

I would love one but the noseart is actually a turn off for me lol.

Looks like the YF-25 at AE got snatched up by somebody

The Billy shelf can be configured into a pretty badass display. Just look at what this guy did Here's a preview of what he made out of the Billies. They'll cost you about 200 USD for the basic shelf plus glass doors, then it's 10 bucks per glass shelf and 50 bucks for each lighting set O_o This pic of his display below looks seriously badass, even though it cost him 1320-ish USD before tax

Lol that's the Alto I bought for customizing. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macross-Frontier-DX-Chogokin-VF-29-Durandal-Valkyrie-Alto-Saotome-Custom-/221465550866?nma=true&si=bH6N%252Fu%252F5W7Fhbyca5LpjcKRZ2p8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Loose joints aren't an issue at all as it takes just a screw driver and some nail polish / super glue to re-tighten them. The mistake people make is they try to use the nail polish on the ball joint itself. I instead use small layers of glue and do some buildup under where the plastic friction piece is placed. By increasing the height of the piece you can naturally get better friction when the whole joint is reassembled and tightened.

Rakuten has these up for retail and willing to ship to US http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/marchenshop/item/2014062003/ Only 1 left *edit 2* OMG the price went up from 13500 yen to 15100 yen after somebody bought some... booooo