ScrambledValkyrie

Bandai hasn't made a Focker VF-1S TV version HMR yet, so there's still hope. I have the previously released Focker VF-1S Strike Valkyrie HMR, but I'd shell out for a TV version.

It'd be great if they release a TV version VF-1S with both Roy and Hikaru pilots, like how they include 2 pilots with the CF 1A. Ideally it would also include TV super parts. Then you could change out for whatever specific TV version you wanted. I'd definitely buy that.

I agree the price seems a little steep on the missile effects, but have to admit they do look really cool. I assume they would work just as well for gerwalk mode?

Cool effect parts! I hope they release a TV version Super VF-1S or loose Super parts for my VF-1A CF so I can pair with them. (I'm gonna stick to TV versions in my HMR collection and I don't want the inaccurate Max and Milia, so not much else to pair with them).

I'm with you on TV versions, though M&M are close enough for me. I'd also be interested in a TV version of the Super VF-1S (with Hikaru pilot) and have wondered if they might do it. Considering it'd be really close to the VF-1S Roy, which has obviously already been re-released in HMR, that makes me doubtful. Then again, there have already been 3 versions of Hikaru's 1J...

A re-release on the super parts would be great as well.

The 3 stripes are different. And the heads look like different sizes. 3 shades of white plastic.

I think it's an interesting comparison of gradually tweaking the design for accuracy. They took the better sculpt and build of the HMR GBP on the left, went back towards the "TV white" of the original HM on the right (but not all the way), and nailed the stripes this time. Also seems they made the new head lasers a bit thicker for durability. Makes me glad I was able to snag one of the new versions, as it clearly seems to me like the best of the lot.

I'm glad to see that they did make Hikaru's 1J more true white than gray.

However, it does seem to include the "wrong" super-parts fighter mode stand adapter...

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Does anyone think Bandai will actually issue (or re-issue) a set of super parts for the HMR line? I'd like a set of them for my incoming CF, but the set they put out a few years ago seems to be either hard to come by and/or a little pricey.

So I hadn't seen anyone else attempt this yet on the HM-Rs so I decided to give it a shot.. I gloss coated the big wings just in case, but in hindsight you don't even have to do that. The plastic is plenty glossy just slap some dark dirt wash on, let it dry and wipe it off. Gonna do the rest of my 1A this week hopefully!

Nice start. I had thought of trying something similar, but was unsure as to what stuff to use.

I did find this other page of where someone has done some nice panel line weathering to a original HM VF-1S:

http://schizophonic9.com/vfhimetal_vf1s.html

By 1A, do you mean the CF? If so, that's disappointing. I was looking forward to having a correct adapter with my on-order CF 1A and Hikaru 1J to use with my other Hi Metals. I'd be curious to know if others have seen the same with theirs.

I've tried using the one that came with my VF-1S in plain fighter mode, and as Jenius shows in his video, you can sort of make it work, but it's by no means ideal.

Hikaru's VF-1J is still (or again?) available on HLJ, if anyone's interested. I just snagged one, along with a CF -- after seeing all the photos here, I couldn't resist.

They learned from Yamato, they'll give TV releases a bright white and DYRL a gray.

So I understand right -- the HMR Hikaru VF-1J is going to be more white than the gray of the HMR Hikaru DYRL VF-1S? In jvmacross's last photo above, it looks like this is the case.

I'm just getting into this line, and I was on the fence about the HMR VF-1J (without GBP) due to the gray color. I already preordered Max and Miriya, but when it came to a VF-1S Roy, I actually found and bought an original HM VF-1S Roy due to more TV-accurate colors (and it just arrived today!).