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Oh man.,..tempted by that VF-25 Tornado! I'll wait until some more pics come out to make a decision. I have too many kits as it is. Haven't even finished their original VF-25 release.

Got my VF-25F yesterday. Very nice and I plan on getting the G later this year Wonder if they'll do a VF-171? Nice to see Macross getting some attention from Bandai's latest mold tech.

I've been using Kaizo paints and REALLY like them, but you can only get them from Robot Kai in California (their house brand of paint made by someone else). They recommend 1:3 thinner ratio...so one of their .3 ml bottles can be quadrupled. Yeah...Gaia can be a pain to get. Great paint though. It seems lately though more and more places have pretty good stock at least in the US. Even the thinners. I've been pleasantly surprised. Robot Kai carries Gaia as well and they have a pretty good selection.

One can dream... Japan is another planet. Run out of Creos Red Madder at 2AM? These guys got you covered!

Just bent over for the $80+ shipping fees, but I went DHL. FedEx is a pain if you aren't home to receive your package. Should have mine in a day or two. Might go Small Air Packet next time for shipping, especially for the Nousjadeul Ger.

That's insane what they are charging. Looks to me that they are taking advantage of the situation. Meanwhile...when any of these kits come out...I can easily get them off of eBay with decent shipping costs and price straight from Japan. This is provided you shop around a little and are patient. Granted...eBay may be subsidizing shipping...but still.

Got a notice from HLJ that my Glaug is shipping!

Yep. Bandai's new production facility is open and is supposed to be in full production by summer. Can't imagine all the stuff they are going to crank out!

Finally got both of mine from eBay. Very nice kits. Gate removal and cleanup has been a breeze so far. I hope Bandai keeps adding Macross. Maybe one day we'll get RG or MG type kits from them.

Woah! Thanks for that. Just picked up the Orguss kit!

Yep...the 1/48 Strike boxes are a good size because of the extra parts for the Fast Packs. Also...keep in mind that Hasegawa does not give you an option to build these with landing gear up. No idea why they couldn't give that as an option. If you want the gear up...you'll have to do some surgery and get them to fit in. The Max/Millia 1/48 Super does NOT come with a female pilot either...which is baffling. Another cop out. I ended up creating one in Blender and printing her out. Such a shame because these 1/48 kits are superior to the 1/72 ones in my opinion in both build and detail. I hope they give us more variants...and Battroids!

Awesome! Always need more Orguss in my life. I would love for Plamax/Wave to re-visit these designs.

Hmmm...I might get that just for the Alaska Base version alone. Always wanted to do one of those, but I'd like to do it in 1/48 as well with a Hasegawa kit. I wish Plamax/Max Factory would finish out their 1/20 line and give us the Super Battroid!

Some of the blue/white color separations are actually separately injected into one part! Two different colors of plastic on one piece...wild. There's a video of it out on Youtube somewhere...can't find it right now.

Cancelled my order and just said f 'it and ordered off of eBay. Not sure what's going on with HLJ these days...but obviously they didn't order enough or Bandai did not produce/allocate enough of these kits to them. Seems to be a trend with Bandai on producing very limited runs of kits. Plamax seems to be doing this as well. Some of their recent 1/72 Macross kits are already listed as "discontinued" on HLJ! I'll have to try Mandarake at some point...never ordered anything from them before.