PointBlankSniper

I was just saying in one of the other threads, gundam fans are still meming about the missing MG Age kits to this day, and those aren't the only things that have gone missing after announcements or prototypes going on display.

This one is definitely Capn Murica's Valk

I think the main reason is that it has such a broad, level, and featureless top side. It's literally just a flat and wide deck, and doesn't help that every pattern painted on it focuses on it's leading edges, which highlights its lateral width. That and the way the engines are always highlighted in black, as if some hot rod engine mod protruding out of a hood cutout. If it had more longitudinal patterns, body matching engine colors, and maybe some depthwise and vent like paintjobs like the shark gills on the YF-29 or vents on VF-0's airbrake, it would probably look more aggressive

I'm being a broken record here, but I think Bandai has made their point through the lack of accessories with the YF-19's Revival and sprinkled that extra bit of salt on the wound with the inclusion of FP but only fold booster struts on the YF-21. They probably hate the idea of items in anyone's collection having accesories parity lol Maybe if they buckle their own trend to fleece people with Basara's sound booster, it will open the floodgates to more moaning have and Bandai go back and make right with these last few releases. But that's just me snorting a lot of hopium.

Am I tripping or that head sculpt looks more detailed than the DX?

Bandai being less dumb for once, feeling out Arad popularity before mold fatigue

Makes sense that a viewport screenshot doesn't have all the lighting of a render. I'm just nitpicking, don't take it too seriously lol.

There's also Teal 171, RVF version of it, the movie version of that with twin fold boosters on top of the wings that never got any physical rendition, and their armored packs with the reaction and dimensional bombs. Then theres Michael's tornado, and then we loop back to Durandal, which IMO was what technically kicked off the revival era with minor tweaks through the Max version, although that one wasn't called a revival since it's a new paint job. If I was Bandai and trolling, I'd go for that Konig next lmao. I feel like Luca still has reasonable chances as long as they haven't announce the Durandal to wrap up the Frontier run, but it will be without ghosts, or only 1 ghost but no super pack to chase that shrinkflation trend lol. And then to piss everyone off, they will do a micro run of 100 very floppy YF-24 Evolutions, sold through lottery, at very reasonable prices comparable to retail items of the same weight, and then scrap the molds. Gotta feed the scalper market after all lmao

That's just half the reason. The other half is Bandai just wants to mess with people by refusing complete collections. DX Valkyries are just one small thing in Bandai's list of highly sought after items they may or may not have prototyped and refuse to release. For example, the last two MG Age Gundams that they have displayed before have almost become a meme that the gunpla community goes to when it comes to unreleased items. There are tons of gunpla runners that are blatantly divided in ways that are prepared for alternate equipment variants that never get released, despite high demand. They'd rather randomly cook up a new and minimally different variant that nobody asked for, sometimes with completely new molds and runners for existing parts because it's more funny that way. Just look at the YF-21's fold booster struts in preparation for no fold booster release for an example of Bandai's type of sick joke lol

I wasn't gonna say anything, but your original texture was a bit too yellow, and the correct does look closer to the model kit, although color correction has deep fried the grays and the shadows lol. Makina also needs more saturation on the level of Mikumo's purple or something to get that eye bleeding hot pink vibrancy lol. Maybe to a tiny degree, Reina too, but I feel like her scheme is mostly lacking because it's reliant on the lime green accesories that aren't from the actual valk, so it can't be helped. Btw some of the "transparent" backgound on their Walkure logos are somehow on the wrong layer and opacity or something, and are deleting parts of the white stripes.

Nice work. Freyja reminds me of McD lol. Speaking of Freyja, I always found it strange that her outfit color is swapped with Kaname, based on how everyone is supposed to go by hair color. I feel like the whole "red ranger = MC" trope really messed up their color assignments, and it trickles down all the way to these VFG models. Kaname even gets shafted by having black and gray for secondary colors to go with her filler ranger color lol

NGL this thing could have passed for a valk if they weren't so bent on having those oversized truck windshields hanging out the bottom of the fighter, and scrunching up the feet/thrusters closed just to fit in the folding wheels.

Yeah, the first one's translation was weird so I couldn't make heads or tails of it and just ignored that statement. The rest of his tweets about it were neutral showcases so he didn't seem to say anything negative, other than that the molds are kinda old, iirc. But the second one alone can't be excused lol... Hope more impressions or reviews come out soon to clear things up.

WTF bandai??? From the looks of the clip, it's not even that it's loose. The hip clip can't even reach its locking position so it just springs back... It basically doesn't even transform. Now I'm worried about mine, but I haven't got in stock notice yet. Classic YYK delays I guess, so I get to wait around and see if there's anything to do about it.

This reminds me. I should really document my "interpretation" of the transformation to make it accurate in all forms, with ms paint or something, before I forget everything I thought up.