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Well this is a welcomed surprise. Yamato has gone Macross crazy.

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WERD.

I don't think anyone was expecting this.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the VF-4.

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I gotta say, this is pretty awesome. so much new stuff coming down the pipe, makes me hopeful that one day I'll see my beloved Vf-5000

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I second that. Gimme my VF-5000 already

So I got exited with all of these new valks coming out so fast and I realised , there hasn´t been many new customs lately , not as much since the last Yamato drought.

I did some photoshop ( a very crappy job at that) and made a blank 1/48 so you can all post your own schemes here with no need of selling your organs for another 1/48 , All you need to do is paint over the original photo ( you can even do this in MS paint).

I´ll post my own whenever I get some more spare time

here you go:

I would certainly go with the SVC-8 Blue Roses Scheme.

I´m dead bored with the VF-1 so the only way I would buy another 1/48 is if they did more non-canon colour schemes.

Just when you thought Yamato couldn´t come up with anymore 1/48s variants they break the rules and release a Kakizaki valk.

I haven´t yet bought the camo GBP , the VF-0S let alone the 0A and 1AMax...I only got the pennies for 2 valks...I think I´ll have to skip on these...

somehow the Ostrich and the Elint Seeker don´t seem so far fetched now

weren´t Ep 41 & 42 supposed to be realeased together ?

I wonder why it took them so long and yet Ep 42 was not seen on this release

Wow , excellent custom , It really depicts the 11B in all of its glory.

I really like it , shame it´s out of my reach , no way I would spend that much money.

How are these things made anyway ? I know very little about the vinyl figures scene.

Would be nice to see some more customs , maybe a 0D

even though it looks better colored up I keep my opinion in regards to the the underbelly on the foward fuselage.

just a little adjustment to the curve by 2mm and it would be perfect , just 2mm slimmer.

can´t be bothered to read the replies to the original post , I´ve lived through many M7 threads to waste my time like that so I´ll just say this:

flamebait

- close this already , we all know it´s an unhealthy topic , period.

They managed to do the rotating cockpit seat on the 0S , they should be able to this stuff on a VF-11

I wonder if Yamato could actually pull off opening missile bays on the lower legs in this toy , I really hope so though , that´d be a nice touch.

Right now , the only thing bothering me is that foward fuselage underbelly and I cannot stop thinking about removable landing gear as David said ealier. It just seems the right thing to do.

But I have to agree , these are just CAD drawaings , the actuall toy may differ quite a bit , just like the VF-0 did.

I can´t believe how the VF-2SS has taken over the poll , C´mon ! where´re the VF-4 and VF-5000 votes , the SV-51s for $·"|@ sakes

I don´t know , If only the curved dorsal section aka. ¨Belly¨ of the foward fuselage was just slimmer by , say , 2mm, that would make this toy perfect in every sense. Yeah , call me nitpicky but if that´s all it takes to make this a perfect piece valkness then it should be taken into consideration.

I´m presuming the chances of reducing the belly section of figther mode is pretty slim since those 2mm must be crucial for the landing gear and the whole transformation process , just 2 mm changes all of the toy mechanisms and proportions , but damn , it´s just 2mm.

I guess I can live with it though

I voted VF-5000 , guess I´m the only one at the moment.

I know it´s a lot like the Vf-1 and all that , but man do I love the Star mirage.

I´ll really be reliased when Yamato makes a 0D and a 5000 , The YF-19 was recently confirmed so that´s out of the way , I don´t care about any other valks except those 3 so if they went ahead and produced them my dream collection would truly be complete ,

Damn I wasn´t planning on going for this one but now that they´ve changed the colours I´m SO gonna buy it.

I still don´t like the VF-1A colour sceme though , But I could care leess since this one is probably gonna stay in GBP mode forever

Would you say that it´s become easier for Yamato to re-consider so-called ¨unlikely¨ projects now that they have introduced CAD/CAM  into their production ?

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I'd have to say not really. The use of CAD/CAM means we now get toys which are superior to the old hand-crafted designs, that fit together better, have less gaps or asymmetrical parts and look more accurate to the anime. However, I don't think it greatly improves the cost of product development and manufature that much.

Yamato is still a relitively small company and they can really only afford to concentrate on VFs they think will sell well, i.e. the main VFs in a series. Saying that however, they have thrown us the occasional surprise before like the VB-6, so who knows!

Although, thinking about it, I think the VB-6 lost money as it usually needs more than a single production run to break even, let alone make a profit.

Graham

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Well , I meant mostly in terms of how easier/it is to use CAD/CAM instead of sculpting from the gound up.

I though maybe this method would allow them to test some draft designs before going into a more serious level of design/production.

Certainly CAD manufacturing saves them a lot time in terms of production schedules and all , look how fast they announced the VF-0A and the VF-19. My point is , based on this argument , would you think this factor allows them to partially c onsider venturing into succeful yet secondary valks ?

Kinda what happened with the 1/48 , 1 CAD model = X number of variants

or

CAD model vs phisical sculpt modeling = less production time = more time for new proposals

Graham , don´t know if you can answer this or not , it´s more or less a matter of opinion.

Would you say that it´s become easier for Yamato to re-consider so-called ¨unlikely¨ projects now that they have introduced CAD/CAM into their production ?

It seems , to me at least , that after the 1/48 the production of new projects has been more fertile than in the past.

Damn , how am i gonna pay for the VF-0S , the YF-19 , the GBP and now this !?

It would be really nice if they went with the CF and actually weathered it a bit , since a plain brown-greyish coloured plastic would look dumb and toyish , I can understand the absence of weathering on the 0S since it´s white , but the 0A is all about the weathered look.

It´s funny how , after so many years , we actually get a decent YF-19.

I remember getting back into macross just for the introduction of the first Yamato 1/72s back in the day. That was a major reason for me to join MW actually and in the end I never actually bought a YF-19 afterall.

My only complaint so far is that nasty bulge underneath the whole forward fuselage , right where the landing gear goes, it makes it look short and fatty in fighter mode.

I agree with David that a removable landing gear is preferable to the actual retractable one.

other than that , it looks awesome.

Hopefully the price of the molds themselves encourage Yamato to produce some other variants , a VF-19S wouldn´t be to hard , no more than the VF-0S to VF-0D remodeling.

Let me say this out loud : OMFG !!!! AT LAST !!!

I´m REALLY surprised by this , wasn´t expecting this so soon after the Zero being released.

It´s certainly interesting to see Yamato venturing into this kind of projects after so much time spent on the VF-1.

All of this is giving me hopes os seeing a VF-5000 someday in the future , that would complete my dreamed trio :

-VF-5000

-VF-0

-YF-19

Here , I retouched it a bit more , hope you all like it.

So here´s another one , it still needs more work but I wanted to share it anyways , enjoy

Give me a VF-5000 anyday and I´ll be grateful forever.

Seriously , Whenever they actually are done with Macross Zero Yamato should take into consideration the idea of producing a new line of valks from non-animated productions , ie VF-X2.

Here´s another quickie one

My two addictions : Macross and Minidisc, in your typical ipod manner ( as a sign of mockery towards its propaganda)

I guess I´ll contribute to this thread

I supposse someone could do something better with this .