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Make sure that it's the right shade of 'Blue', anubis20. I meant 'Gold'. lol

With details and weathering like that... yeah, I will be afraid to transform it too. Btw, love the effects.

Cool! Should have painted the bike in VF-1J 30th Anniv scheme.

Thanks MacrossJunkie. Thanks for all the advices. Actually, I'm preparing myself on putting decals first. Though I'm going to do my Mospeada bikes first. My first foray on ordering waterslide decal has arrived today so hopefully in the next week or so, I'm going to start applying it on the bikes little by little. And I've seen how small the decals are so I have to be careful cutting them. But I'm pretty sure it's going to be fun applying it so wish me luck. Right now, I'm not so sure if I need to disassemble the bikes and repaint the engine area into more silver-y color before putting the decals. And to this point, I'm not so sure if I'm going to do some weathering too since most parts of the bikes moves a lot during trasformation. But definitely, I will put some panel lines on the bikes as well. And yes, I will definitely PM you for more questions once I started applying decals. Thanks!

Some things worth noticing... I'm really curious on how the legs/thigh area works on this one. And how they lock in-between modes. It would be painful if the legs is just relying on the swivel bar. And also notice that on Gerwalk mode, the thigh area (air intakes) sits under the chest area, whereas in the line art it's somehow more on the outside like how the fighter mode looks like. I don't know if that's doable or not since we're not sure how the swivel bar really works on this one. That really piqued my interest to get it more. Also the backpack somehow breaks into three parts just by studying the pictures. 1) The back area that has the nozzle. 2) The part that has the embossed circle. 3) The flap the covers the head underneath and where you rest the Gunpod during Fighter mode. I know it's not THE Perfect Valk but I'm still IN for this one.

3 Flashbacks!!!

Thanks guys for your inputs. The only reason why I wouldn't want to top coat the whole thing is that I always transform my Valk a lot. Probably like once every two weeks depends on which Valk I want to play with. So basically a lot of scratching and chipping. And now, since I'm going to start to add waterslide decal on it, and by looking on the decals like warning, pilot name, etc. the decals are kinda small. And the only thing I could think of to protect the decals is to handbrush the decal area only. But ofcourse, at the back of my mind, I still want the whole thing to look even (like MacrossJunkie said) so I'm also thinking of topcoating the whole Valk too. Now, if I'm going on the spraying the whole valk route, I guess, it's just better to add panel lines and slight weathering into it as well. Hmmm. Next question would be is if I'm going to topcoat the whole Valk, is it during mid-transformation? Where everything is exposed? And is regular topcoat sprays is ok to use? Or have to use airbrush for topcoating?

Who knows? They already did that 180 degrees turn on the Grey Goggles. Why not on the Flashback 2012 colors, right?

Oooh. Banshee.

I didn't even get a hard-on when I saw the pictures but I'm still going to keep my one preorder. Agreed. Looks superior too than Bandai's DX ver1. Me too. But that's how it is. This valk uses a lot of hocus-pocus when it transforms. But it would be nice if they should have made a cover somehow for Fighter and Gerwalk mode. At this point, I don't mind if this one will be called parts-former, as long that it's going to be decent later on. With people backing out from their preorders, I don't think they will still do it. But I'm still putting my hopes up since I'm keeping my preorder. I agree. I doubt that Arcadia nor Bandai wants to touch this Valk someday. So no YetiStands adapter for this one? Too bad we won't be seeing this one 'Saburo-ized'. If that happens, I will get my second one just to support the company so that they will make the SAP. That's a good 'positive' attitude. But which class? Ultimate? Supreme? Masterpiece? +1 Yup. I'm thinking the same thing. Nobody's going to touch this one in the foreseeable future. I'm thinking the same thing even though I know it's not in quality par with the recent Orguss figure. But I'm just hoping that it will still be nice on-hand. I know too that there is no way that this will be 'perfect' in a sense since it uses a lot of anime magic in the series. But having a toy as same size as my other Valk collection, I'm just glad that it's being made. And yeah, I totally agree on the 'under belly cover' concept at this point. By the way, looking at the pictures, I'm more into Gerwalk mode on this one.

Cool! Wait. What?! Brownies always gets killed???

That anything is that Mr.K mentioned on Tweeter that they're going to make the missile tabs tighter. +1 And I'm thinking of doing the same too. What would happen if Arcadia did the same thing on the VF-4G? Announce that it's going to be a reissue, but when the release date is near, reveal to us that it's going to be the ultimate Flashback 2012 version?! Even though they will not going to fix those missile tabs, I'M ALL FOR THIS!

Yeah. They should somehow revisit that Display Stand. I love that 'clamp' design.

I'm not complaining since they already made mistakes on VF-0D's blue and the grey's from VF-0A.

I posted this on the VF-4G thread. Would love them to reissue too those old Display Stands. Photo from anubis20

Wouldn't count on that. Because if ever, they should've done that to the previous releases. But would it be nice if they also reissue those old Yamato Display Stands. Photo from anubis20

Oh. I see. I thought you're in US too. Yeah, Zone 3 using Japan Post EMS is expensive compared to US (Zone 2).

Ok. So stickers on this Fast Packs as well. Thanks for the picture updates, Moosey.

Hahaha! Should we discuss this with Mr David?

Y26612 shipped just for the YF-30? If it's just the YF-30, and it was listed as Y19600. Total ship price should just be around Y24000 or lower. And that's already using the max 2.5kg EMS price, which is Y4700. What kind of shipping method did you use?

Hmm... somehow this practice is kinda random from Bandai. Some item I received from them have plastic wrap and some don't. Hmmm. Curious. But then again, it's just plastic wraps. And toys are meant to be opened and play with.

It would be interesting to see Harmony Gold take on Walt Disney for Macross property if this is really going to happen.

Does the applied plastic wrap that came from Ami and NY looks identical? If it is, then it's safe to assume that Bandai distribute it that way. If not, then the distributors/online stores somehow wrap the items properly before shipping.

Which bin is that, Spanner? Storage or Garbage? You know what, since you have multiples, why not rebuild the broken one for a diorama purposes with explosion lightup effect? You know, VF-27 vs VF-171, CF vs CF?

Still, most people here are going to buy it no matter what the box is. But yeah, it's going to be hilarious if they just used the old box. And for sure, they will just say... it's just a reissue.