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Yup! Price + shipping was less than the HLJ price, so it forced my hand early. Was originally going to just get one with my VF-4 orders next month from them.

Broke down and picked up another 0S. She's just too lovely to have only one.

Trained like a bunch of circus seals, Bandai has us.

No way Kakizaki is that good.

So I happened to click on the AmiAmi SDF-1 link and saw some newer pics (new to me at least) and wow it looks lame. Every single pic has stands holding up the arms and even cruiser mode is saggy in the middle. What is this, the Macross Quarter? http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-014860&page=rt_02

HLJ still hasn't shipped my 0S kits either and it's been a few days since I ordered them. I imagine they have a huge backlog after their holiday break.

What happened to that 0S's yellow shoulder piece?

Looks like a hastily assembled Bandai HG model kit without paint or stickers.

*looks at all the VF-19 Kai owners out there*

2 from HS. That was painless.

I am but I prefer to draw all the lines in by hand, and only use washes for certain details. The lines are about the same in depth as the VF-1.

Only question now is how many to get! Though at this price probably no more than two.

Brownies: the redshirts of Macross.

I would buy decals for every valk that I own if they did that.

What is causing the heat shield to scratch the canopy and can it be fixed or removed? You can have the kit for free if you just want the rest of the kit with no decals.

So I took the time to actually watch Delta and, uh, I'm probably just going to pull a Macross 7 and buy all the valks while ignoring the show.

Looks good David. Guess I should go back and finish polishing mine. I stuck masking tape on my 0S canopy before I transformed it to battroid.

Thank for the pic! It looks like the decals are close enough in size that I think it'll pass scrutiny for all but the most picky eyes. I took mine from a VF-1 kit. It was only slightly smaller than the Arcadia sticker so I went with it. But now I'm going to order some VF-0 kits! What's another $18.50 indeed! Oh damn that happened to me too. Figured I was just being too careless. That sucks. I was able to almost completely buff mine out with some Tamiya polishing compound.

What happened to your 0A? I haven't had any issues applying decals to any Yamato/Arcadia valks so far. I always use Mr Mark Setter when applying decals. I'm quite lazy and stingy with materials so I often take shortcuts. Like on the VF-1 I did all the panel lining, decaling, and weathering straight onto the bare plastic before applying any clear coating. Doing the same with the 0S. I'm curious about the size difference between the Hasegawa 0S decals and the Arcadia stickers. If there's only a small difference in size, I might pick up a few Hasegawa kits just to get the decals.

Beautiful shots, Saburo! Time to order a second one.

If anything, you should be posting more pictures!

Looking good! Yeah those doors can be difficult to open. I took a cue from david and use a guitar pick to pry them open. Just some decals I swiped from a Hasegawa kit. They definitely look better on white plastic as it hides the sticker film better. I don't really like the stickers and wish to this day that they'd throw in a decal sheet, but I'm going to have to start using them as I simply don't have enough spare decals to go around. Only plus side to the stickers is that they're much more durable.

That 1/72 scale Regult looks like it goes really well (size-wise) with the HMR valks. Looks like how big the HMR Regult ought to be.

Just noticed a factory error on my copy where they accidentally tampo printed the leg attachments! J/K It's just some preliminary detailing. This is easily my favorite Arcadia release so far and it's motivated me to stop slacking and get back to work detailing my valks.

Obviously the customs guy opened it up and swooshed it around a bit before putting it back.