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I ordered the 1/48 VF-1S from Hikaru together with the super pack parts now. I'm really looking forward to it ^^ But should be here next week thanks to EMS shipping *yosh* although the super pack parts might take longer because they are backordered... Thank you all for the help!!! And I really would be grateful if someone could make or find a picture of the back pack hinges I should be careful with...

@ruskiiVFaussie: Thanks for your recommendations. As you will see in my first post I also mentioned hlj.com. I'm from Europe so it's the store of my choice too (bought so much Figures there already lol). And in fact I thought of buying the armor and the super pack (but was shocked here about the blue colour lol). Now I think I will go with the super pack parts and the 1/48 VF-1S (but Hikaru's - should be as good as Roy's right? only another colour scheme) first. Armor will have to wait until I have more than one valk ^^ @jenius: Thanks for your review. It really proofed that the 1/48 are the best. But man... why all the colour schemes??? As a reader you wish to buy all of them too lol (you must be working for Yamato) @eugimon: I followed your advice and read his review (he really does not work for Yamato?!)^^; And thanks for your comparison between the different releases and the hint with the back pack... Oh and one soo noobish request oO - Maybe someone could post a picture of this back pack hinges :-P

As for the painting, I would prefer the original version too

Wow thanks you two...

Jap, that really helps, thanks. But I heard that one 1/48 VF-1x has a problem with its gunpod in fighter mode... something about it not pointing straight forward?! And I heard that the VF-1A Maximillian Jenius Version is better than the other ones. Like taps and slots on the radar and nose and so on. Is it the only one which has them, or were the other (older) models re-released with such improvements too? Oh and nobody of you is criticizing the BP8 part. I thought it breaks really fast ^^ --edit-- Thanks vermillion... so the VF-19 might be my 2nd one. Time will tell. But I really don't like the Bandai valks, dunno ^^ so they are out of the question hehe. But Thanks!

Thank you all for the help. I think I really will go with a 1/48 scale first. But if there's still someone out there who would like to say something considering the models mentioned in my first post - Go on ^^ Every comment on them (no matter if a positive or negative one) might help me to decide in what to buy and what to leave on the shelfs.

Hello community, as you will see I'm quite new here (was a silent reader for a while, but finally registered) and I hope to have a great time with all of you in this forums. So what I want is to start collecting Yamato's Macross Toys, because they look really great and because I'm such a "Robot-Lover" haha. Of course I started in reading the Newbie Thread, so I know everything about differences between the different scales and so on, but I also know that Yamato has a cheap QC from time to time lol. So my question is rather simple. With witch Macross Toys should I start in order to not "waste" my money? I would like to buy one 1/48 scale first and would be interested which the newest one of all of them is. Think it should be the best one then, right?... Furthermore I Love the Macross Zero Toysline and would like to buy YF19, VF0A (Shin Kudo) with ghost, VF0S with ghost and SF51 anytime soon. YF19 had some problems when it was first released. What about now, still problems? And although VF0A with ghost should be released for some time now, I can't find any reviews on this one, so maybe someone here might tell me something about it. VF0S w ghost isn’t out yet, but maybe someone can say something about the standalone VF0S? So as you can see my biggest problem is, which Toy to buy if I don't want to get yamatoed really fast ^^ Hope you can help me... Oh and… why are 1/48 scales cheaper than the 1/60 ones (see hlj.com)???