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This is the best I can do, and it just doesn't look right.

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Maybe you might want to try and rotate the legs inward from the thigh area since the legs are too far away from the arms. I know the peg from the leg is not inserted on the back part when the Fast Packs are attached. But looking at your pictures shows how big the gap is from the legs to the shield.

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Here's a side view photo I posted months ago. Check if yours is like this. Thigh one-click lower. Leg is raised to meet the shoulder and fast pack tabs.

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There shouldn't be big gap from the leg towards the arm/shield area. If you accomplished this then you're all set. Hope that helps. ;)

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I haven't transformed mine but I noticed a lot of griping about the ankles. What exactly is wrong with them? I remember my VF-19 had pretty loose ankles but I fixed it by disassembling them and applying nail polish inside the ball & socket joint. Is it the same issue?

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I haven't transformed mine but I noticed a lot of griping about the ankles. What exactly is wrong with them? I remember my VF-19 had pretty loose ankles but I fixed it by disassembling them and applying nail polish inside the ball & socket joint. Is it the same issue?

Yes. From what I've read before it was the same as VF-19 Fire Valkyrie that's why members got so frustrated when it became loose or it's already loose out of the box. I don't have the VF-19 but I could tell that mine is already loose after many times of transformation. It's really loose when it Battroid mode so what I only do is not to extend the ankle during Battroid mode and just set it right properly. In which IMHO, it's better looking. But when in Gerwalk mode, I try to follow what jenius said on this review on the VF-19. Let the ankle rest on the side of the legs. Wihch makes the ankle kinda sturdy. The down part is just when the ankle is resting on one side, the other side of the leg will have bigger gaps.

I would love to fix my YF-19 as well and put some silicon rubber. If only I have the will to open it. Hehehe. :lol:

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Well, I feel stupid. I fiddled with it some more and noticed that it matters which legs the gray clips go on. I had them reversed which kept the arms from fitting in the leg grooves. The shield has a downward slope now but I guess that's correct.

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You meant the ones on the back of the legs? Yeah. Mr.K and Arcadia noticed their mistakes on not pointing out on the instructions which is the right match for the legs. So you're good to go? Is everything aligned now?

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Been away from the Macross collecting game for a long while, but I recently had the opportunity to purchase a YF-19 at an amazing price from a very generous seller. It arrived last Monday, but aside from putting some missiles on (which are totally awesome, btw) I didn't mess with it much. I've been studying this thread all week so I'll try to avoid being too long winded (most everything I want to say has already been said), but I just have to gush about the fighter mode; I cannot believe how it looks now! Such an incredible improvement over the Yamato.

Finally attempted to transform to gerwalk today, and I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it took me, haha. What gave me the most trouble was the gerwalk leg joint just above the main knee joint; for the life of me I could not get that joint to pull out. Watched noeljim's and odeean's transformation videos on youtube repeatedly and I just couldn't understand what I was missing, they made it look so easy but I couldn't do it! I had all but given up when I just kinda pulled downwards lightly in desperation and it came out easy as pie. So obvious to me now, I was pulling back too much and failing to un-tab the tab directly behind the joint -_-. Took me like 30 minutes to come to that realization, I'm so ashamed :lol: . Another point of trouble for me was attaching the shoulder FAST packs, the connection points in the shoulders seemed to be slightly too small (especially on the right shoulder). Eventually got them in and now they attach/detach fairly easily, but I ended up rubbing some black paint off the inside of the right shoulder, grrr. I could tell it was going to happen just by how tight the connection was, but it's impossible for me to have FAST packs and NOT attach them! In hindsight I should have stopped and filed down the connecting peg on the packs a bit, but at least it's a relatively out of the way spot that's easy to touch up. Oh, and I completely agree with the general sentiment that they really should have used magnets for the leg FAST packs.

Those gripes and difficulties aside, gerwalk looks so freakin good! With the FAST packs on and under-wing armaments loaded it is just so cool to me! I love the lines of this valk so much. I want to go for battroid mode, but I think I should study up a bit more before attempting it, haha. I'm also concerned about scuffing the black paint around the cockpit so I want to find a good low-adhesive tape to protect that area beforehand.

Anyways, some shots of my great accomplishment for the day. :lol:

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Been away from the Macross collecting game for a long while, but I recently had the opportunity to purchase a YF-19 at an amazing price from a very generous seller. It arrived last Monday, but aside from putting some missiles on (which are totally awesome, btw) I didn't mess with it much. I've been studying this thread all week so I'll try to avoid being too long winded (most everything I want to say has already been said), but I just have to gush about the fighter mode; I cannot believe how it looks now! Such an incredible improvement over the Yamato.

Finally attempted to transform to gerwalk today, and I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it took me, haha. What gave me the most trouble was the gerwalk leg joint just above the main knee joint; for the life of me I could not get that joint to pull out. Watched noeljim's and odeean's transformation videos on youtube repeatedly and I just couldn't understand what I was missing, they made it look so easy but I couldn't do it! I had all but given up when I just kinda pulled downwards lightly in desperation and it came out easy as pie. So obvious to me now, I was pulling back too much and failing to un-tab the tab directly behind the joint -_-. Took me like 30 minutes to come to that realization, I'm so ashamed :lol: . Another point of trouble for me was attaching the shoulder FAST packs, the connection points in the shoulders seemed to be slightly too small (especially on the right shoulder). Eventually got them in and now they attach/detach fairly easily, but I ended up rubbing some black paint off the inside of the right shoulder, grrr. I could tell it was going to happen just by how tight the connection was, but it's impossible for me to have FAST packs and NOT attach them! In hindsight I should have stopped and filed down the connecting peg on the packs a bit, but at least it's a relatively out of the way spot that's easy to touch up. Oh, and I completely agree with the general sentiment that they really should have used magnets for the leg FAST packs.

Those gripes and difficulties aside, gerwalk looks so freakin good! With the FAST packs on and under-wing armaments loaded it is just so cool to me! I love the lines of this valk so much. I want to go for battroid mode, but I think I should study up a bit more before attempting it, haha. I'm also concerned about scuffing the black paint around the cockpit so I want to find a good low-adhesive tape to protect that area beforehand.

Anyways, some shots of my great accomplishment for the day. :lol:

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This is why they should do official transformation vids for every toy before release. They WANT us to wreck our toys so we buy 3 of them after we accidenally break them apart when we forget the exact steps to take to put it into different modes.

There are some lazy guys o this board that buy 1 toy for each mode because they can't be bothered transforming them lol Maybe by making it so complex to figure out instead of simpler they have figured out how to double and triple sales. lol

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This is why they should do official transformation vids for every toy before release. They WANT us to wreck our toys so we buy 3 of them after we accidenally break them apart when we forget the exact steps to take to put it into different modes.

There are some lazy guys o this board that buy 1 toy for each mode because they can't be bothered transforming them lol Maybe by making it so complex to figure out instead of simpler they have figured out how to double and triple sales. lol

It's not "lazy" if you actually like the look of a valk in all three modes and want to pose them in each mode.

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Lazy for buying multiples to display? That's truly rich.

Happy to hear that this is back in stock at HLJ, those that want one can get what for the most part is a solid release and I hope this bodes well for Arcadia with regards to sales/profit.

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-b.

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Been away from the Macross collecting game for a long while, but I recently had the opportunity to purchase a YF-19 at an amazing price from a very generous seller. It arrived last Monday, but aside from putting some missiles on (which are totally awesome, btw) I didn't mess with it much. I've been studying this thread all week so I'll try to avoid being too long winded (most everything I want to say has already been said), but I just have to gush about the fighter mode; I cannot believe how it looks now! Such an incredible improvement over the Yamato.

Finally attempted to transform to gerwalk today, and I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it took me, haha. What gave me the most trouble was the gerwalk leg joint just above the main knee joint; for the life of me I could not get that joint to pull out. Watched noeljim's and odeean's transformation videos on youtube repeatedly and I just couldn't understand what I was missing, they made it look so easy but I couldn't do it! I had all but given up when I just kinda pulled downwards lightly in desperation and it came out easy as pie. So obvious to me now, I was pulling back too much and failing to un-tab the tab directly behind the joint -_-. Took me like 30 minutes to come to that realization, I'm so ashamed :lol: . Another point of trouble for me was attaching the shoulder FAST packs, the connection points in the shoulders seemed to be slightly too small (especially on the right shoulder). Eventually got them in and now they attach/detach fairly easily, but I ended up rubbing some black paint off the inside of the right shoulder, grrr. I could tell it was going to happen just by how tight the connection was, but it's impossible for me to have FAST packs and NOT attach them! In hindsight I should have stopped and filed down the connecting peg on the packs a bit, but at least it's a relatively out of the way spot that's easy to touch up. Oh, and I completely agree with the general sentiment that they really should have used magnets for the leg FAST packs.

Those gripes and difficulties aside, gerwalk looks so freakin good! With the FAST packs on and under-wing armaments loaded it is just so cool to me! I love the lines of this valk so much. I want to go for battroid mode, but I think I should study up a bit more before attempting it, haha. I'm also concerned about scuffing the black paint around the cockpit so I want to find a good low-adhesive tape to protect that area beforehand.

Anyways, some shots of my great accomplishment for the day. :lol:

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You're the second one to call me 'noeljim'. it's just noeljm. But switching the E with 3. Hahaha! :lol: I'm glad that my video post helped you on transforming your YF-19. After all that hiccups, it will be just a walk in the park when you transform yours again. Let me tell you a secret, I wrecked my YF-21 thigh for 6-7 hours just by transforming him. Only to learn that I didn't pushed properly the knee joints. Price to pay on buying expensive transforming toys. Hehehe. :lol:

Anyways, great photos and enjoy your YF-19. Pray also that Arcadia will revisit again the YF-21. ;)

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Thanks, Mommar!

You're the second one to call me 'noeljim'. it's just noeljm. But switching the E with 3. Hahaha! :lol: I'm glad that my video post helped you on transforming your YF-19. After all that hiccups, it will be just a walk in the park when you transform yours again. Let me tell you a secret, I wrecked my YF-21 thigh for 6-7 hours just by transforming him. Only to learn that I didn't pushed properly the knee joints. Price to pay on buying expensive transforming toys. Hehehe. :lol:

Anyways, great photos and enjoy your YF-19. Pray also that Arcadia will revisit again the YF-21. ;)

That's what I said, noeljim! Wait a sec... haha, I'm sorry noeljm, I think my brain just automatically puts an 'i' in between 'j' and 'm' when I see the letters together in a name. Even just now I had to spend a good few seconds staring at your post trying to figure out what I did wrong, haha.

And thank you very much for the transformation video, it was really a great help. It's such a shame that Youtube muted it, even clicking sounds can be useful because then I can listen for how many clicks a certain part was moved or something. I did have the Macross Plus OST disc loaded during my whole ordeal yesterday, so it was almost like watching your original un-muted video, though!

I think Yamato's 1/60 YF-21/VF-22 mold was already pretty great (though I also struggled with the transformation, haha), I bought all three VF-22s but I never bought the YF-21 because I didn't want to have it without a good YF-19 to accompany it. Really regretting that decision now :(. I'd be okay with a straight reissue by Arcadia, and it would maybe allow them to keep the cost closer to the original Yamato price. If they can somehow improve the YF-21 to the same degree they did with the YF-19 though, I'd happily open the wallet for that!

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You're welcome Keiichi. ^_^ I felt bad that after all that audio editing on the video it still recognized by their filters. Anyways, glad that it helped out on transforming yours.

As for the YF-21, I also wish that Arcadia will go back to their drawing board and reengineer it again for renewal release. Make the proportion right somehow by beefing up the legs and make the thigh parts solid for transformation. I'm sure everyone will be happy and excited. ;)

Btw, nice worm's-eye view shot.

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Nope! I know I wasn't the only one to "ding" it a bit during the first transformation. It is WAY too easy to get the "forward gullet" piece to position itself incorrectly in many different ways. And the plastic gets so thin there that even tiny bumps will "round off" the edges and scrape some paint.

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I caught this little QC issue last week and finally got around to fixing it. Testors Flat Black enamel paint pen, and some isoprobyl alcohol.

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I caught this little QC issue last week and finally got around to fixing it. Testors Flat Black enamel paint pen, and some isoprobyl alcohol.

maybe it was put on reversed during assembly? i heard the yf-19, many parts were glued so i haven't tried taking it apart. but for the vf-1 1/60's it was easy to disassemble around below the intakes legs.

(i had a vt-1 that had a part that wasn't fully attached to the joint correctly, it was an easy fix to take apart and re-attach correctly.)

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maybe it was put on reversed during assembly? i heard the yf-19, many parts were glued so i haven't tried taking it apart. but for the vf-1 1/60's it was easy to disassemble around below the intakes legs.

(i had a vt-1 that had a part that wasn't fully attached to the joint correctly, it was an easy fix to take apart and re-attach correctly.)

Nope. There is a groove where the paint is suppose to go. No need to take anything apart. I just removed the error and repainted.

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