What will Hasegawa do next?

[lochness]

Beautiful! They nailed it for me. It's exactly what I hoped for.

Question for everybody, regarding scales, does the Hasegawa Rau 1/72 match well with the Plamax 1/72 battroid?

I would love to do a diorama.

[SpacePirateNeko]

all these wonderful hasegawas  over the last few years...and i now live  where i can get to akihabara or Leonardo in  20 minutes.  Yet i cant justify  buying them since i have such a large backlog of models =p.    I really really really wish  they would make a new 1/48. 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, lochness said:

Beautiful! They nailed it for me. It's exactly what I hoped for.

Question for everybody, regarding scales, does the Hasegawa Rau 1/72 match well with the Plamax 1/72 battroid?

I would love to do a diorama.

That’s a tough question to give a straight answer. If you go by the line art it works, but the pilot would be too small for animation, since the animation shows zentraedi as battroid height. But I think it will look great with the plamax kit, as long as you don’t open the hatch next to it.

[joscasle]

On 9/19/2025 at 3:38 AM, electric indigo said:

We have visuals!

It seems that Hasegawa did his homework this time

Edited September 20 by joscasle

[Papa Rat]

17 hours ago, lochness said:

Beautiful! They nailed it for me. It's exactly what I hoped for.

Question for everybody, regarding scales, does the Hasegawa Rau 1/72 match well with the Plamax 1/72 battroid?

I would love to do a diorama.

Here’s a visual with the movie edition. 
 

[Big s]

5 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

Here’s a visual with the movie edition. 
 

Yeah, as far as the suit itself, the tv version will look great in a battle scene with Max’s 1A battroid 

[derex3592]

Yeh it will! 

[Thom]

9 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

Here’s a visual with the movie edition. 
 

Crazy how, to be in actual scale with each other, the Batroid should be small enough to sit inside the Queadluun-Rau.

 

[Papa Rat]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

Crazy how, to be in actual scale with each other, the Batroid should be small enough to sit inside the Queadluun-Rau.

 

Yeah that’s wild. 

[Big s]

4 hours ago, Thom said:

Crazy how, to be in actual scale with each other, the Batroid should be small enough to sit inside the Queadluun-Rau.

 

Yeah, Macross sizing and scale is all over the place. As far as the anime the zentraedi jackets fit a battroid no problem, but their power armors usually look much closer to the same height. But then the line art shows their pilots shorter than the destroids with the ladies being even shorter.

But I do at least feel that the Queadluun Rau kit and a Plamax kit will look spot on for the anime scene where Max’s future wife busts into the city. The Queadluun Rau looked bigger, but not much taller than the battroid there.

[Thom]

11 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

Yeah that’s wild. 

 

8 hours ago, Big s said:

Yeah, Macross sizing and scale is all over the place. As far as the anime the zentraedi jackets fit a battroid no problem, but their power armors usually look much closer to the same height. But then the line art shows their pilots shorter than the destroids with the ladies being even shorter.

But I do at least feel that the Queadluun Rau kit and a Plamax kit will look spot on for the anime scene where Max’s future wife busts into the city. The Queadluun Rau looked bigger, but not much taller than the battroid there.

If they can mess with scales in anime, we can do it in real life!😁 It does look really cool...

[VF-1A Grunt]

16 hours ago, Thom said:

Crazy how, to be in actual scale with each other, the Batroid should be small enough to sit inside the Queadluun-Rau.

It would say the models’ relative sizes look pretty comparable to the scene where Max in his VF-1S fights Milia in the hallway of the Meltrandi ship in DYRL. There’s definitely a lot of anime magic going on there.

[Big s]

4 hours ago, VF-1A Grunt said:

It would say the models’ relative sizes look pretty comparable to the scene where Max in his VF-1S fights Milia in the hallway of the Meltrandi ship in DYRL. There’s definitely a lot of anime magic going on there.

To be honest, the movie kinda sticks more solidly to the line art sizing than the tv show actually did most of the time. Sure Mirya looks absolutely gigantic next to Max’s actual human body and I think the Zentran still look too big compared to miclones, but the mechs actually appear mostly consistent compared to human mecha in the rare cases where they are next to each other.

Also when Kamjin hops out of his armor, he’s way shorter than Roy’s battroid. If Roy hadn’t died, the scene would’ve looked absolutely comedic as Roy fights off that armor and then this little dude just hops out and starts beating down Roy’s battroid. It’s definitely far more accurate than the smoking scene in the tv show or expecting a jacket to fit a battroid. It was sorta an odd scene that I had rewatched a bunch while checking out details for the movie Queadluun Rau back when it was first announced.

[lochness]

On 9/20/2025 at 8:46 AM, Papa Rat said:

Here’s a visual with the movie edition. 
 

Thanks Everyone!

This is exactly what I was hoping, they match together really nice.

Looking forward to building a diorama with them.

[sh9000]

How does the Q Rau look next to a HMR VF-1 Battroid?

Edited September 22 by sh9000

[Big s]

1 hour ago, sh9000 said:

How does the Q Rau look next to a HMR VF-1 Battroid?

The hmr is a bit shorter, about to the hip height of the Queadluun Rau from what I remember after test fitting 

[GMK]

Hasegawa has released pics of the unpainted, assembled kit. 

[Big s]

16 minutes ago, GMK said:

Hasegawa has released pics of the unpainted, assembled kit. 

Yeah, those look great. Looks like you don’t need to do much at all to give it the basic appearance from the show 

[Papa Rat]

@GMKThanks for sharing.

I see the same construction as the earlier versions. Unfortunately all appendages have seams bisecting them. The alignment was good on the DYRL version. Clean up was no big deal with a little puttyl. Looks like the same on this. 

Edited September 22 by Papa Rat

[Big s]

8 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

@GMKThanks for sharing.

I see the same construction as the earlier versions. Unfortunately all appendages have seams bisecting them. The alignment was good on the DYRL version. Clean up was no big deal with a little puttyl. Looks like the same on this. 

Hasegawa loves to milk a mold. The majority of the parts are the same, just a few new ones, mostly lower legs, lower arms, face, antennae and cowl. I personally was hoping they’d go the extra mile and do the more detailed version, but the more I thought about it, the more I expected the re use of molds.it’s definitely a great example of the lower picture as far as surface, but I still would’ve liked them to do the extra stuff, but to be fair, that wasn’t in the show or the og line art

[GMK]

On 9/20/2025 at 8:29 AM, lochness said:

Beautiful! They nailed it for me. It's exactly what I hoped for.

Question for everybody, regarding scales, does the Hasegawa Rau 1/72 match well with the Plamax 1/72 battroid?

I would love to do a diorama.

Looks like a lot of people are thinking what you’re thinking!

This was on the Hobby Search twitter page. 

[Big s]

20 minutes ago, GMK said:

Looks like a lot of people are thinking what you’re thinking!

This was on the Hobby Search twitter page. 

Definitely a lot of people. I was kinda thinking it too when the Queadluun Rau kit for the movie was out and plamax had their Max 1A coming. I had a feeling that Hasegawa would do the tv version, especially since they had done three different colors of the movie one. Can’t wait to get the tv version and set up a display 

[Chas]

These recent pics pushed me over the edge - couldn't resist any longer --preorder in!

I would love to see Hasegawa release an in scale TV Milia figure like they did with the Movie version!

Edited September 23 by Chas

[Big s]

18 minutes ago, Chas said:

These recent pics pushed me over the edge - couldn't resist any longer --preorder in!

I would love to see Hasegawa release an in scale TV Milia figure like they did with the Movie version!

I’d lake that as well. Just I’m on the fence between her pilot uniform or her cool zentraedi dress uniform with those awesome boots

[Chas]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I’d lake that as well. Just I’m on the fence between her pilot uniform or her cool zentraedi dress uniform with those awesome boots

Honestly, I'd be just as happy with either.

But I really liked the sculpt and pose of this garage kit from the 2022 summer Wonderfest. 

 

It probably a little too large though.

Edited September 23 by Chas

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Chas said:

Honestly, I'd be just as happy with either.

But I really liked the sculpt and pose of this garage kit from the 2022 summer Wonderfest. 

 

It probably a little too large though.

If that’s the tall can, she’d definitely be too big, but she’s a real beauty.

[Papa Rat]

3 hours ago, Chas said:

Honestly, I'd be just as happy with either.

But I really liked the sculpt and pose of this garage kit from the 2022 summer Wonderfest. 

 

It probably a little too large though.

Wow that’s a cool sculpt!

[Thom]

14 hours ago, Chas said:

Honestly, I'd be just as happy with either.

But I really liked the sculpt and pose of this garage kit from the 2022 summer Wonderfest. 

 

It probably a little too large though.

Would love one of that!

[Big s]

25 minutes ago, Thom said:

Would love one of that!

Yeah, I think this made up my mind. I want the dress uniform rather than the pilot suit

[Shawn]

The latest max release (tentatively tomorrow) has box art which I assumed to be Mercy Rabbit like the recent ones, but this one is 'Naochika Morishita'

Have they done any other Macross products?

[derex3592]

Yeh, I finally caved in and pre-ordered the TV QRau. It's my favorite Zent Armor. Also put the GLAUG in my private warehouse from HLJ. Guess I'll eventually pay a jillion dollars to have them both shipped once the QRau drops. 

[Thom]

22 minutes ago, Big s said:

Yeah, I think this made up my mind. I want the dress uniform rather than the pilot suit

Plus, the stance is less 'cutsey-anime girl.' She may have been in an anime, but she was never a 'cutesly anime-girl!' Keep that firm, purposeful stance.

[lochness]

19 hours ago, Big s said:

Hasegawa loves to milk a mold. The majority of the parts are the same, just a few new ones, mostly lower legs, lower arms, face, antennae and cowl. I personally was hoping they’d go the extra mile and do the more detailed version, but the more I thought about it, the more I expected the re use of molds.it’s definitely a great example of the lower picture as far as surface, but I still would’ve liked them to do the extra stuff, but to be fair, that wasn’t in the show or the og line art

Agreed. Would of been very nice to get the more detailed line art version but I understand why they went cheaper. I'm still shocked they did the TV version at all considering it did require new molds and I don't think they can do any variations like they did with the movie version. Maybe they do a generic version that is all green?

Besides, this will give me a good reason to try and cut in my own panel lines. Going to need to practice first.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, lochness said:

Agreed. Would of been very nice to get the more detailed line art version but I understand why they went cheaper. I'm still shocked they did the TV version at all considering it did require new molds and I don't think they can do any variations like they did with the movie version. Maybe they do a generic version that is all green?

Besides, this will give me a good reason to try and cut in my own panel lines. Going to need to practice first.

I wasn’t too surprised after the thought of them milking the mold set in. They did pretty much every variant of the regult other than color changes and after thinking about the fact they pumped out four of those and a bunch of armored Valkyries I figured tv version of the Queadluun Rau was soon.

As far as panel lines, if you’re gonna do that, I’d suggest doing it in test first. Maybe on some rounded plastic spoons and really get that practice in. A lot of surfaces here are gonna be rounded rather than flat, so a cheap spoon should be a good sacrifice for practice 

[SteveTheFish]

On 9/23/2025 at 7:06 AM, Big s said:

Hasegawa loves to milk a mold. 

It's not just Hasegawa, but rather an industry standard. I worked at Aoshima for about 8 months, 9 years ago. I was introduced to a lot of that sort of strategy. Look at their Knight Rider KITT models or their Back to the Future Delorean models. They've issued many variants of these two cars alone. Season 1, 2, 3, and 4 for KITT, then the same molds released as a pre-painted KARR, some with the LED front scanners. The Delorean had models of all three versions (actually, there were four versions since the 3rd movie had both the white-rimmed '50s tires version and the train track version). Some with figures, some with photoetch. And they've re-released an all-new tooling of the Delorean, and made it so that a stand-alone, non-time machine Delorean kit could be released (making many happy).

Bandai does the same thing, as does pretty much every other model company. My Academy F-14A Tomcat "Pukin' Dogs" kit has variant parts to make the B and the D, it seems. Just re-release the same kit with decals for a different livery and there you go. It's why you get unused, leftover parts on the runners with the kits you build. The mold toolings are the costliest investment, so if you can release different kits using little or no new toolings, you can maximize your profit.

At Aoshima, we were hoping to do an all-new tooling for the Mad Max Interceptor, and if we could've gotten the license then I'm sure it would've been retooled to make both the black Interceptor and regular yellow/blue pursuit cars, plus the modified version from the 2nd movie. Who knows? Maybe even a stand-alone Ford Falcon model car. Alas, I was given a definite "NO" from the movie studio. Frank Miller refuses to allow his works being licensed. He probably saw too many Jar Jar Binks pajamas and the whole nightmare of Star Wars licensing and refused to go down that route.