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Arcadia 1/60 VF-1J 35th Anniversary


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18 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

The scheme is what it is, and I think the super busy paintjobs do a disservice to the design overall, but that's an entirely separate pile of questionable decision making.

Gaudy paint jobs certainly didn't stop the regular-release VF-31s from selling like hotcakes.

Snark aside, I quite like this scheme. I said from the first reveal of the 35th anniversary scheme that it would look better without all that lettering, and I'm glad to see Arcadia prove me right. Shame that the rest of the markings aren't tampo'ed on, but if they include them as decals (and not stickers, please not stickers), then I might be tempted to get my first Arcadia VF...

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Don't you folks ever get tired of the same old VF-1? Gets kind of boring when all you ever see are head variants, paint jobs, and the same three armament packs.

I'd love if they did some super custom VF-1, keeping the same transformation maybe but redesigning the wings, limbs, etc. Maybe with a unique Super pack to go with it, some outlandish thing with giant gatling guns on the arms a la the Armored VF-31 and new drones/missiles/lasers that attach to the underwing pylons or something...

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2 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Don't you folks ever get tired of the same old VF-1? Gets kind of boring when all you ever see are head variants, paint jobs, and the same three armament packs.

I'd love if they did some super custom VF-1, keeping the same transformation maybe but redesigning the wings, limbs, etc. Maybe with a unique Super pack to go with it, some outlandish thing with giant gatling guns on the arms a la the Armored VF-31 and new drones/missiles/lasers that attach to the underwing pylons or something...

Not sure if trolling, or actually don't know about:

http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossga/sdp-1.htm

But that will probably never see any sort of "official" release.  But yeah, I do get a little tired of the same vf-1, that's why I want the "rare" ones like the ve-1, vt-1, and vf-1d from Arcadia :p.  I'm also not crazy about the idea of paying $300+ for each of those, though.

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18 minutes ago, HardlyNever said:

Not sure if trolling, or actually don't know about:

http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossga/sdp-1.htm

But that will probably never see any sort of "official" release.  But yeah, I do get a little tired of the same vf-1, that's why I want the "rare" ones like the ve-1, vt-1, and vf-1d from Arcadia :p.  I'm also not crazy about the idea of paying $300+ for each of those, though.

Oh god yes, I totally forgot about that. Something like that, I'd kill half a dozen wallets for.

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Stampede valk it is then. Or do the Macross the First pack variants. I wouldn't mind getting those even if one looks hideous with the arm canon thingy. I wonder if those decals for the 35th will be stickers, or waterslide, or tampo? Forgot how the 30th was.

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2 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Gaudy paint jobs certainly didn't stop the regular-release VF-31s from selling like hotcakes.

Heheh, really though, that's because the 31 paint schemes, as busy as they might be, actually look nice, and the stripes flow well with the natural body lines of the plane (mostly :p).

These anniversary schemes usually seem to be more a case of someone designing art that's meant to look good from the top view of the plane, without actually realizing that the curvature of the design means those stripes get twisted and mangled all over the place on the other surfaces of the aircraft. The weird disconnected patches of color just look chaotic and disorganized when viewed from other angles

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I think you're onto something there, @Chronocidal. I also think the VF-1 is such a classic, beautiful design that "busy" paint jobs like this one, the 30th VF-1J, and the recent anniversary HM-R VF-1S hide its naturally good-looking design and make it hard to appreciate. That's why the simple original "canon" schemes work so much better, in my opinion.

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4 hours ago, jvmacross said:

If they wanted to use blue and gold on a VF again....I would have preferred Hasegawa's "5Grand Anniversary" scheme.....;)

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On 2/18/2018 at 8:55 AM, no3Ljm said:

To be honest it looks nice. Not sure if I’m going to get it. It would’ve been nice if this is already in Premium Finish format so that all the gold stickers will be tampoed. But since we’re not going to see a DX VF-31J version of this, Arcadia should’ve made the 5000th Production instead. ;)

Ditto on that one, JVM. ;)

 

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If this is general release it's at the bottom of my list, which means I'll get one eventually. If it's a Exclusive that still gives me a bit of time to decide if I want one or not, I guess it's something to add to the Nascar valk pile :lol:

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We discussed this in the anniversary model threads, too, but I think the anniversary schemes are just hit or miss. The 25th looks really nice, but the 30th was... Nascar ugly. Have there been any others? There's the Messer VF-1, but I don't know if that's an "official" scheme or Bandai just wanted to capitalize on Delta and Messer's (confounding) popularity.

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11 hours ago, kajnrig said:

We discussed this in the anniversary model threads, too, but I think the anniversary schemes are just hit or miss. The 25th looks really nice, but the 30th was... Nascar ugly. Have there been any others? There's the Messer VF-1, but I don't know if that's an "official" scheme or Bandai just wanted to capitalize on Delta and Messer's (confounding) popularity.

Bandai is just capitalizing on that and calling it 'in-celebration' of the 35th Anniversary.

 

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I've really got no great love for the Messer scheme either.  It's not nearly as bad, but the paint scheme is still just cues from the VF-31 paintjob splattered over the VF-1 frame, with little to no regard for the shape or contours of the different design.  Only reason I bought any was for spare TV missile clusters, and the alternate color canopies.  I don't know if I'll completely strip down and repaint them, but they would make a nice bright white VF-1S.

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56 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

I've really got no great love for the Messer scheme either.  It's not nearly as bad, but the paint scheme is still just cues from the VF-31 paintjob splattered over the VF-1 frame, with little to no regard for the shape or contours of the different design.  Only reason I bought any was for spare TV missile clusters, and the alternate color canopies.  I don't know if I'll completely strip down and repaint them, but they would make a nice bright white VF-1S.

What I don't like about the Messer scheme is the black goes over the edges of the chest plate and the markings on the wings. I also cannot unseen a tuxedo on the chest plate since the VF-1S landed on my office desk. 

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2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

The next Bandai VF-1 release....

 

 

The next Arcadia VF-1 release....

 

 

 

Any questions? 8)

OUCH! Though to be fair that's an official promo pic vs a btw snapshot, but i get what you mean. 

that tiny shiny VF-1 monoeye still...bugs me more than it shld..

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I do think its a tad better than the 30th anniversary version Arcadia put out a few years back but there is too much gold which makes it look tacky.. 

Considering I sold off my Arcadia 30th AE, I doubt I would get this one only to sell it off down the track also..

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