Hikuro Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 I'm on the fence. I haven't built a Macross related kit in forever and feel pretty out of practice. I just wish these had a pilot, hell, I wish they would produce those VF-1's again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikuro Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Okay so I picked one up, these are not bad looking at all. I got Alto's VF-25F, yep you totally need glue on this! The parts are on decent looking runners, they're easy to snap off with nippers, the canopy is broken into 3 pieces for easy taping and painting of the frame, but you'll need to I think glue them as well. But the joining parts are right where the black needs to be applied if you paint it. The only area right now I'm noticing where there will be an obvious seamline is at the nose itself, but it'll be easy to apply a thin layer of cement glue and sand that down. There is a fair amount of stickers, they're not bad looking at all, probably a little thicker than the ones Bandai uses on their Macross kits. There's even a set of stickers for the shoulder pads to the EX-Gear, that's encouraging cause I was thinking of just painting it....still might, haven't fully decided yet.Decent amount of HUD display images from just white, Ranka, Ozma pop ups, Ready and Startup, and data readings. Think this'll be kinda fun, might start working on it this weekend or when the weather gets cooler, I'm not sure yet. But for the size of this thing and what you get, I do feel like I paid a little to much on Amazon and if I do another in the future I'll just stick with HLJ for literally half the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hikuro Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 That's not bad. I mean I kind of like these my only complaint is the lack of parts separation in the cockpit for easier painting. I've got the cockpit systems sort of set for painting and I did a dry fit of the majority it looked really nice. So while the primer sets on the cockpit frame I've got a little bit of cement glue on the nose cone seamline and been sanding away at that to make it look better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikuro Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Alright so I finished my VF-25F,I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys, it's neat in concept and if you can airbrush it'll look pretty cool. But these stickers totally ruined it for me in a lot of ways. They maybe will hold better on bare plastic but so far being an entirely painted kit, they continue to bubble and pull away no matter what I try to do to get them to stay on, and it's super annoying. They're also so damn large and kept to a basic shape so they eat up a lot of space and don't fit very well where they should. It's not a 50 dollar kit though, I probably wouldn't pay more than 35 for this thing at all. It still lacks a ton of detail that could of been nice, there should of been more parts separation and color breakdowns so you wouldn't have to use stickers. I also would of loved it more if it came with a pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electric indigo Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electric indigo Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 A 1/20 YF-29 in the making: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMBounty_Hunter Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 I didn't see it until now but Luca's boxart is absolutely fantastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no3Ljm Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) Edited February 21 by no3Ljm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no3Ljm Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Plamax 1/20 VF-25F Fighter Nose Kit is 50% off at BBTS for US$28 from US$55.99. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/172336 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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