bandai macross 1/48 VF-1J
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harryhoudini
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Is this a Model kit or fully posable toy? Super sweet. Any news about the 1/20 kit?
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astroboy
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It says that it's a model. And judging by the looks of it, I think that's correct
SawbonesAdmiral
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Is it a model though? The links say Tamashii, which is their action figure line, not Bandai Hobby
Thomas Guycott
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Yup, that’s a toy, for sure.
The Kitbasher
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That's definitely not a model kit, it is a big action figure (toy)
There have been 1:48 Valkyrie model kits, though. Hasegawa did a lovely one a few years back. And I remember one coming out when I was living over in Japan in the mid-'90s from Club M that makes me weep tears of unrequited lust to this day. Their Ultimate Detail Valkyrie model kit could be built with a lot of it as "panels off", and a skilled modeler could make those portions hot-swappable with rare-earth magnets pretty easily. So much resin and photoetch. So unaffordable for me back then and, since they only made 600, almost as hard to find now as the Venus de Milo's arms. :cry
I'm mostly okay with that, as I do most of my air-and-space-craft in 1:72 for ease of visual comparison, from the F-14 Tomcat to the USS Defiant's Type 10 shuttlecraft, the Chaffee. But I do have a few scale-outliers that I have for separate display, and one I've been keeping my eye on since it was announced (due to be released next month, hopefully) is Max Factory's 1:20 Valkyrie model kit.
I'm mostly okay with that, as I do most of my air-and-space-craft in 1:72 for ease of visual comparison, from the F-14 Tomcat to the USS Defiant's Type 10 shuttlecraft, the Chaffee. But I do have a few scale-outliers that I have for separate display, and one I've been keeping my eye on since it was announced (due to be released next month, hopefully) is Max Factory's 1:20 Valkyrie model kit.
harryhoudini
Active Member
I think I cried when i saw the panels removed.
So any news about when the 1/20 kit coming out?
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Everything out there says 08/2018, with the weapons pack available separately at a later date. HLJ has stopped taking pre-orders until they know whether they'll receive sufficient quantity to open up more, but poke all the importers you can find. The price point looks to be in the ~$350 range.
harryhoudini
Active Member
I’m crying right now. I’m still saving up for the bandai pg falcon and now this.
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