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.