Well, this post should be called1/72 VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie Alto Custom: super slow wip XD . Lately I don’t have too much time to work on this plamo so my progress on it is very slow.  I can say that it is almost finished but still have few things  to do…

Head

There is not much parts for the head. There was also sticker for the “eye” sensor but it was looking so ugly that I decided to paint this part with  Tamiya clear green.

Those parts that have been selected with red lines have been also painted because they should be in grey color.

And that’s how the head is looking after assembling and painting. I have to say that maybe design of the head is quite simple but still it’s looking  very nice.  It was good decision to paint  the parts that require this. As a result, the final appearance looks a lot better than if I used stickers and left some of the parts unpainted.

Arms and hands

Front and back of the arm

Together with the model we obtain three pairs of hands. One pair  for valkyrie in figther mode (this  at the very bottom) and two pairs for use in the gerwalk and batroid mode.

Legs

I have to say that feets have been nicely detailed. They also have two functions,one very easy to guess as a feets and second as a exhaust nozzle.

Preview of the inner frame of the legs.

Legs are made very good, with nice details,  proportions and pretty good articulation. The bad things are white and red decals for the vertical stabilizer (fins), after applying the decals the black color of the parts passes the decals (photo below)  and because of that they don’t have ideal colors. That’s why I also have to paint this part of the vertical stabilizer.

There are also decals that don’t cover the entire part and they should do that, just look at the photo below:

I will have to use black gundam marker to cover the white lines  around the decal.  Bandai should be ashamed for making such a bad decals…

Gun pod & assault knife

This part of the gun pod that is selected  with red lines must be painted in red color, or if you do not want to paint it, you can use the decal for this part of the gun pod. I have used it but after few sec it have fall off so I decided to paint it…

Like you can see, the gun pod have very simple design and it’s construction was very easy. It took me only few minutes to assembly it.

If it goes about assault knife, then well it’s looking just like all the normal knifes so nothing special about it.  You will probably notice that in some areas you will see paint, it’s becacuse I was testing if the paint that I have in my house would look good on it but the final effect wasn’t good so I removed the paint and will use silver gundam marker for the edge of the knife. It will probably look much better then the paint that I have used …

[WIP 2] coming soon…

Just like the title of this post says, two days ago the 1/1 scale RX-78-2 was completed. This is the life size Gundam that is being built in Odaiba (Tokyo) and is  part of a celebration for the 30 year anniversary of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. The date of display for the statue is from July 11th till August 31st. And here are  some of the pics of this statue:

The only thing that is left are lights,beam rifle and shield but like you can see, it’s already looking great. I only hope that when I visit Japan in next year, this statue will be still standing in Tokio so I will have oportunity to take some nice photos of it ^^

Pics from: Punynari blog and Ngee Khiong

It’s a bit late but I would like to say that since last week you can buy, the newest Yoko Kanno album called “Space Bio Charge”. It’s a collection of  the greatest hits  from Seatbelts and Yoko Kanno, featuring the songs of “Cowboy Bebop,” “Macross Frontier,” “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” “The Vision of Escaflowne,” “Turn A Gundam,” “Macross Plus” and more on 3 CDs. Below you have the full song list from all 3 CDs:

CD1

CD2

CD3

I will probably buy this collection album since I’m a big fan of Yoko Kanno music.  And for about 41$  you get almost all the best songs that she have created.So if you are a fan of her works then “Space Bio Charge” would be a great addition to you collection especialy that you get 3CDs (48 tracks) for not so high price. I only have Macross Frontier, Ghost in the shell:S.A.C. and Lovers only (from vision of the Escaflowne) CDs so it’s very good option for me ^^ .

You can buy it on: Play-Asia

Plamo info

Price: 4500 yen

Release date: September 2008

Scale: 1/72

Series: Macross Frontier

Box overwiew

Box size is almost the same as those from gundam plamos.

Presentation of all three modes of the Messiah Valkyrie:  fighter, gerwalk and battroid.

Some  examples of the action poses

Box art of Alto Valkyrie is looking quite nice but personaly I would like to see something like those from Hasegawa Macross kits for example like this one^^

Instruction manual

Manual of this Macross kit is similar to those from gunpla kits.  So even if you do not know Japanese, you should not have problems with assembling of this model.

Transformation proces is looking quite easy on the photos but how it will be in reality we’ll  see. I still remember having problems with waverider mode of  MG Zeta Gundam 2.0…

Runners & decals

There are 13 frames of runners +decals

If it goes about the parts, then I have to say that they are very nice detailed. They have good proportions and are molded in proper color. Well, except of few parts that have to be either painted or  covered with stickers…

I’m thinking about painting window and sensor parts in some nice  clear blue. They would look  much better than  in the default clear color.

The kit came with 2 sets of decals, the sticker type (yeah, everybody loves them XD)  and water-slide decals.

1/72 VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie Alto Custom is my first plamo that I bought in this year. It will be also my first non-gunpla kit in my collection.  First I was thinking about buying 1/100 Astrea Type F but then about month ago, I started watching Macross Frontier and just had to have one of the Messiah Valkyrie kits.  I  was always a big fan of modern fighter planes (mainly U.S. machines because of their  awesome design) and this combination of plane which can transform into mobile suit and gerwalk  is  great idea.  I could choose from Alto, Ozma, Michael and Luca units and in the end  I chosen Alto’s Valkyrie since he is main male character in the series and  I also like the color scheme of his unit.

Next I will probably buy Armor pack and SMS action base for this kit, I know that Bandai released also Valkyrie with super pack   (1/72 VF-25F Super Messiah Valkyrie Alto Custom) but lately I don’t have much money to spend on the plamos and that’s why I will buy Super pack together with the S.M.S. action base some other time.

Well, enough for today, next post “work in progress” ^^

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Special parts that comes with ignition mode ver.

I will probably buy normal ver. since it’s cheaper (lately don’t have much money)  then ignition mode ver. and the special stuff isn’t worth the money, maybe except those LED diods.

Source of the pics:Ngee Khiong

1/100 00 Raiser Designer's Color Ver.
Price: 5250¥
Release date: May 2009

This newest ver. of OO Raiser is at last avalaible. I posted some additional images of it so you can think if it’s really worth buying. If it goes about me, I think that I will get this ver. since I didn’t buy the first one with the stand and when I look at this Designer’s color ver.  it have quite a lot of new things (like GN sword III, 3 light units, decals) that make this gunpla worth buying ^^

This is probably the best box art just after this from MG Sword Impulse that I saw in this year.

It’s nice that Bandai added decals for this ver. of OO Raiser. They are looking pretty good and have nice design.

GN Sword III is molded in nice clear green color.

Source of images: Hobby search

At last, with Macross Frontier Nyan Tama my April loot is complete.  About month ago I started watching Macross Frontier, it is my first anime from Macross universe and I have to say that it’s great. It have beautiful animation, nice story, interesting characters and excellent music composed by Yoko Kannno. I decided to buy this 2 CD album since it is the a complete compilation  of opening-ending themes and insert songs of Macross Frontier. This album also features unreleased songs of the series. So it was a “must-buy” for me and since I lately don’t have much money to buy both soundtracks from this series so the Nyan Tama was the best choice for the beginning.  My little review of this album will be posted as soon as possible ^^ .

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Yeah,  today I have finally got my package with  Dragonball Z.  It was one of my first anime series that I have watched and still I’m a big fan of it.  Some time ago I decided to buy DB Z but didn’t know if this anime is still available on DVD and when I was just browsing  DVD Pacific, I have found out that  that Funimation Ent. have released it on DVD. The decision whas quick (read: I bought it ASAP)  and so after almost 2 weeks of waiting my copy of first sesaon have arrived.

It’s first season so on DVD we have  episodes from 1 to 39 and they cover the whole Vegeta saga. Right now I’m a little busy but when I find some free time I watch few episodes and post some review of this edition ^^.