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Was very excited to try the kitzconcept vf-1 series. Read whatever reviews I could find and the negatives I found I was either ok with or didn't think the comparisons being made were fair.
Saw several folk compare it to a something that costs triple, well yeah I'd expect that one to be better.
Some compared it to a transformer which aside from the 1982 toys, they've never been made by any company as a toy but as a "collectible"
Which has been the problem in my opinion with macross toys in general. The companies and Fandom seem to have this absolute obsession with everything being as close to the line art as possible to the detriment of something I can fly around my living room.
Personally I just want something I can transform reasonably quickly, that doesn't require any parts removal or swapping to transform. (and doesn't cost hundreds of dollars for a single unit)
With all of that in mind and the price of kitzconcept on sale I thought this would be a good avenue, and it would have been... If the leg didn't snap off when turning it into fighter mode for the first time. Looks like a very thin plastic peg is all that holds it on and that snapped.
I have some hi metal r, but I think for what I paid there's too many compromises, as again I hate parts swapping.
Someone please just give me a reasonably accurate macross jet that's built like a transformer.
Bandai please bring back or just slightly update the old 1/55 scale toys.
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Low Level Approach
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jenny brink more like jenny brick shithouse lmao
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”Jolly Rogers”
A flight of US Navy Vaught F4U-1A Corsairs from VF-17 “Jolly Rogers” photographed 15 April 1944, possibly over Bougainville.
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Ira Kepford's well worn 'White 29' F4U-1A Corsair of VF-17 'Blackburns Irregulars'
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Top five mecha designs?
5. VF-31S APS-31/W Armored Siegfried
4. Genesic GaoGaiGar
3. Bellzelute
2. MS-06R-1A Zaku II High Mobility Type (but really just Zakus in general)
1. RX-93-ν2 Hi-ν Gundam
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1944 02 Vought F4U-1A Corsair Jolly Rogers - box art Tamiya
VF-17 Jolly Rogers 29 (Lt.(Jg). Ira C. Kepford - Ondonga Airfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_C._Kepford
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VF-1A Valkyrie - Maximillian Jenius’s mount, art by Rodrigo Barraza
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VF-1A Super Valkyrie
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Recalling I had this entire aside in mind for my macross/mech OC Jenny Brink where due to the UN Navy/Airforce and nascent UN Spacy using an overtechnology-enhanced F-14D+ Tomcat variant as their fighter of choice, Jen's flight training included a brief period of practicing ways to recover from sudden jet engine compressor stalls, an issue that notoriously afflicted the original engines of the initial F-14A variant, even though this issue wouldn't have been present on any of the F-14s she herself flew.
(worth noting: Kara Hultgreen, the first US military pilot to die in a crash, did so due to her F-14A suffering a compressor stall during final approach)
also while I never quite decided where exactly Jen is from outside of "somewhere in europe", I do like the idea of her initial pilot training before being put in an F-14 might have been in either a Saab 39 Gripen/Griffin or a Eurofighter Typhoon - both being about the same size as the VF-1A Valkyrie she'd eventually fly on board the SDF-1 Macross, and thus significantly smaller than the comparably sizeable F-14
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