improving the TOYNAMI 1/55 MPC VF-1 series
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improving the TOYNAMI 1/55 MPC VF-1 series was created by Tasuke
just a couple/three weeks ago, i got my first (and probably only) MPC 1/55, and immediately begin to see in it clear potential to actually become what i would consider a solid homage to the 25 year-old BANDAI 1/72 HCM with just a touch of work.
really, just a simple litany of cheap and dirty mods that Really help this toy to shine (in it's own nostalgic sort of way) by leaps and bounds;
- improvements/modifications include; -
* painting, various areas (chest/frontal fuselage intakes, backpack module detail, etc)
* removal of light up visor LED wiring (provides better head movement)
* refit/rebonding various parts (poor factory fit/finish)
* wing glove modding (to allow full open wing spread, impossible as factory stock)
* hip modding (simple really, pair of long, narrow screws, pair of small rubber washers)
* removal of metal blocks inside lower legs, to reduce weight, providing far superior magnetic clasping in FIGHTER mode
- all of these subtle changes, most especially the hip mod, combines to allow for a far superior profile
in all three modes, especially BATTROID, and brings the whole
so much closer to something very much like an honest to goodness improved HCM homage,
and so much less like the cheap and dirty, lazy copy it was originally intended as.
indeed, now the toy feels closer to something BANDAI could have/should have rolled on out
back during 10th and/or 15th anniversary of SDFM,
rather than the tired old lazy plastic model reissues
they've always been so fixated on, YMMV...
really, just a simple litany of cheap and dirty mods that Really help this toy to shine (in it's own nostalgic sort of way) by leaps and bounds;
- improvements/modifications include; -
* painting, various areas (chest/frontal fuselage intakes, backpack module detail, etc)
* removal of light up visor LED wiring (provides better head movement)
* refit/rebonding various parts (poor factory fit/finish)
* wing glove modding (to allow full open wing spread, impossible as factory stock)
* hip modding (simple really, pair of long, narrow screws, pair of small rubber washers)
* removal of metal blocks inside lower legs, to reduce weight, providing far superior magnetic clasping in FIGHTER mode
- all of these subtle changes, most especially the hip mod, combines to allow for a far superior profile
in all three modes, especially BATTROID, and brings the whole
so much closer to something very much like an honest to goodness improved HCM homage,
and so much less like the cheap and dirty, lazy copy it was originally intended as.
indeed, now the toy feels closer to something BANDAI could have/should have rolled on out
back during 10th and/or 15th anniversary of SDFM,
rather than the tired old lazy plastic model reissues
they've always been so fixated on, YMMV...
* BANDAI 1/48 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. DX CHOGOKIN 2018
* BANDAI 1/48 VF-1S Ichijo D.Y.R.L. DX CHOGOKIN 2019
* BANDAI 1/55 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. REISSUE 2001
* BANDAI 1/72 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. High Complete Model 1985
* IMAI 1/72 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. VARIABLE TYPE MODEL KIT 1983
* BANDAI 1/48 VF-1S Ichijo D.Y.R.L. DX CHOGOKIN 2019
* BANDAI 1/55 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. REISSUE 2001
* BANDAI 1/72 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. High Complete Model 1985
* IMAI 1/72 VF-1J Ichijo T.V. VARIABLE TYPE MODEL KIT 1983
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