Luperpla!

Over a decade ago, in 2012, I bought the Bandai transforming Valkyrie kits with Super/Fast packs. One Hikaru use VF-1A/S, and one Roy Fokker VF1-S. This wonderful pile of parts *should* be everything for the basic Valk, with the Strike parts off in their own baggies.

I cut all the parts out, painted the frame parts, stuck them in a bag (apparently figuring that "white parts over here, grey parts over there and I'll figure out the rest later was good enough) and then left it til now. My friends and I made our own little Zaku II squadron for Wonderfest, and after that was finished up we talked about doing a squad of Valkyries out of the Hasegawa kits. As a warmup for my aircraft painting skills, I dug these apparently rare badboys up and....wilted. because look at that. No runner markings. No separation on things. Just about nothing to go on.

So I set to splitting things up based on part size and looking for the parts I needed to get started. Before I can really dig in to this build, I gotta figure out where stuff like seamlines are at and how I'm gonna deal with those so a test build is absolutely required. I used to just chop my parts off the runner and then cut the nubs off with a hobby knife so there are some sections where I need to do some light sanding or filling with putty to restore the correct shape but it looks like for the most part I was pretty careful about taking too much plastic off back then. Nice work, 2012 me.