On the 49th Japan Model Hobby Show, Bandai has unveiled their newest edition of Macross Frontier’s VF-27 model. The model is completely transformable to all three modes (Fighter mode, Gerwalk mode, and Batroid mode). The darker, more metallic and semi-battered paint job on the VF-27 makes it look like it just came from combat which adds more allure to it for the manly toy collectors.

Other gimmicks in this model is its beam-gunpod which can reproduce those flashy effects from the anime. But what really sold this work of art for me is its cockpit. They managed to recreate the cockpit design complete with a miniature Ranka Lee and Brera Sterne mini model.

Bandai has already said that the model will be available to the public by November 2009. But for those wou want first dibs, they can be pre-ordered at Happinet Online for 4,300 yen.

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