PLAMAX 1/72 VF-19 Custom Fire Valkyrie Build Log

SEVENTH MOON

As you watch, I recommend listening—listen to my song!

PLAMAX 1/72 VF-19 Custom Fire Valkyrie — As expected, the box is quite large.

Runners filling up the large box completely.

The box uses no adhesive, so it can be easily unfolded by hand—a detail worth praising.

There are many runners with just one or two parts like these.

The runners are split into many small sets, running from A through Z and even an AK runner.

The manual is in color and printed on quality paper.

You can choose between an open mouth or closed mouth pose, but almost no one would build the Fire Valkyrie without the mouth showing.

One of the Fire Valkyrie’s key features—the lightning pattern on its head—is done with a sticker. This is my least favorite part of the kit.

The shoulders can be swapped to reveal the speakers, but at this scale, it could have been made fully articulated—so that’s a disappointment.

The legs use a frame similar in quality to Bandai’s HG grade.

Besides fist hands, relaxed and weapon-holding hands are included. The small part under the hand is a speaker port.

As far as I remember, in the show it fires only once by accident, so I wonder why they bothered to include that feature.

I wish they had used those resources to color-separate the lightning pattern on the head or make the shoulder speaker units fully movable.

I assembled the PLAMAX 1/72 scale Fire Valkyrie.

Honestly, I already had the Bandai Fire Valkyrie and wasn’t planning to buy this, but when I heard PLAMAX would release the Mylene Valkyrie—something Bandai would never do—I bought it right away.

Of course, I doubt PLAMAX will go as far as releasing the Storm Valkyrie, but I still hold a small hope.

Besides the impressive presence at 1/72 scale, this kit sacrifices transformation to fully focus on the Battroid mode, resulting in flawless sculpting and proportions.

I value proportions over articulation, so I prefer separate fixed-mode kits rather than transformation mechanisms that ruin proportions and reduce durability.

It’s mostly a satisfying product, but the lack of color separation compared to the scale is a downside.

I don’t expect Bandai-level color separation from PLAMAX, but carelessly handling the iconic lightning pattern on the Fire Valkyrie’s head with a sticker is unforgivable.

The kit is large enough for proper part separation, and if technical limitations were an issue, they should have at least painted it like the Dragona releasing this year, or used high-quality decals if painting wasn’t feasible.

The black sticker on the back of the hand also has poor adhesion and keeps peeling, showing overall sticker quality issues.

Nonetheless, thanks to the satisfying assembly experience that comes with the large scale, appropriate detail, and excellent sculpt and proportions, it’s quite a satisfying product overall.

I’ve already decided to buy the Mylene Valkyrie as well, and I hope they improve on the shortcomings.

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