>>6480519Personally I find it to be the opposite, I find the non-valks to look cheap and plasticy, that said the spartan (got because amiami have it on sale) is solid as fuck, a much more fun figure to handle, but not as involved as the valks, if not for the diecast in the joints I'd throw him around (because he'd break something but not so much himself)
The valks are a *little* more delicate, yes they use diecast in the breakable sections but I wouldn't dare stress test them, plastic gives metal bends for good, but you can still handle them well enough for dynamic poses and what not, but they're nothing like say a modern day retail hasbro transformers toy where you can man handle it, more or less treat them as you would as a model kit, pose them gently, look and admire, but not quite a hand grenade or made of sand.
Looks wise the valks aren't that bad and the lack of actual paint I would say is because you do have to handle alot of the surface during transformations, the colored ones ie the mass produced model and the red and blue ones look the best in hand whilst the roy folker and...erm rick hunter (sorry can only remember robotech name) look really bland, same for the armored one but with the armor on its on par with the spartan
Hope that helps, sorry been a looong day
