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  2. VF-1A Grunt
    That's good news, I'm hoping to have mine shipped before the tariffs kick in. Are you seeing the 1/72 Armament Set in stock too? It looked like they would be released together.
  3. TangledThorns
    Try the used market, eg Facebook marketplace, to save money and you can haggle some. You'll have to research on what you find available though.
  4. Raikkonen
    With all my orders from Japan generally, and HLJ too, the initial shipping costs are likely an estimate. This is likely due to exchange rates. Also had this with my recent HLJ order and I'm in Europe. Shipping was 32 Euro, then ended up being 26 Euro.
  5. Raikkonen
    I love the phantom since my dad built and painted a Tamiya kit of it for me when I was a kid. But if I would to invest in a display piece of it, I'd just get a Hobbymasters diecast to fully show all it's sexy lines. That said, I really appreciate Brick Veteran's efforts in his, minus the canopy and the general underneath of the wings in all such mocs. Lego needs to invest in more variety of inverted curved and angle tiles.
  6. Xigfrid
    The pictures are really nice! A real feast for my eyes. What can we expect from now? Do you have any lead of business, what are you planning? I am asking this because I know that more and more hobbyist have their own 3D printers and could be more than happy with a Stl package to buy and build. And maybe it can help get to the next finalement step?
  7. Raikkonen
    Spoiler alert.
  8. Raikkonen
    That would have been 3 films where he's immortal. lol
  9. electric indigo
    The seam at the front should be easy to sand. For the recessed area, I would cover it with a strip of thin styrene cut to shape.
  10. pengbuzz
    You're not missing much on the "sequels"; thank heaven you never saw the cartoon!!
  11. pengbuzz
    Thanks! When I was a kid, my dad worked for a filter manufacturing company/factory that ordered a lot of 3M Masking Tape. We lived in the projects and could barely get by (factory was the best job my dad could get, as he dropped out of middle school to help his family by working), so most toys and stuff I ended up not getting . If I wanted something, I had to make it myself out of cardboard and masking tape. Over the years, I'd like to think I got good at it. In any event, my dad passed some years ago (WWII vet, died August 28, 2011); I continue to use masking tape to honor his memory and the sacrifices he made to keep us fed, clothed and a roof over our heads.
  12. grogall
    Well at least we now know where Bandai got the idea!
  13. GMK
    PLAMAX PX14 1/72 VF-1 Fighter Valkyrie Deculture Package is now in stock at the usual outlets.
  14. BroTaku79
    hmmm...I will have to talk to my designer, and see if we can make something for the tread. I don't even have my copy yet so it is hard to say right now....
  15. davidwhangchoi
    Did Misa smack him with a diamond ring for looking at the new Miss Macross?
  16. davidwhangchoi
    hahaha
  17. Mog
    And light it on fire.
  18. Mog
    See MacAvoy vs. Big Dave would be a convincing fight. James showed some fight in Wanted and in Split. And has that underdog look, especially against someone much taller like Bautista.
  19. M'Kyuun
    I like cassettes, so I'm a little biased, but I dig these guys. I really like the cassette bots that actually look like cassettes, a fleeting reality these days since Hasbro introduced the smaller scale, so Brutality, AKA Slugfest, hits a certain sweet spot for me. His bot mode is adorable- I particularly love the way his legs store within the tape mode. He's simple by comparison with most of Wu's previous cassettes, all of which had to do double duty as combiners, but he has his charm. Slaughter, AKA Overkill, eschews any pretense of looking like a real cassette, but as Mike mentioned, he makes up for it in spades with an impressive amount of articulation in a very small package. I wish his head was on a ball joint for more expressive poses, but as he is, he's a fun little dino-bot. Speaking of little dino-bot cassettes, Wu's previous releases, Explosion, AKA Noizu and Supersonic, AKA Gurafi, did not make the most convincing of cassettes either, although their rectangular wafer modes aren't far off- neither have reel details which would've helped sell the notion. Where they fall apart, literally, is in their combination, which relies solely on Explosion's two hinged flaps, which do not have a much-needed "thoop" point for solidarity, closing over two small tabs on either side of Supersonic's robot torso. The connection is tenuous at best, relying on the merest friction and a prayer. It doesn't help that said un-thooped flaps host the hip/shoulder ball joints, which means you have to press in on the shoulders while manipulating the arms in combined mode (Impact Wave AKA Decibel). For something that should have been designed out of the gate to combine, of the three combining cassette teams that Wu has released, this one is the most poorly executed due to there being no other manner of solidifying the combination. It's disappointing, especially since the combined mode looks really good, has great articulation, nice paint apps, and convenient but wholly inaccurate weapon placements. And, with the merest breeze or vibration, it falls apart into robotic bits that become two pretty decent mini dino-bots (Supersonic's wings are a bit on the thicc side, but at this scale, it's ok). Handling it while typing this, I still can't believe Wu didn't create a stronger connection, especially when the combination was the big selling point. Unfortunately, it's nicer to look at than to play with, at least in combined mode.
  20. Radioguy started following DX VF-1S Roy Armored Valkyrie and Best paint for Bandai DX plastic? (adhesion/durability)
  21. Radioguy
    In deference to @David Hingtgen, if I'm threadjacking here, let me know, and I'll create a new thread, but the title of this one just seemed too on the nose for me to resist adding a related question... Has anyone successfully dyed the nylon DX joints other colors? I ask that, because it was told to me that those parts of a DX would not take any paint if a custom repaint were attempted, and their visibility in their cast color would ruin the appearance if the repaint were in a contrasting color. (Specifically, I had asked someone to customize the recent VF-1J reissue in the Revell AXOID (maroon/black) livery.) If there has been success on that front in relation to the DX parts, I would love to know. I'd still love to own a proper AXOID VF-1J in my lifetime.
  22. Radioguy

    Hello again, my fellow big apple neighbor!

    1. PsYcHoDyNaMiX

      PsYcHoDyNaMiX

      Hello! 👋 What's going on? Attending the upcoming ANYC?

  23. 26662
    Amazon Japan updated the estimated shipping date on the Legioss:
  24. Radioguy
    I can add my voice to that now.
  25. Radioguy
    Better late than never, I guess.
  26. Radioguy
    Well, @Anasazi37 and @BroTaku79 are surely the ones who could find an answer if there is one.
  27. Chronocidal
    Man lived an incredible life, no matter how you look at it. Reminds me though, both of my grandfathers were born in 1925, so their 100th birthdays would be coming up shortly. Time certainly flies.
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