MacrossJunkie

I like how the VF-27's cannon can remain mounted on the underside while in gerwalk mode. That's a first for a valkyrie as far as I can think of. The closest I can think of is the YF-21/VF-22 where the guns can stay attached to the bay doors, but they're kind of useless in that position in gerwalk mode.

Tried to watch it out of curiosity, but for some reason it will only take a windows media player 11 plug-in to work. I have WMP 12 and it won't accept as a valid player. Oh well.

And don't forget the collapsible shield. I like that the pilot figures are bigger, better sculpted, and removable. That swing down arm to hold the gunpod is unexpected and welcome. That and the removable pilots were things I couldn't see in pics up until now.

Looks good. Doing all those rivets would have driven me nuts. Did you seal it to keep the rivets and the weathering from rubbing off?

I noticed that the DX Macross Quarter was missing some paint apps in the final product while looking at pics and going through some MF episodes, especially the flight deck. I couldn't leave well enough alone and decided to add some of that myself. I was afraid I'd screw it up, but it actually came out better than expected. Before: After: I gotta say the Quarter is my favorite toy of 2010 thus far (yes, I know the year just started). It looks pretty impressive all bristling with turrets. I've also been wanting a Macross type capital ship and short of shelling out over $2000, this is the closest I'm going to get in the near future.

I'm curious where those YF-19 pics came from. It looks like a pretty good quality CG render. Possibly the same one used in the All That VF airshow?

Well, however you look at it, it's definitely official now with Graham's post from his talk with Yamato.

Honestly, just get it. I don't think you'll be disappointed with it. It looks a lot more impressive in person and in three dimensions. From going through episodes of MF, the colors actually look to be about right after lighting has been taken into account. Also, if you want it darker, you can just display it in lower light conditions Also, the hands look about right in size. It's supposed to have huge hands to hold the enormous gun and flight deck. This screen cap from the last episode shows that the hand is pretty big.

Awwww, so we're gonna have to wait until near the end of this year to find out So does Yamato have anything to release in the time between now and then?

That's what I did and it worked out very well. A bunch of mine were bent inwards, so I heated them with a hair dryer til they got fairly soft and then held them in a straightened position and blew on them to cool them off. They remained straight after that.

That comparison pic is misleading. The 1/48 picture is shown at a lower angle making it look like the chest armor is too high. You could get the same result with the 1/60 if the pic was taken with the camera lower. As far as head positioning goes, note that the 2-seaters don't have that issue as the head position is correct on those. Another pro of the 1/48 is it has a lot more detail than the 1/60. Also, I like the backpack clip mechanism better for the 1/48 than 1/60's. The 1/60 version is kind of ugly, imo, where it leaves a big gaping hole in the backpack when the clip is deployed. Additional pros for the 1/60 are it's in scale with most of the other Yamato and Bandai Macross releases, takes up less space, and the stickers are much better (thinner and edges don't peel).

Check the overdrive thread pinned at the top.

You can also see the nosecone radar antenna in this diagram.

These pics were after I applied the panel lining and wash, plus some additional highlights using some blue from the tamiya weathering kit.

Picked up my Quarter from the PO this morning as well. I really like the sculpt. It seems sufficiently detailed to me and the colors are acceptable. Most of the joints are pretty tight, though the joint that connects the bicep/tricep area to the shoulder could be tighter. They just kind of swing around under the weight of the gun and deck if you tilt the Quarter to the side. By contrast, the joint that allows you to move the arm up and down from the shoulder requires herculean strength to move and I was afraid I would break the shoulder. Some of the turrets were bent, but I tried to the hair dryer trick to straighten them out. My main gripe is the main cannon is crooked when opened. The top two prongs are off center from the bottom prong and are offset to the left. No amount of manipulating on my part could set it straight so I'll just leave it displayed in the closed position. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it. With a bit of panel lining, wash, and shading here and there, it looks magnitudes better than the DX VF-25's.

Thanks for the heads up. I just checked mine on the USPS site and it says the same thing. Hopefully It will arrive either tomorrow or the day after. I wonder if it's possible to get a partial shipping refund from the japan post since our packages were sitting around in Japan for 2 weeks not going anywhere.

Thanks. I called the USPS today, myself. They forwarded me to another dept that handled international package inquiries and the guy told me that it hadn't left Japan yet and that he would get the people on the Japan side of things to investigate.

Do ones that only show some very light stress marks eventually break also? I see some on my 1D, but I wouldn't have noticed it if I weren't looking very hard and very specifically at the hinge area under very bright light.

Mine was from AmiAmi as well. I think I will do the same. Let me know if you get a response from them. Edit: I just checked the shipping email again and noticed this: In case you did not receive the parcel or any delivery notification after about a week (EMS) / three weeks (SAL), please contact your country's postmaster and refer them to the above registration number. Is that suggesting to contact the postmaster general directly or should I just give the generic USPS phone number a call?

Well, I checked the post office and nada. So it's in limbo somewhere and there's no way for me to find out what happened to it.

Just curious, what are the measurements for height, width and depth per shelf for the Biby?

That's sad when even SAL beats EMS. I feel ripped off...

What I don't get is that my shipment had supposedly left Japan on the 22nd and they hadn't gone on holiday yet at that time. So have they parked the plane on a cloud and are just partying in the sky for the past week or maybe they decided to have Japanese people work at customs at the US side? By my reckoning, my package should already be in the US now and that's why I'm confused why it's taking so long. I'd understand if my package had only just shipped out around the 25th or later.

No, it normally shouldn't take this long. I see you're having the same problem as me. My last status on my package shows: Dec 22 2:45 - Dispatch from outward office of exchange - TOKYO INTERNATIONAL Branch Normally, if it weren't for Christmas, I'd have seen a status with the package arriving at the local post office by the 24th or 25th and delivered that same day. I've ordered a lot of stuff and had it shipped via EMS and it's always been 3 or 4 days after departure from Japan. Even if they took a break on the 25th and even the 24th, it should have arrived by now, but still nothing so I'm not sure what's going on.

It's not that there's a problem mounting the guns in fighter mode. It's that you can't at all since the gunpod covers can't be removed and even if you could, the gunpods themselves would be too big to fit the gunpod covers over. Some people have instead stuck them into the gaps underneath the wings where it folds down.