MacrossJunkie
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Got mine around the same time as well.
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I really wish they made more of the 30's. I really wanted this: I personally think the YF-30 with its wings and stabilizers looked better than the 31's implementation, especially the forward swept wing variants. The A and AX were alright, but still not as appealing to me compared to the 30.
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I love the Bandai DX VF-1, but yeah, I have to agree that they're kinda fiddley. There's completely unnecessary stuff that makes handling it more aggravating than it needed to be or could have been avoided, like the individually articulated head lasers on the 1S head. The lack of a locking mechanism for the arms in fighter mode is another.
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I hope they're going to restock the Archi Pro stands. Ever since I got a functional new display case, I've been wanting to get more stands like those, but they're all sold out. I prefer those over these UN Spacy stands.
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Aside from Roid, Keith, and Bogue, the names of the rest of the aerial knights also escape my memory after all this time, Whereas I still can remember the names of the delta squadron and Walkure members. I feel they added so very little to both the series and the movies.
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I'm still waiting on Chuck's Kairos and the armored parts for that and Mirage's...
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Each row consists of two separate panes of tempered glass with the dimensions of 34" x 12" and a thickness of 1/4", supported by metal brackets 32" apart. That roughly calculates to over 60 lbs per pane which is certainly way more than needed.
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I've partially rectified the error of my ways and added two GERWALKs to my display while I added in a couple of the new ghosts that I completely forgot I had until today. Edit: Replaced with new pic. Got a couple display boxes which seem pretty good so I will get a couple more. Optimized the display a bit more.
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Indeed, that sort of case is normally used for retail displays. It's monstrous at 70" wide and 72" high with a depth of 20" or so. It came delivered on a large wooden pallet and was unbelievably heavy to lug it into the house piece by piece and up two flights of stairs. Took me nearly a day to put it together. Since I now have some spare detolfs, I offered them to my mom, so I'll be disassembling them at some point and taking them to her house and will re-assemble them there. She wanted more than the 4 she has now, but apparently Ikea has stopped making them, so this was good for her as well. Plenty of similar alternatives on Amazon, but they're not as cheap as the ~$80 that I paid for mine at Ikea 17 years ago or so.
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Or the white areas would yellow so much that you wouldn't know which were areas were supposed to be gold 😛
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At least with the 31's, they all had different head units or pods which was enough justification for me to get. This is literally just a repaint. Also Bogue hardly got to use his before it gets shot down and he never did anything worthwhile with it. I think at this point, I would rather have variants than repaints.
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Agreed. I found there was a lot of wasted space and limitations due to having the horizontal space divided up between detolfs. That's a neat setup. I like how you have things attached and hanging from the ceiling. There's a reason for that; volume of space taken up. Battroid takes up space vertically. Fighter takes up space horizontally. Either leaves space to have additional things placed in front of or above/below. GERWALK takes up space both vertically and horizontally, leaving less usable space in either direction. It's the least likely to allow for placement of additional stuff in front of or above/below it.
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Finally got a new display case for my Macross collection. The old old one had a door shatter into a million pieces and I had moved my stuff into detolfs for temporary housing, but remained like that for years after. This new one has adjustable shelves and a metal frame so I don't have to worry about the whole thing collapsing should a side panel break somehow. Only 1/60 scale stuff inside the case. I plan on finding some display boxes to put some of the stuff on top of the case in. Got a replacement door from a local custom glass shop and repurposed the old display case for my 40k stuff.
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I didn't expect this. I too wish they released the Ba instead. The crimson and gold colors don't look bad, but not sure I want to get this as it's just a repaint for a character I'm not fond of. The paint will probably peel off with the protective plastic and with their poor QC as of late and the fiddly nature of the 262, I will likely find unexpected issues that weren't present with the original release. Been burned by Bandai a lot these past few years. I would have put up with it if it was the Ba variant since it would be something new at least.
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Just an update on the progress of my submission to the Bandai replacements form. I got an email today saying the following;
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I wonder what is the ratio of unbent lasers to bent lasers is at this point. Sorry to hear about your Horus. It seems to be about as common as bent YF-21 lasers. I see so many reports of it on the discord and some in the joytoy reddit. Getting a replacement torso should be fairly painless. Less of a hassle than trying to get parts from Bandai, at least. I was fortunate with mine. The only problem mine had was that one of the claws was unpainted.
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I saw another case posted on reddit where a chunk of the canopy that had a tab on the underside had broken off. These canopies are so fragile, they come broken out of the box.
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Got Mr. Heresy on Friday. He's a heavy and chonky boi. I feel like nearly 40% of the weight is from the wolf pelt and cape. Did some work to repaint his face to add some shading and details as it was kind of lacking. Also repainted the pelt as they did a piss poor job of it. Added a wash, highlights and weathering to the rest of the figure and a red LED behind the head. One of the best figures JoyToy has released so far this year.
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Spent like 30 min messing with some panel lining, edge highlighting and doing some drybrushing just to see how it would look since I have been doing the same with the joytoy WH40k stuff I've been collecting lately. Not sure how I will go about weathering it. There's just so many pieces that rub together, especially taking the legs out of the bay or pushing them back in. There doesn't seem to be any way to do it without a lot of scraping. Might have to just go without a clear coat for once.
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Can't hurt to try at the very least. They ask for: A picture of the part needing replacement (presumably showing the defect) A receipt of the order showing who you got it from, date of purchase and the item purchased Picture of the Bandai Namco sticker on the box Picture of the UPC code If you can provide all that, I would think you would have a chance. If this replacement service works out for me, I may just end up getting from US retailers in the future since Bandai's QC has really gone down the toilet these past 4 or so years, even more so than usual. However, I probably won't know for 6-8 weeks as they claim that's how long this will take. From the email:
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Interesting, without having the JP one, I wouldn't have known that. That may be part of what they're looking for when they have us send a picture of the upc code. I have the same number embossed on mine as well.
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It should. The one I got was for the US distribution. It has the Bandai Namco warning sticker on it which the replacement form requires or they won't even consider the request. I was directed to that web form by the US retailer I bought from.
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Oh boy, I found another issue with mine. The gray plastic that holds the metal landing gear is kind of soft. I had the landing gears deployed and wanted to push them back in. The port side landing gear won't hold firmly and the flimsy plastic flexes and causes the metal landing gear to pop out of its grip. The lock that keeps the landing gear in the vertical position is stronger than the plastic that holds the landing gear. it's already showing some signs of wear from repeated attempts to pop the gear in and push it down. I finally got it by pushing as close to the base as possible, but I'm not using the landing gears again if I can help it. This thing is just lousy all over and am kind of having some buyer's remorse.
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Finished up my jump pack intercessors and a third termagant. Really hoping they release more nid units. Could really use some hormagaunts at the very least.
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I might just stick putty in to keep them in place. Makes it not permanent, but keeps them from falling out easily.
